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    Judith Beveridge

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    that the reader should feel pity for the brothers rather than looking at them as wrong‚ heartless human beings. This is shown by persona saying “Touched themselves through the emptiness of their pockets‚ scared they’d find the prize of nothing.” This quote evokes sympathy for the brothers through the word choice “emptiness” and “prize of nothing”.

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    market town” “ Scarcely larger than an overgrown village” Remote – He can’t get help quickly from anywhere else “Rural emptiness for miles…” “ thirty to a large town” “about seven to any other village” Nine Lives Causeway Cut off from the mainland when the causeway is covered by the tide; • Remote – “ We had travelled perhaps three miles‚ and passed no farm or cottage…all was emptiness‚” • Dangerous- “ it would quickly be

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    contribute to the poor quality of life women in Gilead faced. People become empty inside without the hope for a family or a person to experience life with and ultimately lose the hope for happiness. To second the idea of emptiness‚ the goal of the government is to create the emptiness inside women‚ specifically‚ in the Handmaids. When Offred is in the center‚ Aunt Lydia repeats the idea that the Handmaids are emptied out inside only to be filled with a baby. So‚ when Aunt Lydia states that the Handmaids

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    sometimes I feel like I purposely try to draw myself away from God. Over the years I learned that the closer you are to God‚ the better you feel. The farther I am from God‚ the bigger the hole of emptiness gets in my heart. I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t like having a hole of emptiness in my heart so I try to draw myself closer to the

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    redemption / in the private country of my mind’. The desire is to arrive at a golden mean‚ to ‘cut excesses’‚ and to ‘acquire the equilibrium of art’ in the passion of mind and heart as he says in another poem On an African Mask. In yet another poem‚ In Emptiness‚ Ezekiel says‚ ‘let me always feel/ The presence of the golden mean/ Between the Élan of desire/ And the rational faculties’. In the same poem he says ‘Let reason and emotion fare/ As man and wife; let them quarrel‚ / Make love or live occasionally/

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    sharks represent destructive and aggressiveness towards Santiago’s caught marlin. The mast renders Christ’s own cross‚ the lions Santiago dreams about represent youth‚ freedom. Joe Dimaggio symbolizes Santiago’s idol‚ and the lost harpoon represents emptiness. Santiago has finally met his big day where he catches his marlin‚ with the help of the symbolistic objects‚ how would you feel fishing on a boat with objects that can relate so much to

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    Comparative Essay ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Write a comparative analysis of ‘An old man’s winter night’ by Robert Frost and ‘Lore’ by R.S. Thomas. Highlight each poet’s distinct attitude towards old age. Comment on the style through which the poets express how they feel about old age. Both Frost and Thomas draw upon the theme of old age in their poems. However in ‘Lore’ the theme of old age is portrayed as a positive

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    Grand Targhee

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    is‚ oddly enough‚ fog. Now and then the mountain gets socked in with gray moisture‚ forcing skiers to ski below the thick blanket. The Lost Groomer Chute‚ a run that takes full advantage of the weather moving west to east‚ will provide the most insatiable powder hound with enough dust. Here are a few of the other treats at Targhee: You can ride a sleigh on a starlit evening to a round-table dinner in a snow-buried yurt; your kids can enroll in the Powder Scouts program‚ which gives kids ages 6

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    A Gap of Sky In life you have to overcome many obstacles. These obstacles often take place in ones youth where you experience a transition from childhood to adulthood and where you begin finding your place in society. This transition is often difficult as it is often hard to choose the right path to follow. More and more young people get caught up in drugs and peer pressure that keeps them from choosing the path that fits them the best. In Anna Hope’s short story “A Gap of Sky” from 2008 we meet

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    Incredibly Close by making Oskar’s grandmother’s chapters spaced out‚ showing her feeling of emptiness‚ and repeating certain words‚ which create broken chains of thought that indicate the way her brain scatters in traumatic times. Throughout the book thus far‚ Oskar’s grandma constantly talks about the many rules that she and her husband set for themselves.

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