The article‚ “Skinny and 119 Pounds‚ but with the Health Hallmarks of Obesity” by Gina Kolata was very interesting. I find it strange that a person can be 119 pounds and have Type 2 diabetes‚ high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol‚ and a liver covered in fat. It makes you wonder because those are the conditions that obese people have and hearing about Ms. Johnson‚ she is nowhere near obese. This is my first time hearing about the condition “metabolic syndrome”. I did not know that people can be so
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native american poetry. purposes: to be spoken‚ to be performed. oral tradition: when a culture passes down information trough sons and stories instead of through sons and stories instead of through a written language. difficulties of oral tradition. -difficult for future generations to learn much about early native american literary life without written records. -danger of losing ancient culture. -antropologists: realized they needed to write down everything Native Americans could tell them
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When we read poems‚ we don’t exactly interpret the meaning of it automatically. It takes us a shot‚ or two‚ or three to fully understand the meaning of it or at least have your own interpretation. In the poem In a Station of the Metro‚ written by Ezra Pound‚ one of the themes that are presented is modernization. Nowadays‚ the metro isn’t the place where people want to be because of its lousy appearance‚ the people seem a little odd for others‚ and in other words people don’t like taking it because
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POEM ANALYSIS The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife‚ and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker‚ after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey‚ by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ and alliteration)‚ fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the
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the critical analysis‚ “Trauma Theory.” The poems‚ “An Irish Airman Foresees his death”- W.B Yeats and “The Death Bed”- Siegfried Sasson share various qualities and differences. The similar qualities that the poems share includes a complementary theme of war‚ thoughts of a comrade in the war and the thoughts that run through the soldiers mind before death. The differences in the poems are the forms the poems are written in. The comparison of the poems to the critical analysis‚ Trauma theory
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Chapter 10-18“The greater a man’s talents‚ the greater his power to lead astray” Haley page122.-disscuss the ironyIn the brave new world people believe that everyone belongs to someone else. They are born with different caste and appointed jobs. They do not have to or cannot think and worry about anything‚ because the controllers need absolute submit to their orders. In their formats of human‚ human should not have talents and a brain to think. In this case‚ Bernard’s belief‚ habits‚ goals and curiosities
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Different Approaches to Romantic Poetry Practical Analysis 1- Introduction For passion or profession‚ for hobby or obligation‚ for delight or duty‚ for this reason or another‚ one takes his pen and devotes few minutes he steals from time to trace expressive words on paper. I am among many‚ in ruptures about literature and this study day comes as a golden opportunity to show how much my fancy is caught and how far my love is increased when the heart excitingly beats and the feeling increasingly
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Analysis of Neruda’s Poem A Poetry Inspired Poem (An Analysis of Poetry by Pablo Neruda) The poem Poetry was introduced to the audience at the last part of the movie Il Postino. Based on the movie‚ the poem was written by Mario Ruoppolo‚ the main character of the story. However without taking into account the movie‚ the persona of the poem can be described as someone who just recently discovered a passion or love or likeness towards poetry‚ and this can be concluded from the first line
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A Definition Of Poetry What is poetry? The question "What is poetry" used to be easier to answer. If it rhymed and had a regular meter (a type of rhythm)‚ it probably was a poem. As they say‚ "If it walks like a duck‚ quacks like a duck‚ looks like a duck‚ it must be a duck.” These days‚ not all poems rhyme or fit into standard forms. And if you look for a response to the question‚ "What is poetry?" you ’ll find lots of musings
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