Running after Antelope - Thr Friendly Man

1. How is "the friendly man" perceived different from the producers that direct the people in the field?

2. What irony is seen between "the family man" stories and the actual people?

3. What do the upper-middle-class women symbolize?

4. How are the mayor and the upper-middle-class similar?

5.What does the line "these people were poor, that they'd been poor for a long time and that they were probably going to stay poor for a long time." mean?

6. Why was the basketball program called "pork"?

7. Why does the author have the beginning the same as the end?

8. What does "the friendly man" represent?

9. Why is a hyperbole used at the beginning and end?"

10. What does this story try to say?

The moon

As the moon sets out in the open sky, I turn a different direction. I stare at my computer screen, deep in thought, trying to figure out my future. As I look into the business world I feel like a minnow in the ocean, or a small star in a vast universe. Discouragement sets in as I realize the world is not always at your finger tips. But I as I look out behind me I see the moon. And it reminds me that there are plenty of things that are bigger than me in this world, and that’s ok.

A Winter Walk

In the months of ice and snow, the land would morph into a blank page of white. The land covered with snow like a thick blanket over an unoccupied bed. During these long months the children in the area would get restless from being cupped up inside their stuffy houses and would sneak out to play in the snow. But the games these children would play are not your normal hide and seek. They would dress up in white bed sheets and stand out in the open along the snow cover paths. When people passed by, they would jump out in a sudden movement to scare the pedestrians walking by. What a terrible game it was too, as they would scare anyone from a four year old child to elderly women.

Switchfoot "Vice Verses" - Poem/Song

Walking along the high tide line

Watching the pacific from the sidelines

Wonder what it means to live together?

Looking for more than just guidelines

Looking for signs in the night sky,

Wishing that I wasn't such a nice guy

Wonder what it means to live forever?

Wonder what it means to die?

I know that there's a meaning to it all

A little resurrection every time I fall

You got your babies, I got my hearses

Every blessing comes with a set of curses

I got my vices, I got my vice verses

I got my vice verses

The wind could be my new obsession

The wind could be my new depression

The wind goes anywhere it wants to

Wishing that I learned my lesson

The ocean sounds like a garage band

Coming at me like a drunk man

The ocean tells me a thousand stories

None of them are lies

I know that there's a meaning to it all

A little resurrection every time I fall

You got your babies, I got my hearses

Every blessing comes with a set of curses

I got my vices, I got my vice verses

I got my vice verses

Let the pacific laugh

Be on my epitaph

With it's rising and falling

And after all, it's just water

And I am just soul

With a body of water and bones

Water and bones

Where is God in the night sky?

Where is God in the city light?

Where is God in the earthquake?

Where is God in the genocide?

Where are you in my broken heart?

Everything seems to fall apart

Everything feels rusted over

Tell me that you're there

I know that there's a meaning to it all

A little resurrection every time I fall

You got your babies, I got my hearses

Every blessing comes with a set of curses

I got my vices, I got my vice verses

These are my vice verses

These are my vice verses

Yeah

These are my vice verses

This is an awesome song written by Jon Foreman of Switchfoot. This song is a poem because of the use of symbolism, similes, and antithesis. In the line "You got your babies, I got my hearses

Every blessing comes with a set of curses" it uses symbolism, symbolizing the good and bad and also antithesis. In the second verse it says "The ocean sounds like a garage band, Coming at me like a drunk man" using simile and metaphors. Also in the bridge Foreman uses personification in the line "Let the pacific laugh".

Awaken By Lawrence Tribble

"One man awake,
Awakens another.
The second awakens
His next-door brother.
The three awake can rouse a town
By turning
The whole place
Upside down.


The many awake
Can make such a fuss
It finally awakens
The rest of us.
One man up,
With dawn in his eyes,
Surely then
Multiplies."

This poem first came to my attention through a song done by the band Leeland. They took the words straight from the poem creating a melody and eventually a title track for their new LP called The Great Awakening. The poem was written back in the 1700s and tried to encompass what was happening to the church. During this time Christians were beginning to realize that God is not just a God of a church but he is personal to all of us. I love this poem because it brings history and culture to a down to earth realization.

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Rinoceros

I have been a rhinoceros many times, when I go with the crowd in something that I do not believe in, because I do not want to cause controversy or conflict.

Metophors

The future is a winding road that can only be seen by the firsts steps in its direction.

Wondering through out this world is bore. But wondering without a purpose is darker than the worst nightmare