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Learning is a continuum, yet so is writing because it takes practice. Every time I practiced a sport I saw myself improve; however, with writing I yearned for the moment in which all my arduous work would pay off and that moment never came. Therefore, I faced the brutal, bitter truth, I am an insubstantial writer. Nervous, this word radiated throughout my entire body; this was how I felt about starting the next chapter of my life at college. Personally, I didn’t feel secure in my writing…

A sentence is a gathering of words which begins with a capital letter and closures with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!). A sentence comprises or involves a verb phrase and a subject. Sentences comprise statements. Simple sentences have one statement. Compound sentences and complex sentences have two or more than two statements. Sentences can comprise subjects and objects. The subject in a sentence is for the most part the individual or thing completing an…

Identities of Tender Buttons and Life Breaks In Have you ever gotten so used to seeing the same everyday objects that you barely notice them anymore? Haven’t you been having terrible mood swings over that? Both Gertrude Stein and Mary Cappello in their books dissolve the tediousness of both everyday-use and everyday-felt elements and objects in a very exceptional way. Personally, I believe that Stein uses very common and simple adjectives in expressing certain objects, food, and rooms. She…

so long and I felt overwhelmed with all the restrictions and guidelines. Also, I was unsure how to incorporate a quote rather than just leaving it stand alone. Rather than attempting to make the quote work in the sentence or paraphrasing, I used semicolons which broke up the flow of the sentences that contained quotes. For example, I wrote, “Clarence Jeffery records some results of the criminologists’ study of crime: “Bentham placed emphasis on the crime, not on the criminal.” Also, I limited…

My administrative project goal focused on collaboration and working on our curriculum with my English department 9-12. Personally, this has been an area that I wanted to focus on for years because I felt that each ELA teacher was not able to move forward when it came to developing a viable curriculum. As teachers, we were planning on an individual grade level, but we were not specifically aware of what our colleagues were doing. For example, questions like: How much research was being done…

When asked how he would define the art of poetry, Edgar Allan Poe said this: “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” Two women who constructed beautiful lyrical poetry are Emily Bronte and Maya Angelou. There are quite a few different forms of poetry, one of which is called lyric poetry: “Lyric poems are shorter poems written in the first person that express deep thoughts and emotions” (Mays A7). Bronte wrote a poem called “The Caged Bird” which…

In America, Realism is a literary movement or school of thought that avoided melodrama and emphasized verisimilitude. Subjects were taken from everyday life and authors placed a heavy emphasis on characters as real people influenced by environment and circumstances. Realism can be broadly defined as being faithful when representing reality or verisimilitude. It is a literary technique important to the school of thought. Realism encompasses the period in which Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Stephen…

Chinese philosopher, Confucius, once said “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance”. The philosopher’s quote exemplifies the unwritten law to not make assumptions about somebody until you take the chance to get to know the person. Society quickly jumps to labels: good or bad, rich or poor, normal or atypical. People construct fallacies about others, creating a single story. In the novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, society’s sins are evident throughout the story. Some may argue…

origin and its destiny. Death does not happen except by God’s permission, as dictated in the Qur’an. Death in the Somali culture is also viewed as a natural transition from one state to another. It is believed that the life on earth is a test, (semicolon) the afterlife is where you will “face the actions on earth good or bad in front of God” (Sheikh Abdulrahman, personal interview, October 20th, 2017). So a life close to Allah (doing good deeds) on earth could mean an afterlife close to Allah…

W.E.B Du Bois was born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. He was a historian, civil rights activist and a pan-africanist, wanting the bond between the people in the United Sattes of African descent to have a better bond. He wrote a book titled The Souls of Black Folk is a novel written in 1903. In the book he believes one of the biggest problems is the 20th century is the fact that there is a very prevalent color line. He describes when he first encountred racism as a child nd how it has shaped…