The poem Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Du...

 

The poem Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Dunbar is about him being trapped in society. He is comparing himself to the caged bird by saying he knows how the cage bird feels. In the first stanza, the bird is noticing all these happy and joyful sights and that everything is good. Suddenly in the second stanza, the bird is feeling trapped and feels that he needs to get out so he tries to break down the barriers that are restricting him. The mood is swung in a jolting fashion into misery and despair. He figures out he can’t escape so he resolves the situation by praying to the heavens for better days.

 

            There were many literary devises in this poem. One stood out for me though, “… a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core, but a plea, that upwards to Heaven he fling.” This literary devise is a form of personification. Personification is when an animal is given human characteristics. Usually praying is a human quality but the bird is praying so it is personification. Many key words filled this poem. Caged is very important because it sets a curtain concept/ universal theme in the poem because of the eerie and broad imagination that goes with that word. Without this word, the poem would have a completely different direction to it. The poem might have had a happy mood to it.

 

            This poem was connecting all over the place! There was connection between the first two lines of the second stanza and the fifth line of the second stanza. “ Caged bird beats his wing; till its blood is red on the cruel bars…” and “ a pain still throbs in the old, old scars…” These two quotes connect because the bird would beat it’s wings against the bars until it started to bleed and the other quote (that was later in the poem), states that he is suffering from the old scars.....

 

           

I am the 27th Frank in my family. I a...

 

 

I am the 27^th Frank in my family. I am the 14th Frank born into the Manibusan family, and we are all descendants of the Camudo tribe the Tropical Island of Guam.  There are a total of 25 Franks in my family as of today. Every male in my father’s side of the family is named Frank. We are all named after my great grandpa. His name is Francisco Manibusan. The story about why my name is Frank isn’t very long. On the other hand the list of Franks is very long. The list of Franks will continue to grow, and no one knows how big it will actually get.

 

            The story all began when my grandmother and grandfather had three miss carriages. The doctor told my grand parents that they would never have any children. But much to everyone’s surprise he was wrong. He was wrong not once but eight times. It all started when my grandma gave birth to a baby boy. Because my grandparents, thought they would never have any other children, they decided to call their one and only baby boy, Frank Manibusan. My uncle’s middle name is John, and we actually call him “Frank John”. The following year another miracle happened, and my father was born.  They didn’t want him to feel left out, so they named him Frank Joseph and called him by his middle name Joe. (Joe is my father). A whole ten months later, my uncle was born and they named him Frank Jesse, of course he is Jesse. It was only a little over a year later that Frank Jary was born. And as you’ve already guessed, he is called Jerry. Over the course of nine years, my grandma gave birth to eight children!  Six were boys ALL FRANKS and two were girls. And the girls where named, Carmen and Antonia ( yes, hell of close to my name). When my grandparents were done having children, there was a total of six Franks. However, were many more Franks to come, not necessarily from them.

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I am the 27th Frank in my family. I am the 14th Frank born into the Manibusan family, and we are all descendants of the Camudo tribe the Tropical Isla

Funny College Leters

berecruited.com is this place that helps you get noticed by colleges in the country. i do not know if it is actually legit but it pretty cool. so far i have goten a few different letters fom some actual big name colleges. they dont say all that much but it is cool because my name is getting out farther than just the state. that is my goal because that will be the best chance of my getting a scholar ship to a good school that could help me big time in life. it seems like this was a good idea to join this website. i got letters from some really good schools. the letters say stuff like how i can get into the perfect school.

just this sunday i got one of the letters from baylor and a few other schools. but of course the one that my eye the most was baylor. this letter gave me names of some websites where i can take a few placement tests tht when i was done it would match me with a college that is suited the best for a person like me. some off it just sounded like bull shit so i find it hella funny. i also got letters from denver. this letter said alomost the same thing but it had some of the different facts and things that made it different. like the denver letter told me about its courses and what the things that you can take and do to secure a spot at some colleges. it also lists the facts and things that you can take as a major. its actually pretty cool.

my favorite letter was the one from TCU. it is hella cool because it looks the coolest. haha. it is purple!! i hella want to go to TCU or the formal name is Texas Christain University. it is cool! i would so go to TCU if i could i would definately go to this school because i hell of like this school. i wish!!

i am soooooo done with football. i do not want to play any more. every practice makes it worse and worse to the point, now, i dont even enjoy the games any more. the whole varsity thing is cool and all but now its just draining me. between home work and football i barely get any time to do anything. i know i said last week that i was having fun but now it is a whole new story. i truely can not wait till its over. since i have to practice i am trying my best to have fun so i am going to make the best of it. of course i am going to play next year but this year is done for me. i am physicaly and mentally exausted as of now...



this week i did not take all that many snaps but when i did i had a lot of fun doing it.i think it when i dont play i dont like practice. i am starting to hell of miss junior varsity. i had so much more fun in the lower level than i am now. the only thing better about playing on varsity are better people. i liked how on junior varsity i was actualy needed compared to now because they would not even care if left. that has it's perks but mainly it is bad. like i kind of want to put forth a lot of effort so i can do something FOR the team. but as of now i can not really say that i have done anything for them or to help them. and this causes me not to feel like part of the team. i know people are satisfied with this but i just hate this feeling. i am almost worth less to them. like just a body. i feel like the guys who should not even be out there. not fun :(

Varsity.

i got pulled up to varsity dude. i am siked about this good event. i am happy cause this stuff is hell of crazy. i love being up on the varsity football team instead junior varsity. it has a lot of perks and some down falls in my experiences. but suprisingly it is actually has been mostly good shit thats been going down. it is very suprising that this week has been full of great things.

Good stuff. i have a lot of good varsity events that i can talk about. i like how it is hell of fun and of course extremely serious when it needs to be. also i have grown to respect a lot the upper classmen on the team A WHOLE LOT more. like for example qias and emilio. when the thing went down on tuesday with mr reynoylds and this jerk that came to the feild. when it went down quis and emilio did the best thing that could have been done to help my man reynolds. i was too scared to act upon the thing that was happening but they just confronted the scary event like it did not matter. i love them. i wish i could have been like them. also another good thing was that it is my last and only possiblchance that i could be able to play with him. this year was hella cool because me and jerms have become hella close and he is like my idol now. i love that fool. im glad i get to spend hella time with him learning what i can do to be as raw as him.

the bad stuff. jerms... i hate getting smacked by jerms yu. dont gt me wrong, i love playing with him and i want to be just like him when i am a senior, but jeez! that shit hurts like nothing else. i do not get mad because he is just trying to get me tougher for the future years with out him. to an extent i appriciate it. lol. crazy huh.