Linda Pastan via “Ethics” explores the importance of experience and leads the reader through a psychological journey with an overlaying philosophical question: “If there were a fire in a museum / which would you save‚ a Rembrandt painting / or an old woman who hadn’t many / years left anyhow?” (3-6) Pastan brilliantly structures her poem to alter the central question so that it appears more difficult to answer. By leaving "a Rembrandt painting" at the end of line 4 and "years left anyhow" at line
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The poem‚ “Ethics”‚ by Linda Pastan is about age‚ regret and the old woman’s thoughts about her teacher and the ethical question from so long ago. The same question was asked in Ethics class every fall‚ ”If there were a fire in a museum‚ which would you save‚ a Rembrandt paintings or an old woman who hadn’t many years left anyhow?” The author or main character in the poem probably grappled with this annual question for years. The question brings up the value of any life‚ both youthful and old
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played a major role in organizing new members and establishing many benefits‚ including the largest union-based adult education program in the U.S. During her 17-year tenure with DC 37‚ the union’s ranks skyrocketed from 30‚000 to 120‚000. In 1995‚ Linda Chavez-Thompson of AFL-CIO was elected executive vice president. She was the first person of color to be elected to one of the federation’s three highest offices. She is of Mexican descent and was one of the highest ranking elected woman officers’
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“Fireflies” “Fireflies” is a short story‚ written by Linda Cookson. The short story includes four small stories; these are interrelated in one story. The main character meets a man on a train‚ where we hear the first story. The man tells about his daughter who had jumped out from a tall building in Japan with a roman candle in her hand‚ and committed suicide. Then there is the strange dream happening on the beach‚ where Annie reads Robinson Crusoe aloud for Sophie‚ and the cave‚ the monster and
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Linda Zagzebski‚ Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma‚ defined virtue as “an excellence that has never been questioned… a state of the soul.” [2]. Zagzebski communicated in her definition that virtues transcend cultures
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how well they accomplish their daily chores‚ especially if it is coming from their family members. People should recognize how grateful they are to have a family in the first place‚ and they should appreciate what’s done for them‚ not how it’s done. Linda Pastan’s poem Marks contains irony‚ metaphors‚ and appropriate diction throughout the text to
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government contracts for repairing our bridges‚ roads‚ and railroads. In re-builing our infrastructure‚ we create jobs and create demand which will then create the need for more jobs in many other fields. Another way to create jobs is by using and creating new sources such as green energy. The use of fossil fuels is causing the nation to spend large amounts of money. If we use natural recourses we can create jobs to aid with the development of these natural energy sources and also jobs for inventing
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Creating an Outline Once a topic has been chosen‚ ideas have been generated through brainstorming and free writing‚ and a working thesis has been created‚ the last step a writer can perform in the prewriting stage is creating an outline. An outline allows a writer to categorize the main points‚ to organize the paragraphs into an order that makes sense‚ and to make sure that each paragraph/idea can be fully developed. Essentially‚ an outline helps prevent a writer from getting stuck when performing
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Creating Conceptual Art Paper ARTS/230 November 24‚ 2014 Berta Stead Creating Conceptual Art Paper Conceptual Art was first used in 1967 by the artist Sol LeWitt‚ in his Paragraphs on Conceptual Art ’ essay in which he states "I will refer to the kind of art in which I am involved with as conceptual art.” In conceptual art‚ the idea of the concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art‚ it means that all the planning and decisions are made beforehand
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Creating of the constitution In creating the Constitution‚ the states had several different reactions‚ including a rather defensive reaction‚ but also an understanding reaction. As a document that provided the laws of the land and the rights of its people. It directs its attention to the many problems in this country; it offered quite a challenge because the document lent itself to several views and interpretations‚ depending upon the individual reading it. It is clear that the founders’ perspectives
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