The Path I Chose to Take “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there” -Charles F. Kettering- This time of the year high school seniors are making the biggest decision for their future‚ what path they will be taking for the next year. Some choose college‚ others the military‚ few people chose to take a leap year to take a break from school or travel and see the world. My choice is college. Although I have considered the military I believe that college will
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The Road Not Taken. The expressed content of the poem is simply that of the speaker‚ Frost himself‚ out on a walk one day in a wooded area. As he is out walking‚ he arrives at a place in the road that forks‚ where he has to decide which way he is going to go. However‚ the implied context in this piece of work is much more complex. The entire piece is one whole metaphor for life. In this paper‚ I am going to attempt to explain the role and use of the metaphor in Frost’s‚ The Road Not Taken‚ and
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“Literature is the plane‚ and train‚ and the road. It is the destination and the journey.” Discuss this statement‚ focusing on how composers of texts represent the concept of the inner or physical or imaginative journey. Prescribed text: ‘Two Weeks with the Queen’ A plane‚ a train and the road: a poem‚ a play and a short story. The above quotation is telling us that literature is the vehicle which takes us on the journey in a similar way to a plane‚ train or road‚ but it can also be the end point of
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In the 1940s a common theme in most stories written was racism. There is no exception here with the short stories "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison and "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. These stories were written in the times when racism was a huge problem. Both these authors take the issue head on and really rub our faces in the truth. Along with the theme of racism‚ the stories tell us that a person who feels love towards someone or something will have a purpose in life and will strive to overcome
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Jaxon Petersen Sociology DJ Hall 10 April 2014 The House I Live In The war on drugs whether wrong‚ right‚ or indifferent‚ has yielded a plethora of life changing outcomes for many United States citizens. Both the plaintiff and the defendant have their own side of the dispute‚ and yet somehow the plaintiff in the non-stop ‘cash grab’ that’s so conveniently nicknamed the “War on Drugs” gets the benefit of zero-tolerance‚ or minimum sentencing. In most cases the defendants simply are doomed from
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commonly used in many pieces of literature to convey a deeper meaning. Although there can be multiple themes‚ they all serve the same purpose and allow the reader to determine an overall meaning for themselves. Three common themes developed in “I Stand Here Ironing‚” by Tillie Olsen‚ are the lifelong search for one’s identity‚ womanhood and femininity and how it can affect a person‚ and the inevitable hardships of motherhood. The theme of identity can serve as a way to tell a reader about the certain
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第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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The short story “The Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty is about an old Black woman’s trip into to the local town. The woman’s name is Phoenix and she is going to town to get medicine for her sick grandson. However‚ as she travels along the path Phoenix encounters several obstacles that show that along with her old age and deteriorating body her mind is slipping away from her as well. Phoenix is an elderly black woman who is charged with the task of taking the long trip through the woods and in
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Readers are likely to interpret his poems in many different ways depending upon their emotional state. Among the three poems assigned for the reading‚ I was much impressed with “The Road Not Taken” because of its simplicity and meaningfulness. Frost himself commented that it was “a tricky poem‚ very tricky.” In the fourth stanza of the poem‚ Frost writes: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and
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industry. Few scholars have analyzed Robert Frost’s poetry from a Burkean perspective; the last to do so was Richard Poirier who‚ in 1982‚ examined the Emersonian influence in Burke’s theory of words and their relation to reality. My paper instead‚ uses a combined approach of ecocriticism and Burke’s theory of man in his essay “Definition of Man.” Kenneth Burke (1897 – 1993) was a literary and social critic of the twentieth century. During the Depression‚ Burke experienced first-hand the devastating
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