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    Sun, Solstice and Seasons

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    aligned to? Describe what happens at Newgrange on this day? -Newgrange’s roof box is aligned to the winter solstice sunrise. -A beam of sunlight hits the roof-box and illuminates the floor‚ which will eventually illuminate the main chamber. As sun rises‚ a light of beam through roof-box Describe what happens to the Sundagger on the solstices and equinoxes. At the winter and summer solstice‚ and rise also at the equinoxes‚ sunlight shines between three giant rocks at the summit of Fajada Butte‚

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    that stay afloat in their heads. Sharon Olds’ happened to be one of these poets‚ who expressed her upsetting past relationship with her father and current relationships with her children through these works of art. In Olds’ first poems‚ she

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    SOCIO-CULTURAL SYMBOLISMS AS POTRAYED IN NICK JOAQUIN’S SUMMER SOLSTICE An Undergraduate Thesis Proposal Presented to the Faculty of the College of Teacher Education University of Cebu- Banilad Cebu‚ City Philippines In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For Language Research Submitted by: Catipay‚ Rachel Mae O. Degollacion‚ Cybil D. Tulingin‚ Michelle S. Duhilag‚ Maricel L. Suson‚ Lynfel G. October 2013 Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ¡ Chapter 1

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    Sylvia Plath vs. Sharon Olds Katherine Waldman A traditional American household has changed throughout the years to the point where ‘traditional’ isn’t even politically correct to depict anything about a family anymore. But if we look back to the standard traditional household and there was always a father‚ a mother‚ and a 2.5 children. The father has always been designated as the head of the household and something that Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds have in common is just that‚ that they

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    your teacher by the due date for full credit. (2 points) Score | The region north of 66½° N latitude is the Arctic Circle. Use the simulator to describe the length of the day during winter‚ spring‚ summer‚ and fall. Answer: Winter | | Spring | | Summer | | Fall | | (6 points) Score | Use the simulator to complete the table. Use the angle measurements on the left side of the dome to get the maximum angle of the sun. You don’t

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    What is now will soon become what once was. The key is to not allow yourself to develop an unhealthy attachment to what once was and to develop an anxious desire that anticipates what will be. Sharon Old’s poem‚ "My Son The Man‚" features a mother that has unhealthily attached herself to what once was‚ which she admits to having‚ but also longs to adjust her mindset and adapt to what will be. This past and future state of being refers directly to the mother’s son and his natural transition into adulthood

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    Winter Solstice Festival

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    Winter Solstice Festival The Winter Solstice Festival is celebrated by the Chinese on 22nd December. It is a day of merry making‚ feasting and thanksgiving. It is not only a day for setting out hopes for the coming year but also for ancestor worship. In ancient times‚ it is customary for the Emperor of China to fast on the eve of the Winter Solstice to prepare for the ceremonial rituals and ancestor worship which was carried out on the Altar of Heaven in Beijing. On the day itself‚ the Emperor

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    English 12 5 January 2013 Sharon Olds: From Psalms to Satan Says Movement: Sharon Olds is a confessional poet. The criteria of the confessional genre are subject matter that is deeply personal to the speaker or author. The work of Sharon Olds is almost exclusively her own personal experiences with her sisters and parents as well as her experiences with being a mother. The subject matter is also typically on taboo subjects such as sex which is also a common topic of Sharon Olds’ work. Another common

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    Focus Journal # 20‚ Sharon Olds‚ The promise‚ 591 May 2‚ 2012 I. Understanding: In this poem Sharon Olds wishes the reader to believe that when terminally ill a man should have say in whether he continues to suffer in pain while useless‚ or to keep living. II. Analyzing: In this poem Olds does a great job painting a visual picture in the readers mind. “We are also in our/bed‚ fitted naked closely/ along each other¸half passed out/ after love‚ drifting back and/ forth across the border of

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    Sharon Olds’ poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is written as if the speaker; which appears to be female is looking back in time to when he or she’s parents first met and married. The speaker throughout the poem does not seem pleased with the events that unfolded thereafter‚ but nonetheless understands that there is nothing that she could have done to stop it from happening. The poem gives a short glimpse into the life the couple had and the effect it had on the child/narrator. The poem is almost a flashback

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