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    Poems Themes: Love The poems “A Red‚ Red Rose‚” “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love‚” and “Come‚ My Celia” are all romance and love themes. The authors in these three poems symbolize compassion and honesty and portray powerful feelings for the reader to reading all their poems. Many people are able to relate easier with poems and ballets that relate with love and the fairytale that comes along with it. Each of these poems represent one theme but are all expressed very differently. The first one

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    The Importance of Aspirations Aspirations. We all have them‚ yet they are different for every one of us. For some‚ their goals might include wealth and social status‚ while others may focus on goals based on family. Although most people share similar ideas of what they want their life to be‚ the specific details in our goals are what separate us from the rest of the world. No achievement is necessarily better than the other‚ and nobody can make a universal decision on which dream is more important

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    Trust is a hard thing to earn. You have to prove your trustworthiness‚ and the tests you are put through will not be easy. In the story “Thank You‚ Ma’m” by Langston Hughes‚ Roger‚ the protagonist‚ tries to steal a purse from Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. She brings him to her home‚ and in their brief time together‚ Roger learns that trust is earned‚ not given. At first‚ Mrs. Luella obviously doesn’t trust Roger. She kicks him and punches him and yells at him. She puts him in a ‘Half-Nelson’

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    narrative essay of George Orwell (shooting An Elephant) and Salvation of Langston Hughes‚ dealing with their life story and experience show the set of qualities that make each author distinctive. However‚ the authors used a particular way to narrate their story making them alive. So this particular way used by each of them let make a critical comparison and contrast analysis related to each author personality. Langston Hughes toward Salvation used an ironic tone to narrate his story. Some expressions

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    There are many people in the world who need someone to look up to. Sadly‚ some people don’t have someone to learn from. In the story “Thank you Ma’am” by Langston Hughes‚ the main character‚ Roger who doesn’t know the correct behavior to have‚ so Mrs. Jones shows him the way to act. Throughout the beginning of the story‚ Roger learns that his actions can have bad consequences. His actions end up really affecting his behavior. For example‚ when he tries to snatch Mrs. Jones pocketbook‚ “Instead

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    Karataş 1 10.12.2012 Erkin Karataş 9D 3 Character Analysis of Mrs. Jones in “Thank You M’am” By Langston Hughes “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes is a story of a middle-aged woman‚ Mrs. Jones‚ meets with a boy‚ Roger‚ who attempts to steal money from her. Anyway before she got robbed‚ she catches the boy and chooses to give him a lesson of his life. Mrs. Jones is presented as a thoughtful‚ trustful and good-hearted woman. Firstly‚ Mrs. Jones characterized as thoughtful woman

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    pursuit of happiness America has granted us the option to be free and have personal freedoms. Being an American means having pride in who you are and who you will become. In “I Too‚ Sing America”‚ the writer wrote about him being the darker brother‚ meaning a black man in the times of slavery. Hughes embraces his color and has a positive attitude of who he is and knows he is beautiful as he comes. Hughes shows so much pride in himself‚ saying that when American

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    In the text‚ there’s often said that people went past them. People and Space. It’s a metaphor for the time‚ which is gone since they was together‚ and for the distance which is now between them Why does the text always tell from autumn and falling leaves?  It’s a metaphor for their relationship which can’t flourish anymore He thinks that she’s old; she thinks that he’s young  She wants him back‚ but he won’t her back She looks old  “She looks old”‚ that means that she is not happy anymore with

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    Hughes started crying at the end of the story because he lied to everyone in the church‚ saying that he had seen Jesus and he had been saved. Hughes was the last “young lamb” on the mourners’ bench‚ waiting to be saved from sin. He was told many things would happen to him and that he could hear and feel himself being saved by Jesus. When he was kneeling on the mourners’ bench‚ his mind and soul was blank‚ and he felt nothing. Hughes was not really ready to be saved. Throughout the narrative excerpt

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    Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse‚ while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains‚ all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written‚ the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand‚ poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous

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