The importance of a poem does not always come in its meaning. William Carlos Williams illustrates this in his work‚ “The Great Figure.” Being an extremely short story about a man seeing a fire truck speed past him on a gloomy night‚ the actual story leaves readers searching for more. Acting almost as a piece of rebellion against more traditional poetry‚ Williams is able to take the focus away from the physical meaning of the poem and make readers focus on the careful structural choices he made.
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How to Get the Poor off Our Conscience John Kenneth Galbraith I would like to reflect on one of the oldest of human exercises‚ the process by which over the years‚ and indeed over the centuries‚ we have undertaken to get the poor off our conscience. Rich and poor have lived together‚ always uncomfortably and sometimes perilously‚ since the beginning of time. Plutarch was led to say: “An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of republics.” And the problems that
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The short story titled The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams‚ a doctor tries to treat a young girl who refuses the treatment he offers. Despite the fact that her parents and the doctor make and attempt to reason with the girl‚ she continues to defy them in their efforts to help her. The reason this short story has become a classic‚ is because it illustrates what makes a hero. The fact that the doctor is determined to help the young girl who makes every attempt to refuse help‚ may seem like
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the play Antigone by Sophocles‚ Antigone chooses to abide by the laws of the Gods rather than the precepts of the mortals. Although Antigone’s actions were rash and often disputable‚ she does the right thing by deciding to follow her individual conscience rather than obeying the laws of the state. Her decision to go against Creon’s decree in order to bury Polyneices leads to many unfortunate consequences. Although she is faced with death‚ imprisonment‚ and suicide‚ Antigone is not regretful. Her
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Carlo Scarpa – Brion-Vega cemetery (completion‚ 1978) INTRODUCTION In San Vito d’Altivole near Treviso in Italy‚ Scarpa was commissioned by the Brion family to design an extension to the families’ cemetery. This designed to be Guiseppe and Onorina Brion’s final resting place‚ the people who lived in the town were originally going to share the cemetery‚ but this never happened. The aim was to create architecture‚ a design that would evoke the hearts of the viewer in a poetical manner (Saito
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America Is in the Heart is the semi-autobiography of Allo‚ or Carlos‚ Bulosan‚ a Filipino who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s at the age of 17. Bulosan left his life in the Philippines as a peasant and followed two of his older brothers‚ Macario and Amado‚ to America hoping to live the American dream and prosper. Upon arriving in Seattle‚ he was greeted with hostility and racism from Americans‚ making his goal of finding work nearly impossible. The United States economy had been
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Race In Zora Neale Hurston ’s‚ "The Conscience of the Court"‚ it is clearly shown that Laura Lee Kimble has at least some awareness of the impact of class and gender in her life. But she does not recognize race and racism as factors that shape her environment and determine her individual identity. For Laura Lee Kimble it is people of color who live racially structured lives. Race is described as body type‚ ancestry‚ cultural differences‚ biological subspecies‚ actual social stratification and the
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use ther conscience and know that the better decision is to buy the more normal and less extravagant car in order to make sure their financial disability is stable even though they want that other crazy expensive car. Many people in this world base their decisionson money‚ fame‚ and power over conscience. This causes people to make bad decisions which lead to bad situations. But there are many examples that show that there are people that live and had lived in the world that use conscience as their
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policeman‚ Doctors also step out of there comfort zone in order to save their patients. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos William ‚ examines when it is justifiable for doctors to use force against his patients in order to protect them from his/her own ‘Idiocy”‚ but in today’s society the use of force has changed dramatically. In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams the narrator describes the little girls rage for the doctor. “the child was fairly eating me up with her cold
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William Carlos Williams is known for writing ‘A Red Wheelbarrow’ in 1923‚ an iconic poem during the modernist movement. He is also known for writing small‚ yet simple and powerful pieces of literature such as the poem ‘This Is Just To Say’ written in 1934. Although the poem is short and to the point‚ there is a lot going on in this poem more than meets the readers eye. Most of the poem is very literal and some of it is left for the readers imagination and creativity to see what williams see’s as
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