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    to learn a lot of things while tutoring. First off, going in to tutor Haven and not knowing really anything about her and her learning preferences. It was hard not knowing what strategies helped her the most when reading or which ones made it more difficult for her. But that is going to be with any student(s), you just have to go with the flow. You will learn those things as you get to know the student. That is what happened with Haven and I, within the first tutoring session she let me know her learning

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    so young, and both not having a relationship before, they are experiencing new things that seem to be the most amazing in the world, because they have no prior cognizance. Many people during their first love go through the same thing. In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet says, “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, /That I shall say good night till it be morrow” (Shakespeare pg. 214). In this quote, Juliet is saying its painful to be apart from Romeo, but

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    Hellen Keller’s “Three Days to See” exhibits that sight of the world is taken for granted. For example, she states “We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation…” (Keller 211). Keller describes what she would do if she was given eye sight for three days. During these three days, Keller structures her time around her loved ones, the city, art, and nature. Keller’s impaired vision allows her to use extensive imagery to remind the sighted of how ungrateful they

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    of sight in many different ways. Some get used to the darkness while others don’t. Others view the darkness differently. In Emily Dickinsons poems, Before I got my eye put out, and We grow accustomed to the dark, they show different ways people view their loss of sight. People either adapt to life without their sight or they live life unhappily or bitter. In “Before I got my eye put out,” Dickinson says that sight is very important. Dickinson is sad when she reflects on the loss of her sight. She

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    The society questions why it is so challenging to communicate with foreigners. "The Country of the Blind" is a short story first published in 1904 by H.G. Wells. He is well known for his science fiction novels. This short story is focusing on sight and blindness and brings up the theme of prejudice versus learning. In the novel we follow a traveller, who ends up in an unfamiliar strange place, which set him in learning trail, figuring out who he really is. How does the writer illustrate the difficulties

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    When Romeo first catches sight of Juliet, she is compared to the radiant light of the torches and tapers that light up Capulet's hall, as stated, "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" (Shakespeare, 1579) . Romeo also says that Juliet is the light that gives him freedom from his everlasting depression. During the well known balcony scene, Romeo associates Juliet with daylight, sunlight, and the light radiate from God's angels. When Romeo first catches sight of Juliet, she is compared to

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    Shakespeare, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there have been many occasions where Romeo and juliet have shown being in love. Some things that show Romeo and Juliet are in love, is they both are willing to die for eachother, they are in love at first sight, and they are very excited to get married right away. This is why Romeo and Juliet are in love. Romeo and Juliet are in love with each other because they would die for each other. When Romeo finds out he is banished in act 3, he says, There is

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    worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” (Helen Keller, n.d.) According to Helen Keller being able to literally see worth nothing when you are mentally blind that is, not being able to see things beyond the surface. The theme of sight versus blindness in the tragic play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles is a metaphor, with blindness symbolising knowledge, light and truth while sight symbolises ignorance, darkness and lie. This metaphor and irony of sight and blindness is the building block

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    development of gun sights. I will start off by covering the video about how to change a gas block. In the video the instructor removes the A2 gas block and installs a modular gas block. This was a helpful video because I think the At style rifles are gaining more ground in the firearms community. Its no longer all about the bolt guns that our fathers used for years, the AR style allows for more modifications to be made to the rifles. With that being said the A2 style front sight post is being replaced

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    Emily Dickinson Paradox

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    Dickinson’s poem, there are many different ways to interpret her poems. Emily Dickinson uses sight differently in her poems “Before I got my eye put out” and “We grow accustomed to the Dark.” In “Before I got my eye put out,” sight is seen as something negative. By losing their eye, the speaker in “Before I got my eye put out” gains new perspective in life and loses the ability to take things for granted. The first stanza of “Before I got my eye put out” states “Before I got my eye put out I liked as

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