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    What is so important about mending a wall? Robert frost a down to earth, phenomenon has used his supernatural skills to write a poem which may seem to be a simple, ordinary poem, yet what lays hidden behind the veils may be unraveled. That is the spiritual world that you and me may learn to understand the philosophical basis of human nature that provokes the human revolution. Believe it or not this poem was ingeniously devised by Robert Frost to articulately open up a world of ideas that acumen imagination

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    The Berlin Wall

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    The Berlin Wall was constructed on August 13, 1961. The reason for this was to separate West and East Germany. People in East Germany received the short end of the stick because “to live in East Germany behind the Berlin Wall meant to live in fear and distrust” (Wagner). The Stasi (state security service) monitored citizens for fear of rebellion. Many students and college graduates tried to cross over but only a few were successful. Those who were not were fined, prosecuted, or even murdered. The

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    The Berlin Wall

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    work together. Three reasons why I believe that the Berlin Wall is unfortunate is because it blocks freedom, separates families, and it causes problems between neighbors. The first reason on why I believe the Berlin Wall is not beneficial for is that it defeats the purpose of freedom. The wall keeps the people that live in Berlin from traveling anywhere they'd like. For people that can't go somewhere they'd like to because of the wall they will abhor it and can cause affliction in their lives

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    Berlin Wall

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    nation led by the Soviet Union was in control of East Berlin. While West Berlin was controlled by a democratic nation led by the United States (Epler, 1992). The Berlin Wall known as Berliner Mauer in German (Rosenberg, 2016). It was a symbol of the Cold War. Trying to cross the Wall meant risking one’s life. One side of the Wall people were free to do all the normal things. While the other

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    The Berlin Wall

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    Before the creation of the Berlin Wall, West Berlin presented an escape route for thousands of East Germans, which worsened conditions in the East and put pressure on the West. When East Germany lost civilians, its economy and social institutions weakened without skilled workers, causing more civilians to flee in a vicious cycle. The West was also unprepared for the influx of immigrants, due to the Western Leaders’ mistaken beliefs that reunification was imminent and economic fragility. East Germans

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    Walls are what kept people from fighting and safe during World War II around 1914. Many believed they were burdens and others thought they protected them from evil. In the poem “Mending Wall” Robert Frost illustrates the norms of civility. The tone is very hostile and ambiguous because of the stone fence the two neighbors must repair. Then the tone shifts into a meaningful and logical reason to why the wall must stand in order to create the idea of civility yet isolation. The poem starts off with

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    The Mending Wall by Robert Frost Robert Frost was not just a writer. Frost was, more importantly, an American writer whose works epitomized the Modernist literary movement, and in turn represented the mood and minds of a nation. Frost remains emblematic of a specific time in our country. Through the words of the poet, readers of his day could see a real-time reflection of themselves - visible in Frost's verses were the hopes and apprehensions that marked the first half of the twentieth-

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    Robert Frost has written a poem called the “Mending Wall” to portray a physical and emotional meaning. When someone mentions a wall, people think about a physical barrier separating one thing from another. Robert Frost does mention a physical barrier between one person to another but also an emotional connection between the one person to another. He mentions the physical barrier as something that helps build the relationship. The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost utilizes a physical and emotional

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    Should the United States build a border wall? Many will procrastinate about this but in the end there will be an outcome with what will happen as far as building a border wall. There are many Pros and Cons to this single objective. Starting off with a Pro, Many say this is a racist act or a sign of weakness coming from our President Donald Trump. But in some cases this is an essential thing for the United States to do. This wall too many is wrong to do because our media has a big head on racial point

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    Why Walls? In the poem “Mending Wall” the author Robert Frost uses poetic elements to express the idea that barriers to communication, exchange of ideas and relationships should be questioned. By the use of particular form, rhythm and tone, his choice of words, and use of imagery and symbols the author uses a small poem to express a large idea. The poem is written in blank verse, which is unrimed iambic pentameter. According to the authors of Backpack Literature, X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, “Many

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