achieved great things eventually drift away. But what if soon after their peak of glory they die. Would the memory of them and their glory live on longer? In the lryic poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman the narrator shows how dying young and at the peak of your glory is better then living to be forgotten. The setting of the poem is in a town and cemetery in nineteenth-century England during the funeral and burial of a young athlete‚ a runner. The first stanza explains the victory of a boy
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The Thirty Two Laws Of Burgos Summary of Each Law 1: The Indians are to be removed from their land and placed into encomiendas. For every fifty Indians‚ four lodges shall be built (thirty by fifteen feet). This land cannot be taken from them since they were taken from their original land. Their original land will be burned so that they cannot return to it. The Indians will do the planting of all of the food. During the proper seasons‚ the encomenderos (men looking over the Indians) will
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"Gold Diggers" and America in the Thirties "rough" "Gold Diggers" released in the beginning of the great depression‚ one year from the height of unemployment in the United States‚ opens with a show and song "we’re in the money" that is shut down before it even opens when the set is literally repossessed. The heroines then have no work and don’t even want to get out of bed. When they awake Trixie says "let’s see what the neighbors have to offer" as she steals their milk. In this establishing
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< The Rise of Nine PITTACUS LORE /body> The events in this book are real. Names and places have been changed to protect the Lorien‚ who remain in hiding. Other civilizations do exist. Some of them seek to destroy you. Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd‚ 80 Strand‚ London wc2 r0 rl‚ England Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc.‚375 Hudson Street‚ New York‚ New York 10014 ‚ USA Penguin Group (Canada)‚ 90 Eglinton Avenue East‚ Suite 700 ‚ Toronto‚ Ontario‚ Canada m4 p 2 y3 (a
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negatives on what they’re doing and not the positives. If the task they have to do doesn’t benefit them they will most likely consider it negative. This brings out how selfish some people can really be if it doesn’t pertain them. As shown in the play‚ "Nine Ten‚" by Warren Leight‚ a group of people awaiting on jury duty give out commotion on why they shouldn’t be there. These people try to give out reasons why they should go back to their normal lives instead of doing this. Many think jury duty is a
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poem entitled “Curiosity” written by Alastair Reid is a symbolic poem that uses cats as a metaphor for humans. It relates felines to people in the sense of curiosity‚ and what could be considered actually living life to the fullest. Essentially‚ this work contradicts the popular phrase‚ “curiosity killed the cat” by placing it within a broader context. Instead of discouraging curiosity‚ Reid explains why people should embrace it. In the first stanza‚ the author argues that the cat may have died
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picked to represent my emotions during this unit is a poem that talks about hate. To start‚ the unit itself is boring to me. Learning about gender theory is not something that seems exciting to me. In the poem‚ it says‚ “If this is a play‚ I want my money back.” This signifies the waste of time that this unit is to me. I did not feel like this unit is significant to my learning and so I felt upset that I had to sit through it all. Furthermore‚ the poem states‚ “If this is a kidnap‚ I’m trapped in the
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Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown. “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” begins with Jorge’s point of origin. While working as a janitor‚ “no one asks where [he’s] from” assuming he’s “from the country
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The Brooklyn Nine took place during world war one and during the immigration migration. The main character Felix Schneider is a germen immigrant who cheered for the New York Knickerbockers as they played in 1845. In 1957 a ten-year-old Jimmy Flint thought he had enough to worry about with bullies and sputnik‚ but then the Dodger announced they were leaving Brooklyn in. In 1981 Michael Snider finds himself pitching a perfect game during the little league season at Prospect Park. Snider Flint tracks
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In the movie Zero Dark Thirty‚ the opening scene was an intense interrogation scene in which they tied up and waterboarded a known associate of Osama Bin Laden. This movie caused quite a controversy about the interrogation techniques used and if it they were promoting pro-torture. The methods used in this movie can be analyzed by the legality‚ effectiveness‚ and morality of enhanced interrogation techniques used on terrorists. Zero Dark Thirty’s interrogation methods were very intense and could
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