I was often frustrated for her I went to great lengths to make her happy and comfortable. Unfortunately, my patient passed away which left me very sad. I have found that my difficulty in learning the language is the inability to take notes. I have always used note cards to study. Visual repetition and writing my notes help me to memorize information.
Linda Pastan view of grades No one likes to be repeatedly judged, especially their own family. In the late nineteen seventies Linda Pastan wrote two similar, but quite different, poems about being graded. The first one is Pass/Fail (1975) and the other one is Marks (1978). In both the speaker shows that she is less than pleased with the ides of continually being judged, so much so that years later she is having nightmares about failing. The images in both of these literary works show a fear of being graded and judged.
The group that considered me a loner haven't seen me with my other friends, and that's why they judged and treated me differently. In this essay I have explained my pet peeve and why it annoys me. I've explained my personal experience on this topic. I am against making fun of people and that is why I wrote this essay on this
Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works. I think personal feelings about things like death, trauma, suicide and relationships began to be dealt with in poems would be very difficult to write about. It really made me think as I read the poems the two women had written and to know how they both choice to end their lives. I know that my life is not perfect, and I get upset with others from time to time but I also know that God only give me as much as I can handle at a
She is trying to explain to her son some months after leaving her husband and Christopher that she is not a very good mother. She says that she is not a ‘pacient person’ like Christopher’s father. This letter reveals that her writing style is somewhat like Christopher’s, in that she often writes in long yet simplistic sentences. Unlike Christopher though, she is capable of describing her emotions. She recognises that she got angry and upset because she was unable to handle Christopher’s behaviour when they went shopping at Christmas.
Before handing out my essay, I had Mr. Smith look my paper over to get his thoughts on how it read. The first thing he said to me was “check your spelling there are a lot of mistakes and you don’t want your peers to think you’re stupid do you?” I didn’t know what to think of this, I thought I had spelled a lot of the words correctly and when I asked him which ones were misspelled, he told me it was my responsibility to figure it out. I didn’t rewrite the paper before handing in out to my classmates and it went horrible wrong. My classmates started to speak out loud about all the spelling mistakes I made and that my essay didn’t make sense. I felt ashamed and embarrassed by what they were saying to me, that was the beginning of my fear of writing.
I need to learn to get use to books that I never imagined me reading because I don’t have a choice but to do it. Also, I would get very lazy to even try to take a glimpse at the text because I’m not use to reading the books the teachers like to read. My last goal is too use context clues. This is not a big deal but I would like to get a little better at it. When I am answering questions about the book, I don’t pay attention to the big clues.
What I did differently in this essay as opposed to my first, I stopped over analyzing. I drove myself crazy on my last paper trying to make myself sound like I cared about what I was writing, and even to make it sound a little more educated. In hindsight, I should have just written it in a “dumbed down” version and then later changed what I thought would have worked better. For this paper, I just kept writing, and didn’t over analyze anything. In all honesty, I was shocked at the good feedback a received because I felt like I hadn’t made it anything special.
My mother spoke in normal Trini dialogue, so I would constantly hear phrases such as “Do not cut you nose to patch you bottom” and “If you see you neighbor house catch fire wet yours”. To some of my friend my mother had no idea what she was talking about and should maybe work on her English, but to me she spoke clear and understandable English. I can relate to Tan in this way, because many people did not understand her mother and assumed her grasp on English was very weak, when it was actually the opposite. Over the years, I have noticed how my mother’s dialogue has rubbed off on me. I constantly find myself speaking in the island dialogue while at home, but the second someone calls or visits, I am able to switch into a more proper English dialogue with my American friends.
Many of the things she claims might not seem relevant now and would most likely need to be updated. Her essay is constructed in such a way that it seems persuasive, but I do not entirely agree with her claim. In her essay, Bird says that most students in college are discontent with their situation because they feel that they are unwanted. Bird claims that colleges know that students don’t like to study and that they are unmotivated by the thought of doing any sort of work. Bird illustrates college as if it were some sort of prison for young adults.