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    Death and Slant Rhyme

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    November 10‚ 2012 Exploring Death through Literary Elements True poetry is used to express thoughts about strange and sensitive subjects. It is not sung but melodiously said. Poetry has elements that are used to cross the limits of everyday spoken words. One author that uses these elements to unveil her eerie thoughts is Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson used personification‚ onomatopoeia‚ slant rhyme‚ and dashes to express her dark and light side of death and sorrow in “I heard a fly buzz.”

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    humans need to survive. Including Pi. Spiritual needs are needs in having a higher power. Pi is part of many religions. On his journey on the lifeboat‚ Pi encounters enumerable times when he has to rely on his faith to remain sane. “Despair was heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it has always passed. A school of fish appeared around the net or a knot cried out to be reknotted. Or I thought of my family‚ of how they were

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    Dualities in Othello

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    Shakespeare’s Othello continues to engage audiences through its dramatic treatment of grand and challenging ideas. In the light of your critical study‚ does this statement resonate with you? Make specific reference to the text. Shakespeare explores numerous grand and challenging ideas throughout the play Othello. One such idea is the concept of dualities and the way in which they are manifested in people. In the play‚ there is no exploration of the ambiguities of life‚ everything is divided into

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    Catholic Irish households during the 1970s and 80s; but it also prefigures future phases of Canning’s work. If the positions of the image and the blackness were inverted‚ a vignette effect remains which we observe Canning beginning to incorporate into his works circa 2015‚ influenced by his interest in filters in the “Instagram” App. All of these various “blackness” are an encroachment of the abyss onto the sensible world (Heidegger 1950‚

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    Our decisions in life have an affect on how we are as people. Whether we judge someone on their looks or their demeanor we are making a decision that could effect how we think and feel. In Richard Wright’s "Big Black Good Man"‚ Olaf the main character makes such a judgment. Olaf’s judgment changes his life for the next year until he finally finds closure. In order to see how decisions and judgments affect our lives‚ we need to look up close and personal with Olaf. In the beginning Olaf is a man

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    The Dark Sucker Theory

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    experience of darkness is caused by the absence of visible light. When light is not present‚ rod and cone cells are not stimulated‚ thus making photoreceptor cells unable to distinguish color frequency and wavelength‚ thus giving the appearance of blackness in a space. If the appearance of darkness is merely one created by components of the human eye as a result of the absence of light‚ then darkness as a form of matter cannot exist‚ and subsequently does not have mass or speed comparable to light.

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    nurturement that it offers to her black children becomes insignificant. Sethe explains that her milk for her children “made her fight and holler for it‚ and have so little left” (114). For the enslaved black woman‚ her womanhood and blackness are not respected nor sacred. Sethe’s intersectional identity as a black woman contributes to her distinctive interpretation of gender in a Eurocentric society. In the conceptual framework of gender studies‚ gender‚ itself‚ is a construction of how one perceives

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    Racial Identity

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    |Cross’ Black Racial Identity Development Model |Helms’ White Racial Identity Development Model | |PREENCOUNTER |CONTACT | |Beliefs and values are of dominant culture: “White is |Lack of awareness of cultural and institutional racism and White | |right”/”Black is wrong” |privilege

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    Love‚ as good as it feels‚ nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it. It is the four-letter word that all human beings have in common and strive for with purposefulness. In fact‚ any human being has either been loved or has loved before. When it comes to love‚ there are a lot of divergence in the thoughts and beliefs to “What is really love?” that it became the most popular search on Google. However‚ the most corresponding belief would be that to love is to suffer. In other words‚ to love is

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    Whiteness

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    Symbolic Interaction Theory --> 1) the way we act towards ppl is based on the meanings we have for them.   2) The meanings we have for these ppl come from our interactions we have with them meanings are shaped and reshaped on the interpretation of our interactions we have with them.            Creating who we are: --> we develop our identity based on our interactions with others.  In-groups --> we are concerned about their welfare. help discipline our behavior. You present your social

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