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- 401: Analysis of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
- ... after another. The poem seems to get faster and faster as life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is given a feeling of life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the form of the poem to convey a message to the reader ... life going by. Another instance of repetition occurs in the fourth stanza. Dickinson repeats the word "ground" in lines 18 and 20 to help remind the reader that she is describing a grave, not a house. Figurative language is also used as Dickinson creates two instances of perfect rhyme. The first time perfect rhyme is used is in lines 2 and 4 with the rhyming of the words "me" and "immortality ... which also gives the poem a more affable mood. Another way in which Dickinson makes death a more agreeable subject for the reader is in the fifth quatrain as she compares the grave to a house. In line 17, she writes, "We paused before a House." As she does so, the reader gets the image of a young lady being dropped off at her home by her suitor. However, as ...
- 402: ... Being home again brought Lee closer to the scene of her childhood memories of her relationship with her father, and the time she had spent with him at the courthouse. There was even an old house in her neighborhood where it had been rumored that the owner was a mysterious recluse, rather like the Boo Radley character in To Kill a Mockingbird. While much of the background for the novel came ...
- 403: Analysis Of Ted Hughes The Min
- ... Heaven"- referring to the fallen snow and his own fallen heaven, the loss of his hove in live; for that is truly what heaven is, our hope for an uncertain future. He comes to the house in this metaphorical cold and begins to unearth, to harvest his potatoes, like he was to reap the bounty of the life he had sowed with Sylvia. These were his future hopes metaphorically, "the eggs ... he harvests these for Sylvia, for she was a live never harvested and this is making amends. He examines others; and though they seem fine, like Sylvia, they were freezing to death. Hughes enters the house, experiencing the lack of her therein. Still the recurring theme of a cold environment, both physically and emotionally, is restated. The crimson chamber, a place where anger, blood, death was dealt. The details of the house, the things that were held as possessions to them are reviewed. Yet again crimson is bold in the blue coldness of the world, and holds meaning to the house. He talks of the house ...
- 404: Presdent James Abram Garfield
- ... Cumberland as General Rosecrans' chief of staff. For the courage and cool sense he showed in the battle of Chickamauga, he was rewarded with the rank of major general of volunteers. Seventeen Years in the House of Representatives In 1862, while he was still in the army, Garfield was nominated and elected to Congress. President Lincoln asked him to take his seat because he needed every vote and wanted men there ... the autumn of 1863 just before the birth of his second child, Harry Augustus. A few months later he was saddened by the death of little Trot. In December he took his seat in the House to begin his real lifework. He was then 32 years old. After the war ended, Garfield began to study finance and became an expert on the new problems facing the nation--currency, taxation, and the public debt. When the great orator James G. Blaine left the House for the Senate, Representative Garfield became the floor leader. He sometimes spent a whole night studying probable topics of debate in order to be ready for the next day. "I am compelled," he said, " ...
- 405: To Kill A Mockingbird 4
- ... inhabitant are described ub great detail. Scout was telling the story about Boo Radley, she said Radley was locked up as a teenager for once getting in trouble with police. Radley has been in the house ever since, although some people are convinced he come out at night. 4. Why is Boo fasinating to the children? At the summer, when Dill come out and play with Scout and Jem, Dill has ... Scout wanted to quit the game is because once they were playing, and she got push too far, and went right into Boo's yard. And she said she heard someone laughing from Boo's house. Secondly, because when Jem and Dill are talking about ghost and superstistions, Scout dismisses the story by saying that's "nigger talk". Chapter 5 1. Based on the description of Miss Maudie and her conversations with Scout, write a brief character analysis of Miss Maudie. Give your evidence. Miss Maudie is a very friendly and warmth person. She hated staying at her house, she is widow, loved flowers and plants except nut grass, crisp voice, gold filling in her teeth, benevolent, cook well, Baptist. She is very nice and friendly to Scout and Jem, and she earn ...
- 406: A Dolls House, Theme Of Impris
- "Inmates of 'Oz' are Evil" "Oz" is an eight episode miniseries drama which is shown on HBO Wednesday evenings at ten o'clock. It is necessary to note that since HBO is a cable television network, it ...
- 407: Police Blunders in The Manson Investigation
- ... was done. About four thirty paperboy Steve Shannon, who hadn't heard anything the previous night, noticed what looked like a telephone wire hanging over the front gate and a bug light on near the house. Mr. Kott also noticed the wire when he went out to get his paper at about seven thirty that morning (Bugliosi & Gentry 4-5). Winifred Chapman, the housekeeper for 10050 Cielo Drive, arrived at the house and also noticed the wire hanging at the gate. She first thought the power was out but then she pushed the button to open the front gate and it did. She began to walk up the driveway when she noticed that there was an unfamiliar automobile in the driveway. She figured, though, that it was only a visitor and continued toward the house. When she entered, she picked up the phone and the line was dead. Thinking she should inform someone, she entered the living room where she noticed two blue trunks which were not there when ...
- 408: Construction Technology
- ... building as modern architecture? Can modern architecture exist without construction technology? My answer to both questions is no. This paper will analyze modern architecture and the role technology plays in creating it. Examining the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe will help support my claim. Architecture exists as a fingerprint of the society from which it grows. It is a physical, spatial, experiential interpretation of realities we've created around ... in modern architecture. But the presence of construction technology does not render as architecture until the form it creates has evolved past a mere physical entity into an experiential existence. I have chosen the Farnsworth House because it is one of the purest forms of modern architecture I know today. The energy behind Mies van der Rohe's work is free from restraints of a specific order, lead only by structural clarity and simplicity. One of his most famous statements, 'less is more', is backed up in full by the Farnsworth house. The House consists of parallel floor and ceiling planes measuring 29x77 feet, sandwiching a steel skeleton enclosed by a continuous glass-plane skin. This is levitated five feet above ground by eight face-mounted ...
- 409: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
- ... in his work, so to the point of it coming before health in terms of priorities. This quote is stated in a way that suggests Jekyll's deteriorating health has become the norm in the house, and surprisingly is not looked upon as life threatening. Because of how this quote was said, it leaves me to think that Jekyll's downward spiral will be down hill from then on, making me ... happens to have a number of puzzling connections to Dr. Henry Jekyll, specifically, next of kin position in Jekyll's will, possible assistant to Jekyll, and an individual that is often seen in Jekyll's house. This description of Hyde is represented exceptionally in the following excerpt, "Particularly small and particularly wicked." This excerpt said what kind of impression Hyde gave to other people about himself, the being small and wicked ... attention to servants, and hardly knows their names, or so it seems, though that may be partly due to how determined Mr. Poole is to keep Master from any bother having to do with the house and what a free rein has over everything that goes on, including who is hired and let go." This long excerpt says that Poole monopolizes the master's attention, and has influence over the ...
- 410: The Raisin In The Sun
- ... along much better, and their constant fighting was one of the main reasons she did not want to have the baby in the first place. Also, now that they are all moving into a new house, there will be enough room for the baby. In the end, although having an abortion seems like an easy way out, Ruth instead thinks about the babys life rather than her own, and chooses ... example that proves this, is when Walter gives away his and Beneatha's money to buy a liquor store, and loses it all. He then tries to get the money back by selling their new house to Mr. Lindner, although the only reason Mr. Lindner wants to buy it is because he and the other members of Clybourne Park do not want a black family living in their community. After the ... right, Mr. Lindnerthats your neighborhood out there! You got the right to keep it like you want! You got the right to have it like you want! Just write the check andthe house is yours.(144) So even though Walter had his whole speech for Mr. Lindner planned out, he changes his mind at the last moment. The reason for this sudden change is because of the ...
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