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    Love Without Love 1. According to the first four lines‚ the speaker loved this particular person because they never saw this person coming into their life‚ therefore it was a surprise and they saw a drastic change something called love. 2. The metaphor in lines 5-6 is "I’ve fly you flying through my soul in quick‚ loft flight" and this means that this special person came into their life very quickly like a plane‚ it was in and it was out. The extended metaphor is that this person was looking

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    First Love John Clare and Sex Without Love ‚ two poems written at different times‚ with "connected" themes but at the same time very different. First Love is a Lyrical poem written in the 18th century by John Clare and Sex Without Love is a more contemporary poem which was written in 1985 by Sharon Olds. The theme in First Love is about a person that fell in love for the first time‚ who is talking about his emotions and what happened to him when it happened‚ while Sex Without Love the persona is

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    In the unique poem “on the subway”‚ Sharon Olds develops in both portraits in her pottery. The result of this is reader receive an insight of the narrator mind‚ when it came to that experience. Olds used imagery‚ tone and to do this. In poem the imagery job was to put reader in the shoe of the young white narrator. Imagery allowed reader to come to a conclusion of why would narrator think like she did. An example of this were in line nine through ten‚ where narrator claimed that IQ the African

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    Last Night The next day‚ I am almost afraid. Love? It was more like dragonflies in the sun‚ 100 degrees at noon‚ the ends of their abdomens stuck together‚ I close my eyes when I remember. I hardly knew myself‚ like something twisting and twisting out of a chrysalis‚ enormous‚ without language‚ all head‚ all shut eyes‚ and the humming like madness‚ the way they writhe away‚ and do not leave‚ back‚ back‚ away‚ back. Did I know you? No kiss‚ no tenderness–more like killing‚ death-grip

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    Latoya Campbell Course: philosophy of sex and love Course code: Phil 3510 ID number: 620035263 Stream: Tuesday 6-7 Lecturer: Tutor: Dr.Kutach Questions: 1.Formulate a definition that will best reflect the concept of a sexual activity‚ and with the use of two (2) examples‚ illustrate/justify your definition. Introduction What is sex? Why are we as human being so obsessed

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    Sex and Love

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    connection between sex and love? In particular‚ is there an obligation to restrict sex to relationships involving love? Or‚ is the insistence that sex be accompanied by love based on a degrading view of sexuality - that sex is bad an in need of redemption by love? Is romantic (sexual‚ erotic) love a kind of illusion and trap that it is best avoided? These are just some examples of the different points we will be discussing. There are those that believe sex ought to be separated from love. Some have the

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    9/2/2013 GE 2109 LoveSex and Relationships: Psychological Perspectives Dr Nancy Yu Office: Y7522 Phone: 34429436 Email: nancy.yu@cityu.edu.hk Video 1 9/2/2013 • Compensated dating groups posted on websites to seek customers‚ claiming that they offered a large number of young school girls • If the customer pays $400‚ he could hold‚ hug‚ touch and kiss the girl; if he pays $2500‚ he could have sexual intercourse without condom • A school girl said under the group there are

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    English 12 5 January 2013 Sharon Olds: From Psalms to Satan Says Movement: Sharon Olds is a confessional poet. The criteria of the confessional genre are subject matter that is deeply personal to the speaker or author. The work of Sharon Olds is almost exclusively her own personal experiences with her sisters and parents as well as her experiences with being a mother. The subject matter is also typically on taboo subjects such as sex which is also a common topic of Sharon Olds’ work. Another common

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    In a fast paced read by Sharon Old’s poem “Sex Without Love”‚ she expresses the poet’s attitude towards loveless sex as a cold‚ hurtful act. She picked certain words to come across to us that the activity of sex is cold and the speed of reading the poem is almost as if it was the speed of having intercourse. It’s not a beautiful thing us humans do‚ it is more of an activity that we do for pleasure. Old starts off the poem questioning how people have sexless love. You are not quite sure if she is

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    Bombardier Transportation and the Adtranz Acquisition Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Canadian firm‚ Bombardier Inc. Bombardier Transportation is one of the world’s largest companies in the rail-equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. The division is headquartered in Berlin‚ Germany.[1] Bombardier Transportation produces a wide range of products including passenger rail vehicles‚ locomotives‚ bogies‚ propulsion‚ and controls‚ in addition to offering a number

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