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Room E51-151, Please I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. Im one of those people who function best when I have an idea of what my days schedule looks likeand if youve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW, you know that didnt work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in the book, noting its location, and successfully finding said location. MIT Logarythms Nitrogen Icecream!!! Afterwards I just wandered around and did everything spur-of-the-moment. Thursday night, rather than walk to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a Kansan!), left, Melis the blogger, right, Rachel, middle, Jennifers roommate Karlen, not pictured, and many others were poring over their psets in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So, these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry homework (How are broken walls and burning towers in line x related to the myth at hand, and in which line did Agamemnons significance come into play?) and for the next five hours or so we talked about MIT professors, TAs, dorms, dining, and random stuff. We also did work. Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics + lots of arrows, Mario decided to order pizza. He used no phonejust logged onto his computer, went to a handy-dandy website, ordered, paid online, and voila, pizza at your door half an hour later. The other prefrosh in our room, Lyla, came back after a mighty good time in 3 or 4 different (how did she DO that??? It was soooo cold, and imagine reading a campus map in the dark.) places. When Lyla and I went to bed, the MIT students we re still working on their psets. This same spontaneous schedule filled my next two days, with a few exceptions. Id see something interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by something along the way. Its fine by me, because I heard an amaaazing Emerson Fellows senior recital for flute, bumped into a steel drum performance in front of the student center, found out about a sale at the MIT Press near Kendall Square, met a bunch of wonderful and accepting students of the Korean Students Association, followed Alan Touring the Tourbot, and popped into random peoples dorms all for being at an unintended place at the right time. I did successfully navigate myself to a Parliamentary debate demo round, Beaver and the Geek (modeled after Beauty and the Geek. Dont pretend you didnt at least watch a few minutes out of curiosity!), fashion (?) show Meet-the-Bloggers (they really like comments, as I found out. Not the first post! kind, but real ones. Gasp! Substantive comments exist?), and Senator Ted Kennedys lecture. I even spoke to a real live Caltech student. I didnt realize that the bizarre Tech issue was Caltechs work since even the CPW schedule book had promised a special issue. If I had known at the time that this guy was from Caltech and they had hacked the MIT Tech well, humph Sunday rolled around and it was time to leave. My good friend Kyle 10 came down from that red-bricked school up in Cambridge to take me to see Boston. Except that the rain was so bad even the Red Sox game was cancelled. Logically, we ran around Boston Commons and had lunch before getting back to catch the shuttle service to the airport. CPW has passed in a flurry of running around, splashing in puddles, meeting students prefrosh, sharing name, home state, and interested courses/majors every time you met someone, AND!!! I found a fellow prefrosh Kansan on the flight back to Kansas of all places! I had an awesome time at CPW because MIT just plain rocks. I leave you with a few items to consider: If anyone asks, someone wearing black named Jack is taking you to Baker House. Midwest Airlines really is the Best Care in the Air because they give you chocolate-chip cookies baked in-flight. Come to MIT! Senior Haus bouncy ball drop6000 of them pelting us poor prefrosh below. I snapped this photo before they actually got to where I was standing.

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Room E51-151, Please I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another prefrosh from Kansas. Im one of those people who function best when I have an idea of what my days schedule looks likeand if youve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW, you know that didnt work out. The Icebreaker and CPW Festival were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in the book, noting its location, and successfully finding said location. MIT Logarythms Nitrogen Icecream!!! Afterwards I just wandered around and did everything spur-of-the-moment. Thursday night, rather than walk to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a Kansan!), left, Melis the blogger, right, Rachel, middle, Jennifers roommate Karlen, not pictured, and many others were poring over their psets in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit Comp homework out of the way before I get too tired to function. So, these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry homework (How are broken walls and burning towers in line x related to the myth at hand, and in which line did Agamemnons significance come into play?) and for the next five hours or so we talked about MIT professors, TAs, dorms, dining, and random stuff. We also did work. Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics + lots of arrows, Mario decided to order pizza. He used no phonejust logged onto his computer, went to a handy-dandy website, ordered, paid online, and voila, pizza at your door half an hour later. The other prefrosh in our room, Lyla, came back after a mighty good time in 3 or 4 different (how did she DO that??? It was soooo cold, and imagine reading a campus map in the dark.) places. When Lyla and I went to bed, the MIT students we re still working on their psets. This same spontaneous schedule filled my next two days, with a few exceptions. Id see something interesting in the schedule book, try to find it, and get distracted by something along the way. Its fine by me, because I heard an amaaazing Emerson Fellows senior recital for flute, bumped into a steel drum performance in front of the student center, found out about a sale at the MIT Press near Kendall Square, met a bunch of wonderful and accepting students of the Korean Students Association, followed Alan Touring the Tourbot, and popped into random peoples dorms all for being at an unintended place at the right time. I did successfully navigate myself to a Parliamentary debate demo round, Beaver and the Geek (modeled after Beauty and the Geek. Dont pretend you didnt at least watch a few minutes out of curiosity!), fashion (?) show Meet-the-Bloggers (they really like comments, as I found out. Not the first post! kind, but real ones. Gasp! Substantive comments exist?), and Senator Ted Kennedys lecture. I even spoke to a real live Caltech student. I didnt realize that the bizarre Tech issue was Caltechs work since even the CPW schedule book had promised a special issue. If I had known at the time that this guy was from Caltech and they had hacked the MIT Tech well, humph Sunday rolled around and it was time to leave. My good friend Kyle 10 came down from that red-bricked school up in Cambridge to take me to see Boston. Except that the rain was so bad even the Red Sox game was cancelled. Logically, we ran around Boston Commons and had lunch before getting back to catch the shuttle service to the airport. CPW has passed in a flurry of running around, splashing in puddles, meeting students prefrosh, sharing name, home state, and interested courses/majors every time you met someone, AND!!! I found a fellow prefrosh Kansan on the flight back to Kansas of all places! I had an awesome time at CPW because MIT just plain rocks. I leave you with a few items to consider: If anyone asks, someone wearing black named Jack is taking you to Baker House. Midwest Airlines really is the Best Care in the Air because they give you chocolate-chip cookies baked in-flight. Come to MIT! Senior Haus bouncy ball drop6000 of them pelting us poor prefrosh below. I snapped this photo before they actually got to where I was standing.

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The Major Minority free essay sample

Why do you believe in God? This may seem like a silly question, but it was one that I was very used to hearing from my conglomerate of friends in high school. Most of the people I knew in school were atheistic or agnostic, and I was quite comfortable with the fact by then. They may not represent the â€Å"All-American† group of friends, but they were what I dealt with while growing up. To me, it seemed trivial that they didn’t believe in God. What, were the God police going to get them? I was raised a Catholic. I would say I was born and raised a Catholic, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to be submersed in holy water the moment I came out of the womb. If only my mom had given birth in a church That being said, the only religion I ever really knew for most of my childhood was Catholicism. We will write a custom essay sample on The Major Minority or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page My family went to mass every week and I received the proper spiritual rites (like Reconciliation and First Communion). I even got to go to Religious Education classes weekly where they would tell us the dark, grotesque stories from the Bible in adorable kid-friendly form. I never imagined a story about a boy killing a man with a stone and a sling being cute, but there was something about vegetables in tunics that had me hooked. I was never taught of other religions and how they were wrong, but only that Catholicism is the one and only â€Å"right† religion. It was all I knew. Given that my elementary school was literally across the street from the local Intel pre-fabrication facility, the kids I came to know at my school were from a myriad of social and cultural backgrounds. My exposure was focused even more once I was placed in the gifted math and logic programs at my school. While the school may have been predominately caucasian, I spent a lot of my day in the one classroom where I was a minority. It’s like my school used the gifted program to cram all the other cultures in one class and keep them away, except they misread my British heritage and threw me in with them too. My point being that the people I came to befriend and spend my time with were either from completely different religions (like Hinduism and Buddhism) or neglected to believe in God or religions at all. This was an eye opening and somewhat unusual experience for me, as everyone I had ever really known was Catholic, and now here I was being questioned by a miniature Model UN. At first I was defensive, trying to protect the school of thought that my parents built, but eventually I had to consider: why was my way so right and their ways so wrong? Why do each of these belief systems have to be the exclusive religion of all of humankind? Maybe it has to do with the world not being big enough for more than one god, or at least 5000 (I’m looking at you, Hinduism). It brought me to think of the other religions, to consider what it was like to be like them. I would often go to my friend Rishi’s house to hang out and play video games. His family was Hindi and I got to see this first hand when I came over. There were all sorts of carefully poised elephants, men with far too many arms to be practical, and other idols strewn around the house. At first they seemed odd to me, but then I realized the number of random crosses and other Christian paraphernalia that just sat around my house. They even spoke Hindu around the house, but it didn’t seem that odd to me. My dad speaks British to us in our household, it’s practically the same thing. To me, we both had nearly identical household situations, just a different religious base. As I grew up, I heard more and more about the religious and cultural stubbornness that went on in America. I couldn’t relate to it at all as I had grown up with my mixture of cultures, and as a result I was baffled. How could people refuse to interact with certain people just for what they believed in? I didn’t get it. In fact, I still don’t. That’s why I feel like Christian America should put on their big kid underpants and get over this state of intolerance. They should learn to accept the vast diversity of religion that exists here, because it certainly isn’t going anywhere and discriminating against people for it won’t help anyone.

The Personal Development of the Narrator in The Color Purple Essay Example

The Personal Development of the Narrator in The Color Purple Essay The narrator tries to persuade God she has done nothing wrong and she asks him for a sign or answer to the events of her life, I have always been a good girl maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me. She begins to find out what her stepfather is really like to live with and the demands of his sexual needs, which she also as to meet, he never had a kine word to say to me Your gonna do what your mammy wouldnt. The narrator only has a very vivid knowledge of sex, and therefore does not understand her stepfather raping her, first he put is thing up gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around, Then he grad hold my titties. However she does know it is wrong and that she hates every moment of it:Stepfather: You better shut up and git used to itThe Narrator: But I never git used to it.As a result of these rapes the narrator becomes pregnant. On page 3 there is a subheadingwhich reads, You better never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mother. And at the start o f the second diary entry (page 4) it begins My mammy dead, this seems to suggest the narrators stepfather has told her mother about the rapings and the baby? Her mother begins screaming and cussing at her. This give the impression that the story told could have been in the stepfathers favor and made to look like the narrators doing? Referring to the bottom of page 3 it says She happy (the narrators mother) this indicates she doesnt know anything about any sex and/or raping thats has occurred.After the death of the narrators mother the narrator is made to become the next motherly figure. She portrays this through the novel by explaining how big (pregnant) she is in terms of work and tasks within her daily life, By time I git all the tray ready the food be cold, By the time I git all the children ready for school it be dinner time. Both of these quotes refer to a typical mothers life. It is evident form the novel the narrator is quite religious as she refers to God at the beginning of every entry, Dear God. She talks about God doing good things and evil for example when she tells her mother the baby is Gods an when the baby is taken away she says God took it.The narrators linguistic skills are displayed on page 4 were she begins set the text out like speech, e.g.Dont nobody come see usShe got sicker and sickerFinally she ast where it is?I say God took itWith this she shows her level of intelligence and degree of education, even though she hasnt had much, what she has been tough she has retained. The narrator notices a change in her stepfather, He act like he cant stand me no more. This indicates he only likes her when she is looking nice, this seems not to be love, but lust Why dont you look decent. At this stage in the novel the narrator is feeling strongly emotional because she as just given birth, her body is flowing with nature, I of breasts full of milk running down myself, ready to feed the new born.The narrator hates her stepfather because all her troubl es relate to him and all she wants is for him to find somebody else, so she and her sister, Nettie are safe I keep hoping he find somebody else to marry. Throughout her letters she keeps her faith in God and she turns to him for help when ever she need to, Ill take care of you with God help. During the first three letters the narrator has been pregnant twice, this shows how frequently she writes the letters. This means when one is reading the novel things happen very quickly and each letter is full of significant events in the narrators life, he came home with a girl around Gray. She be my age but they be married.The narrator seems to have some kind of feelings for her stepfather even though he as abused her from such a young age, I think she though she loved him. But he got so many of us. All needing something this sounds like she has feelings for him. (not quite sure why?) The narrator is concerned for Nettie because she as a boyfriend and he has three children. With her witnes sing her mothers death coursed by a mixture of difficult children and her Stepfather she fears for Nettie, It be more than a notion taking care of children aint even yourn. And look what happened to Ma.Then narrator has been raped and beaten by her stepfather, he beat me today. She develops great abhorrence and hate towards him and men in general; I dont even look at mens. She begins to make the connection between her suffering and male-stream domination. (Stepfather) With this she starts looking to the female gender for comforting thoughts, I look at women. Im not scared of them.The narrator is thinking about her mothers death and she blames her stepfather, Trying to believe his story kilt her. This quote can also be used to link the first part of the essay, when I connected the first comment on page 3 (letter1) with the beginning of the 4th page (ltter2). I suggested that the narrators stepfathers had twisted the facts about the rapes and pregnancy and the above quote seems to rei nforce that analogy. If so, this would explain why the narrators mother was screaming and cussing her. In letter five the reader learns that the narrator is unable to have another pregnancy,Girl at church: You get big if you bleed every monthThe narrator: I dont bleed no moreThis makes the narrator in some way relieved because after her mother died with stress from children and her husband I believe she feels more secure.When Shug Avery is mentioned in letter six and the narrator expresses immediate interest, I ast out new mammy bout Shug Avery. With this her stepmother gets picture of her and the narrator stair at it all night. It is obvious from the novel she likes Shug Avery, also she said she doesnt look at man any more, but women. She seems to be going through a significant change in her life and quite easily the reader can work out that the narrator my be a lesbian. The narrator says Shug is the most beautiful woman she ever saw, she gives the impression Shug Avery is really s pecial and almost sacred to her, she be dressed to kill, whirling an laughing.Letter nine the reader finally learns the narrator name is Celie! Which is a relief from referring to her as the narrator constantly. She tries to protect her sister from the stepfather by offering herself to him, instead of Nettie, I ast him to take me instead of Nettie while our new mammy sick I can fix myself up, but he beats her and calls her trampy and rapes her anyway. This makes me think Celie feels she has nothing to lose because she has already been abused so much, but her sister is pure and Celie seems to be prepared keep it that way.Celies self-confidence is under attack when she over hears a conversation between her stepfather and Netties boyfriend. She feels second best, useless and used when her stepfather describes her as Ugly and Spoiled, it took him the whole spring from March to June, to make his mind up to take me. I think Celies love for Nettie is out standing because all through the n ovel Celie tried her best to protect her, she could come to me if I marry him. Nettie is an intelligent girl and we have evidence of this in letter 7 were she makes the link between Cucumbers and Columbus. This is a significant indication to Netties intellect and should be noted. In the novel there are many small phrases which have great significance.The men in the novel usually treat Celie with no respect and she gets used to being told what to do, Mr. _________ want another look at you. She is normally nervous when she is around men because she doesnt quite know what their response will be. Celie goes in to town and she sees a woman holing a baby Celie believes this is her baby. She begins to show great interest in the baby and she even notes the baby emotions, She fretting over something. She got my eyes just like they is today. Like everything I seen, she seen, and she pondering it. The babys mum tells Celie the baby is called Pauline, but she calls her Olivia. Then Celie tells the reader about the embroidery she did on the babys clothes Olivia, The mum says she calls her Olivia because she looks holy. This seems a feeble reason for calling her Olivia and the reader begins starts to think the baby probably is Celies. Celie and the babys mother are having a conversation, Celie is really enjoying herself, however when the babys dad comes he stops the fun immediately and Celie is yet again left with another male negative encounter.In letter 11 we learn that Nettie comes to stay with Celie and her husband because she has run away from Alphonso. Nettie presence makes Celie feel more comfortable. Celie shows evidence that she still cares more about her sister than herself, It nearly kill me to think she marry somebody likeMr.________. Even though Celie, much of the time, is by herself she says long as I can spell G-O-D is got somebody along. Eventually Mr.________ realises he has failed to seduce Nettie and thrown her out, there is a dramatic plead to let Nett ie stay but Mr. ________ ignores them and regardlessly splits the sisters up. This makes Celie feel lost unwanted and alone, because Nettie was the one who always passed on compliments to her and made her feel better about herself and intelligence.