When we get down to it, there is only one thing you go to school for(no matter how much students deny it), it is to learn, whether we like it or not we have to. Through my expierence I have developed a liking for studying, and learning. Most of the time I will curl up with a book rather than watch TV. I know what you're thinking, "What kind of high schooler does that?!". Well, I do; I like to whip out my anatomy book and flip through the pages, in fact, before each test I read the entire chapter in the book before I take it. Studying takes work, is there anything that doesn't? I made a goal that before I left Rehoboth I would be capable of having an intellectual conversation, and know what I'm talking about. I believe that I have almost reached this goal. I do not know everything there is to know, but I feel that I am now able to convey the opinions that I hold. Challenging yourself is the best thing you can do, it creates a drive to do better than the average, and will help attain the knowledge you need to help others.

Writing Sample from AP English

-Analyze how the poetic devices, from the poem, "Convergence of the Twian" by Thomas Hardy and convey the speaker's attitude of the ship

The author, Thomas Hardy's tone is solemn. His attitude toward the ship is a sense of foreboding. the author feels sorrowful, but also feels that the ship that was supposed to be great ended up being nothing more than a disaster, and a mistake by the people who made it becaue they believe that they, themselves are great. They believed the ship was a monument to the wisdom and innovation of humankind and they did not think about the practical dangers of the sea.

The author shows his attitude mainly through metaphor. One metaphor that he uses is in the second stanza is, "Steel Chambers, late pyres...", he is making the steel chambers at the bottom of the ship into graves for the people who died there. The author also personifies the sea-worm, or iceberg, and making it dumb, grotesque, and indifferent. He also personifies the ship and icberg. In the eighth stanza he writes "And as the smart ship grew in stature, grace and hue, in shadowy silent distance grew the iceberg too." He is making both the ship and the iceberg smart and graceful. The author is also using metynomy by using the ship to represent every person on the ship, he is using a whole to represent a part.

Through the title the attitude is also conveyed,"The Convergence of the Twain" seems to mean that although the ship and iceberg seem unconnected at the beginning of their journey, their fate had already been cemented together. This is also prevalent in the nineth stanza,"Alien they seemed to be: no mortal eye could see the intimate welding of their later history."

Through figures of speech the author was able to bring his attitude of foreboding, sorrow, and solemnity out. He was able to convey his feeling of dismay ad reproach toward the ones who made the ship look invincible. Which shows the irony of the whole situation. How the ship that could not be sunk had actually been sunk, by something that does not move, is dumb and indifferent. Also, he was able to convey his attitude of fate, and his ideas of how once your fate has been decided you can not break free of it, and you can not see it coming.