On ‘Acquainted with the Night’ ‘Acquainted with the Night’ by Robert Frost is the kind of poem I would read if I were up late at night‚ feeling disconnected from my friends and family. It has a sort of comforting eeriness‚ the kind that could lull you to sleep‚ yet keep you up thinking for hours. It makes me feel detached and lonesome‚ but still at rest. Robert Frost’s imagery like “I have outwalked the furthest city light” and “one luminary clock against the sky” gives the reader a calm but
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Students are unhappy Who think that being a student is happy nowadays? A recent survey showed that Hong Kong students are not happy with their lives. Some even have a very negative attitude towards life. The primary cause of their unhappiness is their failure to get good results‚ to achieve their ambitions and maintain the good relationship with their parents and friends. We should have a better insight on how these affect students. When students are unable to get good results‚ they feel
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1. Is Patrick lonely? In my opinion‚ I feel as though the boy is lonely‚ living in such a remote and desolate place‚ with only his father to spend his time with. For example Ondaatje says‚ “He was born into a region which did not appear on a map until 1910‚ though his family had worked there for twenty hears and the land had been homesteaded since 1816. In the school atlas the place is pale green and nameless. The river slips out of an unnamed lake…” (10-11). Patrick’s characteristics makes him
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In the novel‚ Marquez has used his language skills to paint love as not always being a good thing. An example of this use can be found on the very first page‚ when Dr. Urbino compares the scent of cyanide to the fate of requited love. Now for some this may not mean anything‚ but later on the author writes that Doctor Urbino’s friend Jeremiah de Saint-Amour‚ who has died due to self-inflicted cyanide poisoning. Marquez is describing how love can be a poison and of how deadly it is. Something that’s
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Throughout the article Depression: Causes‚ Symptoms‚ and Treatments” by Markus MacGill‚ the thesis in which stated that depression is the most common illness worldwide and the leading cause of disability was demonstrated using several credible facts and statistics. These of which include‚ 7.6 percent of people over the age of 12 encounter depression in any two week period‚ is caused by a combination of genetics‚ biological‚ environmental‚ psychological and sociological factors‚ and is said that 350
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Although depression can affect anyone‚ it has been reported that women are almost twice as likely as men to suffer from depression (Nolen 2001). Interestingly‚ this gender difference in depression only holds true for girls in late adolescence and beyond. Girls and boys have similar depression rates during childhood‚ but the depression rate for girls increases dramatically around age thirteen (Nolen 2001). There are many factors that contribute to the gender differences in depression. One important
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Does teenagers’ depression has changed over time? Everyone has the depression in daily life. Depression is a state of feeling sad. People has the depression when they feel very sad‚ hopeless‚ and unimportant and often is unable to live in a normal way. In the book‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ the author describes how holden feel depression which put him in mental school. Holden is the main character in the book. He is a young teenager that grows in California. He has a mental problem since his brother dead
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Depression‚ the feeling of severe despondency and dejection. Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist in The Catcher In the Rye‚ is a 16 year old who suffered the loss of his younger brother to cancer. The death of his brother had a profound‚ and overwhelming‚ effect on Holden’s mental and emotional state throughout the entire book. It can be said that Holden may very well be suffering from depression. As the story unfolds‚ the reader begins to understand the root of Holden’s struggles. Although some
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Have you ever felt so defeated that you truly believe that it would be easier to give up and end it all? That is how I felt when I had major anxiety attacks everyday‚ severe depression‚ and self body image issues. It all started when I was in middle school‚ I was an average student in middle school with decent grades. I was a very outgoing and bubbly person. I just joined a dance team in my neighborhood and was excited to be something I loved. The most important part was that I was happy. Then my
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Sometimes Depression is Cruel From our first breath of life‚ we are continually thrust into situations and drugged from our stark reality. We are forced to make our way through an impossible puzzle on this war-torn land‚ the shadows of the past clinging with dread as we tear down our monuments. Drudging through the sludge known as our society‚ we are told what to do‚ how to look‚ what to wear‚ and even what to say. Sometimes the sun shines for hours on end‚ bright and impossible. Sometimes there
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