Rant

“That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget” (13-14). By just looking at the last two lines of this sonnet, the theme of the whole poem could be inferred. While John Donne grew up being a Catholic, he later became a Protestant. Due to him suffering through losses and tragic events throughout his life, he, at times, felt conflicted and confused to why his God would let him suffer through that. But overall, he was a man who was passionate about religion,…

Traditionally, heroes in myths have some of the same elements in the structure of their stories. In each odyssey, a person needs to experience or live through specific actions and ordeals until he becomes whole as a hero. In the epic poem, The Iliad by Homer, the main character Achilles journeys through stages of a Hero’s Journey, as defined by Joseph Campbell, including his dream of relinquishing his role as a warrior, his feud with Agamemnon, and how he resolves the loss of his closest friend…

mother and father go through these hardships. As the fighting continued, I felt worse and miserable as the weeks passed. I took the tensions inside the household as resentment towards me. When the day came for filing a divorce, it was filled with rants, tears, and the hardest goodbyes. Once the separation had occurred, my father moved away and I soon lost all contact with him. I was crushed and struggled to recover from the divorce of my parents, which still assumed to be all my fault. I felt…

the Spanish-American War. Black southerners faced a host of social, economic, and political challenges to the North. The U.S. Army employed four African American regiments to serve in the Spanish-American War. Segregation, imprison, murder, and the rant of foreign policy that stressed racial cleverness were becoming more and more blatant in the American society. Prior to the war, some troops from the army unit had moved southwards, upon the demand of the War Department. What began as European…

help students in the areas they need it most. The way Performance Based Assessments are explained, they sound much better than standardized assessments in areas of knowledge and improvement. If you read and/or enjoyed any part of this long, boring rant about tests, thank you. Go ahead and comment anything you hate about tests as well. Thank you for reading and happy testing.…

Leading up to the Denver Broncos third Super Bowl win to take the fiftieth ever nation football championship. You must know that ever since the establishment of the Broncos football organization my dad’s side of the family was involved. And, I don’t mean involved as in, “hey we watch the games.”. I’m meaning involved as in my great grandparents donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the developing team. I’ve personally been to the Mile High Stadium at Sports Authority, in Denver, at least…

Chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board Josiah Bunting boldly states, “There is an epidemic of political, economic, and historical ignorance in our country on all levels (referring to age groups).” Summarizing the continuation of the chairman’s rant he puts emphasis on the fact that the up and coming generation needs to play an important role on curing the national epidemic of social ignorance. These young adults that the chairman is calling on…

Eliza Doolittle and Cinderella. Both these beautiful fictitious women have much in common, They undergo an enormous leap from the bottom to the top of their social pyramids with the aid of an unusual benefactor who alters their appearance to turn their rags to riches. However, the similarities stop there. Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist of the play Pygmalion by George Shaw set in early 20th century London, does not only have her appearance changed by her benefactor and mentor Professor Higgins,…

garage. Bring your plunger- the upstairs toilet overflowed and there's shit all over the floor up there’” (n.p)! By poking fun at this well-meaning custom, it emphasizes that those are really just words of comfort, not an actual promise. He finishes his rant and makes his point that offering help is just something nice to say: “He wants to help? Fuck him, call his bluff! Call his bluff! ‘Don't hesitate to ask’- the nerve of these pricks” (n.p)! His anecdote of…

fraction of what a man should be. These two things are of a deep, personal, passionate place I have within me. One that someday when I get this degree I will be able to fix within some self-esteems and past worries. (Sorry Sir, Got on side note and rant there…