Posted on October 29th, 2009 by snowboarda111
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” as I’ve learned is known for its conclusions and meditation on the nature of beauty. After researching the author a bit i found that he was close to dying at the time, which would fuel his want to comment on the beauty of everything around him. The urn takes many forms within the poem, it is of course the main symbol. He also has very odd rhyming going on within the poem, in each stanza he starts off using an ABAB format for the first 4 lines then for the remaining 6 he used a miltonic sestet, as i learned from researching that was used a lot in greek poetry and hence the grecian urn. He could have crafted his style to conform to that of the greeks, although many people don’t know because way back in the day most of the people wrote differently and are influenced by many different cultures. I also found an oxymoron with the unheard melodies and that was just interesting to me.
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Posted on October 13th, 2009 by snowboarda111
1. Personal Statement (Required)
The Personal Statement is our best means of getting to know you and your best means of creating a context for your academic performance. When you write your personal statement, tell us about those aspects of your life that are not apparent from your academic record. Tell us about the experiences that don’t show up on your transcript:
- a character-defining moment,
- the cultural awareness you’ve developed,
- a challenge faced,
- a personal hardship or barrier overcome.
Directions: Choose either A or B. Recommended length: 500-650 words
A) Discuss how your family’s experience or cultural history enriched you or presented you with opportunities or challenges in pursuing your educational goals.
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B) Tell us a story from your life, describing an experience that either demonstrates your character or helped to shape it.
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- Some of the best statements are written as personal stories. We welcome your imaginative interpretation.
- You may define experience broadly. For example, in option B, experience could be a meeting with an influential person, a news story that spurred you to action, a family event, or something that might be insignificant to someone else that had particular meaning for you. If you don’t think that any one experience shaped your character, don’t worry. Simply choose an experience that tells us something about you.
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Directions: Choose one of the following two topics and write a short essay. Recommended length: 250-500 words.
- The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?
- Describe an experience of cultural difference or insensitivity you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?
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Posted on October 13th, 2009 by snowboarda111
I found that the story was very interesting, the language definitely bases the story in everyday life of many people in the world, which gives the story the type of contemporary because its in the present. During the story he refers to cockroaches a lot, as being parts of many problems that people have, but at the beginning he cares for it and it being squashed in his bag although he finds it disgusting at first. Another thing he seemed to do a lot was making a joke about basically every hardship the character went through in his story. But when he makes all of the jokes he is only temporarily diffusing the pain and agony that will accompany illnesses that he has and he may just have to face that fact in the future. His father came from old indian ways and his singing is basically the same as the guys random jokes that arent all necessarily funny, but lighten up the mood, which helps ease his father and other around him who were in the hospital and aren’t usually exposed to such things. But his father obviously accepts what he is going through as well as the guy who the narrator meets in the hospital.
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Posted on October 4th, 2009 by snowboarda111
The path of righteousness is only fathomable if you have faith in it and when all faith is lost, one falls to the path of evil, death, and decay.
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Posted on September 24th, 2009 by snowboarda111
The main symbols in the story were the rocking-horse(of course) and money. The rocking-horse in which he rides for luck, is a childs toy that he has more than outgrown when he is older. But he of course keeps on riding it for luck and to help his home or mother because they need more money and they have no luck to get money, so the boy finally being the lucky one in their family gets money for them. The money is also important because it represents greed. Both the mother and father were brought up in very expensive households having all the things that they wanted, which caused them to have expensive taste when they were old, and so they were always short on money because as Paul’s mom said that money is made when people are lucky and they have no luck, which meant they weren’t makin money. Basically the allegorical part of the story was the fact that riding the horse gave him lucky, which in turn got him money. In the story the rocking-horse and his riding it were from fantasy and it represented a vehicle that road him to luck although it went nowhere at all.
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Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by snowboarda111
After researching on archetypes on the internet for a decent amount of time, I derived that there are two main archetypes in the story. The first one would be the liar archetype although it is more misleading than a liar. The main liar in the story was Mr.Summers because of how he carefully picked his slip out of the box more than likely ensuring that he isn’t stoned to death. The major archetype in the story was about sacrificing and old traditions. The old tradition in the town was that they sacrifice or stone people to death, but in the town they don’t really understand why they do it, it just happens. But upon further inferences from the story the reader would interpret that the sacrificing would be for some sort of harvest or some higher being that they believe in.
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by snowboarda111
To me Paul’s case seems to be that he hasn’t been truly happy anywhere in his life, that when he was able to get away and forget his past and the misfortunes that happened there he was able to escape the rumors, lies, and what everyone thought about him. His case was that he lacked happiness and acceptance because it was obvious he was never happy or accepted in the town where he grew up. After his happiness is basically at its end because his father and his old way of life were creeping up behind him, he takes his own life because he would not go back to what he abhored.
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Posted on September 17th, 2009 by snowboarda111
I definitely believe that Sylvia is a dynamic character because of how the way she starts looking at the world changes due to her lesson about “real money.” She takes all of the kids to town and they see things in the window, most notably the toy boat that costs “on thousand one hundred ninety-five dollars”(25). Now showing a new side of herself, Sylvia asks “What i want to know is, is how much a real boat costs? I figure a thousand’d get you a yacht any day,” and this just shows how very ignorant she was to how the real world worked and how much she is starting to realize about how it works. Then she finally figures out how she is placed in the world, instead of being oblivious to it, with her feeling shameful to go into a toy store because she finally realized that she need not go into it because she doesnt have the money to buy the things that she would want.
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Posted on September 15th, 2009 by snowboarda111
I propose that this piece was to inspire Russians against what their form of government has set for them to move up in the world, without very much freedom. He is saying that people should be able to get where they want to, quickly, that they should be able to get their Gooseberry, so to say, so that they can be happy although, not truly happy because they of course would be compared to the unhappy so that there is that contrast. Through all of that thinking he is going through finds that there are only a small portion of people who are truly happy with themselves and that their are a lot who are not, so he illustrates his point that people need no to wait for their happiness if at all possible.
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Posted on September 14th, 2009 by snowboarda111
Christian redemption was brought most up in the character of Hulga. She is a firm believer of nothing as shown in the book she reads and the way she lives her life. But to her surprise/demise she finds a boy who labels himself as christian and carrys himself in a nice manner. Hulga finds herself loving him, although she never admits it and she lets herself go to possibly be transformed into believing something other than the nothing that she believed in early, until the boy ultimately takes her confidence, let alone her leg, and possibly the only faith in humanity she had at all and thus showing that she needed help for the first time in a long time in her life.
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