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    cummings. The speaker of this poem carries the heart of his love as well, though his feelings about doing so are very different than that of how Jimmy Cross feels. Jimmy Cross, like the speaker of i carry your heart, carries Martha with him throughout the

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of great Gatsby and E.E Cummings, author of  “Anyone lived in a pretty how town” convey similar themes of sadness, carelessness, and love. Mostly love & sadness. Both selections reveal that not everyone is there for you as they say they are through the use of imagery, symbolism, and diction. The great Gatsby conveys one of the themes which would be “love”. One example of that using symbolism would be the green light at end of daisy’s dock. Gatsby would always stare amazingly

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    Emily Dickinson Syntax

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    notion that love cannot be explained (and cannot, must not be justified) by reason or logic. Dickinson was an incredibly innovative poet, ahead of her time; although she lived in the 1800s, the way she writes often reminds me of 20th century poet E.E. Cummings. This piece is a perfect example of that. Notice the way she uses syntax, and punctuation; the characteristic hyphens; all of this breathes uncommon ease and freedom of language. I adore the opening stanza of this poem. The speech marks indicate

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    Maturity comes when you stop making excuses and start making changes. In, Stephen King’s “The Body: Fall from Innocence.” Four boys go on an adventure to find a missing boy their age. The protagonist, Gordie had three moments of character growth in the story, the death of his older brother Dennis, their life changing adventure and finding Ray Brower leads to the loss of Gordie innocence, his coming of age. Oscar Wilde once said, “the heart was made to be broken.” The death of Gordie’s older

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    Love and death is very meaningful to humans. Love and death are eternal, above and beyond physical entities, and extremely powerful . The poems “Death be not proud,” by E.E. Cummings, and “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” by Anne Bradstreet, are poems that explain love or death. The poems are very similar despite one being about love and the other being about death. Death and love are very comparable despite their obvious differences. Love creates a pleasant image, while death creates an eerie image

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    Dorothea Dix Sparknotes

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    One of the links is to Notable American Unitarians and further directs the reader to biographies for people such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Linus Pauling, Adlai Stevenson, e.e. cummings and Pete Seeger.      http://www.ana.org/hof/dixxdl.htm. This website for the American Nursing Association gives a very brief overview of Dix, relating to her induction into the ANA Hall of Fame in 1976. It notes that

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    Romanticism in The State of Wonder Many elements of romanticism are shown throughout Ann Patchett's State of Wonder, through the connection with nature, the relationships between characters, and the decisions based on emotion. One fundamental characteristic of romanticism is a spiritual and rooted connection to nature. State of Wonder exemplifies this by analyzing the connection between the characters and nature throughout the book. While Marina is boating down the river in the jungle, Patchett

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    The Red Badge Of Courage

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    Stephen Cranes Novel “The Red Badge of Courage” is an exceptional peace of literature that tells about a Union solider in the 304th that finds his courage to fight. This story of cowardice and valor was published in full during the fall of 1895. Crane focuses on the main character’s lack of courage that transitions to courage that radiates. Crane rights a compelling piece that presents four central themes to the reader, that develop the main character and stick to the paradigms of the Civil War era

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    Paris in the 1920’s – “The Lost Generation” Between the end of the First World War and Hitler's seizure of power a cultural explosion occurred in Paris that altered our notions of art and reality and shaped our way of viewing the world ever since. In the 1920's, Paris became the undisputed international capital of pleasure and was regarded as the cultural and artistic center of Europe with a reputation for staging one of its most glamorous eras, as well as some of the most spectacular

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    History is full of wars, of people fighting against one another. War is a conflict between nation and society and is carried on by force of arms. War is generally characterized by collective aggression, destruction, and usually high mortality. Past experience has shown that the war is wrong because always it carries loss, suffering and often death of innocent people. A lot of people all over the world dar for peace because they don’t want to look at the suffering of others or be a victim of war

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