Books are our never failing friends. Our worldly friends desert us but they never desert us. They are our best friends‚ philosophers and guides. Friends are plenty when the purse is full but fair-weather friends fall off in adversity. Books‚ like a true friend stand by us through thick and thin. They uphold and encourage us when we feel sad and despondent. They lift the poor out of poverty and the wretched out of misery. They make the burden bearer forget his burden‚ the sick his sufferings and
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Cronon mentions John Muir who captures the “romantic sense of domesticates sublime” who says the Sierra Nevada mountains “Are compactly filled with God’s beauty‚ no petty personal or experience has room to be (Cronon‚ 6). Muir’s description of nature supports detaching oneself from the wilderness and purposefully avoiding an intimate
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Seasons The seasons of the year differ in different parts of the world. In countries in the temperate zone‚ like England‚ the year is divided into four seasons Winter in December‚ January and February‚ Spring in March‚ April and May‚ Summer in June‚ July and August and Autumn in September‚ October and November. The winter is the cold season. The land is often covered with snow; lakes and ponds and streams are frozen; the sky is dull and cloudy‚ and there are frequent storms of wind and rain.
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briefly as “the fairness in the way that people are treated” (Collins Cobuild‚ p. 910). Plato and Aristotle‚ two leading figures of ancient Greek civilization‚ were earliest philosophers who thought about justice and developed theories about the sublime aspects of being just. This assignment is an attempt to prove that pursuing a life of justice would make living more worthwhile than being unjust or a combination of just and unjust life. In order to reach this point‚ I am going to explain the concept
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Honors American Literature p.4 Draft: (min. 500 words) Analyze the theme of A Psalm of Life (pg 345)‚ exploring how the historical context (political‚ social‚ philosophical‚ religious‚ ethical) influences this theme. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was rumored to have written “A Psalm of Life” after a long conversation with a Harvard professor‚ Cornelius Conway Felton. They discussed matters of the heart and things said only in a vulnerable and safe setting. This can be seen in Longfellow’s
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The Happy Prince The title “The Happy Prince” implied the main topic depicted by the author Oscar Wild-- emotions. It clarified the idea that there was a statue placed downtown as a monument of a prince who lived in the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam near Berlin and died early in his life‚ the prince lived in luxury which had been filled with empty pleasure throughout his whole life. Ironically‚ the happy prince whose feet were concreted on the ground saw poverty‚ sufferer and helplessness in ordinary
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glance‚ the reader might be confused as to why Curley has a position of authority on the ranch‚ particularly when near perfect men such as ’prince of the ranch’ Slim are employed in menial roles. However‚ Steinbeck juxtaposes the cruel Curley with the sublime Slim to highlight the theme of fate. Fate is the belief that the events which take place in our lives are pre-conceived and unavoidable. Steinbeck was so enamoured by the notion that he changed the title of the novella from its original ’Something
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As addressed by David Nye in American Technological Sublime‚ the Golden Gate Bridge represents a goal for America and an America’s “idea about itself.” The bridge itself is a spectacle‚ which reflects American people’s dream of technological advances. The fiftieth-anniversary celebration of the bridge was
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Throughout the Romanticism era‚ authors often looked to nature as an ideal for humanity. Famous Romantic author Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein centers on Victor Frankenstein bringing a creature into the natural realm of the living. Another famous author‚ William Wordsworth‚ wrote the poem “The World is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon‚” to reveal a personal perspective on the evolving relationship between mankind and nature. Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Wordsworth’s poem "The World"
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The scene that make me hold my breath is the riding in the slum‚ The scene is noisy yet there is the aesthetic experience‚ the atmosphere of the scene is hot‚ sweaty and crowded‚ Compare to the sublime nature in The Assassin‚ Still Life’s aesthetic is more like looking into the daily of these people. The ship full of people and how the setting are old-looking‚ this still life of these Chinese formed another kind of beauty‚ the beauty construst with
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