Danae Fuller [Company Name] Proud To Be Me! Staring in the mirror I can’t begin to tell you how‚ The things I saw when I was young don’t even faze me now. When yet girls‚ to all my friends‚ see we were all the same‚ Until I heard that girls like me were given different names. At first I didn’t like the thought of being called “black” I took offense to something dark I didn’t like that I was marked Along the way began a spark There goes the question mark. I love the
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Death Be Not Proud Death be not proud is a poem by John Donne where he focuses on presenting an argument against the power of death. Using personification by Speaking to/about death as if it was a person‚ John Donne addresses death by warning it from its pride and “mighty and dreadful” force (line 2). He starts his argument by telling death that those he kills do not die‚ and that doesn’t even apply to the poet himself. In Donne’s point of view in this poem‚ Death brings “Much Pleasure”
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THE GROWTH CENTER THE GROWTH CENTER ------------------------------------------------- B ayugan is a city in the province of Agusan del Sur‚ founded on August 20‚ 1961. It has a population of 99‚361 according to the NSO Census of 2010‚ and has 43 barangays. The city is classified as a third class city. Being the only city in the 1st Congressional District and the only city in the province of Agusan del Sur‚ Bayugan serves as “The Growth Center “of the province. Located at the northern
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Analysis of a Poem “Death‚ be not proud” The poem‚ “Death‚ be not proud‚” dramatizes how death‚ yet as harmful and scary as can be‚ may also be the most harmless thing in the world. The speaker starts off by stating‚ “Death‚ be not proud for though have called the Mighty and dreadful‚ for thou art not so” (1-2). One man‚ mocking death‚ whether it be a person or a religious figure‚ and stating that even though death may take anything and everything at any moment‚ it still brings him no harm; “Die
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PROUD TO BE INDONESIAN Indonesia. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘Indonesia’? Indonesia is the one and only country in the universe that has so many islands‚ languages‚ tribes‚ traditional dishes‚ culture or should I say cultures – because the Indonesian people them selves can not count the culture that they have in Indonesia – different dialects‚ the variety of skin tones and so many variety that we can not count. If we ask foreigners what the first thing that pops up when they heard
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that he thinks you should fight for your life and not give into death so easily. The rest of the poem is useless in my opinion‚ it makes some sense. However‚ I don’t think it’s a great poem. “Death Be Not Proud” personifies death by saying “Death be not proud” as if death is a person to be proud
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‘Death be not proud’ – Sonnet X (Holy Sonnets by John Donne) Donne’s dilemma – ‘caught between the active vocation of Catholicism and the predestination of Calvinism’. What can one do‚ if anything‚ to influence God’s final judgement? (Helen Wilcox). Context – religious‚ historical Biblical theme – (Corinthians 1.15.55) Paul – after a passage discussing Christ’s victory over death – ‘O death‚ where is thy sting? Oh grave‚ where is thy victory?’ Donne’s ‘Meditation xvii’ – Devotions upon Emergent
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PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN It’s a pleasant and a cold morning in India. The cold breeze makes the body cold. Saloni is a Punjabi girl whose ambition is to become a journalist. She likes to write poems and journals. She goes to Madras to do her higher studies. There she meets a guy‚ unexpectedly he is her relative named as Rajesh who is one of the most intelligent police officers in India. They both knew each other from their childhood. They had a crush on each other in their tender age itself but they
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30 Feet Under... One dark stormy night‚ it was just me in my back yard digging when I came upon a large‚ red‚ wooden door with a rusty door knob right in front of me. The first thing I thought to myself was‚ WOW! There’s a door under my house. They I thought why is there a door under my house? I stood there and thought if I should go in but I didn’t want anything to happen. So I climbed out and went in my house and I went on the computer to see if there was anything about the door and why would
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	How would you cope if you were going to die? In the memoir Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther‚ his son Named Johnny is faced with this situation. At an early age‚ Johnny was found with a brain tumor‚ and struggles to survive. Johnny later died from the brain tumor. Johnny was loved by many people; much of whom tried his/her best to help Johnny through this ordeal. Although Johnny was faced with death‚ Johnny faced death with courage throughout the book. Even though Johnny was faced with
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