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    favor of the abortion.The boy in” Araby” experiences sadness because‚ he adores his love from a distance‚ which also brings him sadness because he cannot open up and express his feelings to the girl as it would seem awkward. His constant thoughts about the girl as a result‚ interfere with his school work‚ and are present in every aspect of his life. Sadly the girl doesn’t really notice him. In “hills like white Elephants” the girl meets sadness as it becomes clear to her that she is not important

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    about my husband; he left me like my son leaving for war. My husband when he never came back. I can still hear the bells. The bells hearing my sensitive ears; the reminder a loved one has gone. That day a telegram delivered to my door was filled with sadness. I never want that day repeated. “Don’t go! You’re the only one I have. You’re everything for me; you’re the only support I can ever have. You can’t leave me and go to war when I need you!” The mother sobbed and her face turned pale. The son moaned

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    Wilfred Owen’s poetry usually describes the grotesque reality of the frontline of WWI; however‚ this poem concentrates on the meaning of existence‚ and the futility (pointlessness) of war and inevitability of death. The narrator of this poem is having an existential crisis; what is the point of being born if you are just going to die a few years later? It is common for people to question death and what comes after death‚ especially if that person is surrounded by death or on the verge of death themselves

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    The Matilija Poppy also known as‚ the Romneya couteri‚ is an erect flower growing up to eight feet tall that is heavy branched and woody at the base. The white flowers are the largest of any plant native to California‚ and resemble fried eggs. There are five to eight crinkled petals per stem with many yellow stamens and a single large pistil. The unique flower was discovered in California in 1831 by an Irish surgeon-botanist‚ Thomas Coulter and the first seeds reached England in 1875 and by late

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    Museum report on Poppy by Georgia O’Keeffe Written by Lauren Harmon 1. I visited the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg‚ Florida. My visit took place on Sunday‚ November 16th‚ at around noon. 2. I’m going to highlight Poppy. 3. Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe 4. Painted in 1927 5. It seems as though her intended audience for this painting (and the others in the series) was the general masses‚ people who live busy lives. She wanted people to stop and really see the flowers and notice their beauty

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    The Opium Poppy control act of 1942 Tony Curtis Opium is an addictive drug made from poppy plants. It is used both for a narcotic and medicinal uses as an analgesic to reduce pain without loss of consciousness. Opium contains morphine‚ codeine‚ noscapine‚ papaverine and thebaine. The psychological effects of opium have been known since circa 4‚000 B.C. by the ancient Sumerians who used symbols such as ‘joy’ for poppy. In the 17th century opium use in China grew based on the introduction of

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    Sylvia Plath Poem Comparison Essay Saying Sylvia Plath was a troubled woman would be an understatement. She was a dark poet‚ who attempted suicide many times‚ was hospitalized in a mental institution‚ was divorced with two children‚ and wrote confessional poems about fetuses‚ reflection‚ duality‚ and a female perspective on life. Putting her head in an oven and suffocating was probably the happiest moment in her life‚ considering she had wanted to die since her early twenties. However‚ one thing

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    The definition of sadness is “feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy”. Everyone experiences sadness‚ In chapters one and two of Gathering Blue Kira personally experienced multiple moments of sadness. In the fiction novel‚ Gathering Blue‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author creates certain moods in chapters one and two. One mood created was sadness. In chapters one and two the mood of sadness is shown when Kira is thinking about how her mother had died from a disease. After four sunsets and sunrises‚ it was

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    I chose to do the comparison between ‘The Tyger’ and ‘The Lamb’ because they both have similar themes but are concerned with very different aspects of life. ‘The Tyger’ concentrates on the dangers to be faced in life and nature while ‘The Lamb’ celebrates nature as seen through the innocent eyes of a child. Blake examines different‚ almost opposite or contradictory ideas about the natural world‚ its creatures and their Creator. William Blake is the narrator of both poems which emphasizes his

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    Washington Crossing the Delaware Both the poem by David Shulman and the painting by Emanuel Leutze cover the same topic of Washington crossing the Delaware River; they are both different works‚ yet they have more similarities. The poem and the painting both include the weather and the surrounding terrain such as the rough water from the painting and the “stinging cold” from the poem. However‚ the poem offers more background to the actual event than the painting. An example is the mention of Washington

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