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considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...

Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...

began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience" (Albom, 1997, p. 1). Martins essay is...

the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...

Critical thinking has been defined as "the ability to construct and/or extrapolate abstract meaning in and from a variety of setti...

describing Tybalt, Mercutio "invoked the plague as a figure of speech, saying ... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phanta...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

those in mind, the student might consider something like the following. We start with a simile: The apartment is like a cave at t...

Dickinson wrote numerous poems and many times enclosed those original poems in letters which she wrote to friends. She wasnt reco...

concerning the proprietary message of mainstream society that writing is a privileged activity, that is, a white activity. Havin...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

at the water. Frosts poem builds an elaborate, extended metaphor based on his social phenomena. The people along the sand All tur...

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...

getting ready to leave. "I cook all the time at home." I simply rolled my eyes at him. He nodded knowingly. "Oh, I get it....

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

Chameleons prey primarily on insects but they also take other small animals as the opportunity presents itself. Their tong-like f...

are some of the values" that remain basic American ideals, throughout our history and today (Gannon, 1994, p. 306). In addition to...

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...