Analyzing On Turning Ten

I think that Collins is trying to say that children need to cherish their childhood as much as possible because it doesn't last forever, and those are the years that you can have as much fun and creativity as you want and not be judged. I think he is trying to say that not enough people truly appreciate their childhood and embrace is as much as they should because they want to grow up so quickly. Collins captures childhood by describing different things he did at certain ages before he turned double digits. This poem is affective because it is very dramatic and dark. He intensifies what it's like to grow up, and he makes it seem like it is a terrible thing because you are growing our of your childhood. I wasn't sad to become 10 because I thought it was exciting to finally be in double digits. My childhood was filled with great memories, so even though I am no longer a child, I can still look back on all the wonderful times I had, and I can look forward to creating new memories as I grow older.

Definitions of words

The definition of beauty that the author was tryingt to say is that companies are making women think that to be beautiful you have to look a certain way. All the cosmetics that companies advertise are trying to tell women that they need them to look like the "beautiful" girls in the commercials. At the end of the essay the author explained the real affects behind the commercials that make all the women look that way. All the advertisements are fake, and I don't think it's fair that we are allowing women to think that they aren't beautiful unless they look that way.

The author was describing denial as a way of problem solving. Denial is a way of dealing with the pain that you are going through, and sometimes it is easier to deny things than to actually deal with things head on.

The word evil was being described as how people's actions are evil now a days. People are bombing other countries, and starting wars and they have no remorse for those actions. The author was saying how the meaning of evil now isn't about satan, but about how people now have urges to murder or rape others.

Definition essay questions, spring break

1. I would have defined this idea by saying what it is like to be a New York Yankees fan. I think if I was a yankees fan I would have been able to write enough about that team, and what it's like to be a supporter of the team. Similiar ideas you could write about are any other sports team that you like.

2. I think that the illusions help the essay because it gives more details about other definitions of the word Yankee. If you didn't understand the illusion, that might confuse the reader about what they were trying to reference in the essay.

3. I do not think that the writer dwelt too long on that because if they understood the topic well enough they could have written plenty on it and it would have been really good information.

4. 

That's what I think defines this dying breed of the American Yankee: an extraordinary sense of balance and reserve, a holding off — and yet, behind all that reserve, a reservoir of generosity and friendliness that can be nearly overwhelming.

 

Over my spring break I hungout with my friends, went to the mall, saw the Hunger Games twice, and relaxed. I also watched my neighbors dog and cat while they were on vacation. My break was really layed back and not stressfull at all. It was very nice to not have to worry about any school work.

A modest proposal responses

1. I think that the real thesis of this essay is about how he thinks that the English need to stop making the Irish people their "slaves." He doesn't literally mean that they should start eating their children, he is sending a message that they need to back off.
2. "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. "

3. I realized that the essay was ironic before paragraph 10 because it is not realistic that people would start eating their children to make money.

4. The irish people are the ones that are the victims in the essay. They were under england's control, so they didn't have a say in what to do so the irish people are definitely not to blame.

5. Swift never presents any serious arguements in his essay, the entire thing is a satire.

6.  The purpose of the last paragraph is that he proposed this to help his country, but he can not contribute to the plan because he cannot have any more kids.

8. I do not think this plan could even work out because people don't want to sit down and eat babies for their dinner. I think that if people did actually eat babies, that it would be easier to just not recognize them because it would be easier to eat them without thinking about the fact that you are eating a baby.

Why I want a wife satire responses

1. I do think that the thesis is explicity implied in the essay. She is trying to tell the readers all of the reasons that society has sort of made what wives are supposed to do in their marriages.
2. The effect of this repetition is that the readers get the feel of how needy some people are in their marriages. By saying "I want a wife" over again throughout the essay it lets people know all of the reasons that society thinks wives should be doing on a dailty basis.
3.  I do not think that she really wants this type of wife, she is just explaining what society thinks would be the ideal wife. I don't even think a wife like this exists because they are basically completely catering for the husband and doing everything for him. I do think that some of the things she said are true, but not all of them. She probbaly wrote this essay so that people can see what society is making of wives at that time.
4. Brady defines what it's like to be a wife by stating a bunch of things that would make the perfect wife.
ex) I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a
wife's duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the
need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course
studies. And I want a wife who will type my papers for me when I have
written them.
I don't think that wives are really like this, I think she just wanted her readers to react at what society was making of wives at that time.

5. Dear Brady,
I think your essay does a good job at making a visualization of what people think their wife should be like. I think that it shows the great differences between men and women and that sometimes people just automatically think that women will do everything in the house. I like that you wrote this essay because maybe it will open people's eyes about how we need to make men and women more equal.

Prisoner response

I felt really bad for the prisoners that came to visit us. I think that it was a very good idea to have prisoners with addictions come to our school and speak with us because it will hopefully open the eyes of some people and they will change their ways. I think a lot of people think that some of the actions they do will not affect them later in life, or it won't get them into a ton of trouble and that they could end up in prison like these people. It was nice being able to have one on one talks with some of them after the assembly was over. The ones that I talked to couldn't stress enough that they wished they had hung out with different people, or that their other friends could have stopped them from getting into drugs.

James Thurber Satire

The little girl and the wolf: In this satire, thurber had most of the story just like the original story. At the end he surprised me by having the little girl know automatically that it was not her grandma, and that it was the wolf. She took matters into her own hands and shot the wolf, and in the original tale she didn't do that. This satire was more realistic because if a wolf was disguising as a grandma, you would know right away that it wasn't a human.

The Bear: The bear was an alcoholic and his ways were very distructive and his family did not appreciate what he had been doing. Since he realized that his family was not happy, he changed his ways completely, but in the same sense he was being disruptive to the family and they were still unhappy. So sometimes if you are trying to change yourself, don't change too much or else you will be causing the same disturbance as before.

The birds and the foxes: This satire was hard to understand because I didn't know which story he was trying to compare it to. What I got from this was that the foxes did not like the orioles and so they wanted to get rid of them by destroying their living area.