MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES The idiom‚ “Make hay while the sun shines” originated in an agricultural setting and originally it was in the form “when the sun shineth‚ make hay”. This unique expression refers to the production of hay after a harvest. The warmth of the sun’s rays dry up the wheat stalks and turns them into hay. Once the hay is dry‚ if it gets wet again it starts to rot. The weather being unpredictable‚ one has to grab the opportunity and dry the hay while the sun is shining. The
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The sun becomes one of the most important motifs in Albert Camus’ "The Stranger". The imagery Camus uses when describing the sun sets the stage for the climax of Mersault’s murder of the Arab. More than anything the sun is depicted as a distraction to Mersault. It causes him to do things he would not normally do and clouds his judgement‚ causing him to commit a serious crime which will cause his own death. The sun is in a way a representation of the constraints society places upon Mersault. The effect
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The body needs a minimum of 20 minutes of sun a week to make enough vitamin D to stay healthy. The body cannot obtain enough Vitamin D from the food we eat so it needs to create it from sunlight exposure. A shortage of Vitamin D can cause problems such a rickets. So‚ except in special cases‚ some sun is good for most people. Over exposure can lead to bad sun burns and‚ in the worst case‚ melanomas (skin cancer). Overall‚ too much time in the sun is bad because you get first degree burn
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The Aztec stone of the sun is ¨Carved from a single piece of porphyry and is weighed at 20 tons¨. (American National Museum of History) The Aztec stone of sun’s symbols relate to the Sun and the Sun’s role in Aztec belief. (American National Museum of History) Even through the disk is not really a functioning calendar it is also referred as the calendar stone. (Cartwright)The stone was discovered in December 1790 in the central plaza of Mexico City. (Cartwright) The artist carved the Aztec calendar
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truth is a luxury. When one speaks the truth it does not require any effort and it is the honest opinion of an individual who is not petrified of the result of the action. The author‚ R.K. Narayan‚ reveals through irony in the short story‚ “Like the Sun”‚ that candor ultimately has pleasant and unpleasant consequences. Sekhar encounters unpleasant consequences as he told the absolute truth to the people around him. The problems arouse when he determined to tell the outmost truth throughout the
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all of my concerns‚ cares and worries wash away with the outgoing waves. As I stroll along I can feel the soft smooth sand beneath my feet. I am taken in by the soothing atmosphere that surrounds me. I let myself absorb the intense rays of the sun on a scorching summer day. I am calmed by the sounds of the ocean; the regular pounding of the waves restrain all of my worries. As I sit in my chair I can see all the sights of summer; children building sand castles along the ocean’s edge‚ to my right
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The Sun Also Rises: Long Form I. The Author The Author of this novel is Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was born on July 21‚ 1899 and died on July 2‚ 1961. He was an American author and journalist‚ which relates to the book because in The Sun Also Rises the protagonist‚ Jake Barnes‚ is a journalist. He was also an ambulance driver in World War I which ties in with the book as well because Jake was a World War I veteran. Another thing that ties in the book from his personal life is that he was wounded
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The book Copper Sun is a story about an African girl named Amari who is sold into slavery. There are numerous settings in this book such as Her Home Land‚ the Ship of Death‚ Slave Sale‚ and also the village she was in was called Ziavi. This book is an mix emotion story because some of the parts are happy but most of it is sad because Amari loses her whole family when they were getting attacked. Also there are so many slaves that are not getting feed ‚ dieing from hydration‚ and also there are a lot
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the beach. The sky can be a tremendous breath talking moment when arriving at the beach. Looking into the translucent sky and seeing a flawless life ahead always brings a smile to my face. My eyes then absorb the blistering rays the sun has to offer. As I see the sun set it turns the sky into a magnificent ray of colors‚ with light and dark oranges‚ pinks and highlights of red. As if a great painter has just thrown all his colors in to the sky to make one enormous master piece. When I view the marvelous
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The term despair means ‘the complete loss or absence of hope’ which is what South Side Chicago mirrored in the novel A Raisin in the Sun. Just by looking around you could tell that all hope was lost when there’s widespread poverty on Chicago’s South Side. Also by taking a look around the Younger home you can see it in the faces of people -- and the furniture?! On the first few pages opening Act I‚ Scene I‚ the text says “Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself
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