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    Safe and Sound

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    Safe and Sound Take a minute to think about one thing from your childhood you still have an endless love for. How does it make you feel? Happy? Joyful? Safe? For Holden Caulfield‚ the exhibits in the Natural History museum are what make him feel safe. The museum scene in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ shows how someone changes throughout life‚ but memories remain the same and stick with us forever. There are some things in life that change‚ like our hair or clothes‚ and other things

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    Sound of Silence

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    The theme of Sound of Silence is alienation and lack of communication. From the darkness (my old friend) onwards it carries that theme and loneliness along. "In restless dreams I walked ALONE" Then the neon light splits the night and touches the sound of silence. The naked light show 10‚000 people (maybe more) talking without speaking and hearing without listening and writing songs that voices never shared (no one dared) because of the fear of breaking the silence. Then the writer steps in with

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    attended the right prep school‚and later had taken a business admin course in university. On graduation he had gone into one of the downtown branches of his father’s bank as an assistant accountant‚and from then on his promotions had been foreordained.” sounds like every steps in his life is planned by his mother already. 5.When Rock’s parents first meet Wilf‚ Mr.Ranson offered Wilf his hand with a smile and a friendly nod‚but his wife only half turned and gave hi a curt nod. When Wilf went out‚ Mr.Ranson

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    Sound and the Fury

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    Literary Criticism John T. Matthews The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury John T. Matthews writes about the discovery of loss in The Sound and The Fury. He makes the relation of loss by the fact that the characters are in grief due to their loss throughout the novel. John T. Matthews discusses the topic of loss in The Sound and the Fury. Matthews speaks about the preface and how “writing implicates the writer in an economy of loss. He repeatedly says that Faulkner ecstasy

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    Dramatic Irony

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    Examples of Dramatic Irony from Act I & II | Characters Involved | Sympathy?Antipathy? | Reason your sympathies lean as they do | Evidence- Lines & Explanation of Effect | Act 1 scene 1 | Hamlet‚ Claudius‚ Marcellus‚ Horatio‚ Barnardo | This is where the ghost is first seen by Horatio‚ Marcellus and Barnardo‚ representing that the King’s spirit is still alive as he is not yet at peace. I feel sympathetic for Hamlet as in the next scene everyone is mourning over the King’s death and Hamlet

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    The Sound of Silence

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    English 1010 10/29/09 The Sound of Silence “It was a cold that had seeped into her bones in France and now seemed never to leave her.”(198) War always has outcomes that cannot be predicted‚ some that linger on much like Maisie’s relentless coldness. The Great War leaves several characters with wounds that never seem to heal. While there are numerous lasting wounds caused by war‚ the emotional‚ physical‚ and mental wounds are the most severe. The Great War infected its victims emotionally

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    Medea's Irony

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    one’s husband does not “ever think he’s trapped in the marriage.” (Euripides p.17) The stark contrast between the female and male experience of marriage is used by Medea to highlight the inequality faced by women. She does this again by explaining the irony in men telling women that they are “lucky to live safe at home while [men] take up their spears and go

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    Irony In Ozymandias

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    In “Ozymandias”‚ the author uses irony to illustrate the triviality of grandeur and to emphasize the ephemeral nature of power.

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    Sound and Fury

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    decided to have the implant done for there child but the deaf grand parents didn’t agree because they are blessed. The grandmother said I will raise the deaf child and the mother can go away. The parents of the new born wanted their child to explore sounds and learn about the real world. They finally go and get it done. I would personally would not want to get it done for my new born or 4 year old because god blessed them. I believe that there is another world after we live here when we die. God will

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    The Crucibe- Irony

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    The Crucible Irony Open Ended Miller’s portrayal of Puritanism indicates that the society in Salem chooses false religious values over logical assumptions‚ which suggest attributes of stubbornness and their wicked beliefs in The Crucible. This proves to be ironic because the society would rather prefer believing propaganda shoved by the religious figures of the community‚ Reverend Parris and Reverend Hale. These men of priesthood are considered to be completely holy‚ and they were exempt of any

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