Essays Tagged: "ordinary day"

Alfred Kazin's Summer: The Way to Highland Park. Personal opinion given

freshing. I find the world to be a beautiful place and I think Kazin does too. His mind escapes the ordinary day and floats to another place, a more romantic place. Kazin is not only a superb writer, ...

(3 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

All in a days work.

cloudy, gloomy day in New York City, two cops named Augusto Phazzi and Chad Mitchell were having an ordinary day at the office. Most people don't call Augusto by his real name other then his mother an ...

(12 pages) 50 0 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Breast cancer.

On an ordinary day, an ordinary woman turns off the ignition in the parking lot of her doctor's office for ... ed. The woman will soon discover something she was not planning on learning today; this woman, this ordinary woman, has breast cancer. This unfortunate scenario is not uncommon in our society.Breast c ...

(9 pages) 151 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

1800's Personification Paper

I assumed today was going to be just another ordinary day: lying dormant in the sun for most of the day, while watching the slaves work. I was ra ...

(1 pages) 18 0 0.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Book Report: The Other Side Of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

amed Sade.The Other Side of Truth begins in Lagos, Nigeria with a terrible tragedy. It begins on an ordinary day, Sade and her younger brother Femi are packing their bags for school, and their father, ...

(4 pages) 33 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Comparison between "Our Town: (Thorton Wilder) and the motion picture "Steel Magnolias" (based on Robert Harling's original stage play)

s is much like one in Chinquapin. Both of these fictional cities demonstrate small-town life. On an ordinary day, in both cities, the newsboys make their morning rounds delivering the daily newspapers ...

(2 pages) 22 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Stalker

and as the clouds ornamented the atmosphere above. Nothing much was going on at what seemed like an ordinary day in eighth grade; however, I would soon find out that I was mistaken. At the same time, ...

(2 pages) 14 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Memories of the first day of school

ber! To most of us was the beginning of the school year that morning and to some of us was just and ordinary day. The air was crisp and cool, the trees exploded with brightly colored leaves and beauti ...

(4 pages) 60 1 5.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Hidden Intentions

s a mundane activity. By injecting a sudden twist in the plot, Fondation was able to create an extraordinary situation out of an ordinary day at the restaurant. However, what intrigued me the most was ...

(2 pages) 6 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Attack On America

things imaginable happened. When you left the house that morning, did you think that it would be an ordinary day? Probably, and so did 6,198 people who are now either confirmed dead or missing. The nu ...

(5 pages) 1107 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Celine Dion

Celine Dion Bibliographical Information: March 30th, 1968 seemed to be just like any other ordinary day. The weather outside was typical for the season and children were playing outside as th ...

(8 pages) 2224 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Art Gallery

This was no ordinary day for Zac Green. Zac is an artist, he paints in his home based studio in London and this ... a man of free will didn’t want to be carted around Paris on a bus or train with all the other ordinary tourists. He says that if he sees an outstanding piece of scenery he just wants to be able ...

(4 pages) 13 0 4.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Creative writing task for Preliminary Extension English in HSC. Based on archetypal texts and the Gothic genre.

he would go. But the job; Boss's favourite, a rising star, guarantee of promotion…It was an ordinary day at TPG investments. Phones were ringing, sleep deprived employees in business suits wer ... (IT'S GOOD PAY!!!) did not inspire him to feats of…inspirational proportions. It was not an ordinary day for Gary."Er, excuse me" interrupted an all too familiar voice, "but the Boss wants to ...

(4 pages) 23 0 2.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Untitled

Modern Footsteps What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, by Pearl Cleage, is a novel about Ava Johnson's personal battles dealing with what lif ... t-of-view that is like no other. Not until the very last page of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day can you see the meaning behind it. In the end, Ava let go. She let go of her inhibition ... se her inhibitions were from fear. Fear of death. Fear of love. But after her life no longer became ordinary, after AIDS and a dependent baby, nothing was ordinary anymore. Nothing was crazy. " Now we ...

(3 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Frank o haras the day lady die

flection of grief, utilizing tragic laments and a recount of greatness now gone, O'Hara's seemingly ordinary poem very subtly evokes a sense of loss. At first, O'Hara's poem appears to be the account ... s a gift for a friend. The little discrepancies in his routine give light to the fact that it is no ordinary day. Miss Stillwagon's unprecedented behavior in the bank and the fact that he does not kno ...

(1 pages) 1269 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Identity Theft

It is just another ordinary day while someone is checking their e-mail. In amongst the messages from mom, newsletters, ...

(6 pages) 108 2 4.6 Feb/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

How can Philip Larkin's poetry be used to address the marginal or neglected?

ted’ and ‘marginalised’ in forms of expression. His poems have the “tone of the ordinary day”. Through this use of language, he reflects on the loss of identity and to the neg ... d will only “linger on” (l.47). Larkin uses language, structure and the view point of the ordinary observer, to comment on the marginalisation and neglect of England and its countryside.Lark ...

(8 pages) 6322 0 4.3 Mar/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

Symbols of USA

symbols. They display these symbols all over. The flags are hanging in front of the houses even on ordinary day. They multiply on national holidays. The end of Civil war are Americans fixed to their ...

(7 pages) 20 0 4.0 May/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

John Updike's "A & P"

d male working as a cashier in his town's local, usually uneventful, grocery store. On an otherwise ordinary day, three girls walk into his store wearing only their swimsuits which draws his attention ... appearances, as well as their actions, in perfect detail. This leads us to believe that Sammy is an ordinary teenage boy whose hormones are raging as he is focused on ogling the young female customers ...

(2 pages) 32 0 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers