naturally into free verse, and either can be good. It's perfectly possible that the best three poems in a competition could be rhymeless. On the other hand, I agree that there is some prejudice against rhymed verse, perhaps because there was too much of it in past times. You need a particular kind of talent to write it well; a bad rhyming poem immediately proclaims its faults, whereas a bad unrhymed poem might simply send us to sleep! But when it works, it's magnificent! The best poems were in free verse
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Phillis Wheatley, is my favorite poet, Phillis Wheatley was only seven or eight years old when she was captured and taken from her home in West Africa. I would never ever want to be taken away from my home like Phillis Wheatly. Although she died poor, she died a free woman. At least she died a free woman I would want to die a free woman if i was a slave. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent. Honestly
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just go to my professor’s office hours. Going to office hours will help me succeed because if there’s something I am not understanding that the whole class is understanding I can still go and have that one-on-one time where my professor focuses on me and answers any questions I have that way I know what I’m doing by the time the test comes. The challenge will be finding time to go to office hours and convincing myself that even that one small question is worth the walk. Talking to my professors will
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said, “I had never been so truly free in my life.” When Malcolm spent his time in jail he did not know how to read and write. Therefore, he tried his hardest to learn. Everyday, he copied pages down of a dictionary. He wrote it over and over and over again. He never gave up and used the most stressful way to learn how to read and write, in my opinion. He learned how to read and write which helps all humans succeed. He said, “I had never been so truly free in my life.” What he
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found myself thinking deeply and coming up with something interesting ideas, which was like a surprise for me. Even though something I write seems stupid, I feel good. Moreover, I think writing is a good way to reflect my thoughts. The process of writing is also a process of thinking. When I have done my first topic writing, I feel more relax and ambitious. In my life, I study, sleep, eat and so on, but I never think that why I do these same things every day. For answering, I keep asking myself why
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“Feel free to choose your dead-lines” said my philosophy teacher. “It can be anytime from now to the end of this year and please choose it according to your comfort.” I looked at the sign-up sheet and saw the various dates I could choose from. I was very relieved by the fact that we were free to choose our own deadlines. But as I stared at the rectangular boxes on the sheet where I was supposed to write my choice, I was dragged into a vortex. My mind was swirling helplessly. I was a free man until
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ideas: like so many free-floating metal shavings in want of a magnet” I thought of a few different things. My first relation I made was I related my own personal ideas and details to acting as metal shavings in search for their magnet. When I write, I begin my writing process by brainstorming ideas for my topic. When I brainstorm details, a million ideas will run through my head at once. Almost as if these ideas were “like so many free-floating metal shavings in want of a magnet.” In my head, it feels
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what he is saying. I have observed this first hand. On my first day of field, I was a visitor, and I could clearly understand what Z what saying when he was speaking to me. Z also follows the rules of conservation. For example, during free time, Z was practicing writing words around the classroom. Z looked at me and said, “What’s your name again?” I responded, “Sarah”. Z then asked, “How do you spell that”. I informed Z of the spelling of my name, and he wrote the corresponding letters. Z was about
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I believe that writing has honestly changed my life, not in just one way but even a few. Writing has always been kinda easy too me, but not until a few years ago did i realize how writing has actually affected me. I never minded writing, but not until about the sixth or seventh grade did I become aware that writings not just something you do in school but something that makes you smarter and opens your mind up to be free and creative. For as long as I can remember ever since I was little I have
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Frederick Douglass both became educated and learned to read and write in a non-traditional way in a non-traditional environment. They both are of African American descent that lived in different centuries and societies that educated themselves to achieve true freedom. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X show that literacy can be dangerous as they each develop a new identity using knowledge to fight oppression. Douglass taught himself to read and write in a society that condemns literacy in which he overcomes
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live on the land of the free with many opportunities, but the slaves are not able to take part in any of it. In the excerpt Learning to Read and Write from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass is a former slave, who finds knowledge and literacy as his path to freedom. Through this experience, Douglass learns how to read and write, however his life becomes both a curse and later a blessing. Douglass depicts that not only does he learn to read and write to be well educated, but
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to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by anyone else. It is due, however, to my mistress to
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CITE - Why did free blacks stay in the south? http://www.theroot.com/views/why-did-free-blacks-stay-old-south? Like most of you, I suspect, I was raised to believe three things about slavery in America: first, that slaves who gained their freedom did so by escaping on the Underground Railroad to the North; second, that all of the black people living in the South before and during the Civil War were slaves; and third, that all of the free black people in pre-Civil War America lived in the North
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MP 1: Zine Growing up, I never really had to worry about how I spent my money. Sure, every so often my parents would say no to a pair of shoes or the newest pink bike with flowers, but it was never a huge issue. I didn’t have to pay for school, there was no extra housing fee, and I wasn’t worried about if I had enough money on my debit card to buy a textbook. Nowadays, money seems to be the only thing anyone is worried about. What’s your job? How much do you get paid? Are you in school?
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2015 My Literate Life Picture books to books with no pictures at all. Fun short stories to long page books with no pictures at all. Elementary school writing was fun to explore if you really enjoyed writing and to express how you wrote. I remember back in the second grade we would write short stories about our favorite hobbies and I could write for hours about my favorite activities, but now writing has come to MLA format, rubrics, and strict topics I become stumped when it’s time to write. In
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My favorite topic of this month was Pet Peeve. What I liked most about this topic is how we could analyze our different points of views, opinions, to read my classmates points of views and how each and everyone expresses themselves and their thoughts. One thing I learned this month is how can we be creative on many different ways and aspects. How to express in the correct way, having a correct grammar, analyzing points of views and brainstorming. Now I can use my words in a proper way so in the future
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The Jane Eyre free response essay was one of the most difficult assignments I had in AP English. This essay was the first free response essay I had ever written. I was nervous and overwhelmed about having to write a type of essay I had never written before. In order to do the assignment, I had to read the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. After the novel had been read, I had to figure out the social institutions and beliefs that Bronte was criticizing. I knew immediately that I would struggle
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Why do first drafts make writers uncomfortable? First drafts make writers uncomfortable because they don't have a clue on anything yet. When you write the first draft, its ideas, thoughts, no real meaning to anything. It's to help you explore your ideas and discover new ones. It's usually just a bunch of words that you have to search through to find what you were looking for. This makes writers uncomfortable because it's unknown yet, writers would usually just want to skip this process and get to
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writing poetry. In high school I would write some poetry for my English classes; we would have about a week of poetry and that was it. I knew little to no terms when it came to poetry and knew almost no poets besides Shakespeare. I also had taken a creative writing class in high school but that was for fiction writing and we only did a little bit of poetry when we had a poet come talk to us. I believe we had two poets come and talk to us but at that point in my life I was not very interested in poetry
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thoughts together using connectives: • How many connectives can you think of? Advice • Be original and entertaining with what you write • Around 2-3 pages long • Purpose – this will be to Argue/Persuade (paper 1) or Describe (paper 2) • Audience – who is it aimed at? What style of language should you use? Who should you address etc? • Task – what have you been asked to write? Speech/Letter/Newspaper or Magazine article/Webpage • Punctuation/spelling/paragraphing/sentence structure/organisation ALL count
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My greatest skill would be my imagination and creativity. I always had an overactive imagination but I never really thought of it as a skill or talent. Over the past few years, I have been focusing on how to take ideas from my mind and translate them onto paper or a screen. I write stories that I post online and my first two were, in my opinion, not very well developed. By the time I had gotten to my third story, I had improved my creative writing skills and was able to make it better than the
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the truth in their writings. Children usually speak and write honestly most of the time, but adults are just not quite familiar with writing honestly in their writings. “Part of growing up is learning to tell lies, big and little, sophisticated and crude, conscious and unconscious. The good writer differs from the bad one in constantly trying to shake the habit.”(Macrorie 9). So in order to be a good writer, people should know how to write honestly in their writings. People always want to make
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Style In the article “How to Write with Style”, Kurt Vonnegut gives the writers some important suggestions on how to write well with personal style. The purposes of his suggestions are to make the writers find their own personal style and make it better. According to Vonnegut, writers should reveal something about themselves, write about interesting ideas, maintain simplicity, and write clearly. These suggestions have provided me with confidence that I can write with style. Kurt Vonnegut
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Cameron Chavez Composition Mr. Limone 1/21/13 Compare/Contrast Essay From about the age of 6 I started sports, from soccer to baseball to basketball to football to lacrosse to wrestling, I have never enjoyed going to the practices and games. My dad played sports as a kid and he was very serious about sports and going to all the practices and games. He always tells me to this day, “A commitment is a commitment.” I would argue with him for hours about this. He finally said one day that he has
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she states, “Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate” (Anzaldua, 39). Here she states one of the ways in which speaking English and Spanish was one major difficulty for her. She explains how her tongue is not free to switch form Spanish
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classes by my Junior year of high school, ever since I was in seventh grade at Crispus Attucks; neighbors of IUPUI. For the reason that Crispus Attucks High School challenges their students academically, I was ahead of the game. Entering my Freshman year of high school without fear, I took my first AP English class with Mr. Dearing, a sophisticated, tall, bald, white man, who fails at being humorous. At this instant, when I stepped into his classroom on the second floor I could already sense my writing
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his education with his biggest challenge knowing the fact that he could read and write which was a big problem for slave as it was forbidden for them to know these material. Frederick was determine to know how to read and write as he was trying to know about the world out there and know the fact was a slave which it would been a problem if he would have been caught but still what determine to know how to read and write. After he known how to read he was starting to see that the white man world was
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Writing is in my genes! My father, Walter Cummins, taught English literature, is an author, editor, and has a small publishing house. How could I not write? I even published a poem about the sun in a small magazine when I was a child. I was always good at writing and reading in school. Algebra is another story! I could never understand why x+y = xy mattered? Why do you write non-fiction about relationships, self-growth, and spirituality? I really love reading fiction and hope one day to write a fiction
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Name: Date: March 12,2013 My Academic Skills Plan for Rehearsing and Memorizing Study Material STEP 1: What is my present situation? In the space below, describe the challenges you are having with remembering important information and skills in the courses you are now taking. Feel free to include problems you have that are similar to those expressed by the students you just read about. I have a hard time with grammar and vocabulary words. My instructor would go over some sort of grammar
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My free write is to tell Mr. P and Mrs. Beatty that I didn’t like this week bell ringers. The reason I say that is, because I never knew what to write unlike any other paragraph any other week. I like when We do Paragraphs that are about ourselves, because it lets me reassure myself and what I like. I also love fridays, but saturdays are my actual favorite day of the week. I also just received my Christmas present from my boyfriend. He got me a baby blue tongue skink. I named her Willow. She is
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