ADVOCACY IN LIFE . 1. Admiration to all who have advisories as yourself. I am not able to do so at the moment‚ but my hopes is to continue being me and spreading good will onto others. Eventually my plan is to help many who are unable to buy their own food. 2. “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this‚ it would change the earth.” ― William Faulkner 3. “..things are never as complicated
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Babette. While you’re reading the first part of the book‚ DeLillo gives you the sense that Jack is scared of death. He tells Babette that he hopes he will die first‚ says that all plots lead toward death during his lecture‚ wasn’t able to look away from the plane crash on tv‚ and just generally seems wary of death’s presence. It appears that Jack doesn’t think about the inevitability of death when there are distractions around him‚ such as the children‚ his work‚ the television‚ etc. This is because
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Gone: Analysis of Central Idea in Helena Maria Viramontes’ “The Moths” PAPER#1(CENTRAL IDEA) The short story “The Moths” by Helena Maria ViraMontes is the story of a Latina granddaughter reminiscing about her relationships between herself and family‚ most specifically with her grandmother‚ when the narrator was a teenage girl. The narrator speaks about the indifference she felt among her sisters because she feels she was not pretty enough and could not “do the girl things they
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served from 1969-1970 as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. The journey O’Brien takes is described through the stories he tells about the people he was stationed with. One member of his platoon‚ Kiowa‚ was fatally struck by a mortar. The story of his death is unclear‚ as it was seen differently through the eyes of his platoon members. After the group discovered that they were camping in a field of literal crap they were under attack. Before they knew it‚ mortars appeared as if they were from the clouds
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For example‚ “Prepare to meet our fathers in the sky..” and “Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!” are two extremely powerful phrases that collectively reveal to the reader that war is death. By utilizing ‘prepare’ so many times‚ it reinforces a common idea that war is a risk-induced experience; to ‘prepare’ for death. For myself‚ repeating this word so excessively creates an eerie and unsettling ambience that reminds me of human tragedy‚ creating imagery of people dying on top of each other on the
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Comments on English Poetic Metaphors ABSTRACT The painters keep the scenery on the drawing board via pigment while the poets create the feeling of grace and depth via metaphors. Metaphor is a commonly-used figure of speech both in English and Chinese poems. With metaphor‚ poems become vivid‚ colourful‚ artistic and moving. The use of metaphors in English poems shows the nature and culture factors are quite influential in literature works. Nowadays‚ metaphor is more and more being concerned
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writing the reader can see how the proper usage of similes and metaphors can enhance ones writing. “…our home for the Civil War Battleground it was.” (154) is a prime example of one of the ways Vowell uses similes to enhance the readers understanding of her surrounding at that time. She is talking about her house is divided like it was during the Civil War. With her usage of “little death sticks” (157)‚ “elaborate took of death“(157)‚ and “Satan I rebuke thee“(157). She shows how she feels
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Dickens’ novel expresses the theme of fate through metaphors in many different ways. These metaphors connect the fates of Dickens’ characters that intertwine in some way‚ whether they are aware of how they connect to each other or not. The novel illustrates that fate is predetermined as shown through the metaphor of water‚ echoing footsteps‚ and knitting. The metaphor of water foreshadows the fates of Gaspard‚ the Marquis‚ and Madame Defarge. This metaphor is best described by Dickens when he says‚ “The
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In this dialogue‚ Shakespeare writes about Hamlet’s pondering of suicide and death‚ which provides the reason for his hesitation to carry out his revenge. Hamlet is clearly conflicted with the fear that he might not find peace even after death. However‚ if he continues to carry on with his life‚ he will have the burden of knowing his mother had married his uncle Claudius who killed his father. The scene shows his moral and mental anguish at its peak in this soliloquy since Shakespeare portrays a
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“The Metaphor” Questions 1. The metaphors Charlotte makes for her mother and Miss Hancock are very accurate. Charlotte compares her mother to a “white picket fence” with “thorny bushes and barbed wire” on the other side (72). Charlotte’s mother is a very beautiful person on the outside. She has great hair and a great figure‚ but deep down she is not that good of a person. She is a very emotionless and stern woman. In the last few paragraphs of the novel she tells Charlotte that Miss Hancock’s
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