or at a concert‚ people are irritated‚ but at least lives are not endangered. When on the road‚ however‚ irresponsible cell phone users are more than irritating: They are putting our lives at risk. Many of us have witnessed drivers so distracted by dialing and chatting that they resemble drunk drivers‚ weaving between lanes‚ for example‚ or nearly running down pedestrians in crosswalks. A number of bills to regulate use of cell phones on the road have been introduced in state legislatures‚ and the
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1874 and died in Boston‚ January 29‚ 1963) was one of America’s leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Although his verse forms are traditional‚ he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental. <br> <br>After Frost’s father died in 1885‚ the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. From 1897 to 1899 he attended Harvard College
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industry. Few scholars have analyzed Robert Frost’s poetry from a Burkean perspective; the last to do so was Richard Poirier who‚ in 1982‚ examined the Emersonian influence in Burke’s theory of words and their relation to reality. My paper instead‚ uses a combined approach of ecocriticism and Burke’s theory of man in his essay “Definition of Man.” Kenneth Burke (1897 – 1993) was a literary and social critic of the twentieth century. During the Depression‚ Burke experienced first-hand the devastating
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“I Stand Here Ironing” Responses to questions: 1. The narrator is not a good mother because she does not care about Emily’s future. The narrator is the mother of Emily‚ Susan‚ and Ronnie. She says that the father of Emily left her “[…] before [Emily] was a year old” (paragraph 55). She had to get a job and work during Emily’s “[…] first six years” (55). The narrator went to Nursery School because she believed that it was the only way “[…] [she] could hold a job” (13) during the Great Depression
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Readers are likely to interpret his poems in many different ways depending upon their emotional state. Among the three poems assigned for the reading‚ I was much impressed with “The Road Not Taken” because of its simplicity and meaningfulness. Frost himself commented that it was “a tricky poem‚ very tricky.” In the fourth stanza of the poem‚ Frost writes: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and
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A comparison of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia‚ Here I Come & Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge Both Brian Friel’s Philadelphia‚ Here I Come‚ and Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge bear a resemblance to each other as plays‚ particularly in certain areas. For example‚ both plays are set at a similar time‚ in similarly isolated‚ and to a certain extent impoverished setting. Dramatic tension is used to great effect in both plays‚ to hold the audiences attention. The key moment‚ or climax
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood‚ The key word here is "two". Throughout our lives we constantly face decisions where we have two choices. Even when it seems there is only one choice‚ we can decide either to DO it‚ or NOT do it; so there are STILL two alternatives. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler‚ long I stood Then there are times we wish we could do BOTH; HAVE our cake and eat it too! We know we can’t‚ so we must agonize over the choices; weigh the possibilities. And
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The mother in the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” and the mother in the poem “Daystar” are very important characters. The mother in “I stand Here Ironing” has a negative personality. She is very powerless. On page 80‚ the mother says‚ “You think because I am her mother I have a key‚ or that in some way you could use me as a key?” This shows just because she is the mother that doesn’t mean she has this magic to help. She has a very negative attitude instead of being happy. Her place in society
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insightful‚ informative‚ and encourages students to solve their problems through deductive reasoning. In my life I have had several teachers of all different types. I’ve been lucky enough to have people to teach me about life‚ and general living strategy‚ as well as traditional academic teachers that we generally associate with the word teacher. I believe I have a good understanding of what I believe to the ideal teacher. The ideal teacher is creative‚ insightful‚ informative‚ and encourages students
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Over the course of the last forty years‚ the United States has been battling the “War on Drugs.” A phrase coined by President Richard Nixon in 1971 to launch his campaign to protect America and its citizens from the harm that is associated with the use of drugs. This brought about new legislation in the form of mandatory minimum sentencing‚ which resulted in causing mass incarceration throughout this county. These selectively enforced policies that mainly target minorities “have transformed the
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