...My life is a story, but I prefer to call it poetry. In a few lines and stanzas I am able to express myself, and how I am feeling. I use symbolism, literary devices, and just everything I need for other to feel my emotions as they read my poems. In a rough time poetry is my therapy. This is because sometimes you can tell someone everything and they still will not understand, but reading my poetry they will. When I was nine years old I read “Where the Sidewalks Ends” by Shel Silverstein. After that I found a great interest in poetry. At first I would mock Silverstein’s work. It was when my grandmother died that I began to at act out. At this young age I did not know how to control my emotions. One day I was in my room so upset in tears and...
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...The American Library Association is known for its’ banned book list, a set of books characterized by parents, teachers, and professors as being anything from, Anne Frank’s The Diary of Anne Frank being “too depressing”, to Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends for “promoting cannibalism”. In 1982, the United States Supreme Court case Board of Education, Island Trees School District v. Pico found that schools cannot remove library material based on their own disagreement, the Supreme Court ruled that unless a book was “pervasively vulgar”, it was protected as the students right to express and receive information. F. Scott Fitzgerald's’ The Great Gatsby, was challenged at the Baptist College in Charleston, SC (1987) because of the books’...
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...In Atwood’s poem she describes a young refugee girl entering Canada and her first thoughts. The speaker hints of feeling different and finding the country overwhelming. She states “The moving water will not show me my reflection.” (l. 16-17) expressing how she feels out-of-place. The author uses the girls situation to symbolize how change is difficult. The speaker cannot literally and figuratively see herself in Canada. Literally in the water and figuratively in Canada. Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay is a poem that touches on how everything is changing. The speaker uses the changing of a leaf to symbolize how nothing is constant by stating “then leaf subsides to leaf.” (l. 5) Therefore, alluding to how nature is ever-changing, much like life is ever-changing. The speaker denotes the leaf as an exciting experience in life; he implies how exiting experience is as beautiful as flowers, but don’t last long, much like the...
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...Part 1 No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way To make everything right Is for God to just reach out And turn off the light! Sheldon Allan Silverstein This poem was selected by me for many reasons. My faith in God makes me believe that when we look at people without judging, or with the light off, that everyone is the same. When reading this poem I thought about all of the people I know in my life, how they all differ, but how they are all important and the same to me. Each day I try to look people as though the light is off, how God looks at them, and make sure that I do not judge. The style of this poem is shown in many ways. The author writes the poem without any stanzas and uses traditional form. The phrase “when we turn off the light” is repeated multiple times throughout the poem. In addition, after light is mentioned at the end of a line, the following sentence rhymes with the word light. The tone is consistent throughout the poem. Using complete opposites show the reader exactly how different people are. A Wounded Soldier -Gary Ferris A wounded soldier lies alone in bed, While a million thoughts run through his head. He remembers the day when he was strong. When greatness...
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...Junior Skill Builders Junior Skill Builders ® N E W Y O R K Copyright © 2008 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Junior skill builders : grammar in 15 minutes a day.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN: 978-1-57685-662-8 1. English language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. English language—Grammar—Examinations—Study guides. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1112.J86 2008 425—dc22 2008020779 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Edition For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 2 Rector Street 26th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com C O N T E N T S Introduction Pretest S E C T I O N 1 : PA R T S O F S P E E C H Lesson 1: Nouns • Understanding common, proper, concrete, abstract, collective, and compound • Review exercises of all nouns Lesson 2: Pronouns • Understanding personal, demonstrative, reflexive, intensive, indefinite pronouns • Charts of subject, object, possessive, and indefinite pronouns • Review exercises of all pronouns Lesson 3: Verbs • Understanding action, linking, and helping verbs • Chart of common helping verbs • Review exercises of all verbs Lesson 4: Verb Tenses • Understanding regular and irregular verbs • Understanding present, past, future, present perfect, past...
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