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    Eye of the Beholder Shakespeare’s‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ is a sonnet that contains fourteen lines. Each line possessing ten syllables and the meter of the sonnet is Iambic pentameter. In these fourteen lines Shakespeare beings to describe the beauty of his mistress and shows how she is still yet a human being with flaws. Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ can be broken into four pieces‚ three quatrains and a couplet. This sonnet by Shakespeare

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    Vernon because she has low self-esteem and believes that controlling men is the best that she can do . She likes a man who is in control that is why she is smiling in the picture with Vernon forcing her to eat the steak. Lucy has low self-esteem because the way she has been treated in the past by her ex-boyfriend. He does not show her at all that he loves her. Vernon does not listen to her when she says that she is a vegetarian he is still forcing her to eat the meat. Lucy is willing to put up with

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    The Scarlet Letter Chapter One Character List: Mistress Hibbins: a witch‚ who was bitter-tempered Group of women: harshly discuss and criticize Hester Prynne and her sin Hester Prynne: wears a fantastically flourished gold and red letter “A” (the ScarletLetter); tall with dark hair‚ very pretty and lady-like‚ prideful and strong; has a baby Reverend Master Dimmesdale: a godly pastor Magistrate: contains governor‚ counselors‚ a judge‚ a general‚ and ministers; decided Hester’s punishment

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    Donne’s poem ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’1 appears on the surface to be a poem celebrating the beauty of the female body and the joys of sex. However it is through a closer reading that we see that this poem is in fact not celebrating the woman at all‚ rather she becomes an object through which the speaker can achieve his desire. By looking at Slavoj Žižek’s essay ‘Courtly Love‚ or‚ Woman as Thing’2 and Susan Bordo’s ‘Unbearable Weight’ 3 we can see how Donne represents the mistress of this poem to

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    My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚--yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing

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    Haidt & Graham -- 1 When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham University of Virginia February 1‚ 2006 Second draft of invited submission to special issue of Social Justice Research‚ on emotions and justice [8026 words for full MS] Abstract Researchers in moral psychology and social justice have agreed that morality is about matters of harm‚ rights‚ and justice. With this definition of morality‚ conservative

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    147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities that society during this time

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    great influence in his life. She brought him up as a Christian‚ but he gave up his religion when he went to school at Carthage. There he became adept in rhetoric. In his Confessions he repents of his wild youth in Carthage‚ during which time he fathered an illegitimate son. At some time in his youth he became a convert to Manichaeism. After 376 he went to Rome‚ where he taught rhetoric with success; in 384‚ at the urging of the Manichaeans‚ he went to Milan to teach. His years at Milan were

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    Micaela Oates #1. Robert Creely - ’Oh No’ (pg 411) At the end of the second line of Creely’s poem ‚he refers to the subject as a it.I did’nt know who what or where he meant when.I didnt know who or what the word ’it’ was referring to .The First line suggest that if wander far enough we will ultimately reach this it . Creely Imediately makes me feel that this it was a defenite‚a destination that will inevitabley be met.With this being said ‚ the use of the word wander suggest some kind of journey

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    Malcolm Gladwell makes an argument on page 40 of his book‚ Outliers that‚ “The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world class-expert--- in anything.” There are several people who disagree with his thinking. Although I agree with Gladwell partially that lots of practice can lead to mastery of skills‚ I don’t agree with his thoughts that 10‚000 hours makes you a world class expert in “anything” because

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