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    The main idea of this is to get the reader to understand that things always get better and bad times will always have an end even if it does not seem that way. I think that the theme of this poem is self confidence and that things can be difficult, but you will always get over it. Lauren Hill thinks of herself as a very powerful and important person. She thinks that everyone deserves to live the life that they dreamed of and she understand that they are going through many different struggles

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    My Travel Experience

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    This event caused a big fuss at the airport, and I could feel the heat of my red face boiling of shame for being the center of attention at that moment. Once the clutter of the corrupt employee quieted down, I went to check my luggage. Although the line was not so long, it took an eternity to be assisted, since the only two assistants available at the time for that function had a lively talk and did not appear to be in any hurry to attend the row of impatient travelers waiting to be served. Until

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    airport. She was excited, because to fly is one of the most exciting yet sobering experiences one could witness firsthand. After going through the quick check-in and a long security line, she went to the gate to wait, for what would seem like hours, to board the large plane. When the gate finally opened, she waited in line to show her boarding pass and board the plane. The plane that seemed so large from the outside suddenly changed into a small and cramped cabin. There was a

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    Taxis and shuttles wait near the exit waiting for men in fancy suits. Security guards look around the area for suspicious people. Metal out and shoes off, and we wait for security to grant us to enter the terminal. The long delays for the plane to take off makes me feel exhausted. When the plane accelerates and lifts off my adrenaline rushes. The city lights and miles of dark land intrigue me. Blocks of dead land and grass surrounds the dark green football fields and the bright blue luminous swimming

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    about love to display Marvin’s emotions and confusion. In stanza one, for example, lines four and five, Marvin states “...but when he sparkles, the earth begins to sway…” which is a metaphor for the fact that he finds himself lost in Whizzer and his affection for him. The lyrics of the song make it easy to identify the its tone, which is affectionate and caring. In stanza two, lines three and four, comes the line

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    approaches that subject in the plain style, using short, proverbial phrases intended to make the reader aware of time and mutability. The poem contains several lines that are made entirely of one-syllable words, which draw out the time it takes to read the line. Contrast lines 31-32 in “Nature, that washed her hands in milk” with lines 8 and 10 in Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (p. 989). Marlowe describes the land in which he lives, where “Melodious birds sing madrigals

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    acknowledging that “all the little/ spliced ropes are sliced.” The line break in the poem which leaves the phrase “all the little” alone to be followed up by second line describing the sliced hair, adds to Olds image. “All the little” appears as a memory of the mother of her former daughter, a memory that is quickly destroyed by the second image of those little strands now taking on a threatening sliced form. In addition, the line also holds a visual separation between the two different images that

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    The thrust of the engine pushed the airplane forward. Small butterflies emerged in my stomach. Since my first time flying, I had always felt a high level of anxiety upon boarding. This particular flight was no different. However, my anxieties heightened by the news that Malaysian Airline fight 370 disappeared two days before. I tried my best to distract my anxieties with any irrelevant detail in my surroundings. I laid my head against the laminar tempered glass of the airline window. The faint chatter

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    make the assumption that we block memories that are terrible. When I think what really happens is this: that we think in a different way as children. we tend to think around corners instead of in straight lines. sometimes for a kid, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line and that’s the way that we think and dream”(Stephen King on Childhood). He says he uses this thought to connect childhood memories to his paranormal present time stories. I think that

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    love and friendship. The first stanza illustrates the meaning of the drawings made by speakers daughter. In the first two lines of the poem, the speaker describes the pens and line drawings. He is informing his friend John Skoyles how she is using pens, which were gifted by him. Also, he is showing that pens are essential to her and she creates meaningful drawings with them. Line three illustrates that pictures she made are different. The pens she is drawing with changed what she was painting. By words

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