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    painting called‚ The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli‚ is a very dark and somewhat horrifying artwork of an occupied room. The only object of "light" in the room is the woman who is draped over a piece of furniture dressed in white. Behind her is a black mule that can be assumed as an impersonation of any demonic entity that wished to prey on her. Upon her belly is a devilish looking imp creature that would be considered a "demon" that is plaguing her dreams and turning them into nightmares. Another way this

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    "“I Am What I Am” by: The Jonas Brothers "I am what I am‚ and nobody else. And if you’ve got a problem better take it somewhere else because I can’t turn back‚ I’m right on track and if you think you know well then you better check your facts.” “I am what I am‚ what can I say? I’m gonna be this way right up until my dying day. Because that’s how it goes head to my toes”" The message is that being yourself is the most important thing. It expresses that you shouldn’t back down from your beliefs

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    A Christmas Miracle – From a parents point of view I was attending a parent – teacher meet in my sons’ school one afternoon‚ and when I was called upon stage to speak a few words about him‚ I just had one story to tell‚ One life changing story in my sons life‚ that was sure to bring tears to my eyes as well as all the other parents and students. Jake was not like other normal fourteen year old boys‚ he had a disorder and took time to understand things‚ he couldn’t even talk or walk

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    in the care of their aunt Sylvie‚ a childless and childlike woman who has spent the majority of her as a drifter and a loner. She is the closest thing the girls have ever known to be a mother. As the novel progresses‚ Robinson uses Sylvie’s transcendentalism to lead Ruth into the impermanence of the natural world and human relationships. Robinson makes Ruth choose the lifestyle she desires while she uses Lucille and Sylvie’s identities to contrast the ideas of conformity and individuality‚ to show

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    Whitmans’s poetical deviation from his time’s popular styles‚ his writings shed light on Transcendentalism‚ a literary style emphasizing spiritual philosophy accepting instinctual‚ personal intuition rather than society’s preexisting understanding of reality. He applied this reasoning to his belief of the necessary relationship a poet must hold with

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    settled in… Suddenly‚ the deafening noise of the alarm clock woke me up with a startling jolt. It seemed as though I had fallen asleep mere seconds ago and as I groggily looked around something did not seem right. The room looked the same as it did before I went to sleep. In the bright orange light that seemed to come from hell’s keep itself‚ shown through the flimsy curtains from the eerily noiseless street behind our house I could see that nothing was amiss. Nothing that I could notice straight away

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    The Beautiful Nightmare Back in November last year‚as I wokeup to the blistening sun shining through my window‚ I blinked my eyes to clear the my blurry sight. With the excruciating pain that poked my eyes‚ I walked to the mirror and was surprised to look at my red eyes. That was not the worst part‚ as I focused more into my eyes on the mirror‚ I realised that at the center of my eyeballs‚ there was a white bulge‚ round and small. Not even an hour later‚my mother and I were already sitting on a

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    Human beings have a chance to survive only jointly. All of the moral laws that are praised by transcendentalists‚ as independent infinite truth; or another example of transcendentalism is Kant’s ethics of duty (Rachels‚ James‚ 1999) were simply determined by the natural selection. Severe conditions of wild nature taught humanity that the single way to remain alive is to help each other; otherwise‚ they are merely a number of

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    Harold goes to the basement to do his personal research. His personal research he says is the only reason why he doesn’t want to get a job is because he feels like the research that he does is his job. The research that he does is all about those nightmares or the memories it depends who you ask him or everyone else.He says they are memories he says that they don’t feel fake they feel almost real but he just can’t control himself like its simulated. The second he tells someone else this they look at

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    Visions of psychological‚ emotional‚ spiritual paralysis and despair run rampant throughout dark romantic literature. Dark Romanticism can be seen as the antithesis of the Romantic ideals that reached their ultimate form in Transcendentalism. Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ two dark Romantics‚ were concerned with the human condition and human nature in a way that few other writers of the time period were. Although strikingly different from the Transcendentalists‚ Hawthorne and Poe emphasize

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