Robert Hansen

“Nothing Gold can stay” by Robert Frost Is a tragic subtle yet profound, poem that uses metaphor, allegory and figurative language to create a sense of Despair to the reader. In the poem, Frost uses metaphor to weave the thought that everything in life; Perfection is temporary. Innocence and Beauty, how its fleeting, and the degeneration of it appears to be the theme for this poem. In Frost's poem he uses figurative language. The first flowers of spring aren’t actually leaves in disguise.…

Robin Roberts is a co-anchor of ABC's “Good Morning America”. She is adored by many fans and people in the industry. Although she had highs and lows, Robin Roberts has had an interesting journey of her becoming a newscaster. Born in 1960, Roberts grew up in a small town in Mississippi. Her father, Lawrence E. Roberts, was famous for being a black fighter squadron, the Tuskegee Airmen. Her mother, Lucimarian Tolliver, is the first African-American to head the Mississippi Board of Education. The…

Nathalie Ramprashad July, 28, 2015 Bayside High school English Summer Reading Assignment The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier is essentially about Jerry Renault, a freshman at Trinity all boys’ school who was assigned to sell chocolates at the school sale by the Vigils, a secret organization at Trinity that keeps everything in the school “under control”. Jerry refuses to sell them because of what the Vigils are doing to harass the other students, giving the Vigils…

The Chocolate War has brought up a discussion across the nation. Many people try to debate the point of this book. Many people wonder why the ending ended so poorly. Robert Cormier explained the ending of his book by saying, “I was portraying what happened when good people don’t come to the rescue.” Some people like to claim this quote is untrue; however, I agree with this quote. Because of the poor ending, desertion, and resistion, The Chocolate War proves to be a book where good people do…

Bittersweet in a sense is a mixture of both sadness and joy at the same time. Saroo Brierley experiences many bittersweet moments during his lifetime. From the time he was living with his family in poverty, to scavenging for food and shelter alone in Calcutta, to being adopted and having another chance at life with the Brierley’s in Tasmania. He is the definition of someone that has gone through hell and back and is now sharing his story to the whole world. When I think of bittersweet, I…

Sant (2000), Finding Forrester was the film selected for this discussion. The storyline for the film centers around two main characters, Forrester and Lamar. Forrester played by Sean Connery, is an eccentric, reclusive, Pulitzer prize winning novelist, living in a high-rise building in New York city. Forrester has not left his apartment in over a decade. His life centers around looking out a living room window, overlooking a basketball court, with binoculars. Lamar, played by Rob Brown, is a…

This poem was a sonnet written in 1936 composed of iambic pentameter and free verse, published in 1941 a few month before the United State of America entered World War 2. “The Gift Outright” received special attention when Frost recited it at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy on January, 1961. Frost had originally planned to recite a poem titled “Dedication” that he had written for the event. However, because of the glare of the sun and his poor eyesight; he was unable to read his…

photographer would be Robert Capa. This famous photographer was not only known by the name Robert Capa, but also by the name that he had originally been given was Endre Erno Friedmann. The reason why he was known by another name was because he realized that he would earn more money at the time if he made his name sound more like a rich American rather than a poor man that was from Hungary. Robert Capa’s nationality was Hungarian but he eventually became an American citizen. Robert Capa was…

Nozick’s experience machine is a counterexample to the theory of hedonism. It has persuaded many that there is more to prudential value than the actual feeling of experiences. So what is the experience machine argument? If life contains the upmost amount of pleasure and minimal amount of pain as possible, there is no way to make that life better. It is the hedonic quality of experience that matters for considering the well-being of a persons life. The basic point is that the machine makes the…

The Road Not Taken written by Robert Frost uses a great deal of figurative language within it. Figurative language is anything from a simile to a metaphor and is greatly used within poems. One form of figurative speech is metaphors. The metaphor used in the poem is the divergent road, and the idea that the speaker must choose one of the two paths. The metaphor of the fork in the road is a fascinating one because it highlights the power and the misery of choice. The speaker is torn between…