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    Americans in many ways‚ and immigrants collect above average welfare from the government which creates fiscal costs for United States taxpayers. I agree with Wendell and Hanson because immigrants create a cultural diversity‚ and both high skilled and low skilled immigrants are a benefit to the productivity and the efficiency of labor work. In Border Culture written by Marjorie Miller and Ricardo Chavira shows the cultural diversity between two groups of people and how diversity helps the economy

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    “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The poem‚ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a truly imaginative work utilizing the familiar yet timeless themes of good fortune‚ the power of Mother Nature‚ and adventurous voyages over the sea. The Mariner relates the bone-chilling tale of his adventure to a guest at a wedding in his native country. Although the guest succumbs to the Mariner’s tale‚ he is eager to get to the wedding‚ which is about to start

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    J.Reeves has successfully used the dog metaphor to elicit the behaviors of the sea at many occasions. The poet compares the different behaviors of the dog at different moods with the sea. The first stanza shows the begining of the violence due to the hungry nature of the dog which metaphoricaly depicts the sea waves turning out to be heavy and rough. The second stanza shows the waves quickening and becoming more rough due to the enviromental change‚ thereby the dog is so hungry and angry that it

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is explicitly referenced early in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in one of Walton’s letters and also later in the text by Victor Frankenstein. Besides being directly mentioned twice in the novel‚ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner directly parallels Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in layered storytelling structure‚ mirroring of multiple characters‚ and the lesson of limitations with consequences. Both stories represent one prominent theme: isolation

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    THE SEA by James Reeves The main idea of The Sea by James Reeves is that the sea is similar to a dog in so many ways. They both share similar characteristics and behaviour. In fact‚ one can look at this poem as one long metaphor‚ mainly focusing on the similarity between the sea and the dog. The very first line of the first stanza spells out the metaphor quite clearly: “The sea is a hungry dog”. Moreover‚ the rest of the poem reinforces this idea by frequently referring to a dog’s

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    In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"‚ the author uses the story of a sailor and his adventures to reveal aspects of life. This tale follows the Mariner and his crew as they travel between the equator and the south pole‚ and then back to England. The author’s use of symbolism lends the work to adults as a complex web of representation‚ rather than a children’s book about a sailor. First‚ in the poem‚ the ship symbolizes the body of man. The ship experiences trials and

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    Ancient Mariner Barry J. Owens Jr. October 9‚ 2008 Eng. 262-Paper 1 Dr. Liesl Ward The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Have you ever made a decision that you eventually regretted? We make decisons on a daily basis. The decisions that we make have consequences. Some of the consequences are good and some are bad. We should be very careful when making decisions‚ because there are some decisions that you cannot easily change. In Mr. Coleridge’s’ poem‚ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ we find

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    Topic A: Skilled Migration United Nations Educational‚ Scientific‚ and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) What is a migrant worker? Migrant workers are people working outside of their home country. Migrant workers bring labor to nearly every industry. Some migrant workers can also be known as skilled migrants. Skilled migration has occurred throughout the world. Skilled migration includes migrant worker who have left their homelands in order to pursue a more efficient way of life. All around the

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    Elements of Art 1. Color: is an element made up of three distinct qualities: hue‚ intensity and value. Hue: refers to the name of color. Intensity: quality of brightness and purity Value in Color: refers to that hue’s lightness or darkness in black in white picture can show personality 2. Value: important element in the work of art Change in value can help artist express an idea 3. Line: refers the continuous mark made on some surface by a moving point. artist use many different

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    a crime against nature‚ the Ancient Mariner is punished by the spiritual and natural world. The Ancient Mariner is now living in his nightmare as a reality and suffering each day for his wrong doing. Now that he has done wrong‚ he pays for it by being miserable and wiser. He is now telling his story‚ not because he has to‚ but because he wants everyone to know that he made a mistake that can never be changed. When the Ancient Mariner was lost‚ the Albatross made the mist appear and blew the wind to

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