Analyzing on Turning Ten

As you grow older the more responsibilities we have, and the less we get to be imaginative and carefree, that's what the author was trying to emphasize in his poem.  You can see in the poem that the boy doesn't want to grow up, the author shows us this by descriptively telling us how the child used to act, and the things he imagined himself as at every age all the way up to ten.  The author writes this poem in such a way that you feel what the little boy is going through and you see him thinkg his invisible or him acting like a wizard. The mere details of the child's life before he turns ten draws the reader in and make the poem effective.  The author makes you sit back and think about your past and how you used act, think, and be so carefree, and naive. For instance, when the boy was describing how he was like at the age of 4, it made me think back to when I was four and my little sister and used to pretend that we were princesses living in a castle with guards, and advisers, and even a pet dragon.This poem most definitely brings the child out of everyone that reads it, and it allows your imagination to run free to the times when you were young and still considered as a child.  To me, I feel the boys pain of never wanting to grow up, because when I was younger I couldn't wait to be grown up with my own ob, and responsibilities, but now that I'm older and responsible for myself  there nothing I wouldn't do to go back in time and still be that little girl that use to pretend she was a princess in a far away castle with her little sister.

Definitions Essay Examples

The Truth About Beauty

1.  To me the definiton of true beauty is how you look natuarally, like when you wake up in the morning.  Beauty to me comes in all different kinds of shapes, sizes, ethnicities, races, and cultures.

Denial

2. Denial to me is what people do or a type a feeling people have when the know very well that there feeling or thinking a certain way but continue to say that their not, or ignore those emotions.

The Real Meaning of Evil

3. Evil to me is anything that is of the devil, and comes from the devil.  To me it means doing, saying, thinking, or even feeling something that somewhat from the devil itself.

Definition Essay Questions

1.  There are fresh ideas enlisted in the definition, like when he said that a Yankee can never owe anyboy anything especially when it comes to favors and stuff like that.  I realy don't know how I would define this idea, becaus I don't even know what aYankee is in general.
2. The allusions allow me to connect with what he's saying even more, and it gives me an idea of what he's really talking about.  If I didn't get the allusions then the essay wouldn't have made sense to me.
3. I think the writer did a perfect job on what a Yankee is and him explaining what it's not made it easier for me to get a idea of the type of person that could be or would be classified as a Yankee.
4. To most Americans, though, the word Yankee means either the pin-striped New York baseball team or the Northern forces in the American Civil War, the soldiers from north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In time, though, the idea that the word Yankee suggests has shrunk geographically until it is on the verge of extinctinct

My spring break was really relaxing and chilled.  I got the things that I really neede3d to get done,done and it cleared my mind for the rest of the year.

A Modest Proposal

1. I think that the real thesis in this essay is ”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”  Yes I think that there are other thesis', because he also focused a lot about the other ways on improving Ireland and how to solve their poverty situation, and he also discussed the reasons as to why Ireland was the that it was, like when he talked about the mothers and children begging.


2. In the paragraphs 4, 6, and 7 the appeals to logic are put into mathematical terms like when they says "at most not above the value of 2s., which the mother may certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her lawful occupation of begging; and it is exactly at one year old that I propose to provide for them in such a manner as instead of being a charge upon their parents or the parish, or wanting food and raiment for the rest of their lives, they shall on the contrary contribute to the feeding, and partly to the clothing, of many thousands." Or "I calculate there may be about 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; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed." Or "I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve years old is no salable commodity; 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;"  All these paragraphs are statics and numbers that describe and explain the idea that he was trying to present.


3. When I realized that essay was ironic it was in paragraph 6 when he said "The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about 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; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born. The question therefore is, how this number shall be reared and provided for, which, as I have already said, under the present situation of affairs, is utterly impossible by all the methods hitherto proposed. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture;" and I found all this before I got to paragraph 10.


4.  The people that were singled out by swift were, basically the poor, and mainly women and children living in poverty, in the essay the Irish were presented as the victims of vicious treatment by the English, but in my opinion were also to blame for some of their own misfortunes.  I think this, because in one of the paragraphs before he proposes eating children, Swift discusses how they'd had so many different proposals, but none them were being put into action so that to me also put them in the situation that they were in.
5.I think that the essay does function as a merely a satirical attack, and no Swift does not propose any serious proposals for improving conditions.

6.  The purpose of the last paragraph was to state how he wasn't really making an actual proposal, but he was just writing it for awareness and to get some money.

7. The other techniques I spotted were appealing emotionally, and a little bit of humor.  Yes, I have a job and I had a job two summers ago, and no I never resisted my employer or did anything that I wasn't supposed to be doing.  I believe that there is a link between humor, anger, other emotional states, and resistance.  I think this because usually we resist to or act upon things out of emotions or based on the way were feeling.  Things that I've done to vent my frustrations is screaming into a pillow, punching lockers, wall, etc. counting to 10, crying, and sometimes laughing.

8. If I was, conversely, given the job of marketing babies, I don't think that it could be done, because I wouldn't know how to market them without feeling sick inside, plus I would need statistics and numbers, and evidence that would show people that I knew what I was talking about.  I wouldn't know if the first step would be giving the baby a French name or by processing the baby to non-recognition, because to me the idea of the whole thing is just in humane, and disgusting.

Why I Want a Wife Satire

1.  Yes the essay does have a thesis.  The thesis was "Why do I want a wife?"  The thesis is basically what her whole essay is about which is, all the reasons why she would want a wife.

2.  The effect of this repetition, is to emphasize how much a wifer really does or at least did back then.  Also, to truely clarify why like any man she would want a wife.

3.  I think that she really doesn't want a wife like the one she descibes in the story, but she wants to accomplish and do the things she stated she wanted to do while her ideal wife was taking care of the home, and kids.  I do think that in some places this "ideal wife" exists, because they're are places where wives are submissive to their husbands and are very dependent on the husband.  I think that Brady wrote this essay, in my opinion, because she wanted to show people exactly what the life of a house wife r wife in general really looked like back then, and all the things that they went through just to please their husbands or what their husbands actually expected of them to do.

4.  Personally, Brady's definition of a wife is similary to ther definiton of being a slave.  A slave is somone who is owned by someone else, and in this case wives are owned by their husbands.  She defines what a wife is by telling us all the slave like things she does for her husband and even her kids.  She organizes the many services a wife provides her husband and family by telling us her wants and needs and how her wife needs to fit her life into his plan or into the direction she's going.  What I think about think of Brady’s characterization of a wife and her responsibilities is that it's like slave work, the only difference is that she wasn't getting paid.  I think she wants her readers to respond to this characterization with shock and disgust of what it's really like to be a house wife or just a wife.  I think this because the stuff that she said made you feel bad that these women were so underappriciated and taken for granted.

5.  Dear Brady,
Your essay, was just so wonderful.  It really gave me newfound knowlegde and insight on the life of a wife back then and even in some places today.  I loved it, because it was so detailed and it was told from a different view point.  I think that it's very persuassive and effective, because it persuasses me to want to make a chage and it effects the way I think.

5.

Satire Reflection

Out if all the stories the 3 I liked the best were, The little girl and the Wolfe , The Bear, and The Fox and the Crowe.  I liked the Little girl and the Wolfe, because it had a noce twist to the ending.  The beginging of the story stayed the same to the original story "Little Ridding Hood" but it changed towards the end with the little girl killing the wolfe with a machine gun.  He surprised me about how much more the story was interesting and how Little Red Ridding Hood all of a sudden had a gun.  He uses satire in this story by mocking the wolfe.
I also liked "The Bear," because it was eye opening and very insightful.  I really can't tell what the original story to this satire is so, I can't do a comparasion.  Anyway Thurber surpised me with the moral.  Because at first I didn't know where the story was going, but the moral helped me understand the story even better, and Thurber used satire in this by making fun of the, especially, when the bear was still acting the way he used to act before he got sober.
I liked the last story a lot, because it showed how cunning fox was, I've also never heard this story before I really can't compare the two.  The author uses satire in this one by mocking the bird and making the bird look stupid.

Fables and Characters

Hercules and the Waggoner
-  This fable was about a waggoner whose wheels got stuck in the mud and instead of getting out to try and fix the situation himself he prayed to Hercules, and Hercules came to him and told him to try to solve the situation instead asking for help right away.  The moral was, "The gods help them that help themselves."
A Young Theif and His Mother
-  I loved this fable.  It was about a young thief who got caught and sent to jail and was about to be executed, but before he got executed his only wish was to see his mother.  When his mother came he almost bit her ear off and when he was asked why he did that he said that she had seen him seeing as a child but would laugh and say that it would not e noticed, so she is part to blame for his misfortune.  The moral was that, "Moral of Aesops Fable: Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is
old he will not depart therefrom."
The Old Man and Death
- There was an old man who wished to die and his wish came true.  The moral was, "Moral of Aesops Fable: We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."
The Miser and His Gold
- This fable was about a man who kept his gold a the foot of a tree but never used it.  He would dig it up every day just to look at it and one day a robber saw him doing this and stole all his gole.  The moral was, "Wealth unused might as well not exist."
The Woodman and the Serpant
-  There was a woodman who found a serpant lying in the snow, he thought that it was dying so he took it home to put in front of the fire.  After he put the snake by the fire one of his kids was stroking the snake and the snake rose and was about to attack but then the man killed it witha an axe.  The moral was. "No gratitude from the wicked."
The Thief and the House-Dog
-  A thief came into the night trying to bribe a house-dog and the house dog saw righ through it.  The moral was, "He who offers bribes needs watching, for his intentions are not honest."
The Lion in Love
-  This one was about a lion who fell in love, he went to the young lady's parents to ask for her hand in marriage.  They wanted to say no but were scared so they told him to go cut his nails and remove his teeth and then come back.  He loved the girl so much that he did but then the parents laughed at hima dn made fun of him.  The moral was,"Love can tame the wildest."
The Man and the Serpant
-  A mans son stepped on the tail of a snake and the snake killed him, so the man tried to revenge him by cutting the snakes tail off.  The snake got mad and killed all the mans cattle after that the man tried to call a truce but the snake didn't want one. The moral was, "Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
The Peacock an Juno
-  A peacock came to the Juno asking for it's voice to add on to its own beauty, and even though it had enough and the Juno said no.  The moral was, "Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything."
The Monley and the Dolphine
- In this fable there was a monkey who need help swimming and a dolphine came to help him cause he thought that the monkey was a human.  When they got to shore the dolphine asked the moneky if he was Athenian and he said yes, then he asked if he knew this noble family and the monley said yes to keep up with the lie, the dolphine found out he was lying and drowned him.  The moral was, " He who once begins to tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make them appear true, and, sooner or later, they will get him into trouble."
The Bundle of Sticks
- An old man was dying, and before he died he called for his sons, when they came her gave the eldest a bundle of sticks and told him to break it but he couldnt neither could the rest, but when he told them to break it one by one they could. The moral was, "Union gives strength."