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    You Only Live Once

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    Live Your Life to the Fullest “You only live once‚ but if you do it right‚ once is enough‚” –Mae West. The Transcendentalist time period relates mostly to the philosophy‚ “Live life to the fullest.” Transcendentalists’ believe in self-reliance‚ individualism‚ and inner spiritual beliefs‚ just like any person who wants to live their life to the fullest. Every person should enjoy every moment of their lives by appreciating everything in order to follow their dreams and to live their lives to the

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    “Why I Live at the P.O.” The image of home life in Why I live at the P.O‚ Eudora Welty depicts the damage to one’s feelings of self worth in response to the sense of belonging in a family. Sister‚ who is the narrator in Why I live at the P.O.‚(Welty) is disturbed when her sister‚ Stella Rondo returns homes with an adopted child‚ Shirley-T‚ after separating from her husband (Welty). Sister has lived in her sister’s‚ Stella Rondo’s shadow her entire life. Over the years‚ resentment and jealously

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    “You Only Live Once” Everybody these days say‚ "You only live once" but have you ever taken the time to look at why? Kids‚ teenagers‚ and a few adults that live by the modern terms pursue their actions upon this saying. Each individual is different‚ we all think differently based upon what we do‚ how we were raised‚ the culture were brought up in‚ and other factors that relate to an individual’s life. Not everyone is going to think why we live once or if we live once do we get an after life? Some

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    Setting to Indicate her Hardship Life Eudura Welty uses the setting in this story‚ not only love for her grand son but also how life was in the South. It could also reference the many struggles of black Americans. Every place she goes and every people she meets is related to the theme of this story: her hardship life as a black women and grandmother who has ill grandson. Forest‚ the white man and Hospital are used for main setting of this story. The forest that she has to go through means hardships

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    and “A Worn Path” From their titles‚ we realize these short stories will take us on a literary journey but what we do not realize are the choices and obstacles the protagonists encounter that adds dimension to the story. The readers’ perceptions about the events are changed by the symbolism surrounding the characters and the conflicts that are presented. “A Worn Path” is a character story told in a third-person point of view about an elderly‚ colored woman and her journey along a path she

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    Why I live at the P.O. is a short story written by Eudora Welty in 1983. This short story is about Sister and the Rondo family. Sister is our main character and the narrator of the story. This essay will be about the character traits of sister and weather her perspective of the situation is a trustworthy one since the entire story is coming from her point of view. The first character that we meet other than sister is Stella Rondo and Shirley T. Stella is sister’s sister and Shirley T is Stella’s

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    My Love for Reading The experiences in one’s childhood will shape his future. In the passage from Eudora Welty’s‚ One Writers Beginnings‚ Welty recalls early experiences of going to the library and reading her beloved books‚ that have a greater affect on her craft as a writer of fiction. She describes her mother‚ the librarian‚ and her love for reading. Welty conveys the significance of her early childhood experiences on her craft as a writer through vivid descriptions of Ms. Calloway‚ her mother

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    A Worn Path is the story of an elderly woman who takes a long path to town in order to get medicine for her grandson. The elderly woman‚ Phoenix Jackson‚ is the main character of the story and she overcomes many trials and tribulations to reach her goal. The story seems simple‚ an old black woman walking through the woods towards town on some errand‚ but layers of symbolism add meaning to every part of this story. Take for instance the name Phoenix Jackson: The Phoenix is a bird of legend from ancient

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    ESSAY This essay will describe a problem faced by a character in two short stories‚ Lucky Lips by Paul Jennings and It Used To Be Green Once by Patricia Grace. In Lucky Lips Marcus’s problem is the fact that he has never been kissed by a girl. In It Used To Be Green Once the problem is the car. This essay will describe the problem‚ how they (the characters) tried to solve their problem and the outcome or consequences of their actions. The first story Lucky Lips addresses the problem of Marcus‚

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    wonders that a child explores throughout the early years of life; therefore‚ a person’s childhood tends to position his path for the future. As a result‚ occurrences seen on an average day sitting at school‚ exploring in the woods‚ or examining the stars have the potential to be life changing. An American Childhood (Dillard)‚ “Two Views of a River” (Twain)‚ and “Listening” (Welty) all allocate this thought‚ yet the works juxtapose each other with different morals. Annie Dillard writes of the expectations

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