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Benjamin Franklin knew a lot about what it meant to work collectively with a group. While growing up with sixteen brothers and sisters he must have been taught how well a group of people could work together compared to a single person. Franklin expressed his knowledge and experience through the quote, "The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively." When Benjamin Franklin wrote this he was referring to the havoc that went on in a hospital. During his time, hospitals were not nearly as organized as they are today. Therefore while Franklin was in the hospital he watched as the staff all tried to do jobs that required more then one person. He believed that instead of having one man do all of the work involved with helping the sick it would be more efficient if a group worked as one to heal the sick. While Franklin was correct in his beliefs he never could have realized just how well his thoughts would relate to life now.

Benjamin Franklin lived in a time much different from what we know today, but without teamwork there would not be such a drastic change between his time and ours. Benjamin Franklin created several organizations where teamwork was a huge factor, such as a lending library, a fire brigade, a night watchmen corps, a hospital, a militia, and even a college. All of these organizations not only involve teamwork, but compassion, talent, and good-hearted people who volunteer to make other peoples life the best that they can be.

Today organizations like the American Red Cross, Habitat For Humanity, and many other large volunteer organizations are just microscopic compared to the millions of fire departments, soup kitchens, and shelters that are made for the sole purpose to help people who are in need. In 2001 the Twin Towers fell to a terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people, and led to another 6,000 injuries. This number includes over 300 NYC police officers and fire fighters These fire fighters and police officers worked together while trying to climb to the people trapped inside. Every year we mourn this terrible tragedy and pay our respect to the thousands who lost their lives. This year, all around the world people united to pay respect. Trees were planted in Spain, and ceremonies were held not only all across America, but all throughout Europe and many other countries.

Now imagine a basketball game, a soccer game, or any other team competition. The players all working together to outdo the other team. It doesn't matter if its two teams going for the world cup, or the Superbowl, or even a gymnast in the Olympic. All of those athletes have had help to get them to where they are today, and it's that help from others, along with the will power to succeed, that will lead them to victory. It doesn't matter if your trying to score the winning shot at the basketball game, if you're in overtime during a soccer game, or if you're a gymnast working with your coach to win the gold, you're either going to win as a team or lose as a team. Eventually if you work as a team for a long enough time it doesn't seem like work anymore. After losing enough sweat and tears together as a team it no longer seems like just a team, eventually you become a family.

Benjamin Franklin could never have imagined the level of teamwork that is present in the entire world today. He couldn't imagine the millions of people that are fighting together for the safety and freedom of not only the United States, but every other country in the world. Or how twenty student could be so excited just because they won a championship game, but what Benjamin Franklin did realize is how compassionate we are as human beings. He realized that no matter the time era we will succeed as long as we work together, because working together makes things that may seem to be impossible, possible.

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening. Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep

The poem by Robert Frost is about a man stopping in the woods to admire the snow that is falling, it seems that the man is simply taking the time to relax before continuing on a long, hard journey. Robert Frost uses many different kinds of poetic devices. For example Frost uses rhyming in every stanza, along with repitition at the end. Frost also uses personification when speaking of his horse, and imagery as he describes the scenery around him.

Introduction to Poety Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means

When Collins wrote this poem he was expressing how he wanted the students to get to know a poem, but the students just over analyzed the poem without really getting to know and understand it. Collins uses similies to compare the poem the students study to several things. He also uses personification when talking about the poem by saying he wants the students to do things such as waterskiing across the surface.

Vacation Rita Dove

I love the hour before takeoff, that stretch of no time, no home but the gray vinyl seats linked like unfolding paper dolls. Soon we shall be summoned to the gate, soon enough there’ll be the clumsy procedure of row numbers and perforated stubs—but for now I can look at these ragtag nuclear families with their cooing and bickering or the heeled bachelorette trying to ignore a baby’s wail and the baby’s exhausted mother waiting to be called up early while the athlete, one monstrous hand asleep on his duffel bag, listens, perched like a seal trained for the plunge. Even the lone executive who has wandered this far into summer with his lasered itinerary, briefcase knocking his knees—even he has worked for the pleasure of bearing no more than a scrap of himself into this hall. He’ll dine out, she’ll sleep late, they’ll let the sun burn them happy all morning —a little hope, a little whimsy before the loudspeaker blurts and we leap up to become Flight 828, now boarding at Gate 17

In this poem Dove is describing the different types of people she see's at an airport.Dove does not describe her vacation, but what she sees before she goes on her vacation. Dove uses a lot of imagery in her poem by describing the 'lone executive' and the 'ragtag families'. Dove also describes the athlete, the exhausted mother with her wailing child, and a bachlorette wearing heels.