...Text 28, The Sweet Menu presents the idea of solitary eating by giving us the image of a man sat all alone in a restaurant ‘as if someone will come’ where as text 18, Mexican Scrambled Eggs demonstrates social eating by illustrating that you can ‘whip up a batch off these’. Both texts are slightly similar when it comes to purpose as the sweet menu is a text which makes the reader feel quite guilty because this man is hoping he will be enjoying dinner with someone tonight but ends up being alone surrounded by different families. However it is a text to entertain and explore. However in Mexican scrambled eggs it is a recipe to entertain, inform and explore. The audience that the sweet menu is aimed for could be older people because they usually tend to be alone unlike young adults who don’t like going to a restaurant on their own. This is different to text 16 because it is aimed at younger adults and we see this when it says ‘greatest hangover cures around’. This gives the reader the sense that she had a party last night and isn’t alone this morning because of it. The structure of the sweet menu is interesting because it is in couplets which represents 2 people eating at a dinner table but in this case it’s the opposite because he is on his own. Also the couplets represent the pace of the poem which is quite slow and quite painful which...
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...A meaningless journey transforms to a learning opportunity to gain and search the meaning of happiness. Competing between unhappiness and happiness, Hector realizes avoiding unhappiness isn’t the road to happiness. Hector learned nostalgia is not what it used to be, the feeling of being completely alive, and the reason people believe happiness means being richer or more important. Hector’s last trip leads to Los Angeles, where the photo in his sock draw took place. Hector is meeting with Agnes (a past lover) at the same exact spot shown on the photo. After, Agnes meets with Hector and introduce him to her kids, they head to her house. Hector called Clara to update her on his location, but the conversation went left. Clara assumed that the...
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...Stuff To Ponder Sweet meets are candy, but sweet breads, which aren't sweet, are meet. Quicksand works slowly. Boxing rings are square. Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars, and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint, and he has to touch it. Why is it that a writer writes, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, humdingers don't hum, and hammers don't ham? If you can make amends, can you just make one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but just one, what do you call it? Why do you recite at a play but you play at a recital? Why do we ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Why do feet smell and noses run? How can a SLIM CHANCE and a FAT CHANCE be the same, while a WISE MAN and a WISE GUY are opposites? Why is QUITE A FEW the same as QUITE A LOT? How does a building burn up as it burns down? Why do you fill out a form by filling it in? Why does your alarm go off by going on? When the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible. How come SUPERMAN could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him? If it was only a 3 hour cruise, why did MRS. HOWELL have so many clothes? Why is it called a HAMBURGER, when it's made out of BEEF? Why does SOUR CREAM have an expiration date? What would a chair look like, if your knees bent the other way? IF "Con" is the Opposite of "Pro", then what is the opposite of PROGRESS? Why is LEMON JUICE mostly artificial...
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...She Walks In Beauty By: Lord Byron (George Gordon) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! "She Walks in Beauty" is a poem written in 1814 by Lord Byron. One of Lord Byron’s most famous, it is a lyric poem that describes a woman of much beauty and elegance. TITLE: What’s Up With the Title? We usually refer to this poem simply by its first line, "She Walks in Beauty." But the first line does more than introduce the subject of the poem – a beautiful woman. The first line of the poem (and therefore the title) is an apparently conscious echo of the famous sonnet by William Shakespeare, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (Sonnet 18). Except, of course, instead of comparing the beautiful woman to a "summer's day," Byron compares her to "night." So he's not just setting up a contrast between night and day, he's also setting up a contrast between himself...
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...Nasty Bits by Anthony Bordain is a book consisting of his random thoughts throughout all his trips. It is composed of 5 sections; salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami. Each one has a different tone to it even though they are all random. Only food and travel seem to connect the sections and stories together. Salty, sour, and bitter all seem to have an angry or annoyed tone to them. Sweet has stories that are a little better in tone and umami is just stories that he wants to talk about. The reader can tell Bourdain’s style in this book right away. It isn’t the traditional story book with one main focus. The style is telling the reader how he feels and telling little random stories. For being a non-fiction writer this style of book is interesting and effective. The reader can now understand how he feels during his trips. It allows readers to also see how his personality really is. In this book his personality comes out when he gets angry or happy about certain things. One noticeable thing about this book is his humor. It is kind of a dark humor and he makes fun of a lot of people. Some examples are when he is mad at fast food chains and calls them the evildoers (Bourdain 13). He also talks about a fat guy who takes up his whole seat and he complains about it (Bourdain 12)If he accepts any consequences with his humor than he can use it. He means what he says and people don’t need to be offended by what he says. Bourdain can probably take any mean jokes targeted at him so others...
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...The opening lines of the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, with Chaucer’s classically poetic and amorous language, describe the evocation of spring, echoing in the minds of his audience, as if the renewed warmth, sweet sounds and refreshing smells could be perceived by human senses. “When April with his showers sweet The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with such power To generate fresh strength and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, Quickened again, in every wood and heath, The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun Into the Ram one half his course has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature urges them on to ramp and rage)” The first 11 lines have all the essential elements of the conventional first stanza of a love lyric, indicating the vitality of springtime: April’s sweet showers, budding flowers, burgeoning leaves, the warm Zephyr, the melodious chirps of birds stimulated by the beauty of Nature. The whole imagery triggers narrator’s poetic sensibilities as well as the readers. It is about a sense of relief after the harshness of a long winter and a keen anticipation of all the lovable things that would follow. Besides, Chaucer employs vivid verbs, together with rhythmic phrases like “holt and heath”, “shoots and buds”, “ramp and rage”, which convey a strong sense of masculine energy to further intensify the renewed reproductive...
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...Elena Milovanovic Mr. Brian Gorodetsky Science 9 November 20th 2013 LAB Density Guiding Question: How does sugar/salt affect the density of water? Hypothesis: I think that the density will increase because salt and sugar add mass to the water, therefore increasing the density. For example, ocean water, it is more dense than the regular water because it isn’t pure like regular water, it has more salinity in it making it more dense. Notes: -A sugar and salt experiment. -We did 5 tests for each. -First, we calculate the density of PURE water, then with adding gram-by-gram of sugar or salt. -We used 10ml of water in each test. -Density=mass/volume, in this case mass/10ml Tables: Salt: Sugar: Graphs: Salt: Sugar: Calculations: Conclusion: From the graphs, tables and calculations it is shown that the solution between sugar and water is denser than the solution between salt and water. This is because sugar is sweet and when it is in contact with water it turns into a honey-like structure. Also, when salt is in contact with water, it’s formula, NaCl, splits up leaving each element with a charge and making more space for more salt, therefore leaving the solution less dense, where sugar doesn’t split up, it stays together making the solution denser. Evaluation: The mistakes we made at the beginning were that we didn’t put the EXACT amount of the solvent (water) and the solute (salt/sugar), but then we realized that some...
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...These four attributes will help me uphold the code since you require all these attributes in the Honor Code. You require the ability to be honest with people around you and yourself. To myself, I think thoughts that are honest about the situation that I am in. When other people ask me if I have ever seen or done something, I am honest with them. Respect is needed for people around you who are unique and the community you are working with. I know that I respect unique people since I am one of them myself. I respect communities that I am with by keeping them clean. You need to have your own personal integrity to stop yourself from doing things you shouldn’t. I know that I have integrity since I tell myself “This isn’t right” when I know that I am doing something wrong and then I decide to stop doing it. The ability to give encouragement to others helps me to keep other students from violating the...
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...Rough Draft: Mrs. Strangeworth is a “sweet” old woman who spends her time tending to the roses planted in front of her house. Like many people we meet today, the face we think we see on the outside isn’t always what it seems to be. In The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson uses symbolism to show the main character’s background and her motives. In the beginning of the story Mrs. Strangeworth’s roses represent her connection to her family who has passed away. On page on Mrs. Strangeworth says, “My family lived here for better than one hundred years. My grandmother planted these roses…” Mrs. Strangeworth’s roses were first planted by her grandmother, so she feels like the roses are a piece of her grandmother that she left behind when she passed away. The roses symbolize how long the Strangeworth family has lived in the town and how loved they were. Later on the story comments, “Mrs. Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses… they belonged on Pleasant Street.” Mrs. Strangeworth couldn’t imagine her grandmother’s roses being taken to another strange place. Her family had lived in that house on Pleasant street for years, that is where she thought the roses belonged, where her grandma had originally planted them. Mrs. Strangeworth’s roses personify her family ties however the symbolism of these roses change throughout the story....
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...I believe that Charley Goddard will change because he will realize that war isn’t just shooting people. War is like russian roulette. In russian roulette you would have a gun and put one bullet in the chamber, you would spin the chamber and shoot it at your head and who ever was killed was the loser. War is just like that because you're standing there in the open to fight for your country both sides shooting and you don't know where the bullet is. Charly will probably end up being alive because he is telling the story. I think that assume that he will have a friend with him and that person would either end up perishing or close to and have the post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. Charly will turn out to be a person who is more mature and...
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...this scene Demetrius has woken up from his sleep after Puck applied the love potion to his eyes. The first thing he sees is Helena, and instantly falls in love with her. Demetrius loved Hermia and was asking for her hand in marriage, but within a day his love for her had dissolved. His new love has Helena again. Demetrius admits to Helena how unstable his love is, by telling her that “.... by some power it is - my love to Hermia,/ Melted as the snow, seems to me now/ As the remembrance of an idle gaud,/ Which in my childhood I did dote upon......” (133). Demetrius by some higher power or force...
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...Hello, Singh. Happy Halloween! How are you doing? How was your night, restful and safe? I hope so. I hope your day is going well and safe, like a pray to God for you. I'm doing well, just need to gain some pounds that I lost few months ago because one little gastritis, but, other than that, I'm well. Thank you for your lovely, worried, and clarifying message; I thank you for paying attention to my message and telling me that you wouldn't put my life in risk in any way possible, and that you ensure me 100% that everything is at no risk to me, safe, and that you trust me. I gave you my information because I like to help, and I felt in my heart that I can trust you, should help, and continue to pray for you and me; normally I'm right in my judgement but sometimes I'm wrong, I hope this isn't the case....
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...Langston Hughes’ “Harlem: A Dream Deferred” What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten mean? Or crust and sugar over- Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? ______________________________________________________________________________ Trevor B. Taylor A Dream Deferred, The Heartbeat of Harlem For the residents of Harlem, until the later half of the twentieth century, “wait” is all they ever heard. Wait! Wait for the laws to change before you can fulfill your destiny. Wait, until you’re allowed to go to college. If any of the people of Harlem were a shining gem just waiting to be polished, it might not ever happen, or it would have had to of been postponed. Because the residents of Harlem had black skin, their dreams were deferred. L. Hughes shines light on the minds of Harlem past and everyone else’s, who’ve experienced a dream that never came true or hasn’t yet. He effectively uses similes, metaphors, and rhetorical questions to express how he feels about a dream being postponed. The “dream” is a goal in life, not experienced while sleeping. an expected goal. The poem, in its’ current form leaves the dream up to the reader. But the poem was originally titled “Harlem”. Hughes since then gave this title to another one of his poems that more clearly states was happening there. That poem in black ink, clearly states...
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...The book Sweet Unrest by Lisa Maxwell is about a teenage girl Lucy who is forced to move to New Orleans for her dad's job. She encounters many things, including love and conflict. Based on her actions, it can be concluded that she has the characteristics of both the characters Romeo and Juliet from the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. Similar to Lucy and Alex, Romeo is so taken with Juliet that she never leaves his mind and she is his every thought. His cousin, Benvolio, tries to stop him from being so obsessed but Romeo isn’t able to stop. He is so fascinated by her, and does everything he can to be with her. Love is the driving force of every decision he makes, even if they are bad ones. He describes Juliet in way that makes it seem...
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...William Shakespeare Macbeth essay Should we always judge people, by the way, the look or sometimes should we look closer at them to find out their true character?sometimes in life, the way a person acts around you isn't always how they truly are. In the play “Macbeth” By William Shakespeare, the playwright suggests that things aren't always as they appear. For instance, the way the characters in Macbeth: Lady Macbeth and Macbeth show themselves as one thing but in the end, they show themselves as another thing. In Macbeth -Macbeth's appearance shows us to be a different man then we would actually think he was. When Macbeth hears that prince Malcolm son of Duncan is to be the heir to the throne of Scotland and prince of Cumberland Macbeth...
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