"O Captain! my Captain!" Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! my Captain!" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman describes Lincoln as the captain of the ship‚ as the leader of the country; he also refers to him as a father: "Here Captain! dear father!"(13)‚ "My father doesn’t feel my arm‚"(18). Clearly‚ a captain is not a father. Why‚ then‚ does Whitman connect the two together? Are there certain similarities between them that can’t be avoided? A captain is
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why did Barack wrote a book for his father? Dreams for my father Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1961‚ in Honolulu‚ Hawaii. His mother was a white American girl from Kansas and his father a black man from Luo‚ a Kenyan tribe. At that time their union was unusual‚ so Barack had to live with that combination of races. He grew up with his mothers family far from his father and thus to his black origins. Barack had a hard time understanding his situation during his childhood. He was lost
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a tabula rasa‚ a blank slate. He refuted innate ideas such as mathematic certainties and religious beliefs‚ and instead‚ theorized that as a child‚ all reason and knowledge developed from social surroundings. Locke’s theory is depicted in the film‚ “My Kid Could Paint That‚” starring 4-year-old Marla Olmstead and her progression in painting. Viewing Marla throughout her story‚ Locke’s “social surrounding” theory unfolds and we see the influences Marla’s father‚ Mark Olmstead‚ has on her and her paintings
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Compare the central characters in ‘Medusa’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Medusa’ and Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ are two entirely different poems in many respects. Written in entirely different eras‚ some would say that they are as opposite as poetry could be. However‚ their central characters have some remarkable similarities that strike a chord with the reader and represent a common theme. In each of the poems‚ both Medusa and the Duke of Ferrara represent the fickleness
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and claiming innocence on the whole incident. This paper examines the relationship between family members‚ and each person’s devotion to leaving the American dream‚ marred by secrets and the unwillingness to reckon the responsibility. In Miller’s All My Sons‚ money and responsibility play a huge role as themes‚ as does loyalty. However‚ it is an obsession with the American Dream which not only drives the plot but also drives the characters. In a new‚ better educated America‚ the main character‚ Joe
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In All My Sons sacrifice plays a crucial role in almost every part of the play. Miller explores the impact of sacrifices made for one’s family versus humanity as a whole‚ explicitly the direction and intention of a sacrifice. As part of this essay‚ I will identify and explain what I consider to be the most important in the play. The second aspect of sacrifice in All My Sons which I will examine in this essay involves the idea that not all sacrifices are actually conscious decisions; many of the acts
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Mike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer‚ and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However‚ through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements
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GERALD DURRELL’S MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS AUTHOR • Find some information about him and write a short obituary[1]. • What were his major works? • What was his major interest in life? This website http://www.durrell.org/ and some reference sites such as Google or Wikipedia may help you to find information. Gerald had a brother who became a famous writer. • What was his name? • Do you know anything about his life & work? SETTING • Where does the
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called a homonym. In the poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover both by Robert Browning are very different yet very alike all at the same time. One example of these poems being very similar is that they are both about a jealous guy. Both of these guys got very upset that their lady’s attention wasn’t on them constantly. Both of these men ended up killing their woman out of pure jealousy. In My Last Duchess the speaker says “Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old
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My Life So Far is a pleasantly nostalgic look at a few transformative months in the life of a 10-year old Scottish boy. Brought to the screen by director Hugh Hudson and producer David Puttnam (who collaborated on Chariots of Fire)‚ My Life So Far provides 90 minutes of solid entertainment that runs the gamut from outright hilarity to melodrama. The film doesn’t offer many surprises or deep insights into human nature‚ but it possesses an easygoing charm and likability that overcomes such potential
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