Welcome to a site of banal essays that I regret to have written! Most of these essays were converted from .docx to .markdown through the use of pandoc and then added as posts. You can find them categorized by year below. I also overrided some of minima’s default styling to create this incredibly ugly theme. Sorry!
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flounder
Natasha Tretheway’s poem “Flounder” presents the story of a young biracial girl and her aunt Sugar at a fishing spot, as they engage in various pleasantries and the aunt encourages the girl to adopt a white appearance. This continues until the aunt catches a flounder, whose struggle against the aunt resonates immensely with the young girl and her biracial identity.
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antinous
Following Telemachus' departure from Ithaca in search of his long-lost father Odysseus, the suitors at Odysseus' house become wary of Telemachus' efforts to bring his father back, considering how this might lead to Odysseus' return and thereby prevent the suitors from marrying Penelope and donning the crown of Ithaca.
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thank you ma'am
In the the short story, “Thank You Ma'm” written by Langston Hughes, a character in the book named Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones(commonly referred to just Mrs.Jones)takes a boy named Roger, who tried to steal her pocketbook, to her home and surprisingly treats him kindly. This brings up the question of “Why do you think Mrs. Jones takes Roger home?”
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fairy tales
In the essay, “Fairy Tales and The Existential Predicament”, which was written by Bruno Bettelheim, the author presents up fairy tales and boldly claims the ways in how children act in response to the fairy tales, who attain existential dilemmas, such as anxiety and teach a child how to deal with such dilemmas, which brings up the question, “According to Bettelheim, why are fairy tales good for children?”, and my response to such a question is that Bruno Bettelheim believes that fairy tales teach what’s morally right and what’s morally wrong to children, and there are some textual evidences that support such a claim that will be presented.
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baseball
In the memoir “Baseball”, Lionel G. García recalls the days when he and the kids in his neighborhood played their own special sort of baseball. What I think the memoir says about children's play is that it takes traditional games and sports and enhances certain aspects of them with the children’s imagination in order to make it more fun and interesting.
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resume
Alex Rankine
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journey
It's interesting how sometimes things you don't want or fear, whether because they are unfamiliar to you or if you believe they are in some way harmful or perceive a threat to you, can turn out to be one of the most important things to you. I sat on a couch in my homely house in the suburban area of Budapest, Hungary as I thought about traveling to America, with mostly negative thoughts pertaining to the country.
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contender
Throughout the story of the novel “The Contender” by Robert Lipsyte, Mr. Donatelli, a gym owner and a boxing manager, is significant to the main character of the book, Alfred Brooks, by teaching him some of his ideals and beliefs. Initially, Alfred Brooks is a young black high school dropout in Harlem who came to Mr. Donatelli in hopes of making his life meaningful and actually become someone in his neighborhood by becoming a champion boxer.
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scotus opinion
Cite as: 600 U. S. ___ (2016)
Opinion of the Court
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 14--8570
ZUBIK V. BURWELL
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