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    Have you ever seen a house on fire and you risk your life to run into it and save the other life inside even if it is an animal? Throughout the poem firefighter by Sasha Young it talks about how firefighters never get as much thank yous as they should. Also it talks about how they drop everything in a second to help people‚ even sleep‚ even if they get there and nothing really happens its a guy that can’t reach the phone or a lady that fell out of her bed in the middle of the night‚ or even a person

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    Flower Flower is abeautiful things for me.I like it so much.Ilike to give all person that.I love them flowers to exepres my love and recpect for them.We can see the flower in many places such us:garden house and farms.It have amany beautiful colours like:red‚light pink and dark pink‚yellow and white.for me I like the red flower becous it meems the love.Know I wont to give my teacher this flower to exepres my love and recpect for her. Information about flowers Municipal offline Avatar municipal

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    Many popular novels are often converted into television movies. The brilliant fiction novel‚ Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes‚ was developed into a dramatic television film. Flowers for Algernon is about a mentally retarded man who is given the opportunity to become intelligent through the advancements of medical science. This emotionally touching novel was adapted to television so it could appeal to a wider‚ more general audience. Although the novel and film are similar in terms of plot

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    of seeing a sort of resemblance between Baldwin’s speech and the poem "Young Soul." They both make reference to getting to know yourself. Which does give some commonality between the two. I do however feel there are some differences‚ even though the points are basically the same. The difference is within the way you accomplish getting to know yourself. Baldwin’s speech carries on about finding yourself through writing. In the "Young Soul" the speaker is persuading the reader to get to know themselves

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    Paul Cameron all express the idea of loss in relation to war. Kocan’s poem‚ set in World War 1 involves the death of a soldier whose life is remembered through a photograph and similarly‚ “Disabled” recalls the existence of a soldier confined to a wheelchair after losing his legs in battle. In contrast‚ “Dear...” focuses upon the Vietnam War and expresses the far reaching impact of death in the form of a letter. All three war poems explore the physical and emotional pain of loss‚ and do so through clever

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    The poem mainly concentrates on the meaning of existence. The title of the poem ‘Futility’ means pointlessness and throughout the poem he is questioning the meaning of life. Also in this poem Owen shows that he maybe does not agree with war and it will not solve anything. The poem is questioning why his friend is dying and what is the point in fighting if lives are being lost or even what is the point of life if we are to die anyway. Owen fought in World War 1 himself so it makes the poem more personal

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    Themes in Flowers for Algernon Charlie’s Struggle between Intellect and Emotion “The more intelligent you become the more problems you’ll have‚ Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth” – Dr. Strauss (p. 47) Before the surgery‚ Charlie’s mental disability affected both his intellectual and emotional development. Therefore‚ after the surgery Charlie must develop both aspects together and they inevitably conflict. As we see in the novel‚ Charlie struggles

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    Comparing poems: “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin” Conflict is presented in the poems “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin”. In the poems the conflict is based on the relationships between families. However‚ in “Cousin Kate”‚ the conflict is also in the class divide of a powerful lord and a poor maiden who I s controlled and abused by the lord. “Catrin” focuses on the bond between a mother and daughter and the conflict that relationship brings. The imagery in “Cousin Kate” conveys how the love between the lord

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    committed through finding love with a woman. (Patriotism) 2. Dulce Et Decorum Est [Pro Patria Mori] – Wilfred Owen The intent of this poem is to demolish the stereotypical views of war from the political and social standpoint that it is ‘’befitting and sweet to die for one’s country.’’ The persona looks retrospectively at experiences in battle‚ and via the poem‚ the reader is presented a taste of the toxic trauma that seemingly torments the persona throughout his life. Unable to escape war as he

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    Happiness & Contemplation Josef Pieper does an invigorating job defining how Happiness comprehends a variety of meanings with divine life and achieving ultimate beatitude by putting an emphasis on how contemplation is the driving force to happiness. “Man’s ultimate happiness consists in contemplation” (Pieper 13). Pieper defines how Contemplation is a loving fulfillment of awareness in ones self and in what way happiness is completed with the involvement of contemplation. Contemplation is the essence

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