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    Sex Education and Premarital Sex Sex education is taught to every young person in virtually every school across the country. In the majority of these sex education programs‚ physical anatomy and safe contraception are the main focuses of the programs‚ telling young people what the physical rewards and consequences may be but avoiding some of the key issues relating to mental‚ emotional and spiritual effects. Proponents of these programs feel that we must educate our youth on "safe sex." It

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    claimed this film to be “the greatest movie of all time” 50 years after it was released. Orson Welles 1941 film incorporates a series of cinematic techniques to keep the viewer captivated by the plot whilst engaging with Welles depiction of; the emptiness and corruptive nature of wealth and the necessity of love. Howard Hughes quote “Money can’t buy happiness” is a notion explored in Citizen Kane which allows the modern audience to challenge their perception on how desirable wealth is. Through the

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    identify his mental suffering due to the work of war. Similarly in ‘Aspens’ the absence of humanity due to the war is exposed through the portrayal of emptiness from the use of the simile ‘empty as sky’‚ which emphasises the emptiness as so vast it is overpowering. This suggests Thomas contemplates his significance as an individual in the war. Emptiness is also a theme in the poem ‘As the Team’s Head Brass’ where a conversational tone conveys the effects the war has had on a farm. Thomas seems to

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    room; the camera looks around the hotel room and shows the emptiness in the room. Nolan shows us this by filming the empty closet where only hangers hang and also by showing us the little stuff there is on the dressers. The mood is not only depressing because of the emptiness in the room but also the way that the scene is in black and white. Throughout the film the scenes that are in black in white show sadness and a feeling of emptiness. The sound also influences the mood of the film. An example

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    English 1102-265 April 19‚ 2010 Imagery in Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” Robert Frost‚ an American poet of the late 19th century‚ used nature in many of his writings. One of the great examples is the poem “Desert Places” that express feelings of a speaker and the meaning of the entire poem through images of nature. The poem describes two different kinds of desert places and clearly emphasizes the most frightening one. To help readers understand the meaning of “Desert Places”‚ Frost uses variety

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    Coldness is a prominent theme in both Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and Wallace Stevens’ "The Snow Man." When one thinks of coldness‚ the misery‚ the emptiness‚ and the lack of life associated with it also come to mind. Ethan Frome and "The Snowman" show that the coldness of one’s surroundings turns one cold and numb on the inside by taking away all feeling and imagination and leaves a person with nothing. Ethan Frome is the story of a man’s unfortunate life. It is set in the cold and dismal town

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    The American Dream and Colors The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story set in the 1920’s in New York City. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby‚ a young man who bootlegs and gambles to achieve wealth‚ only to impress his first love‚ a materialistic spoiled girl named Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy went their separate ways when Gatsby joined the war. Now Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan and Gatsby is trying to win her back through wealth. Gatsby’s one goal is to have Daisy; despite

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    careful incomplete translations that force the reader to imagine what the complete versions of the texts might have looked like. The empty space creates‚ although assumingly unintended by Sappho‚ a poetic emphasis on word choice and a feeling of emptiness created by the awareness of the size of lost work‚ while the brackets create a sense of drama‚ that the reader might feel uncovering these works from broken papyrus. So who was Sappho‚ exactly? Sappho was a Greek lyric poet who was born on the island

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    appearance underlying the portrayal of Hervey’s doubts about his wife breaks down‚ which is reflected in the disjunction of seeing and knowing and in the prevalent ocular strategies. In the narrative the accumulation of the vocabulary of negativity and emptiness conveys his frustration. Hervey accuses his wife of being unable to sustain his faith in the absolute values and of withholding access to “the secret of hearts‚” which is summed up in a recurrent statement: “She had no gift” (167). This recognition

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    In Huong’s Paradise of the Blind‚ Hang looks back on her tragic past that darkens her vision of her present. Reflecting on the past prevents her from living life to its fullest‚ and appreciating all of life’s joys. The narrative voice throughout the novel always carries a negative‚ sorrowful tone which can be explained by Hang’s transition from innocence as a child to maturity as a young adult. Hang has experienced many of the cruelties the world offers‚ and she has been forever tainted by her memories

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