...Joe Gilkey The article “After my parents divorced, my childhood was no longer mine. It belonged to them “is an essay written by Leigh-Ann Smith contributed to the website, The Globe and Mail. The essay is about how after her parents divorced her childhood was no longer hers. She had two separate families and it was just frustrating to her. Nothing ever felt the same because the people she loved most weren’t around each other anymore as she says “The people I loved most were never in the same room together, and many of them barely even knew each other existed. I missed out on events and celebrations because I would have to spend time with my other family.” (Smith) She just wanted everything to be whole again as I wish my family would have been. The topic discussed is everything she has to, and as every other kid has to deal with while their parents are divorced. It is important because in my paper I talk about how it is to have two separate families… It is not fun at all. She could not deal with having two families so slowly she began to avoid one side and soon after that she said “So one day I told my dad that I didn’t want to visit any more.” (Smith) Could you imagine how hard that is to tell one of your parents? I could have never said that to either side of my family. As a ten year old and making that much of a life decision is crazy. The writer of this story kind of just told the story instead of showing it. Like when she says” The power struggle that had lain dormant...
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...Kipnis’ essay she only focuses on romantic relationships and believes that adultery is the key to initiating new modes of thinking. In order to create social change, I do not believe committing adultery is the right solution because adultery is an excuse to run away from problems. Taking a closer look at the author’s argument, one can see that the author is not against love. Nowhere in the text does she protest against a mother’s love for her child or the love we have for our friends. Instead, the author challenges ideals about romantic love and the glorification of romantic love within American capitalism. I noticed that Kipnis limits her analysis of...
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...Essay about the short story: Pool by Corey Campbell The short story “Pool” is about the couple Darla and Jon. The overarching theme in the story is: unhappiness in relationships, and failing marriages which both are very relevant to the society in which we live in. The author (Cory Campbell) is trying to shed some light on how it is being in an unhappy relationship. The main character Darla is a young woman, and even though we aren’t told her age, based on the quotes: “Darla herself, just older than the couple” and “now they were in year four”, I would conclude that the other couple are in their mid-twenties which I take to mean that she is in her late twenties. Darla doesn’t want kids, which is one of the minor themes in the short story. She isn’t very confident in her looks which we can conclude from this snippet of the text: “she hated others seeing her in her swimsuit”. Darla is in an unhappy relationship with Jon, which after their condom split is tenser than before. They have been a couple for just under a year, and Darla has recently realized that she isn’t happy in their relationship which we can see in this quote from the text: “what she liked best about him, Darla realized earlier in the car, was that it wasn’t going to last”. He is also pressuring her to do things she doesn’t want to do throughout the entire short story, for example when he is trying to get her to drink alcohol even though she isn’t allowed to drink, because of the morning-after pill that she...
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...Divorced, Beheaded, Survived - Robin Black The text "... Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" is a short story written by Robin Black in 2010. It deals with the theme death and specifically engages in how death affects close relatives. It contains mental and social issues connected to losses and the generational repetition of these. The story presents how a women's life was changed because of her brother's death and how she is still influenced as an adult. The main themes are depression and passiveness caused by bereavement. The following essay focuses on the narrator's mind and the themes through an analysis of the symbols, the language and the narrative technique. The story is about a 40-year-old-women, from whose point of view the story is told. She looks back upon an essential episode of her childhood when she lost her older brother. The story is significantly structured as it contains two stories from the same person's life. The narrator has lost her brother at the age of 10 and her son loses a friend at the age of 16. The likeness of the misfortunes and their undesirable consequences is apparent through the deliberate composition of the story. The main character, who is also the narrator, alternates between adult life and childhood in her narration. For instance she abruptly swaps to her own childhood when talking about her son: "His face was still sleepy, unwashed, his brown hair a little messy." "I don't know. Maybe Jeff Mandelbaum's mother saw a [...]". These two quotes...
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...Essay 1: There are many different things that can affect student performance. One example is bullying. When a child is bullied, it can negatively affect their school performance and achievement in many different ways. The child may feel socially withdrawn, or depressed. They could be getting bullied because they are out of the “social norm,” because they are different in some way, because of their clothes, or because of just about anything. Bullying has many impacts on the victim, which can also be shown through the school work and participation. Bullying can cause low self esteem and social problems. It can cause the student to not want to participate in school activities. The student may start not coming to class in order to avoid being bullied. They may even drop out or fail the class. The student may become more focused on the bullying or avoiding the bully than they are with their school work. Statistics say that half of students are bullied at least once a week, and that it affects 1/4th of high school students. Although teachers may not necessarily be aware of the bullying, if they are there are many ways to help. First, the teacher should not ignore it, and say something to the bully right away to try to stop it. They should also be there for the victim, and show that they are willing to help them through it and listen. Giving them extra time or one-on-one attention may also be a good idea to help the student cope. There are also many anti-bullying practice groups...
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...understand how important it is to know about domestic violence. This essay will let readers know that there are several reasons why domestic violence is so serious and what can be done to help. All forms of domestic have one purpose: to gain and maintain control over the victim. The abusers use many things to get power over their partner which is dominance,threats,humiliation,intimidation,denial and blame.There are many different type of violence. Violence by a person against their intimate partner is done as a way for controlling their partner. Intimate violence occur between gay and lesbian couples and women against their male partners. There is a type of violence that is called common couple violence (CCV) which is when two people get in a argument and one or both partners lashes out at each other. It can cause serious injury to the person. Domestic violence is nowhere to solve problems at all. So many people experience domestic violence all over the world. Physical,sexual,verbal,emotional, and economic abuse are all different types of abuse. Physical abuse cause feelings of pain or bodily harm. When people are being physical abused by someone they are being punched,slapped,pushed,or choked by someone. This is when we need to get away it really becomes serious. On average, more than three out of four woman and one man are murdered by their partners in this country everyday. Sexual abuse is when you are being forced best known as rape to...
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...Essay Single parenthood 1. Summary. The article "survey dispels myth of failing single parents" from 2006 is written by Denis Campbell. the article is about three single mothers who are raising their children alone which they believe are better for both the parent and for the child. The women in the text tell us about a few benefits from being a sole parent in charge, like they become stronger as a person because they are forced to take a decision themselves, based solely on their experience. They also mention that they can provide their children a with harmonious and safe upbringing and they don't have to divide their attention between their children and their partners. The article also says that single parent families have been associated with a lot of negative things and thoughts, and people always have been prejudiced against single parents, but this article shows some of the positive aspects of being a single parent. 2. Outline. In the three texts; "Mothers without men", "survey dispels myth of failing single parents" and "single moms by choice or circumstance - required reading", we can find similarities like positive/negative sides of single parenthood. One of the positive views we are introduced to is that if you are a woman, you do not have to wait for the perfect man to get pregnant, you just go to a sperm bank and look for a man that has got the traits you are after, and in that way your child would not witness a parent leaving, unless the mother dies of course. Another...
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...Lauren Corey 17 October 2013 English 101 Professor Tantalo Essay 3 Love Transcends Gender Most people believe that they deserve the rights that they are granted by the government. An upstanding citizen who pays their taxes, serves their community and abides by the law should be afforded the rights of an American. However, not all citizens are afforded equal rights. Gay and lesbians are consistently denied rights that are typically taken for granted by the average American. Specifically, gay and lesbian couples are denied the right to marry even if they are upstanding citizens and are held at an unfair disadvantage solely because of their sexual orientation. This discrimination must stop because gay and lesbian couples are law-abiding citizens as well, who should be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples. If same-sex couples are paying taxes to build roads and help public schools like the heterosexual couples, they should be afforded the same rights. One common problem that plagues gay and lesbian couples that are denied the right to marry is their inability to claim their partner’s social security after he or she has died. Currently, there are no programs that give homosexuals survivor benefits like the ones that are provided for heterosexuals who are married or divorced. Gay and lesbian partners are not able to claim benefits of their deceased, regardless of the fact that all working citizens, heterosexual or homosexual, pay into the Social Security system for...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship 3. Comment on the ending 4. In a short essay (150-200 words) discuss what you can do to help a friend or partner who is an alcoholic. ------------------------------------------------- Summary “Grove” is an American short story written by Erin Brooks Worsley in the year 2006. The story takes place in Florida, in a town called Frostproof. The main characters are a woman and a man without any names. They are a couple in a relationship. In the story they are visiting his parents. The woman has a drinking problem. The man is married to another woman but is still in a relationship with the main character. They are going out on a lake where they have an argument about their future. The man really wants to have kids, and his wife is not able to. He would like the woman to stop drinking, because pregnant women do not drink. The man’s mom knows what all this is about and talks to the woman about the problem. In the end the mother asks the woman to leave. Characterize On of the main characters is a woman who is visiting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time. It sounds like she grew up in the city, why she is not used to mosquitos opposite to the man who grew up near a lake. In the story we hear about the woman’s drinking problem and how it conflicts with the man’s wish to get children. The woman is several times confronted with her problem...
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...throughout her lifetime. She was loved by many people, from close relatives to strangers she would meet at the store, a restaurant, or around the neighborhood. She was also a very determined person who would do anything she put her mind to. Everyone loved her and she loved everyone. If I had to describe her in three words, it they would be generous, strong, and vivacious. Generosity is the act of showing a gracious act toward others. My grandmother showed this trait by being generous to everyone around her. She would help less fortunate girls get into college by grading their scholarship essays before they gave them to colleges. She would do this just so that the girls could get into the colleges...
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...“Why I Decided To Return To College” Final Essay Kiara Cherry ENG 090- Writing Fundamentals Dr. Lewis 12/12/2014 Changing Our Lives Why I Decided To Return To College Believing in Myself: Forging a Path to College A young girl being the only child, from a small town in Illinois having to make life decisions for herself. Her parents were divorced and it was so much on her mother that she relocated to another state and left her daughter behind with family members. At this point she had been mentally, emotionally, and physically abused. She wonders if she will even make it through high school with all these distractions going on in her life at such a young age. That girl was me. Thankfully, I did make it through high school, but I put off college for 12 years dealing with life issues, marriage, and even becoming a parent! I have now chosen to go to college at this juncture in my life because of financial, personal, and emotional reasons. I decided to enroll at Strayer University for financial stability in a career not just a job. I think this is a valid and strong reason, and this keep me going every day. The thought of being my own boss, earning a degree, believing in my ability to learn, and being a positive role model for my children is so exciting. Therefore, I can become the person I want to be. Lastly, going back to college will give the knowledge and self confidence that I will need to build myself in my career! ...
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...woman finds the girl, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I will analyse the main character, her obsession, the title and therefor will I analyse the ending of the story with the information, I discover. The events of the short story are being told as a 3rd limited person narrator, because we only see the events from the main character’s point of view, and how she feels. We see everything through her eyes. The short story is written chronologically and has no flashbacks or flash-forwards. So the reader doesn’t know, how the life of the main character has been in the past, except that she has two boys and is divorced. This makes the short story very mysterious, because the reader doesn’t see her thoughts very often and only see it from her perspective. Therefor the author holds some information back e.g. he doesn’t tell us, if she really finds the body, and why she is so obsessed, which I will try to find out. I can therefor conclude that the short story is written in 3rd limited person, chronologically and the author is holding back some information. The author never tells the reader, what the main character is named. We know th at she is a cashier at BI-LO in Perry. She has been divorced in a long time and has two boys from the marriage, who both are moved out. She therefor has to be around 50-60 years old, also because she tells us that her body maybe is too old to do all the digging, and she is sore in the arms. She has a German shepherd named...
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...Tao He English 209. Prof. Fitzgerald Final Draft Essay#2 10/30/2014 Essay#2 If human history were a long river, the changing of the modern society would be one of the most striking sprays in the history. In today’s world, people are changing their attitudes about sex and marriage. Many norms and standards have changed dramatically. Yesterday, the world was still a man-dominant society, but today, more and more women hold many senior jobs and show that they are as capable as males. Yesterday, young men were still struggling with how to make their girlfriends happy, but today, causal sex especially “hookups” are becoming more acceptable and popular among young people. Yesterday, the main goal for everyone was still to marry an ideal partner and built a family, but today, there are more and more singles saying “no” to marriage. It is really difficult to judge these changes because they are not just simply a positive or negative issue but also a reflection of human development. In my point of view, we should hold a positive view of the phenomenon that women have more economic power because it is a symbol of the improvement of female statues. However, when people are trying to break the bonds of convention and live freely, it is very easy for them to fall into a wrong path. I believe many people have lost themselves when they are pursuing causal sex and the status of being single. The increasing economic power of women not only shows women have the same capability...
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...Unit 5 Assignment 1: Genre Essay- Proposal Lawrence M. Alvarez ITT Technical Institute College of Drafting & Design EN 1320 Composition I The love we have among each other in our family goes above and beyond. What is the problem with that? In an ideal world, love conquers all. However, we do not live in an ideal world. If we lived in an ideal world, there would be no war, poverty, or hunger. All of our favorite sports team should have won all the championships in every sport. None of these have been accomplished yet, so this cannot possibly be an ideal world. This is unfortunate, but there are always solutions to life’s problems. No, the solutions do not lie with what money can buy. Some things seem too good to be true. Let’s picture this. A man has just met the woman of her dreams. She is everything he has ever dreamed about in a woman. He began dating her, and later on, he proposes to the woman of his dream. But there is one problem: She has a different religion and upbringing. What can he do? He love her so much, but there are obvious problems. People of different faiths getting married is so common these days that most do not even see it as a problem. A common issues from these type of marriages come upon is how to raise children in regards to religion. Sometimes the differences are simply too large, and the couple ended getting separation or divorced. When children are involved, religious differences can be a sensitive subject. The disagreements can...
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...The D.C Sniper attacks After the shooting of 15 different people in Maryland and Virginia in October, 2002, this country would never be the same. One of the most challenging cases in history would draw the attention of not only police forces, but also the FBI, the US Marshalls and the Secret Service. In this essay, I will analyze the background information on the murderers, followed by the crime development, and finally police intervention and resolution, linked to the assailants John Allen Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo. On the one hand, perpetrator John Muhammad, 41 at the time of the attacks, had served in the US Military for 17 years, and earned medals for his actions during the Gulf War of 1991. After being discharged in 1994 as a Sargeant, his wife, Mildred Muhammad claimed that he had returned...
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