Madeline Smith 27th Jan 2013 The Looking Glass: A Tempting Depiction of Feminine Aspiration The poem “The Looking Glass” by Kamala Das is a descriptive poem‚ which elaborates the bold imagery of exploring female sexuality in her quest for love. This poem is composed in a free verse with no specific rules applied: the poet uses figurative devices like alliteration “admit and admiration‚ drab and destitute‚ living and love”‚ simile “as”‚ metonymy “looking glass” for the reflection of image
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In Looking For Alaska‚ Miles “Pudge” Halter struggles with coming to terms with‚ or accepting‚ a lot of things that happen in the novel. In the ‘After’ part of the novel‚ Miles matures the most and comes of age by accepting and coping with Alaska’s death‚ realizing that his relationship with Alaska wasn’t as personal as he thought it was‚ and by learning how to survive in the labyrinth. One of the first signs that Miles has come of age is that he accepts Alaska’s death. For instance the
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Looking for the root This discussion post centers on possible causes of learning disabilities‚ specifically that of dyslexia. Common symptoms of dyslexia are difficulty in the areas of speaking‚ pronunciation‚ reading fluency‚ decoding‚ comprehension‚ and word retrieval (Society for Neuroscience‚ 2012). However‚ in languages such as Finnish and Italian‚ which are more consistent in their relationship between letters and sounds‚ the only evidence of dyslexia may be slow reading (Society for Neuroscience
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In our lives we experience different struggles and different problems. Each of us has our own trials in life. There are different types of trials‚ its either easy‚ moderate or hard. But how do we response in these trials? When we encounter the easy and moderate problems‚ we can easily survive it. But when we encounter the hard one‚ we always say we can’t do it. We can’t survive it. When I was a bit younger than today‚I always thought having problems and solving it was
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One day when I was nine‚ my family and I visited an apple orchard in the fall to pick to pick our own apples. About halfway through‚ I became hungry‚ so I decided to take snack on one of the many apples I had in my basket. Although once I bit into it‚ I was horrified to see a worm squiggling and squirming around inside of the apple. I spit out what I had already eaten and threw the apple to the ground as I screamed. Dropping my basket‚ I bolted out of the fields‚ not caring that my family was right
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In hypothesizing the framework for the looking glass self‚ Cooley said‚ "the mind is mental" because "the human mind is social." Beginning as children‚ humans begin to define themselves within the context of their first social group‚ their family‚ and later within society at large. This is demonstrated in the manner a child learns that the symbol of his/her crying will elicit a response from his/her parents‚ not only when they are in need of necessities such as food‚ but also as a symbol to receive
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everywhere around us. This idea is portrayed in the Prescribed film “Looking for Alibrandi” and my ORT The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is a reaction‚ both are transformed. This quote by Psychologist Carl Jung is clearly evident in both texts looking for Alibrandi and The Simple Gift. During the opening scene of the film looking for Alibrandi there is a Qantas plane taking off or departing likewise in the
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’In times of conflict ordinary people can behave in extraordinary ways’ Sometimes to achieve what we want‚ we may have to act or do in a certain way against ones values that can lead to conflict. People face conflict everyday of their lives. Conflict could involve an individual‚ groups‚ and the environment or be within oneself. People have different methods of dealing with conflict. To some extent people behave in extraordinary ways‚ and that is considered unacceptable in today’s society. In times
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Throughout history women and men have been treated differently. The movie‚ Alice Through the Looking Glass is based on the book written by Lewis Carroll in 1871‚ and takes place in male dominated England. This story follows a young woman‚ Alice‚ who wants to be a strong captain like her father before her. Unfortunately‚ her society attempts to force her into the image they have for women: pretty and complacent. This is not the image for a captain. In order to escape the oppression of the real world
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Xue ESWL 1300 Writing Fall 2014 Prof. Kwok Every time refer to beauty‚ Notre Dame De Paris comes into my mind. Esmeralda and Quasimodo are good examples of physical beauty and inner beauty. Both of them are lucky because they have at least one of the characteristics. In my opinion‚ either physical beauty or inner beauty is significant. Like the majority of people‚ I am usually attracted by fashion beauty when walking on street. As we can see‚ physical beauty can be easily recognized. Many people
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