The importance of being earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

In Oscar Wilde's play ,The Importance of Being Earnest, he expresses many different types of tone to his play. He goes through it with witty and sarcastic characters that also have sifictication in them as well as some not so smart moves made by them. By using these characters with sarcastic tones and different ways of talking that was in the Victorian era. Oscar Wilde creates a new form of writing by having his work being more comical and witty then a play written in tragedy. Even though he still uses the journey and strive for love with others it is different from what was normal in his time.

In Act I there are many examples of how Oscar Wilde uses the different tone of the character Algernon. He is mainly portrayed as a sarcastic character that in the Victorian society was unusual do to having the idea of always being polite and respectful. A great example 0f this is when he tells Jack, Earnest, about Mr.Bunbury. He said " nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury." In reading this you can sense the sarcasm and pride that would be in his tone as he tells Jack how a man he made up will be helpful for him in the long run when Jack would have marriage problems. Being back then one was thought of that as no joking matter yet here that is exactly how marriage is seen, as a joke.

Also in Act I I there are some examples of good use of language in the way that Cecily and Gwendolyn find out that they have both been proposed to by Earnest. When Cecily says " I am afraid you must be under some misconception. Earnest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago." Then Gwendolyn said," It is certainly very curious, for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30" in doing this twist in the story with both of their to e's being prideful and sure of themselves. He expresses how humanity can be played by others and made to look as if they have stupidity for not knowing what is really going on and then showing specific examples of them being right. This was important because it showed a sort of scandal that was costumed to have happened back in the Victorian era.

In Act III it shows how Oscar Wilde presents another twist to the play when it is found out who Jacks family really is. An example of how Jack brings out the fact that Cecily was wrong for accusing him of lieing would be when he  said, " Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily,- how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother."  When he said this he presented it with a pride for not being wrong and for not have been lying after all about having a brother. Which in turned made the other feel ridiculous for the judgment that they had about him.

In conclusion Oscar Wilde show ls how the play uses different forms of writing that was unique to the Victorian Era. His play was filled with the sarcasm and pride of other and yet also had themes of lust for other and the feeling of stupidity for others and is a great example of a work that was different from others during this time. This play had characters that in the Victorian Era considered to be very weird and unthought of and was considered to be wrong. The mixing of the family name on a person who came from a bag at the train. Station was thought to be beneath people of the higher society like Gwendolyn.

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"Harlem"

In Langston Hughes "Harlem" poem the author expresses a sense of wonder and curiosity towards dreams. The speaker gives diferent similes through out the poem to try amd establish different feelings towards ideas of past dreams.He asks the question of what happens to a dream deferred and tries to come up with an answer. Going through you notice that he uses similes and a metaphor to try and compare what exactly happens to a dream when after you have had it.

A example of this would be when he first compares a dream to a raisin that drys up while it sits in the sun. By looking at this simile it gives you an image of seeing a shriveled up raisin that just stays in the sun with no thought to it. Which is what I believe the author is trying to get across as that once a dream has happened it is just left in your brain and not really given much thought so it becomes a shriveled up memory that stays in your brain with no other use. He gives the feeling that maybe after we dream it isn't very important as to what the dream was so it doesn't matter if the dream stays there with not a second thought.

Next he takes a different feeling towards what happens to a dream but comparing it to a festering sore. By doing this his feelings have changed to a to be able to say that maybe after we have our dreams they stay in our thoughts and we keep thinking bout them. They keep growing and growing till they just keep going on and on. He is curious to know if dreams grow and grow till they just leave like a sore when it runs from becoming to big.

After compare dreams to things that become forgotten or grow to big the author shifts his view to as making dreams go bad like rotten meat. He brings to light the feeling that maybe dreams like meat go bad or rotten. The idea of is dream is shifted from a curious thing to rotten idea left behind by a dream. Yet he also gives the feeling of a sweet memory from a dream when he said "or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet" giving us the idea that dater a dream had happened it gives you a sense of good feeling that is sweet and pleasant to have afterwards .

Towards the end he expressed the feeling of being somewhat overwhelmed by the dream and that afterwards it becomes a heavy load that just sags there. In doing this he expressed that that dreams left behind just become burdens us. Yet leaves is last line as a metaphor saying "or does it explode" giving us a while new way to look at it. By saying that he expressed that maybe the dream just disappears after we have had the dream leaving a forgotten feeling in its place.

In conclusion Langston Hughes shows ma yang different feelings about what he feels can possibly happen to a dream after it has accord.  These feelings range from being a dried up memory to one that is gone in an instant. Making it left for us to try and decide whether or not we too may have the same option of figuring out what exactly happens to a dream when you have had it and awake from it. Is it fogotten, left behind, thought about, made into a burden or may it just disappears from us forever.

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Everyone here has something income with the other ninety students sitting around them waiting to graduate and start their new lives. Everyone of them made the choice to be different and leave all that they new behind and take a chance. We made it our goal to be unique with our choice of education and high school experience. The plunge into the unknown and make it the very best that we could. We aren't just graduating from any high school, we are graduating from the high school that we helped shape and mold. By putting ourselves into this school and taking in all it had a long with giving back to it. We will leave this second home with our heads held high ready to take on anything the world will through at us because I have already shown how strong we really are. Of course there were times when we had the best days of school and the times when all we wanted to do was drop everything and go home. Yet here we are, nothing but near steps away from our new lives and bright futures. Haven taken our first steps off the bus first day of school to cramming for proficiency exams, learning to drive into freedom, dancing at prom and making forever lasting friendships. This wasn't just another school that we needed to go to, not another cookie cutter school this was our kingdom, our tool for the future, our second family. Family spelled AACT.

Another Essay 1st draft

Everyone starts out with a dream and throughout life they go through the steps to either get towards that dream or somehow just a bit further from it. In my life I believe I've taken the correct steps to be able to fulfill my dream and to expand on it. This started for me when I went to the Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology. They helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life by showing me all the options that I had. I figured out that I wanted to become a graphic designer and that I wanted to further my education in a school in San Francisco to pursue my dream. I'm greatly appreciate that I was able to find my dream at such a young age because most people in life never really figure out what they want to do with their life and how they're going to reach goals they set themselves. My school has given me a bilities to be able to go after my dreams. Being a senior in high school I'm glad that I was able to line up all the stuff I needed to do to be able to go after my dreams. Such as taking classes and learning the information that I need to further what I want to do with my life. My dream first started out with my engineering classes but then they branched off and started taking graphic design and animation classes at my school which has opened up my eyes to the new path I want to take. I'm grateful to be able to have such dreams and goals to pursue. One day hopefully soon I will be exactly where I want to be to further my dreams and goals even more.

Abstract Paragraph

For my English class we needed to write an abstract paragraph for our capstone project. It is a project that i have done for my senior year that will branch off into my future. Which is going to San Francisco to study web design and new media, I am really excited and hope that this is a good paragraph for it.

Aspiring Design for the Future

            My senior capstone project was signing up for a pre-college course at the Academy or Arts University in San Francisco. I was able to take four classes that count as units towards my freshman year at college. I acquired four points so far and once I do the spring course I will have six units for myself. I took a class in figure drawing, introduction to comic book illustration, photography and introduction to visual design. My courses over the summer lasted for 15 weeks or modules as they were called by the program. Once I finished the course I received a certification for doing the program and I was able to have my fee for admission into the college waived for taking this course. I learned many things from taking this course such as better drawing techniques, photography skills and more skills with adobe software.

Steps that I have taken:

1.      I enrolled in the summer pre-college program(four classes max)

2.      Picked the classes that I want that would be beneficial to the field that I want to go into

3.      Participated in online discussions

4.      Book work on the subjects

5.      Did the homework for the classes by the time each module was over

6.      Completed 15 modules

7.      Signed up for the spring pre-college program(two classes max)

8.      Still need to pick my classes

9.      Then I will have to do the module work

10.  Finish 

Elks Essay

A day that I will always appreciate is the day that I stepped up to be a leader for my service learning project. We were given the task to go out into the community and find an issue we felt we could help change or doing something that we felt the community needed. I found what the community needed, which was a garden for the students of Smith Ridge Elementary to use and that the community would be able to use. I met with teachers from that area and we went over what kind of plans that they wanted for their garden. I took those ideas and designed a garden that they were happy with.

 I recruited students from my school to come and help out with the construction of the garden. It felt great to get students from my school and from the elementary school to come out and work together. I felt like a good leader because I just didn't tell them what they needed to do I also did the work with them which made the feeling of being out there even more fulfilling because I got the satisfaction of helping with the design and the building of the garden. It was very inspiring for me because I was able to take knowledge from my studies and apply them to really world applications and help out the community. I learned that I have skills that I can offer to the community to help make it a better one for the kids of the future. In making this garden there are many thing that the kids can learn from it, such as healthy eating, agriculture, social skills and plenty more. It did not only help the kids with their future but also with mine by showing that I do like to do design work, which has opened my eyes to wanting to further my education in design

.It has also made me more aware for my community and how I can keep helping it now and in the future. This was a wonderful experience for me because it really brought me out of my shell and helped me to step up and take charge of my life and has helped me to be more of a leader than I have been in the past. I am proud to be able to say that I have become a leader with the things in my life because most people never really go for being a leader even when their opportunity comes around and for me to be able to say that I did choose to be a leader is a magnificent thing.

College Essay

Everyone starts out with a dream and throughout life they go through the steps to either get towards that dream or somehow just a bit further from it. In my life I believe I've taken the correct steps to be able to fulfill my dream and to expand on it. This strated for me when I went to the Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology. They helped me figure out what I wanted to do with my life by showing me all the options that I had. I figured out that I wanted to become a graphic designer and that I wanted to further my education in a school in San Francisco to pursue my dream. I'm greatly appreciate that I was able to find my dream at such a young age because most people in life never really figure out what they want to do with their life and how they're going to reach golas they set themselves. My school has given me a bilities to be able to go after my dreams. Being a senior in high school I'm glad that I was able to line up all the stuff I needed to do to be able to go after my dreams. Such as taking classes and learning the information that I need to further what I want to do with my life. My dream first started out with my engineering classes but then they branched off and started taking graphic design and animation classes at my school which has opened up my eyes to the new path I want to take. I'm grateful to be able to have such dreams and goals to pursue. One day hopefully soon I will be exactly where I want to be to further my dreams and goals even more.