three human services agencies (TechTarget 2013). Unfortunately‚ there is a large population of Americans and legal citizens‚ alike‚ which do not have sufficient healthcare insurance or any at all. Every few decades a presidential candidate speaks in hopeful tones about reforming the healthcare delivery system and creating a program that would be beneficial to all those in need and ultimately saving the government money on expenditures. Our current President‚ Barack Obama has passed a national health
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symbolism‚ and irony. These lines are significant to the text as a whole because they allow the dreamer to summarize the sermon of salvation that the rood has preached. They also mark the change of reaction given by the dreamer from hopeless to hopeful. One of the major themes developed throughout “The Dream of the Rood” is triumph. In lines 13-16‚ the dreamer described the tree as being a jewel covered tree of triumph. This brings out the juxtaposition of triumph and glory in which Jesus’ crucifixion
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Julia Alvarez and Cathy Song both convey the life of an immigrant and how they are a symbol of their cultures when discovering a new lifestyle in the United States. Even though both poems being set in the past‚ they have stories that the reader can relate to today. Whilst the authors portray the search for identity‚ they articulate the reason to leave their home‚ write in different formats‚ but have similar themes. Alvarez and Song show the reasoning of why the characters left their homes‚ but these
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This poem is considered to be one of the most optimistic poems the reader can ever meet. The speaker here is cheerful and positive ‚ a person who is looking at the positive side in life. Using this image of infinite sea and a ship which is in the middle of this sea is simply a direct image that resembles life and how man is like a sailor who is trying to steer the rudder of his life smoothly and effectively no matter what hardships or obstacles (icebergs) he might meet. The poem opens with number
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In the poem The Road not Taken‚ Robert Frost addresses the conflict of life choices. A traveler finds himself with a choice in life‚ which he appears hesitant to make because there is no clear direction. He fears that he will make the wrong decision and realizes that he will never have the opportunity to begin again. This decision will be final and will change the path of his life forever. . At this point I would like to address the choice of gender. I will refer to the traveler as him throughout
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battle against racism. They both gave powerful speeches on racism; however their intentions were delivered with different styles and purposes. King had a more positive and idealistic approach compared to Malcolm X’s more pessimistic views. King was hopeful in believing that someday‚ blacks would achieve full equality with whites. Nonviolent demonstrations and arguments were King’s techniques in reaching equality. Malcolm X‚ on the other hand‚ viewed non-violence and integration as a way of the "whites
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voyage‚ to the last stanza where he arrives in Byzantium and is turned into a golden bird in a coo coo clock. The poem is for the most part written in the declarative mode‚ in a hopeful tone that the speaker will overcome death by becoming a work of art. Between the third and fourth stanzas‚ the tone shifts from hopeful to one of rejuvenation as the speaker is transformed into the coo coo. The clusters of images in the first stanza‚ “salmon falls‚ the mackerel-crowded seas‚ / Fish‚ flesh‚ or fowl
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Clarke‚ the narrator reflects on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. At first she begins pessimistically describing the widespread damage‚ but then goes on to say how it made people come together to become “neighbours” ‚ending the poem in a more hopeful note. In “Price we pay for the sun” by Grace Nichols‚ the narrator also starts pessimistically by challenging the stereotypical view tourists have of the islands. In comparison the narrator ends the poem in a more serious note by expanding on the
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Title and author: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls Other books written: Half Broke Horses‚ about the life of her grandmother‚ Lily Casey Smith. Dish: The Inside Story on the World of Gossip‚ about the role of gossip in the United States. Jeannette is a journalist and a gossip columnist. Setting: Nevada‚ California‚ Arizona‚ West Virginia‚ and New York City. From approximately 1957 to 2005. Main Character: Jeannette Walls-She is the narrator of the story. She tells the events of her
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Earth Day Our earth is a pleasant place‚ where everything is found‚ everything that we love‚ and everything that we please‚ including our own understanding. Earth day is not only about us‚ as human beings occupying the world around us. It is about our planet‚ our universe‚ and our mother earth. Earth day was first celebrated in 1970‚ 43 years ago‚ it is celebrated in 192 countries around the world. Earth day was celebrated at our school on the 22nd of April 2013. This year was quite different
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