DREAMS "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images‚ thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can be extraordinarily vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or frightening imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and confusing. Why do we dream? What purpose do dreams serve? While many theories have been proposed‚ no single consensus has emerged. Considering the enormous amount
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Blood Imagery in Julius Caesar "Thematic patterns of fire and blood‚ with their vivid imagery‚ are among the most immediately noticeable in the play." (McMurty‚ 67) In Julius Caesar‚ the image of blood introduces the idea of violence into the readers mind. The fluidly creates a sinister mood‚ contributes to characterization‚ foreshadows‚ and reinforces the theme of politics. This sinister mood is almost always means of foreshadowing. Blood appears in two forms in the play. Blood in the body‚ and
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who come quickly to my mind whenever I hear or see images of American patriotism are John Steinbeck and Hunter S. Thompson. As different as these two men are‚ their writing is similar in that the American Dream constantly fails their characters. Both seek to define America and the American Dream‚ however‚ it remains seemingly elusive‚ and both writers fail to find it. I choose Steinbeck and Thompson because‚ to me‚ their writing styles are the same. They have the same lust for language and powerful
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and many deaths in general. Seeing that many dead people is not easy. Guns are made as toys but they are no joke‚ they actually kill people. The seriousness of guns is portrayed in war books quite well. The title of Red Badge of Courage is a use of imagery to represent a gunshot from the war. The “Red-Badge-of-Courage” is everywhere in the book symbolizing many deaths. Henry is quite shook when he first sees someone who was shot and is dead. “Near the threshold he stopped‚ horror-stricken at the sight
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DEFINITION Guided imagery therapy is a cognitive-behavioral technique in which a child is guided in imagining a relaxing scene or series of experiences. RATIONALE Guided Imagery is similar to hypnosis and various relaxation strategies. Guided Imagery lies somewhere in the middle of a continuum consisting of standard relaxation techniques on one end of the spectrum and hypnosis on the other. As used by the author‚ guided imagery involves the child engaged in some sort of focused relaxation
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Capulet. This story of the young "star-crossed" lovers is an extraordinary work in which Shakespeare uses a variety of verbal imagery including; contrasts between sex and love with hate‚ conflict‚ and death‚ comparisons between romantic and unromantic views of love‚ the correlative use of light and dark polarity‚ and the correlation of fate and fortune. Using this type of imagery‚ T. J. Spencer suggests‚ "at the greatest moment of the play Shakespeare subjects even the ambiguities of words to the sublimity
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Willa Cather‚ an American author‚ achieved much recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation
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Lady of Shalott‚" including simile‚ imagery‚ metaphor‚ and symbolism. In part three of the poem‚ Tennyson describes the details of Lancelot’s armor and horse: "The gemmy bridle glitter’d free‚ Like to some branch of stars we see Hung in the golden Galaxy." (82-84) Tennyson uses a simile to compare the glitter of the horse’s bridle to the stars at night. This simile also incorporates imagery‚ creating visual image in the readers’ mind. The celestial imagery continues later in part three in
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young men into killing machines. It is all the more frightening because‚ emptied of any concerns for justice‚ or ethics‚ or solidarity‚ they opened fire anywhere‚ everywhere. After all‚ who could know where or who the enemy was? Herr’s use of brutal imagery absorbed me into his savage surroundings. From the soldier who can’t stop drooling as a
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Throughout Othello‚ imagery of war is used to build character. While talking to Othello’s father-in-law Brabantio‚ Iago has this to say about the General‚ “Though I do hate him as I do hell’s pains / Yet for necessity of present life‚ / I must show out a flag and sign of love‚ / Which is indeed but sign.” (I.i.152-155). He’ll “show out a flag”—like waving a peace sign—as a sign of his loyalty‚ despite actually intending to harm Othello. This illustrates early on in the play Iago’s two-faced personality
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