Thomas and Friends

Dilip Chitre creates a stark impression of the isolation of old age in his poem ‘Father Returning Home’ by showing his fathers’ estrangement from society and his own family. Chitre conveys this isolation by using literary devices such as similes and repetition, and addressing themes such as modernity vs tradition. The poem begins when a father is waiting outside for a train which will take him home. We know this as it says ‘My father travels on the late evening train’. Already by labelling the train as ‘late’ we know that it is either a late time of the day, or it is late because society does not need to be on time for older people. The sibilance used to describe the commuters creates a ‘hissing’ sound in the readers mind emphasizing how unpleasant the situation is. The reader immediately feels pity for the father when it is said ‘suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes’. This conveys that the father is old and that his eyesight is not very good. It also shows that the father is very tired and he must have had a very long day at work. Another mention to the eyes in the poem emphasizes that his eyes are ‘dimmed by age’ and are fading homeward. The initial few lines of the poem already make the reader feel pity for the father and realise that despite his old age, he is still not being taken care of by society. All around him, everybody is quiet and waiting to go home, not helping him as his ‘bag stuffed with books is falling apart’. This bag could be a reference to the man’s…

In the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote that every single person has the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Well it’s interesting that he put “the pursuit” of happiness because happiness isn’t something that is guaranteed or something that can be bought. You have to bring happiness to your life by whatever means necessary. Whether it be music, art, literature, exploring, or just learning more about the world around us. For me personally there are three main…

The most important lesson high school teaches females is how to decipher between the useful types of friends you associate with and the piggybackers that do not genuinely care about you. In every clique of gossiping teenagers holds a general variety of friends. Although the individuals themselves are unique, the concept of their friendship is basic and is in every circle of friends. Surprisingly common kinds of friends are true-blue, moochers, episodic, and party girls. Every high school girl…

Although my grades were okay, my freshman year; I fell into the wrong crowd, and as a result, my grades began to fall, I was making bad choices, and I had the mentality that I really didn’t care about anything. I began to turn away the people that cared the most about me, but a few months into my freshman year, the same friends that I thought cared about me, actually ended up spreading terrible rumors about me and bullied me for the remainder of the year. Even after the way that I had treated my…

As the dinner came to an end my friends and I all craved some ice cream, so we went to Cold Stone and even then he was still trying to help me up the stairs and holding my dress so it would not drag on the ground. After Cold Stone, and after everyone had gotten home, I received a text form Zai. Initially the conversation started out pretty flirtatious about how nice I looked and then the conversation took a turn for the better. He told me that he is inspired by me, that after that night he…

As you can tell from the quote, Dr. Golan is known to be the bad guy. When Jacob was in a position where no one believed him, Dr. Golan was always there to talk to him about his problems and support him. Slowly, he was able to tell him everything that Dr. Golan wanted to know from ability to see hollowgast to the location of the peculiars. Once Jacob found out about the truth of Dr. Golan, he felt betrayed that he was also used for someone else’s purpose. Jacob learned that there are some people…

1. The show I watched was Friends, and I enjoyed every minute of it. The two characters who played communication task roles where Ross and Rachel. Ross plays the role of opinion giver because he starts giving Phoebe relationship advice before she goes on her date. Rachel is an Elaborator because she tries to work out what time everyone should get together for Phoebes birthday dinner party. Ross’s role affected the group communication by Phoebe telling him he is a little bit of a drama queen and…

but there were several factors leading up to the demise of our friendship. To start off, the associate and I are from two completely different regions of the country which of course brings about opposing point of views. I am from the south where southern hospitality is generally abided by, whereas my counterpart is from up north where people are often classified as rude. These stereotypes are not always true, but they were in this instance. Although we did not see eye to eye on everything at…

Our parents tell us constantly that the people with the biggest impact on us is our friends. High school is split into different groups of people; you have the jocks, the brainiacs, and the kids who don’t care about anything. Who are we kidding, there are none of those kinds of people in Alpena High School, everyone here loves school! If we have all these different groups of people to choose from, how do we know which groups are the right ones? The people that you spend a majority of your time…

She does this when she remains the same even when the hype of the wave was getting out spreading to everyone in the school. She also remains static by going against a cult even when her best friend was apart of. Lastly, she is a sympathetic character because she manages to convince her social studies teacher Mr. Ross to abolish the wave. In conclusion, when the wave got out of hand Laurie Saunders remained the same and sympathetically managed to help her teacher make a hard…