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    A Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson was born in 1932‚ in China. She was the daughter of missionaries. She and her family left China during World War II when Manchuria was invaded. They moved to various towns on the East coast of North America‚ finally settling in Winchester‚ Virginia. Paterson studied Bible and Christian education at King College in Bristol‚ TN. After she finished grad school she moved to Japan. While in Japan she met John Paterson‚ a Presbyterian minister‚ whom she eventually

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    William Cowper’s poem “Slavery” has lots of descriptive thoughts and opinions concerning “human nature’s broadest‚ foulest blot” (Cowper). By using diction Cowper is able to expose the obscenities and barbarity of slavery. The use of diction and tone throughout the poem helps Cowper persuade the reader that slavery is wrong and inhumane. Slavery dehumanizes not only the slaves‚ but the slave owner’s too‚ in turn it “dooms and devotes [the slave] as the [owners prey]” (Cowper). The poem “Slavery”

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    Coleridge and Wordsworth

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    and serenity of nature often make people feel at home and relaxed. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth found this same serenity in nature. Watching the beautiful flowers blow in the wind gave Wordsworth a sense of peacefulness‚ one that could not be compared to any manmade object. He describes a sense of ultimate joyfulness‚ where one could not but be happy while watching the majestic flowers dance. Wordsworth has opened his mind to the beauty of nature‚ allowing it to be saved in his mind. Coleridge

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    The Trial of the First desegregated school | By Marcos Moran | Even though forgotten‚ the stepping stone of Brown Vs. the Board of Education‚ Mendez Vs. Westminster was the first step to desegregate the United States of America. | | 5/1/13 5/1/13 Marcos Moran Professor Sullivan History 301 5/1/13 We all know of the famous trial that happen on May 17‚ 1954‚ a trial that ended all segregation in school districts all over the United States of America. With this law being enforce by the 14th

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    journeys in nature‚ whereas Wordsworth describes his emotions by comparing them to nature. The two authors have expressed their relationships with nature by vividly describing their emotions and their environment giving the reader the ability to envision the text. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a very descriptive poem about nature and how it connects to his feelings‚ which allows the readers to imagine what he is feeling through nature. In “I Wandered Lonely as a cloud Wordsworth states directly how

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    world. This poem really speaks to me. I am very stubborn‚ and I am not easily discouraged or put down by anything in life. The poem Invictus is a poem with a very strong message to those going through tough times or difficult tasks. The word Invictus means unconquerable in Latin‚ and as the title really sums up the meaning of the poem. The poem to me seems to be saying that I will be the unmovable object struggling against an unstoppable force. In the first stanza of Invictus‚ William Henley speaks

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    William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge spearheaded a philosophical writing movement in England in the late 18th and early 19th century. Although Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge are often considered the fathers of the English Romantic movement‚ their collective theologies and philosophies were often criticized but rarely taken serious by the pair of writers due to their illustrious prestige as poets. The combined effort in the Lyrical Ballads catapulted their names into the mainstream of writers

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    romanticism the first generation are William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ P. Coleridge‚ Robert Burns. And the second generation is Shelley‚ Keats‚ and Byron. Wordsworth is the most famous of the romantic poets and his most productive years took only ten years although he had lived 80 years. He was a great supporter of French Revolution. The main differences between Coleringe and Wordsworth is that Coleridge believes in education and was fond of reading whereas Wordsworth believes in the education of nature

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    period that wrote in the Imagist style were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. Williams became known for his imagist works such as “The Red Wheelbarrow” and “This is Just to Say‚” both of which are forms of imagism but in far different ways. A work that stood out from the imagist works was “In a Station of the Metro‚” by Ezra pound which is a very simplistic but deep

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    Essay: “In Westminster Abbey” “In Westminster Abbey” by John Betjeman is a poem that tells the story of a woman in a famous church in London and her prayer to the Lord. Each stanza in the poem contains something that the speaker wants from the Lord. And as one reads through the poem‚ a more keen understanding of the woman praying is formed‚ and it is likely drastically different from the original perception gained in the first two stanzas. In “In Westminster Abbey‚” John Betjeman uses the speaker’s

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