...College is supposed to be the place that you find yourself, but at times I feel more lost than ever. Struggling immensely first semester, I felt like I was encountering a fork in a road, not knowing what major or direction in life I was trying to fulfill. Like most people, I went from shyly dipping my toes into the frigid pool of freedom to abruptly diving head first into the deep end of complete independence. Compared to how I was first semester, I have since changed from not knowing what major I should pursue to deciding on majoring in art . When I decided that an art major would take me down the right path on the forked road, I got the reassurance I needed in order to find my voice and identity. This in return inspired me to make my portfolio’s...
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...Informational Essay 1. Explore topics 2. Immigration in the united state 3. American dream can be achieved by hard work 4 Attending college in a non-English speaking country 5 Marriage with in the Krahn tribe Evaluate your topic. Is your topic that you will focus on enough broad so you can find enough information? Is it narrow enough so you can cover it adequately? Yes I did a research on the Krahn tribe from Liberia and found information about them: who are the krahn tribe? Where do they come from before going to Liberia, what part of Africa where they settle? 4. Establish a goal. What do you want to accomplish in your essay? Do you want to analyze the topic? What I wish to accomplish from this essay is that my readers should have a clear ideal on how the Krakn tribe became known among the other tribes and where they migrated from. 5. Your audience. What do they need to know? My audience, at the end of this essay will be able to know some interesting historic information about the krahn tribe. Some of which includes culture; marriage, rising up a family, farming, and tribal wars. Why are tribal wars fought and how messages are spread to different towns to informed them of danger and how peace treaties are reach. 6. Consider your purpose. How can you express your purpose in a single sentence? That statement can help you stay on target as you do research. Later on, you can revise...
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt had lowered the age in the military during the Second World War from 21 to 18 in Georgia 1943 for the draft. Progressively throughout the years all 50 states had allowed 18 year olds the right to vote. Allowing younger Americans to have the right to choose what is best for this country and let them decide on what is to make this country greater. Some individuals have different aspects then others that create debates that come to multiple different parties and solutions. As of my personal opinion that responsibility of having the capability to vote on what is best for your country comes with time and the understanding of the way the government and things are really working. Not just so much of “ Hey I like what my person...
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...Is "The Loss of the Creature" a Loss of Ourselves? We have all been tourists at some point, be it exploring a town landmark you've drove by thousands of times or a new country. We can even visit new places without leaving our home through Google Earth, and Netflix. Even our social media sites are inundated with tales of our friends regaling their exotic vacations, and news reports from far away countries. However, in the essay, The Loss of the Creature, Walker Percy wonders if this new found technology creates preformed ideas of a certain locale, and get in the way of experiencing the true essence of the location. To an extent, Percy is correct, however, there are aspects where these "preformed ideas" are a bit helpful. The title of the essay,...
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...in Edinburg, Texas. I have attended a small little school in Snyder, Texas called the Western Texas College before coming here, and I have received my associates in Applied Science and Petroleum Technology. I am taking English 1301 for the third time this Summer II course, since English has never been my strongest subject besides the fact that I know it is important to know. At first, I was a bit skeptical about taking English 1301 this summer in an unknown university, but upon entering Ms. Sanchez’s English 1301 class, it opened my eyes. I had a whole new perspective in not only reading, but also on everyday life situations. The first two times I took English 1301, I was not fully understanding the concept of the text I was reading. When walking into class on the first day of school this summer,...
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...It seems as if the odds have continuously been against my favor regarding my education. When I graduated from middle school, I had my education plan all set. My goal was to take as many AP classes as I could in high school, and graduate with honors, to facilitate maters to get into a great university. Being a Hispanic, I have parents that came to the United States at a young age, in order to seek a better life. They were not able to finish school and were constantly telling my brothers and I the importance of getting a proper education, so that we didn’t have to struggle the way they did. This is a mindset I always grew up with, wanting to pursue my degree, to honor my parents, for everything they sacrificed for our family. When I finished the ninth grade, my life went through a radical change. I distinctly remember the day our parents sat my brothers and I down in the living room to give us the news that we were going to be moving to Mexico. Not only where we going to be moving to...
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...teenagers convey a point to make men put their eyes upon them. In the short story “Where are you going, Where have you been?” Oates uses religious symbolism to show the end of innocence. “Where are you going, Where have you been?” opens with the physical description of fifteen-year old Connie. She is very beautiful and often checks herself in the mirror to reassure her beauty. Her mother disapproves of this habit and often scolds her about it. This habit of hers indicates that she is insecure and depends solely on her beauty for people...
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...The main aim of this report is to provide a brief description of the hospitality industry in UK along with its size, scope and diversity in order to convince the panel of potential investors to invest in the hospitality industry. My management consultancy firm was asked to produce a formal report focussing on the foreign business people to help them to decide whether to invest or not in particular sector of the industry for the coming London 2012 Olympic games. It will provide them a brief description of different ownership styles, management styles as well as organisational structure of several different sectors of the hospitality industry. Moreover, it will also provide the detail analysis of current trends, issues and recent developments within the industry. There are different sectors in the hospitality industry like hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars, contract catering, casinos etc. The particular sector that I am going to focus is the accommodation sector i.e. hotel and I am presenting the ideas that i have generated while doing the research. INDEX PAGE Executive Summary…………………………………………2 Definition of hospitality industry……………………………4 Scale, scope and diversity…………………………………...5 Organisational Structure……………………………………..6 Contemporary issues…………………………………………7 Changes in last 20 years……………………………………...8 Current trends…………………………………………………9 Conclusion…………………………………………………….9 Bibliography………………………………………………….10 Definition of hospitality industry Hospitality industry is a...
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...Mortality can best be defined as the quality and state of being mortal; being susceptible to death. So how does Mortality form the very basis of Attwood’s “The Age of Lead”? In this story, we are very often presented with the re-occurring motif of one’s own mortality. To be even more specific, in this story we can see a reflection of how we all deliberately avoid this very basic aspect of our own lives- our own mortality. This motif is evident in many parts of the story, but in particular is quite evident in the following segments of the story. Firstly, we have the protagonists main focus of interest, the documentary on the life and death of John Torrington. This documentary in its self is a very literal presentation of the theme of mortality. We also have a progression of events that are covered in the protagonists life. Much like one’s own life, these events are all based around mortality. Finally, we have the climax of the story, that is the protagonists coming to terms with the nature of mortality. So now, let’s begin to focus on the first aspect of mortality in this story, John Torrington. From the first paragraphs of this story, we are subjected to the concept of mortality. We are immediately brought into the world of John Torrington and the failed Franklin Expedition. The atmosphere of the story is thick with the concept of death and mortality. We are given very vivid descriptions of mortality and death. One such example is how the body of John Torrington...
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...The Truth Behind Arnold Friend In Joyce Carol Oates short story, “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?”, it is argued that the antagonist in the story is the incarnation of evil; Arnold Friend. Connie, the protagonist in the story, was a naïve fifteen year old who was fascinated by boys and was constantly out of the house with her friends. She always talked about the positive effects of her looks, but never realized the negative attention that could draw from how she dressed and acted outside of her house. Arnold Friend was drawn to Connie from the first time he saw her. One day Arnold visited Connie's house harassing her to come take a ride with him and he would not take no for an answer. That was the negative attention that Connie did not want. It is concluded at the end of the story that Connie gave in and went with Arnold knowing her fate would probably be death. Joyce Carol Oates never actually let her audience know who or what Arnold Friend represented, but it is argued that he may or may not be the devil. Throughout the story, Oates used many different ways to show that Arnold could be the incarnation of evil including lust, symbolism, and various religious references. At 15, most young girls in the 1960s were not as adventurous with boys as Connie. It was looked down upon by just about any adult for girls to be alone with any boy at her age. Connie was never really interested in the individual boys she had met, but more of the feeling she got from being in that...
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...“Informational Essay on Food Pantries” Information Essay On Food Pantries Have you ever worried about where your next meal was going to come from? According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “The number of homeless in Ohio is on the rise” (The Regional Food Bank of Ohio is a food pantry where anyone has a special concern for the poor, elderly, lonely, homeless, and hungry. It is a place where people from all walks of life can come together to share a hot meal and visit and enjoy each other’s company. Figure 1 Figure 2 Increase in poverty percentage in Ohio Poverty Percentage by State Hunger has affected millions of families across the United States. Many economic issues are the Cause of poverty, the use of food pantries and soup kitchens, and the disbursement of food stamps. The number of people that would receive food from a food pantry went from 250-300 all the way up to 2500-3000; this big of an increase had been related to the recession (Greenburg, Michael. American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol.100 issue 11, p2021-2022.) Low-paying jobs are sending men and women home with only enough money on their paychecks to be able to pay rent. Due to the increasing rate of people coming into food pantries, the amount of food that the federal and state government was able to supply had to be dropped by 2/3’s due to budget...
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...current writing is done for school essays or work purposes. Having to write detailed professional field reports for supervisors and managers to read. I think the hardest part for me when composing essays has always been the initial development and getting started. Making sense of what is in my thoughts and translating those ideas clearly on paper. Often times, I think really hard into it and just coming up with that opening sentence to catch my reader’s attention can truly frustrate me. Once I get started there is nothing stopping me at that point. I just let the flow of thoughts and ideas smoothly translate into my essay while still making sense and sticking to my main objective, which is sticking to central idea and not getting off topic. As I been told many times over, the main purpose of composing is to send a direct clear message across to the reader. Once I have reached the conclusion of my essay, I feel a sense of true accomplishment and pride in my essay. I have successfully pass the initial hurdle. Then comes the easy part which is the revision of the first draft. The revising process is piece of cake and where all the fun starts. Going back proofreading and making all necessary adjustments in order to have a solid and well polish essay is the goal. One of my greatest accomplishments for me personally, was to be given the opportunity to serve my country honorably for eight years in the Marines. I enlisted into service at the age of eighteen. At the time I had...
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...the other wall and, above it, a resigned-looking, marble-eyed, five-point mule deer’s head with a fedora on its antler rack. The room had no windows, so the smell of gun oil filled my senses at least eight hours each day. It clung to my clothes like smoke, and like a smoker’s cigarettes, it became my smell. No one in my high school noticed. We all smelled like something: motorheads of motor oil, farm kids of wheat chaff and cow dung, athletes like footballs and grass, dopers like the other kind of grass. It did not appear to anyone — including me — that residing within my family’s weapons cache might affect my life. Together, my three brothers own at least a dozen weapons and have yet to harm anyone with them. Despite their guns (or, arguably, because of them), they are quite peaceable. As for me, I have three guns, one inherited and two gifts, and I’m hardly a zealot. In fact I never had much interest in guns. Yet it is I who killed a man. It was the second week in August, a Friday the 13th, in fact, in 1982. I was with a group of college roommates who were getting ready to go to the Omak Stampede and Suicide Race. Three of us piled...
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...Week 3 Assignment 1.1 \\Eng 115 The author of the essay “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” is Suki Kim. In the essay, Kim wants to explain her struggles. The essay discusses the struggles she had as a child being in the 7th grade and moving from South Korea to Queens, NY. She went from being rich to being poor basically overnight. Her world as she knew it was changed in an instant. Her father went from being a billionaire to having nothing. Her main purpose is to describe what she faced while trying to adapt to different beliefs and cultures. Kim talks about her life going to a new school where everyone spoke English. She noticed that even Korean American kids avoided her. She had not realized there was much diversity within an immigrant group. There was definitely a separation between the groups. Being a teenager, she was “already rooted in Korean ways and language”. Her soul was not quite American although on paper that is what she was considered. She would rather use her Hello Kitty backpack instead of one that had pictures of the Menudo boys who were popular in the 80’s. She was upset that her parents would not allow her to pierce her ears. Most girls her age had their pierced. It sounds like she struggled to fit in and still keep her Korean culture Her lifestyle changed tremendously. She went from having a chauffer to taking public transportation. She had to get used to being called an Asian when she had only heard that term in school in...
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...The Old Man Isn’t There Anymore was written by Kellie Schmitt. In this essay Schmitt documents some of her experiences in China. Kellie lived in China for two years and was a reporter for CNNgo. (Faigley pg.107) Kellie Schmitt specifically touches on one specific experience in China where she attends a Chinese neighbors funeral. Through out this essay Schmitt uses enticing story telling techniques and purposeful tone. Schmitt also uses imagery to further help the reader see what was going on before, after and during the funeral. Since Schmitt used all of these components one can get a good feel for what it is like at the funereal and how some of the customs differ from America. Schmitt's use of story telling is very effective because it...
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