What is Collins trying to say with this poem? He is trying to say that the event on turning ten years old, your first big birthday is a changing event in a young child's life because they had been alive for a decade.  They have had imginary friends, and played make believe and its finnaly time to start growing up.

How does he capture childhood and the process of growing up? He captures childhood as a time to play and a time for games and growing up to be a bad thing to leave it all behind.

What makes this poem effective? Yes it was efective on making you realizie his perception of growing up.

How does this fit into your own life experience? I am 18 supporting myself , working, and still in high school.  I am still a child at heart and wish to go out and spend money on silly things but yet i cannot do this anymore i have to think about more important things like food, where im going to live, how im getting to work and school the next day, but these things are no longer possible. I am and adult and execpting that is hard.

definintions

The definition of beauty that they portrayed in the article The Truth About Beauty as you dont need to make your self up, use products and change your apperance to be beautiful.  You are beautiful just they way you are.

The definition that they define denial as the refusal to acknowlege the truth.  They go on to say denial is a behavior of ignoring the bad behaviors you are doing to refuse to believe you have a problem in self distructing behiviors.

The definition that they define evil as comparing it in events in society such as comparing it to Satan, Saddam, and WWI.

Spring break

Over spring break i worked 40 hours, spent time with wayne, and went about daily life.  I just watched tv, play with my puppy, and listen to music.

Yankee questions

Questions to answer:

Are there any fresh ideas enlisted in this definition? I didnt know about Mark Twain's novel Connecticut Yankee , or that the book existied so i would consider that a fresh idea, him defining Yankee using a book.

How would you have defined this idea? I would have defined Yankee as an all american, a baseball fan/ baseball player .

Are there ideas similar to it that you could choose to define? I guess you could consinder an "American" to be a similar word you could choose to definne, because they are getting at the same general meaning.

There are allusions here: (1) to the musical Damn Yankees!, (2) to the Bible (the parable of the Good Samaritan), and (3) to a poem by Robert Frost. Do these allusions add anything to the essay or to your understanding of things? What if you didn't "get" the allusions?

Yes they do because it gives you something that you understand and know about to define a work you may not know what they are defining.

What techniques of development does the essay use in the process of definition? Do you think the writer dwelt too long on what a Yankee is not before moving on to what a Yankee is?

He used lititure, baseball, and musicals to define the word Yankee

Can you point to (write down) one sentence that functions as thesis statement in this essay?

That's what I think defines this dying breed of the American Yankee: an extraordinary sense of balance and reserve, a holding off — and yet, behind all that reserve, a reservoir of generosity and friendliness that can be nearly overwhelming.