your course reading packet you will find a number of poems. Choose one and write a thesis sentence for a short essay on this piece. Briefly explain how you would develop your argument for this interpretation. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is a poem with an obvious literal meaning. A man comes to a fork in the road and has to make a decision on which way to go to continue his journey. After a lot of thought‚ the traveler chooses the road “less traveled by.” I interpreted this to mean that
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A Cultural Review of Germany in the 1940’s according to The Diary of Anne Frank It has been said‚ to understand the present a person must know and understand the past. Focusing on that quote specifically to understanding the past is what The Diary of Anne Frank allows the reader to do. There are many different cultures around the world and many cultures within cultures. Looking specifically at Germany in the time period of the 1940’s‚ the reader can see that there in fact is a culture within in
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Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” In the first stanza‚ Frost is telling of how he sees two roads‚ but he cannot possibly take both. The first road he looks at can only be seen as far as a near curve with undergrowth. The second road he sees has a grassy path and “want[s] wear.” In the third stanza Frost debates which path to take and decides to leave the first road for another day‚ if he decides to ever come back. The fourth and final stanza of the poem tells how Frost is telling the tale with
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“The Road not taken” by Roberts Frost. Frost wrote the poem in first person. In the first part of the poem‚ he describes that there are two choices to make in the forest where the leaves have changed to yellow there he must choose between two paths that head in different directions. He regrets that he cannot follow both roads‚ but since that is not possible‚ he pauses for a while to consider his choice. One road seems preferable. Then he realizes that both roads are likely equally traveled and that
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Brody Contreras 4/16/13 The Road Homework Annotation Guide: 1. I agree. If modern civilization were to end‚ I think that man kind would slowly die away after it’s fall because modern man is not capable of surviving the harsh Environment of the world. We will especially fall due to the lack of resources and will kill each other off for food. 2. I disagree strongly. Many people are evil people because they enjoy bringing pain to others and are selfish‚ thus worrying about only their
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The 1930s and 1940s are considered as radio’s “golden age”. During these decades radio was popular before the invention of another mass entertainment medium‚ television‚ in the 1950s. The invention of television was based on a complex of inventions and developments in electricity‚ telegraphy‚ photography and motion pictures‚ and radio. In fact‚ early television was often little more than radio with pictures. Television has been the greatest and most influential invention of the twentieth century
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“The Road Not Taken” “ The Road Not Taken’‚ by Robert Frost is about a man who chooses one path but is curious and questions the other. The man feels a sense of regret later on in the poem because he would most likely never take the other path ever again. Two primary themes that are developed in this poem are no matter what you are doing in life you’ll be fine and to just go with it because you can’t go back in time. “I shall be telling this with a sigh” (Frost‚16). This states how the man was
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of being alive”. "The Road Not Taken" centers on the concept of choice. The path that the speaker is walking on is splitting in two directions‚ and he has to decide which way to go. This path is not just in the woods‚ but also represents a decision in his life. Something in his life is changing‚ forcing him to make a choice. Yet he has a really hard time deciding and is full of doubts since he does not want to miss the opportunity and wants to choose the right road. Whether or not he has a reason
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“The Road Not Taken” Analysis I think that in “The Road Not Taken”‚ Robert Frost uses the fork in the road to represent humanity’s choices. We will always have to choose in our life and we will always eventually meet a fork in the road. In this circumstance the author is stuck with two choices. “Then took the other‚ as just as fair‚ / And perhaps having the better claim” (Frost 6-7). This path represents the “easy way out” because it was given the “better claim.” Then in stanza 4 he says‚ “I shall
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THE ROAD TO HELL John Baker‚ chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania in the West Indies‚ was making his final preparations to leave the island. His promotion to production manager of Keso Mining Corporation near Winnipeg – one of Continental Ore’s fast-expanding Canadian enterprises – had been announced a month before‚ and now everything had been tidied up except the last vital interview with his successor‚ the able young Barracanian‚ Matthew Rennalls. It was crucial that this
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