Rising Legends from The South During times of common illiteracy‚ two adolescent Negro girls blossom with their profound ability to transcribe words like a rose growing out from concrete. Maya Angelou‚ the author of “Graduation”‚ and Alice Walker‚ author of “Beauty”‚ are two teenage girls growing up in the segregated south with similar struggles. The two essays by Angelou and Walker are about the harsh realities each encounters through racism‚ and how they each overcome hardships when the odds
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Exploring Literature ENG 125 Exploring Literature Literature provides the opportunity for authors to use words to describe a story‚ whether true or fiction. The reader is provided details to have an imaginary movie playing out in their mind while reading the story. The reader is connected with the characters‚ the environment‚ and the emotion experienced during the story. In this essay‚ I will be utilizing the formalist approach to review a story and further explore literature. The
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“Somewhere between Calabria and Corfu the blue really begins... A peninsula nipped off while red hot and allowed to cool into an antarctica of lava…” These are two of the opening lines from Lawrence Durrell’s book “Prospero’s Cell”‚ originally published in 1945. This is the book that made Corfu famous‚ as it is generally accepted. While these claims could be argued as overblown‚ indeed the “Girl of the Ionians” could not have found a fitter chronicler. Seductively balancing descriptive prose with
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Loss strikes every person’s life at some point‚ its evolution‚ the circle of life‚ natural selection. Eventually it’s bound to happen. This loss was different because she was here without fully being here. My ship was cracked and slowly sink it was surreal. I always knew it happened to people. But never in a million years did I expect it to happen to her. And I most definitely never expected the effect it would have on me. How it literally left my world spinning in different directions. You always
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about what keeps us going; what makes us treasure and preserve life even when we have lost almost everything we had once‚ when all hope seems to have vanished. For those of us who want to know what keeps us going and understand what that ultimate silver lining in our lives is – it is our search for meaning – about becoming aware of possibilities against the background of realities. It is the primary motivation in our lives and the drive to keep on living. Frankl said that while meaning of life always
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the speaker’s ‘blood creeps’ and his ‘heart is sick’‚ there is an image painted of love. Perhaps a love lost‚ or a lack of love‚ something that would cause the heart to be decrepit; a condition that fuels insecurity‚ and requires help seeing a silver lining. This first situation is purely internal‚ and requires external warmth to heal. The conflict in the second stanza comes from the outside forces of nature that are uncontrollable‚ and troublesome. A very vivid image of the personification of Time
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are women safe in india? ARE stringent laws enough to curb the sexual overdrive? India….. Unassailable in its cultural diversity and heritage has borne great scholars and laureates. Most of these have rendered profound and inspiring words. But … were they made just to be quoted in speeches and debates or to wakeup Indians; who perhaps are still half asleep??? Women who are held in high esteem in religion‚ literature and culture are actually the most unsafe in the nation! United Nations General
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The world does not progress-it merely changes Or The Golden Age Is Not Behind Us But Before Us There is no nation‚ race‚ creed or religion‚ where the idea of the Golden Age has not existed. The English people ascribe the characteristics of a golden age to the Age of Queen Elizabeth‚ the French to the Age of Loius XIV‚ Greeks to the Age of Pericles‚ Romans to the Age of Augustus‚ Israelites to the Age of King Solomon‚ Indians to the Age
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5.5 Worries‚ Anxieties‚ Fear and Regret When I look back on all these worries‚ I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life‚ most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill (1874-1965)‚ the British Prime Minister during World War II. Since the biblical times‚ man has been warned against worrying too much. We suffer from worrying well before worry starts or never starts. There is always ‘what-if’ in routine human life; there is
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Levy‚ Karyne. "Virgin America Wants To Turn Boring Plane Flights Into Awesome Networking Sessions." Business Insider. Business Insider‚ Inc.‚ 12 Feb. 2014. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. . This article in Business Insider directly pertains to Virgin America‚ an airline company‚ who is trying something new with their passengers. Virgin America acknowledges that every time you are on a plane it is at best a very leisurely experience but many times air travel involves frustrating limitations for the passenger
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