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    There is no way to avoid its unforgiving grip of which it holds every inhabitant of this planet. Each day as the clock ticks‚ our lives move on and we inch closer to possibly the scariest reality of our world‚ being forgotten. In E. B. White’s essay‚ Once More to the Lake‚ he delivers an underlying message of the power of a memory. As worldly possessions come and go‚ it remains impossible to take away a memory from someone. A weaker memory may be defiled and warped‚ but the true power lies within meaningful

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    To what lengths will someone ever remember their home and recognize the things they’ve once known? Stories have been used throughout the ages to not only create a tale that can cause to the reader great imagination and wonders‚ it is also common for them to hide several meanings and twists to the adventure. Through the portraits of her life‚ and the perils of her adventures‚ Jean Rhys’ has incorporated many of the paths of her life into the illustrations she had developed into short stories. These

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    something wrong. The poets Gabriel Okara and Dennis brutus both express this feeling of guilt in their personas backgrounds. Therefore‚ okara’s “Once Upon a Time” and brutus’s “It is the Constant Image of Your Face” are poems portrayed with guilt‚ but they show it in different situations. The body of both poems have a specific situation happening. in the poem “Once Upon a Time” the persona wishes to be young again an forget all the lessons he has taught himself. He admits of having to put on a “mask “depending

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    This line from E.B. White’s Once More to the Lake‚ is structured as a declarative‚ compound-complex sentence. It is compound because it contains two separate clauses which are joined together by a semicolon. It is complex because the main clauses contain a combination of an independent clause and a dependent clause. In the first portion of the sentence‚ the dependent clause is “In the daytime‚ in the hot morning…” and the independent clause is “these motors made a petulant‚ irritable sound.” In the

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    Once More to the Little Store They were surrounding me with shades of yellow and black; I stood in the middle of a sunflower garden. I wanted to pick a flower for my mom‚ who was inside of our apartment. I searched around the hoard of flowers until I found the perfect one. Then it fades to black. This exact clip was cut out of my childhood and remains imprinted in my memories for some unknown reason. Every person has one of these “clips” in which they have a vivid memory of one place or time

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    13 September 2009 A Spirit in the Mix: An Analysis of “I Used to Live Here Once” For the story‚ “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys‚ we could argue that the story is about a woman who moved away from her homeland to go to a new place and now returns home for a reason not stated. The two children who are playing outside the woman’s old house in the sunshine ignore her. It may be possible that the two children ignore the woman because

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    I Had a Job I liked. Once. Guy Vanderhaegh takes us back a few decades in the retelling of a court case in small town‚ Saskatchewan in the play‚ “I Had a Job I liked. Once.” Using elements of style‚ staging and developing characters throughout the play Vanderhaegh portrays to the audience the theme of the biases and prejudices that come with living in a small town. The story is set in small town Saskatchewan in a police station office‚ on the night of August of 1957. Corporal Heasman has brought

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    Snow White Compare & Contrast Little Snow White and episode one of Once Upon a Time are not exactly homogenous‚ although they are identical in many ways. This is due to the fact that the episode is based on the original story. When the episode starts‚ it is not related to the story. The parallels between the story and the show grow to be definite in the end. Snow White’s birth mother is deceased. The King‚ Snow White’s father‚ remarries a beautiful woman. Her stepmother‚ the Queen‚ envies Snow

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    Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman By Linda Nochlin Linda Nochlin in “Lost and Found: Once More the Fallen Woman” points out how “fallen” in the male world means heroic inspiration for the most part but for women the term is applied to sexual activity out of wedlock‚ whether or not it is for her gain. It was often incorporated into writers and social critics’ work. This particular view was fascinating to nineteenth-century artists (in the middle years) especially in England. The theme

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    Jobs Once Called “Men’s Jobs” Now Held By Women In the previous decades there had gender discrimination between men and women. Men had given more power and opportunities rather than women. Women even did not have more political rights as like men. Men had dominated in every field like at work‚ at school‚ at sports‚ in the music and many others. Men were considering just an able person in the society and the people think that without men nothing is possible to do. Why women had not given opportunities

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