Billy Collins Response Q&A's

What is Collins trying to say with this poem? How does he capture childhood and the process of growing up? What makes this poem effective? How does this fit into your own life experience?

Billy Collins poem Analyzing on Turning Ten captures childhood and the process of growing up by taking the stance of a ten year old that is explaining or talking to an adult about what it is like to age one to ten. It is clear that he as the author is talking to an adult or superior is found in the second paragraph “You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten, the perfect simplicity of being one, and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.”

                Collins also talks about the things that have changed over time. For example in the third paragraph when he says “Back then it never fell so solemnly, against the side of my tree house and my bicycle never leaned against the garage, as it does today”. Here he is talking about how now that he is older he never rides his bike or plays in his tree house.

                When I read, “It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends, time to turn the first big number”. I remembered when I was about to turn ten years old. I clearly remember thinking it was a huge deal because it was double digits and how that would make me a big kid. I remember thinking that now that I was a “big kid” it was time to act like one and I could no longer do things that little kids did or say just as Collins thought. “…and my bicycle never leaned against the garage, as it does today”. I can easily relate to this pome, I know when I think back to when I was going to be a 6^th grader, thinking how we were so cool because we were going to be the oldest kids in the school. Or the time when I got my first cellphone I thought I was more than old enough to get one but even now looking back I think I was so young then. I think it is almost ironic that throughout our lives everyone is so focused on being “old enough or too old” for X, Y and Z that most people never appreciate or enjoy their youth while they have it and then once people are in there later years they resent their wrinkles.

Why The World Is Flat

Why The World is Flat

By: Katie Allison

The government has brain washed everyone in to believing that the world is round, when in fact it is flat. When one looks at all the evidence, it becomes impossible to deny that there is no possible way the world could be round. For example if the world was round no matter where you were going you would have to go either uphill or downhill. If this was the case then everyone would have very toned calf and quads and be in much better shape. Also if the world was round then it would be impossible to build sturdy buildings because levels wouldn’t work so everything would be lopsided. This would cause buildings to collapse and bridges to crumble everywhere. Another piece of evidence that helps support the idea that the world is flat is that it would make it impossible to play baseball, golf or croaky or any other sport that would require you to hit a ball because it would just continue to roll and go all the way to the bottom of the world and then fall into outer space. This brings me to my next point, if the world was round then everyone that lived on the “bottom” or the equator would to fall into outer space, unless they have stick feet and hands like Spiderman. If the world was round then how do we have oceans? The world has to be flat or otherwise all water would flood he “bottom” half of the world and then there wouldn’t be any seas or lakes or streams. If there went any bodies of water then this would mean that would have any sea creatures like fish. If our world lacked water then this would also mean that we wouldn’t be alive because nothing can survive without water.

In my opinion all of evidence makes it overwhelmingly obvious that the world must be flat. After reviewing all the facts it makes it near impossible to not question the government and wonder why they would want us to believe that the world is round. It also makes me wonder what other things have we been lied to about and brain washed to believe.

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Watchmen- he thought the movie was too long and seemed to never end. He also believed there were too many charters which made it hard to pick who was the main character. It also made it very hard to follow and keep up with the story line. Based on his brutal review I don’t think I would see it myself.

Scary Harry- this review talked about the Harry Pottery series. The reviewer thought the first one dragged on way too long and thought it was mostly just interdictions. He also talked about how Harry was a brand new character in the second movie, noting his voice change and height growth. His main focused of the review was the fact that the second movie was much scarier. He highly discouraged parents taking children that were below the age of seven.

Back to the Prom – This is basically about how all the baby bloomers parents didn’t go to prom and how there kids are all at the point in there live were they are experiencing that all American ritual called prom. It focuses in on some of the schools on the east cost where still today they do not have a prom. And about how they changed it so now they do.

Defining Evil

Evil: Acting in sheer spite, without regard to ones own feelings or concern.

Defining Denial

Denial: Making your self belivie it is impossible before finding out or
             allowing yourself to find out frist hand.

Defining Beauty

Beauty: There isnt just one single cookie cutter cut out look, and anyone can be beautiful.

What is a Yankee Q&A

Questions to answer:

Are there any fresh ideas enlisted in this definition?

How would you have defined this idea? Are there ideas

similar to it that you could choose to define? Not really I think I pretty much covered them all.. when I started reading I first thought of the baseball team and the term for northerners

There are allusions here: (1) to the musical Damn Yankees!, (2) to the

Bible (the parable of the Good Samaritan), and (3) to a poem

by Robert Frost. Do these allusions add anything to the essay or to

your understanding of things? What if you didn't "get" the allusions? I didn’t really get the illusions.. The only thing I recognized what the author Robert Frost.

What techniques of development does the essay use in the process of definition? Do you think the writer dwelt too long on what a Yankee is not before moving on to what a Yankee is? I felt like I was waiting for the answer to the question too long I think it should have spent more time on what a Yankee is vs. what it isn’t.

Can you point to one sentence that functions as thesis

statement in this essay? – “What is a Yankee?”