Dear Patricia Smith‚ My name is Emmie Kimball‚ I am 14 years old and attend Kent Place School in New Jersey. During my English class‚ I was assigned to select a poem that really stood out to me and write to the poet. Your poem‚ “When the Burning Begins” really connected with me and I felt really moved by it because it made me realize that longing for the past is long and painful‚ but the memories you make are precious. To me‚ the most meaningful element in your poem is how you expressed how the memory
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Lab #24- Preparation 4-Methylcyclohexene Introduction: The goals in this lab were to have a reaction occur with 4-methylcyclohexanol and an acid catalyst to form our product of 4-methylcyclohexene via an E1 reaction. This reaction is accomplished by removing the –OH group on 4-methylcyclohexanol via dehydration and to have a double bond form via a loss of a hydrogen on a β-Carbon. Many techniques and skills were developed in this lab. Among them were dehydration‚ isolation‚ drying
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"The Shield of Achilles" is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1952. The Shield of Achilles is also the title poem of a collection of poems by Auden‚ published in 1955. Description The poem is Auden’s response to the detailed description in Homer’s epic poem the Iliad of the shield borne by the hero Achilles‚ illustrated with scenes from daily life. Auden’s poem is written in two different stanza forms‚ one form with shorter lines‚ the other with longer lines. The stanzas with shorter
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Evidently‚ it has been agreeable that everything at Hailsham is oddly puzzling—mysterious. There have been many questions raised by Kathy H. the narrator which encourages the reader to follow her suspects. We agree with many points mentioned by other students: the use of the word ‘guardian‚’ the students’ life at Hailsham‚ and ‘the Gallery.’ However‚ there is one particular character and the statement she makes that strongly strikes our interest: Miss Lucy and her statement about the students are
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The Scarlet Letter & A Model of Christian Charity Beneath the Surface Nathaniel Hawthorne lived during an extraordinarily turbulent time in American history. Our young nation was barely into its second generation of independence from England. Emotionally volatile issues revolving around religion‚ slavery‚ and liberty abounded. During American ’s antebellum period‚ citizens struggled to define themselves in a rapidly changing world. Questions concerning religious doctrines‚ the morality of slavery
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as being strong and authoritative. At this point in the poem‚ the reader begins to wonder why the oread is commanding the sea to do this. This is not necessarily answered in the poem‚ but towards the end‚ the reader gets a sense as to why the oread could have wanted this to happen. At the start of the poem‚ there is an immediate command and it is clear that the oread does not want to waste any time. For instance‚ she begins her commands with verbs such as “Whirl” to make the reader understand that
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addition to the Marvel cinematic universe‚ Logan‚ may be the finest and most endearing ‘superhero’ film of the last 20 years. It is clearly the most violent film of its type—so violent it’s anti-violent—but like the best of the genre (Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are obvious examples) it is dripping with philosophy—X-23’s backstory is a textbook in bioethics‚ while Logan’s initial treatment of her‚ and Xavier’s arguments in favor of protecting her‚ gives us a resounding discourse in situational
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Christ and Culture‚ authored by H. Richard Niebuhr in 1951‚ is a book which discusses how a Church or a Christian is to interact with ones culture. Niebuhr systematically answers this question by placing the church into the following five categories they have utilized through history to answer this question: "Christ against culture‚" "the Christ of culture‚" "Christ above culture (Christ synthesizing with culture)‚" "Christ and culture in paradox‚" and "Christ the transformer of culture." Reading
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The opening of the kite runner The opening December 2001 I became what I am at the age of 12‚ on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment‚ crouching behind a crumbling mud wall‚ peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago‚ but it’s wrong what they say about the past‚ I’ve learned‚ about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now‚ I realise I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six
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History of Sarawak: Where Do We Begin? This is a kind of a love story. There is a Malay saying tak kenal maka tak cinta which has been used for the tourist promotion song‚ "to know Malaysia is to love Malaysia" and the Sarawak version should be "to know Sarawak is to love Sarawak". Undoubtedly to know the history of Sarawak is to love Sarawak. For the historians it is not that simple as falling in love. In the case for Sarawak we do not know where and when to begin. Sarawak has a fairly rich historiography
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