Saturdays he has flexible hours. After work on Saturdays Joe likes to go home and throw silver dollars at his porch to surprise Missie May. She runs outside and play wrestles with Joe‚ Missie calls it a “romping”. At dinner Joe tells Missie Mae he wants to take her to get ice cream. He asks her if she had seen its new wealthy owner‚ Otis D. Slemmons. Missie admits to seeing him while she cleaned the porch that day. Trying to
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At the heart of‚ Cousin Kate and Havisham the theme is loss. The speaker clearly feels a sense of loss throughout this poem because she loses her maiden hood and the community’s respect. Victorians were bought up by a strict moral code and they believe that happy marriage was the centre of a stable society. Christina Rossetti focuses on a love affair between a high society wealthy lord and a ’low born’ country women. Furthermore‚ the main focus of the poem is transgressive relationship and sexual
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Women in Victorian England were seen and treated very differently to how they are treated now. Common Victorian ideas about the “ideal woman” were that she should be innocent‚ passive‚ and always obedient to men. Women had no significant place in political society‚ and had no right to vote‚ work‚ or even own their own money. They were more or less an object owned by either their father or their husband. “The Lady of Shalott”‚ “Cousin Kate” and “Mariana” are all poems on the subject of the role of
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Almost everything a man does is based on his belief and what he chooses to believe in. Religion‚ of course‚ is the primary foundation of all this belief. Little may we notice it and we may not seem to want to accept it‚ but religion dictates to us the way we live our lives. It tells us what good and bad is—also‚ which are good and which are bad. It reasons in our hearts though we never question it and that’s probably why we tend to be faithful to it. But disproportionate faithfulness to our beliefs
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Mother’s Heart By Jose La Villa Tierra The night was dark‚ for the moon was young And the stars were asleep and rare; The clouds were thick‚ yet Youth went out To see his Maiden fair. "Dear One‚" he pleaded as he knelt Before her feet‚ in tears‚ "My love is true; why have you kept Me waiting all these years?" The maiden looked at him unmoved‚ It seemed‚ and whispered low: "Persistent Youth‚ you have to prove By deeds your love is true." "There’s not a thing I would not do For you
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The Titanic was the fanciest ship built in the 1900’s that sank in the Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage. The Titanic was the largest vessel afloat at the time measuring 882 ft. in length. The Titanic was built in Belfast‚ Ireland by Harland and Wolff shipyard. The Titanic was owned by the White Star Line a company that focused on the Trans-Atlantic passenger route. The titanic continues to capture people’s interest after her sinking on April 15‚ 1912. The Titanic was a gigantic ship of steel
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Compare how the two poems ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘The Seduction’ explore the similar theme of how young women are exploited by men‚ paying close attention to the poet’s use of language and imagery The two poems that are being compared are cousin Kate and the seduction. Cousin Kate was written in the 1900 and the seduction was written in 1980. Both of the poems were written by different authors. In both of the poems‚ both women get seduced by men and they just get rejected by both men too. They must
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Hitler Youth). Girls also had special branches of the Hitler Youth Program that were targeted at their different steps in becoming a good citizen. Instead of being separated into three groups‚ the girls were only separated into two groups. Young Maidens was the name of the branch for German girls ten to fourteen years old. In this session‚ they were taught good health practices as well as how to be good mothers and housewives. Just as the boys‚ they also learned about racial purity and anti-semitism
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man who was beginning to awaken.” By saying this‚ a juxtaposition is established‚ giving note to how infinitesimal Babbitt is. Babbitt just aspires to be more of a “typical” middle-class man. For example‚ it is pointed out that he is sleeping on the porch of a Dutch Colonial house. In his society‚ to most middle-class people‚ this was an amenity. The beginning of this passage is most likely to set the scene to portray the “tired‚ overworked business-man”‚ which when you get to know Babbitt‚ he is truly
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Conner makes a lot of very impulsive questionable decisions. One of them being on page 62‚ “Going against all sense of self-preservation‚ Conor bolts straight for the porch.” In this quote Connor is running for the porch to get a baby. Connor make this decision without thinking. Conner making a decision without thinking shows he is impulsive. One other example of Conner being impulsive is on page 34‚ “The boy with murder in his eyes pulls on
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