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- 2221: Phantasia For Elvira Shatayev
- ... the loss of her own life. Beyond death there is a deep spirituality to this poem. In the second stanza she says, "If in this sleep I speak it is in a voice no longer personal." This could be interpreted many ways. It may be implying an afterlife. It seems to me that she is speaking a different type of eternity. It may be that this poem is her version of ... most amazing points of this poem is Adrienne Rich's gift for description. The words jump off the page and translate into vivid pictures. When she describes the death scene in the last stanza by writing, "A cable of blue fire ropes our bodies burning together in the snow" the reader can feel the cold snow burning their freezing bodies. The cable is not only the cable that keeps them together ...
- 2222: Pride And Prejudice
- ... and his treatment of Mr. Wickham. However, she is barely perturbed by this comment of Darcy regarding her family. This is so strange because one would expect Elizabeth to at least be equally mad for personal insults as well as for what was done to others. Pride and Prejudice ends with Elizabeth and Darcy each overcoming their anger against each other, and falling in love. However, this touching scene is ruined ... sort of "forbidden" marriages, and since those arrive out of real situations, they add more interest to the story. Here, it is simply prejudice by rich people against poorer people, which only detracts from the writing. So while this theme may have existed in reality during Jane Austen's lifetime, it should not have been included in the story.
- 2223: Nature
- After reading the chapter encountering nature the question arises. What is nature and why have historical American figures such as poets and writers focused so much of their time on writing about nature. Well the answer is quit simple. Nature is a part of us and history. It can’t be avoided. After reading this nature causes many natural disasters such as snow and frigid temperatures ... but in actuality they do. Many famous American artists write about nature. I think there goal is to inform people of how important nature is. But many of these writers are talking about there own personal experiences. As shown in the stories many of natures occurrences such as, hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, and blizzards can be harmful and cause death. Unfortunately these have caused many casualties.
- 2224: Negotiation
- ... down your values and goals and then to prioritize them? Negotiating fore dummies had a technique call the "P.R.E.P.". P.R.E.P. is to negotiating as the 5 horsemen are to writing or journalism. "Who, what, when, where and why," The P.R.E.P. concept being " Point, Reason, Example, Point, …My point is … The reason is … My example is … So, my point is…" this works for ... value of the product or service your providing. To combat this type you need to stay on the topic of what value you deserve for what you’re providing. Don’t let them discuss your personal situation. The Equivocator. I have to admit that when I negotiate with some one I tend to be this type. I break down the proposal into smaller pieces and try to get the other part ...
- 2225: Julius Caesar By William Shake
- ... is portrayed as the noblest Roman. Brutus believes in his morals and ideals and they run his life to an extent. He is perhaps the only man in the story who is not moved by personal gain. “For let the gods so speed me, as I love the name of honor more than I fear death.” Brutus acts with the conspirators only for what he considers the best interests of Rome ... get it, which is rather childlike, and he hated anyone that would not show him attention or that would take it away from him. His motives for killing Caesar are strictly for revenge or for personal gain. Depending on how a person treated him or how the person could help him Cassius could be ruthless or loving, passionate or distant, or gentle or unforgiving. “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry ... the only noble thing that he did. He realized that he caused the death of a friend and that he was the measure of all things. This story is actually about Brutus, it portrays his personal struggle of doing what is best for Rome or staying loyal to his friend. Brutus nobly takes the way of saving his beloved Rome. Brutus’ character is portrayed in more depth than any other ...
- 2226: Jumping Off To Freedom
- ... new life. The story Jumping off for Freedom written by Anilú Bernardo lets the reader knows how a Cuban family goes through just to get the liberty. The author easily expresses her outstanding style of writing by the plot, the conflicts and the setting. To begin with, the book or the story is about a fifteen year old man name David Leal that with his family had not other choice but ... of the see because they were callow, they did not know much about rafts or the ocean, but they ameliorated later, they learned from their own experience. The author easily express her great form of writing and also share it with the reader through the plot, the plot is the sequence of events in a literary work, in this case Jumping off for Freedom, Arilu Bernardor wrote the book in such ... daughters, Stephanie and Amanda. Anilu Bernardo writes from the heart. Jumping off for Freedom is a moving, sensitive and informative novel, told with clarity and compassion. She also shows her intelligence and great style of writing through the plot, the conflicts and finally the setting. She knows what it feels because she went through what the Leal family went through, There are now thousands of Cubans who leave the country ...
- 2227: Jamestown
- ... secured him passage on a privateer, the "Hopewell". Therefore White returned to the colony just under three years, instead of five to six months which he had promised. After this there are no more documented writing about what happened at Jamestown, but there are many theories on what exactly happened at Jamestown. The first question is where the colonist first went to establish their colony. James Lasie and John Wright were ... small group did leave for the Croatoan they did not take with them the heavy gear that the main body of colonist had left behind; brass and iron guns, bars of iron and chests of personal property. The metal was simply left where it lay and White's chest was placed in the bottom of a trench in 1589. The men left their marks for White to follow if he did ...
- 2228: Life After Death
- ... Frost and Emily Dickinson are two Modern American Poets who consistently wrote about the theme of death. While there are some comparisons between the two poets, when it comes to death as a theme, their writing styles were quite different. Robert Frost’s poem, “Home Burial,” and Emily Dickinson’s poems, “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” and “I died for Beauty,” are three poems concerning death. While the theme ... Home Burial,” by Robert Frost, and in the poems “I felt a Funeral in my Brain,” and “I died for Beauty,” by Emily Dickinson, there are similarities and differences between the two poets perspectives and writing styles. Because there is a difference in perspective and in writing styles, each of the poems gives a different feeling about death to the reader. While the theme of death is consistent in both, Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson’s poems, the differences heavily outweigh ...
- 2229: Everyday Use 2
- Dee s Idea of Heritage/Culture The short story Everyday Use is central in Alice Walker s writing, particularly as it represents her response to the concept of heritage as expressed by the Black political movements of the 60s. Everyday Use is found in Alice Walker s collection of short stories, In Love ... name of her great-grandmother, a woman who had kept her family together against all odds. Wangero might have sounded authentically African but it had no relationship to a person she knew, nor to the personal history that sustained her. (p 14). In addition to the skillful use of point of view, "Everyday Use" is enriched by Alice Walker's development of symbols. In particular, the contested quilts become symbolic of ...
- 2230: Essay Comparison
- ... the animals. However, in both of these stories there are also some differences that take place. One example of this can be seen in the story of The Geese when the narrator talks about his personal relationship with the older goose. As things go in the animal kingdom, he is about my age, and when he lowered himself to creep under the bar, I could feel in my own bones his ... was written in. E.B. White was born in 1899 and wrote The Geese in 1971 leaving him seventy- two years old. On the other hand, in The Battle of the Ants , there is no personal connection that can be seen between the ants and the narrator. He sees what he sees and does not judge the ants that are at war to his own personal life. He seemed to be more surprised to find such ants at a battle of race partially due to the face that there is not such a thing as racial indifferences between insects. His ...
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