SENIOR CITIZEN How do you feel when you wake up? Do you lack of energy or fear facing the new day ahead? It’s question which elder persons usually ask themselves day by day every morning . It’s easy to understand why they have complicated feeling like this . In “Old before her time” ‚ Katherine Barrett discusses how the senior citizens are treated in American culture. One of seven lessons she gave us ‚ Lesson six “ you never grow old emotionally”‚ is the most significant lesson because of their
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Every place has a light side and a dark side. Both “Poor Fish” and “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” revealed the darkness of the society‚ and occupied more dark than than the opposite side. In the "Poor Fish"‚ the narrator was first full of inferioty‚ however when he met Ida‚ they fell in love with each other. They got humiliated in public when they tried to against with people who laughed at them. The “Tall Woman and Her Short Husband” talks about a couple‚ people surround them tried to take
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In A Birthday by Christina Rossetti‚ vivid descriptions of happiness fill the verse. Some such descriptions are ’a singing bird‚’ ’an apple-tree’ filled with fruit‚ and ’a rainbow shell in a halcyon sea.’ On this birthday‚ love is first experienced. Ms. Rossetti uses lots of description from nature to convey her feelings toward a birthday. She expresses happiness as fullness and as a well-watered tree that sustains life by harboring a nest in its branches and a tree ready for harvest. A raised
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Thesis Statement Exploring the cinematic gaze and its relevance to contemporary audience. Nurfarahin Amir 10249 (+65)93252485 vultures@live.com A research paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the
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Plath’s Depression Reflected in Her Work Sylvia Plath‚ an extremely influential and beloved female poet who lived in the mid-20th century‚ was the author of numerous poems as well as the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. Her work‚ especially that of her adult life‚ heavily reflects the darkness and depression that she dealt with. Plath‚ born in October of 1932‚ began writing at a very young age. Her first published work‚ titled simply “Poem”‚ was published before she had even turned ten. Plath
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“Birthday Party” by Katherine Brush uses literary devices such as tone‚ point of view‚ diction‚ and sensory details to achieve her purpose. The title of this short story is very deceiving the tone is different from the tone of the story. The tone changes from happy to sad as soon as the cake is brought out. The women tried to show affection and love towards her husband by the cake but it was basically turned down. The point of view is through a random person who doesn’t know the couple at all.
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A birthday remembered essay Love is very complicated‚ not just butterflies in one’s stomach‚ but it also involves a lot of pain. The pain is not easy to drain. We have to confront ourselves with the pain and get over it‚ but that’s easier said than done. We restrain our feelings and try to forget them. This only causes an even bigger pain. That is the situation for Ellen‚ the main character in this short story. Ellen’s love life has been complicated‚ she is a lesbian and obliged to listen to people’s
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Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” (Roberts‚ Edgar V.‚ and Henry E. Jacobs. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing [Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall‚ 2001. Print] 202-216)‚ a county attorney‚ a sheriff‚ and their wives investigate at the house of Mrs. Wright for her alleged murder of her husband. The men and women split off to look around the house and towards the end of the story‚ the two wives‚ Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters‚ eventually find evidence in favor of her being the criminal.
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In “My Problem with Her Anger”‚ Eric Bartels monologues about his wife’s anger that is constantly being directed at him for seemingly no reason at all. Bartels refers to his own problems in many comparisons with her own problems in an attempt to show that she is not the only one suffering. Bartels thinks that she should not be angry with him about her own suffering. Bartels does want to help alleviate her suffering and to make her happy. Bartels expresses frustration when she is getting overly angry
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"Trifles" and "A Jury of Her Peers" Susan Glaspell The “Trifles” and “A Jury Of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell are very similar in the way that they both have got the same basic plot . However ‚ one of them that is the trifles is a play and the other one is a short narrative story. According to me the story was easier to read and more clear to the reader as to how the various events were taking place but the play was difficult to understand as it was open ended it was made not very clear and also
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