My Interpretation of Seamus Heaney's "Bog Queen"

"Bog Queen"

She awaits in her eternal sleep for now and forever beneath the peat and moss, waiting to be unearthed by the unsuspecting traveler or peat cutter. Creepy crawlers crawl all over her while other water animals make her body useful by putting their spawn around and in her. Animals and other things come and chew and eat her. While she seems calm, even peaceful towards the world who bound her in the ground.

Her body waits through the winter than she is robbed of all she had and then buried within the the bogs once again. Still she waits until some one unearths her sickish body from her would be eternal tomb. There she sits on the bank of the bog with her body torn and disheveled, for the people to figure out her story.

My Interpretation of Seamus Heaney's Antaeus

Antaeus

Seamus Heaney starts this poem by playing as Antaeus who has much strength and is feared by many people who seek to gain immortal fame. Talking to those who would or could overthrow him, even though he would just be reborn and start all over again until the next hero comes along to fight him. He seems to be depressed for living for one and only one thing. He seems to be a bit arrogant in his profession. Making sure that nobody can gain some kind of princely reputation till they go through him.

He lies in wait until the next person comes along. Speaking to those who wish to gain splendour. Saying that he is their enemy and that they will have to defeat him first. He seems to rest in nature until the time comes when he is to be lifted and to fight, then to return back into the earth until his services be needed again on the next stranger.

The speaker seems to be all powerful and a little wary of his situation. Preying on the unsuspecting for a match in the ring. (I'm thinking of wrestling) Antaeus seems to have no worries and only lives for the day.

Toothpaste Essay

Rebecca Holman

Persuasive Essay-Toothpaste

Advanced Composition

14 November 2007

Toothpaste

By: Rebecca Holman

Toothpaste tubes were designed to be squeezed from the bottom. When you squeeze a toothpaste tube from the middle, toothpaste goes everywhere in the tube, leaving a mess that makes a person squeeze from the bottom sooner or later because there is not any left in the top half, instead of starting at the bottom of the tube like most of the population does.

Some think it’s easier to clutch the toothpaste from the middle or top of the tube, but many are not getting the full money’s worth of the toothpaste that the consumer just had to buy. Just because it may look easier does not mean that it is beneficial depending on the budget that a consumer has to work with. Thinking about how much a consumer spends on food, clothing, and other miscellaneous items, and then adding to the account of buying more toothpaste that the customer had bought not to long ago is shocking. This could lead to a large expenditure after awhile depending on how much your favorite toothpaste cost.

Buying toothpaste all of the time because you squeezed from the top or middle, seems like such a waste of funds, when the money could have been used on different necessities for daily life. This maintains the full benefits of the toothpaste and provides minimum spending on wasted toothpaste. Using all the toothpaste a consumer buys, expensive or inexpensive, should last anyone awhile instead of useless spending. Examples like; the buyer threw away the tube of toothpaste because the paste stopped coming from the top half of the tube, when there is still paste at the bottom.

Being easier to squeeze from the bottom to the top, helps out many of the population, who have a hard time and don’t like to waste toothpaste or are elderly and have a hard time squeezing the tube as it is and just want to brush their teeth.

A small child gets toothpaste all over because the young person does not know how to handle the tube right yet and is taught to squeeze from the bottom instead of the middle so the toothpaste can go all over the place because the kid does not have a good enough grip on the tube yet. Squeezing from the bottom would give the child a better grip and be able to hold his or her toothbrush while putting the toothpaste on the brush.

Toothpaste also comes out of the tube easier when squeezed from the bottom with a small satisfaction when you brush your teeth and know that you did not have any problems, especially if the consumer is not a morning person and can have a bad day if the smallest thing goes wrong in their morning routine.

Everyone take the stand and squeeze the toothpaste tubes around the world from the bottom for the sake of the elderly and the children who have not learned yet quite how to squeeze the toothpaste out right without making a mess. This also ensures the buyers of the product to quite paying all the time when they do not have to.