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    Can you see in the dark? What can you see in the dark? What can you not see? If you was in a dark house‚ will you be able to the exit before it’s late‚ or will you adjust to darkness? It’s hard to adjust to the dark unless you are used to living in it. 20/20 vision cannot help you this time‚ you either struggle or get use to darkness. In the poem “We grow accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson‚ the author stated that our eyes we adjust to the dark if you get used to living in the dark. The author

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    Queen Elizabeth I‚ in her speech “The Speech Before the Spanish Invasion” gives the will of the English troops to fight against the invading Spaniards. Queen Elizabeth I goal is to gain trust and build morale between her and her people. Queen Elizabeth I adopts an urgent tone in order to convey the importance of this battle as she leads as the first successful female English ruler. The speech Queen Elizabeth I delivered before the Spanish Invasion in 1588 is effective in using pathos to compel her

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    the good ways to die

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    Arguments in Favour of Abortion 1. Abortion is a safe medical procedure. The vast majority of women - 88% - who have an abortion do so in their first trimester. Medical abortions have less than 0.5% risk of serious complications and do not affect a woman’s health or future ability to become pregnant or give birth. 2. A lot of people think abortion “tinkers with the natural order”‚ but our daily medicines‚ which we could not have survived without‚ affect our body in unnatural ways too.

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    Live a Lie or Die with Honor John Proctor is faced with an irreversible decision that ultimately determines his fate. Should he lie‚ living with the consequences of being named a witch or should he die‚ honoring himself and keep his soul free of the devil. The decision faced before him couldn’t have been an easy one. He had been faced with so many trials that his final choice determines if any one of them was in vain. Proctor had to make his own judgment and self-determine his fate. I believe what

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    If We Must Die Mckay

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    Charles Bailey “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay‚ we must fight!! The poem “If We Must Die‚ by Claude McKay” is about a certain group of people who are hated and hunted by another group of others. I believe that the poet has made this poem to speak to his fellow African-Americans‚ who are being mistreated by the white slave owners. The speaker tells his people not to go easily‚ but rather fight as long as possible and don’t ever give up before they are killed. The poet believes that the worst things

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    find light when all you have is darkness ? Emily Dickinson wrote the two poems “We grow accustomed to the Dark & Before i got my eye put out” these poems are about not having sight‚ but not having sight has a deeper meaning than just not being able to see. Losing sight can mean being lost with no direction‚ and that’s the idea you get with these two poems. She said in the poem “Before i got my eye put out “The Meadows - mine - The Mountains - mine”.They were no longer hers because of the darkness

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    Lesson Before Dying

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    Life is a journey with both ups and downs. In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines‚ Grant Wiggins‚ Jefferson ’s mentor‚ is expected to renew him as a man of honor and dignity before he is executed. Although Grant desires to escape and begin a new life‚ he is unable to do so because he is asked to educate Jefferson in heroism. Grant transforms into a more generous and sympathetic human being. Grant Wiggins tries to escape his fears and feelings‚ but in the process he realizes the forces that

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    Before entering college‚ I was terrified. I often thought that what I learned in high school was not enough for me to succeed at a university. I viewed my writing skills and just my general course knowledge‚ as inadequate. While this hindered me at first‚ after experiencing my first semester in college‚ I believe that I have grown tremendously‚ not just academically‚ but socially as well. Being at such a diverse school has made me a lot more comfortable and openminded about conversing or even befriending

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    Only the Good Die Young

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    Portia Francis Comp & Literature Feb 11‚ 2013 “Only the Good Die Young” vs. “Make Much of Time” The tone in “Only the Good Die Young” and “Make Much of Time “are very different. Both the song and the poem speak of men tempting women to lose their virginity and “carpe diem” live life to the fullest‚ “Make Much of time” has a much softer tone‚ versus ‚ “Only the Good Die Young” has a much more aggressive one. In “Make Much of Time” the writer‚ although a “carpe diem” poem takes a much gentler

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    Fisher 1 Brandon Fisher ENG4U1 Mr. Robson March 4‚ 2015 A Sufficient Taste of warfare: Examining a passage from Generals Die in Bed Throughout the selected passage‚ from Charles Yale Harrison ’s Generals Die in Bed‚ there is clear evidence of the purpose‚ descriptive imagery‚ and the authors intriguing style. It displays the lethal truths about combat in the trenches during world war 2 as the main character known as Young‚ takes the reader through his first struggle in the foxhole. After getting

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