Iman (13 years old) attends White Star Academy and lives in Highrise Estate. She is a grade 8 student. Iman is a very driven kid who aspires to excel academically and take first place in his class. He hopes to study medicine and become a doctor so that he may…
Words: 2932
Pages: 11
Paolo Veronese was born in 1528 in Verone, Italy. According to the National Gallery (n.d.), he was given the nickname Veronese due to his birthplace. He did, however, later travel to Venice, where he lived the remainder of his time as a painter; he died on April 19th, 1558. Veronese…
Words: 1368
Pages: 5
Whitman’s poem “Song of me,” as the father of American poetry, embodies a message of national harmony and togetherness. A closer reading of his song shows that Whitman uses the term himself to illustrate that every person types the single word in the debate. I also see a clear parallel…
Words: 271
Pages: 1
Adrienne Rich’s A Woman Mourned By Daughters is an evocative poem in which two sisters struggle to connect with their deceased mother. This poem is divided into many parts, beginning with the death of the mother and progressing backward in time to when the women were young girls. The poem…
Words: 549
Pages: 2
Dave Saunders is the protagonist of The Man Who Was Almost a Man. He works in Mr. Hawkins’s sector, but his pay is given to his mother. Dave hits a point where he calls himself a man and assumes that possessing a gun will fulfill him. He meets someone who…
Words: 1049
Pages: 4
Langston Hughes wrote the poem Mother to Son, in which the writer is a Black American mother to her son. It is clear that the mother has faced tremendous struggles and wants to give hope and inspiration to her son so that he, too, will persevere in life as she…
Words: 1018
Pages: 4
Mothers are honored on May 8th all over the world for their unending devotion (Carrillo, Gonzalez-Sparks and Salcedo 372). They have made untiring sacrifices to ensure the success of their children. They have unwavering confidence and have a tremendous impact on their children. Mothers, on the other hand, have distinct…
Words: 699
Pages: 3
A young boy, Scotty, is involved in a hit and run car crash on his birthday as he heads to school on a Monday morning. Scotty dies three days later as a result of occlusion which doctors claim would have been avoided had it been noticed sooner. Scotty’s girlfriend, Ann…
Words: 875
Pages: 4
Juliana Martine’s key concern in the article “Facts and Arguments” is, “How do people describe an optimal motherhood?” The paper starts with an introduction, telling her about her author, and how she dressed her dolls as a little girl, thereby giving her a reasonable understanding of the ideal of motherhood….
Words: 549
Pages: 2
One of the best lessons that seemed to have escaped from my mother’s curriculum on how a girl have to behave must have been the challenges that come with growing into womanhood. Unfortunately, that was a route that I was doomed to travel through by myself as I had to…
Words: 849
Pages: 4
The article is written from the perspective of a mother concerned about her son’s health, which is now in the care of doctors. The mother describes her son as an incredible boy, emphasizing how far he has come in such a short time. The mother is torn between continuing to…
Words: 882
Pages: 4
Chosen Passage: “A girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to become. It was a definition, always touched with emphasis, with reproach and disappointment.” The narrator who is a girl enjoys helping his father do work outside. However, her mother, grandmother,…
Words: 407
Pages: 2