Ben Marakovits
Parkinson
English III
5 April 2016
Serious topics usually have emotion flying all around them and you often feel bad when the topic of homeless people is brought up. Some people turn their heads in discus when they see trash and of course when people are jumping into dumpsters. There is a lot of things we don't know abuot the art of dumpster diving, and many mysterys surround it and how it is done. In the book On Dumpster Diving, Lars Eighner infuses pathos into his writing by saying "Dumpster things are often sad- abandoned teddy bears, shredded wedding books, despaired-of sales kits" (Eighner). When first reading this the line saying abandoned teddy bears really got to me because I jusr got an image of a little kid who drops their teddy bear and they are screaming for their parents, but the parents are busy and don't have time to go back. Then it gets the gears turning, somebody who is going through trash trying to survive is saying these things are sad when they have so much more than him. This really shows the pathos that whoever you are, rich or poor, you have a heart.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
old workers
Ben Marakovits
Parkinson
English III
14 March 2016
Old
Workers
The
age of retirement varies for everybody and people need to stay in the workforce
because they need the money. They might have nobody to turn to and they are
poor, so they must continue to work at an old age. It may seem they run out of
uselessness at an old age and that is true for laboring jobs, but it is not
true for others. I work in a gift shop at Kings Island as a part time job and
one of my co-workers, Al who is 76 years old. He was one of the best on the
sales floor because he was always able to strike up a conversation with anyone.
Manual labor puts older men and women out of work seen in of Mice and Men “They’ll
can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put
me on the county.”(John Steinbeck pg. 60) As soon as Candy can’t work anymore
he will be fired and that will be the end of him. I don’t think they should be
helped with their jobs because in our current society than can get a job which
is capable of doing at an old age.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Tableau
Ben Marakovits
Parkinson
English III
6 March 2016
"The golden splendor of day / the sable pride of night" (Cullens 3-4)These are clearly two different things. The day has the sun and life everywhere. The night brings the moon and cooler weather. day and night are polar opposites, but they really are not very different. Day right now is night somewhere else. Even though doesn't look like night it still is.”Oblivious to look and word / They pass, and see no wonder.” (Cullens 9-10) These boys can’t see the difference between night and day. When people make fun of one of them being black or white, they are oblivious to this because they don’t see any difference with each other. I wonder how these boys don’t see anything different about them? I probably forgot these are great people.This is what the Harlem Renaissance taught us, that people are people no matter their skin color.
Parkinson
English III
6 March 2016
"The golden splendor of day / the sable pride of night" (Cullens 3-4)These are clearly two different things. The day has the sun and life everywhere. The night brings the moon and cooler weather. day and night are polar opposites, but they really are not very different. Day right now is night somewhere else. Even though doesn't look like night it still is.”Oblivious to look and word / They pass, and see no wonder.” (Cullens 9-10) These boys can’t see the difference between night and day. When people make fun of one of them being black or white, they are oblivious to this because they don’t see any difference with each other. I wonder how these boys don’t see anything different about them? I probably forgot these are great people.This is what the Harlem Renaissance taught us, that people are people no matter their skin color.
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