Lindsay+H

Lindsay Howard

Benjamin Franklin is famous for his quote" The good men may do seperatly is small compared with what they may do collectively." This statement is proven true in society today. One man can fight against a whole army, and fail miserably or fight with an army against another army and win. Like our national guard, navy, airforces, and navy seals do everyday. Patients with fatal diseases such as cancer, heart, lung, and many more dangerous diseases might need more than one opinion before undergoing surgery or chemotherapy or radiation which changes their lives forever, if that patient only gets one opinion instead of getting maybe 2 or 3 they might of just risked their lives for nothing. These patients also do better if they're family is supportive, it is was easier to accept death with family than it is alone.

Working together is obviously important, without fire departments, police stations, or even the government working as a whole, our world would come crashing down in a matter of hours. Firefighters save lives of many, police officers keep criminals off the streets, the government keeps our lives in order. Without all of these "teams" there would be a lot more unsolved crimes and even deaths. Even people we know and love could be gone within a blink of an eye without people working together as a whole. Teachers working together in a school or university is very important, without teachers we wouldn't have doctors, lawyers, proffesors, and many more occupations because no one would know how to do any of those things, therefore our society would crumble.

In another aspect of people working together such as football teams, baseball teams, volleyball teams, basketball teams, lacrosse teams, and many more there would be no entertainment if every man was for himself. Watching sports wouldn't be as entertaining because everyone would be selfish and there would be basically no game to watch. For example a football team would be nothing without the quarterback yelling all the plays or the reciever catching the ball or the line backer blocking the other team, there is an important part of each team and if everyone plays together instead of playing for themselves the game goes a lot better and smoother compared to there being no game at all. Passing the ball is another example, in many sports you have to pass the ball to another player on your team in order to achieve any positive outcomes.

Soldiers in the army have to work together, it is a little more important for them considering their lives are at way more risk, comparetivly speaking to sports teams. Another job that risks your life would be firefighting, if firefighters did not work together they would die a lot quicker than a accountant. Police officers also risk their live, trying to find criminals with or without guns, dangerous or not. If these people don't work together it would be a matter of life and death. People loose their loved ones everyday to mishaps such as not working well with another person.

Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring – We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – We passed the Setting Sun – Or rather – He passed us – The Dews drew quivering and chill – For only Gossamer, my Gown – My Tippet – only Tulle – We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground – Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity –

In this poem, personification is used numerous times. Death is the object of which the personification is used most of the time. Imagery is also used in this when talking about the school yard and the sun setting over the grain fields. Onomatopoeias are also used in this poem because it talks about the recess bell ringing.

Who Will Know Us? Gary Soto It is cold, bitter as a penny. I'm on a train, rocking toward the cemetery To visit the dead who now Breathe through the grass, through me, Through relatives who will come And ask, Where are you? Cold. The train with its cargo Of icy coal, the conductor With his loose buttons like heads of crucified saints, His mad puncher biting zeros through tickets. The window that looks onto its slate of old snow. Cows. The barbed fences throat-deep in white. Farm houses dark, one wagon With a shivering horse. This is my country, white with no words, House of silence, horse that won't budge To cast a new shadow. Fence posts That are the people, spotted cows the machinery That feed Officials. I have nothing Good to say. I love Paris And write, "Long Live Paris!" I love Athens and write, "The great book is still in her lap." Bats have intrigued me, The pink vein in a lilac. I've longed to open an umbrella In an English rain, smoke And not give myself away, Drink and call a friend across the room, Stomp my feet at the smallest joke. But this is my country. I walk a lot, sleep. I eat in my room, read in my room, And make up women in my head — Nostalgia, the cigarette lighter from before the war, Beauty, tears that flow inward to feed its roots. The train. Red coal of evil. We are its passengers, the old and young alike. Who will know us when we breathe through the grass?

Imagery us used in this poem in numerous occasions, such as when he says" the pink vein in a lilac". He also has a basic setting of which this poem is taking place he,to me is describing a cold, rainy, and foggy day. Personification is again used in this poem when talking about the "red coal of evil".

Somewhere I Have Never Travelled,Gladly Beyond E. E. Cummings

Somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands.

This poem uses personification in numerous places but one scamps would have to be when e says the eyes are silent, considering eyes can't talk this proves the point of personification. Personification is the only poetic device I see in this, but there might be more.