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    The speaker of the poem is by the author Langston Hughes himself. This is a lyric poem because it expresses Langston’s emotions towards the river. By identifying the speaker‚ it allows the reader to understand that the speaker is using the river as a metaphor for representing life. In this poem‚ the speaker and the author are the same. The subject of the poem is the slavery‚ and the emotions the speaker expressed is happiness and love because of civilization. In the poem‚ the poet used imagery

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    The Red River Monologue

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    She sounded shaky‚ almost broken. Tears fell like rain‚ she was screaming “Why‚ Charlie? Why? How could you do this to us?” Pa-Pa looked frantic. “Drinking is no excuse for your actions‚ my kids are everything. You know I will always choose my children!” ‚ she continued. Even without speaking you could see his hurt and shame. He never cried‚ yet he had relentless tears. I looked in his eyes‚ those big brown eyes and what I saw I could never forget. This was the look of a man that had just lost

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    This quote is from the mouth of Abigail‚ the leader of the girls involved at the center of the plot. She is talking with John‚ and trying to rationalize the things that the girls are doing. Proctor knows what is at the heart of the matter as Abigail is merely trying to get rid of his wife so that they can be together‚ something that he no longer wants. This situation shows the reader that Abigail is clearly committing perjury. Another informative aspect of this quote is that it sheds

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    over themselves.” These words were far before the modern twenty-first century movement of feminism. Long before her time she foresaw the problems with the movement and perceptions of it. This quote simply states‚ women do not need to have power of men but they need to have power over themselves. This quote is true and speaks to the purist nature of equality that true feminists strive for‚ equality for gender and not one gender over another. To be a feminist like me means to be for nothing but equality

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    empty of desirers‚ dream‚ pleasure‚ and sadness and even thirst. The river plays many roles in the Siddhartha novel. To Siddhartha‚ the river represents the flow of life and also represents Siddhartha’s understanding of life. Siddhartha saw the river had many different and brief appearances just like him. In Siddhartha the river shows Siddhartha many things during the course of his life. In Chapter 4

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    The Philippine Stock Exchange‚ Inc Daily Quotations Report July 31 ‚ 2013 Name Symbol Bid Ask Open High Low Close Volume Net Foreign Trade (Peso) Buying (Selling) Value FINANCIALS **** BANKS **** ASIA UNITED AUB 77.3 77.6 78.1 79 77.25 77.6 171‚320 13‚295‚671.5 (6‚953‚413) ASIATRUST BANK PH ISLANDS ASIA BPI 94.1 94.3 95 95.2 93.95 94.1 1‚470‚310 138‚634‚667 37‚928‚885.5 BDO UNIBANK BDO

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    Hyperempathy Quotes

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    I am still trying to figure out what happened in this book. I wonder what happened for them to need to put a wall around the neighborhoods. Why are the people so desperate? Why are the resources‚ such as water‚ so scarce during these times? I feel especially bad for Lauren since she has hyperempathy. The fact that you could feel other people’s pain‚ is probably one of the worst things to experience. Especially in her time‚ where so many people are suffering. I remember when they said in the book

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    Quotes for Hamlet

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    Other than Sophocles there were 2 other notable writers that lived during the same years as Sophocles. They are contemporaries to Sophocles. The older contemporary was Aeschylus and the younger contemporary of Sophocles was Euripides. They wrote the same genre but incorporated there own styles and unique ideas with in their brilliant plays. They have all impacted to days theatre in their own ways creating diverse genres that today’s authors may choose to use. Aeschylus 525-426 bc. Aeschylus

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    “He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went‚ despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side” Miller about Parris and how he doesn’t belong to the community but belongs to religion pg13 “To the European world the whole province was a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics” Belonging to a place – Miller says this about Salem 13 “Their creed forbade anything resembling a theatre or ‘vain enjoyment’.” Miller says what belonging to a community/group can lead

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    Rhinoceros Quotes

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    Rhinoceros There are two main characters in this book‚ Berenger is the one Im gonna focus in‚ I think that he’s the romantic character and Jean is the modern one‚ as Gergen says‚ Berenger is a person that follows his heart and does whatever he believes is right and will benefit everybody‚ he worries about others and will put the common good before his own. On the other hand Jean is like the perfect character‚ or that’s what he wants everyone to think‚ smart‚ good dressed‚ with a lot of money but

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