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    up being washed when they are close together. In lines 16-17, the author uses simile to compare Douglas with an object, for instance, "he flashed his gaze like a beacon from his lighthouse", which means that Douglas looks steadily at the outside of his house like a "beacon from a lighthouse" and compares him as a "lighthouse" to show how he gazes the outside. In

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    War I. The first war had a large impact on society and that particular generation at the time, as losses were large during the war, and grew even larger with the outbreak of influenza. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and The Tunnel by Dorothy Richardson both are included in this rubric. To The Lighthouse is entirely philosophical introspection and inner turmoil. The novel is narrated in third person omniscient, therefore we are not limited to one unreliable character to recount the story. Each

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    with the two years that they decided they wanted to keep little Lucy, her real mother named Hannah Roennfeldt, had lost both her husband and infant named Grace at sea, and was still hoping that they were alive. Another part that is symbolic is the lighthouse. I say this because it is really the main reason this whole story happened. It was the home that Tom and Isabel had raised Lucy in. The title of my book is The Light Between Oceans. The meaning of the title is that Janus Rock’s location is where

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    Patriarchal and the male dominant society doesn’t not allow woman to have the same privileges as a man in which man’s principals guide woman to be the perfect Victorian Woman that society expected her to be, however if a woman does not accept and does not agree to a Victorian man’s principals, she will remain spouseless. Because every man almost in our society wants women like Victorians, and that is why the marriage of Paul and Minta doesn’t survived. They parted so soon. The understanding is necessary

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    The study is designed to understand the different social issues related to different characters in the novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. It focuses on the Victorian and Modern marriages and highlights how the female characters are different from one another. Similarly, there are a lot of religious doubt, degrading women, and an unclear vision in the novel by one of the characters. However, there are deaths in the novel too. Similarly, it will focus on the two central women in the story.

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    “Lighthouse Preservation in Atlantic Coast Canada” The lighthouses off the Atlantic coast of Canada are not able to shine like they are supposed to. Since 280 B.C. lighthouses have been very beneficial to humans (Sylvester.) Although they are not as frequently used now, they once were very helpful to humans while traveling any body of water. Many people do not realize how important they have been to society. John Sylvester wrote about his experience with local lighthouses in the article, “Lighthouse

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    Byzantium And Atonement

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    In each writer’s work, the atonement with the father occurs through the hero or heroine meeting the power that controls them, the power that motivates them to complete their journey. The hero or heroine must confront and defeat the power that controls him or her in order to procure wisdom that allows them to complete their journey. In William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” the atonement with the father occurs when the aging man finally talks to the sages on the mosaic wall, confronting the

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    The world is a place that is ever changing, yet somehow it always stays the same. There is a saying, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Another goes like this: history has a way of repeating itself. So does that mean that people can’t learn from the mistakes of the past? Certainly not. There are brilliant minds in this world that can visualize in what ways events have gone wrong in history. They are able to learn the faults and strengths of other, older civilizations, and build

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    The Metabolism Movement

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    in 1960, when a group of young architects and designers, who called themselves "Metabolists," presented their radical and visionary proposals of urban and architectural schemes. Among the schemes that were presented were the “Marine city” and the “Tower shape city” by Kiyonori Kikutake. This presentation introduced the motabolist movement to the audience. The main members of the movement were architects Kiyonori Kikutake, Masato Otaka, Fumihiko Maki, Noriaki Kurokawa, the architectural critic Noboru

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    Analysis of William Butler Yeats' Poems; When You Are Old, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium In many poems, short stories, plays, television shows and novels an author usually deals with a main idea in each of their works. A main reason they do this is due to the fact that they either have a strong belief in that very idea or it somehow correlates to an important piece of their life overall. For example the author Thomas

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