Analysis of poem

Billy Collins is trying to tell the reader that having a birthday is one of the most exciting times of a child’s life.  The boy in the poem is turning ten and is now getting away from his childhood beliefs.  As he turns ten he looks back on his life and reflects on how he used to play as a pirate and pretend he was a prince.  As a child gets older they tend to part ways with what they used to believe and start to think like an older kid and do things older kids would do.  Collins captures childhood by saying how kids have vivid imaginations.  He writes how kids pretend they are a pirate sailing the seven seas, or a prince from the land of dragons.  He makes this poem effective by stating examples from a child’s childhood. 

word definitions

the way the author is use the word beauty is by say the makeup an other skin care products make you beautiful.
 
the author uses the word denial by saying poeple who are emotionally unstable are in denial.

the author uses the word evil by saying it is what the devil looks like and what god thinks evil is .

1.  There are no other fresh ideas that pop out to me in the essay.   i would have defined the idea as a baseball player from New York.  there are not other ideas i can think of that are similar to Yankee.

2.  The allusions add examples to the word Yankee in the essay.  It gave a better understanding because it uses the word in real life things. 

3.  The writer tells what other people think the word Yankee means and then gives the actually definition.  I donthink the writer dwelt to long on what a Yankee is not.

4.  the theseis to this essay i think is:In time, though, the idea that the word Yankee suggests has shrunk geographically until it is on the verge of extinction.



my spring break was really boreing.the only thing i did was play lacrosse everyday.  We had four games and won three of them.  We went to north carolina for two of the lacrosse gamesand beat twoprivite school teams who have won a state championchip in the last three years.  for easter i went to my dad cousins house and had easter dinner there. 

a modest proposal

1. the thesis of the story is that the irish want poor people to breast feed their childeren for a year so it is cheaper to feed the babies.
2. Two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom. 
And even when they come to this age they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds and half-a-crown at most on the exchange.
3.  after paragraph 10
4. poor irish rich english
5.  she does give real saterical ideas.
6.  the last paragraph shows how he really feels about the story
7.  he uses strong ideas and strange stories to get his point across.
8  i would use french names to hide the fact that they are babies.

i want a wife

1.  the thesis to this satire is I want a wife. 

2.  the use of i want a wife if repeted so many times is it it getting the point across that this person really wants a wife.

3.  i dont think Brady really wants a wife because at the end of the story Brady say that if i get bored with the wife i have now i want to replace her with a new one.  this ideal sponce does not exist because this person Brady is talking about is perfect and no one is perfect.  i think brady wrote this to show what people think a wife is all about and what expectaions wives have.

4.  Brady defines wife to mean someone who does all of the work in the house and who take care of the childeren.  Brady organizies the services by putting them in way that a wife would do them in a real life.  i think brady is a little exagerating a bit on the characterization of a wife.  Bardy is saying what a perfect wife would be but no one is perfect and no one could do all of that work.  i think Brady want the readers to be upset with the story so the reader will know what not to expect when they get married.

5. Dear Brady,  i do admire your essay.  i think it shows what people think a wife is supossed to do for her family, and all of the things that were said are all lies.  No one person could do all the work that was said in the essay.  i think this is a very effective essay.

1. My narratinve does an ok job of involving the reader. I could try invoving
2.  My narrative does a good job of relating events in sequence.  I tryed to get all of the things i did in order of what happened

We went to the mall after we were finished eating our delicious peppered steak with steam broccoli and a tall cold glass of Pepsi , and I had to take Tyler with me.

Because it was cool Friday night with starts brightly shining in the sky, there were people waiting hours in line to get a table.

Again, during our delicious meal , my friends and I received strange, gross, and hateful looks from the others in the restaurant.