Be the best of whatever you are If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be crab in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill; be a bush you can't be a tree
If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, and some highway happier make; if you can't be a muskie then just be a bass---but the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, there's something for all of us here, there is big work to do, and there's lesser to do, and the task you must do is the near

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail, if you can't be the sun be a star, it isn't besides that you win or you fail---be the best of whatever you are!

1. what are the contrasting characters mention in the poem?
2. Based on the poem which one would you like to be? Why?
3.What does the poem once to convey to the readers?
4. What is the mood of the poem?
5. What the author purpose and writing the poem?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

What is rand's reason for including the ra.pe scene?   how does the event change both roark and dominique?   discuss how current attitudes on relations between the se.xes have changed since the publication of the fountainhead.

An essay about how social media is bad for some young girls that use it for the wrong reasons