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    Short Story Analysis: "The Judge ’s Wife" by Isabel Allende Life is full of unexpected surprises and sometimes we can find ourselves in unpredictable and dangerous situations when the life itself depends on what we do. Most of the time in these cases we do not have a chance to carefully and rationally think over our actions and just improvise trusting our instincts and fate. Here is the example of such a bad fortune: a young woman gets stuck in a motor car in the middle of nowhere. Her husband and

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    Bradley Pearson is a central character of Iris Murdock’s novel “The Black Prince”‚ and from the first its page up to the last one we watch at the process of his soul’s degradation. It’s very similar to a film with a bad ending. At the beginning of the story Bradley is shown as a man full of great hopes and strong will to realize his oldest dream – to write a really good book which could hold all of his life experience and become a masterpiece one day. There’s no doubt that he is tired from the

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    LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH

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    but be gay‚ In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft‚ when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood‚ They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills‚ And dances with the daffodils. —William Wordsworth (1770-1850) C. Lesson Proper. Deductive Method 1. Dump and Clump Group the student into 3. ”Dump”- using the previous poem have student list of sentences that shows comparison

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    the inner workings of the mind and by nature and the effect that nature has upon the state of mind. The Romantics viewed nature as a deity‚ Godlike‚ with which they could develop a relationship. It is a poem filled with imagery about nature and solitude and the language is very simple and easily understood. It provides a novel view of the organic‚ rejuvenating and sustaining relationship between mankind and the world of nature. In the opening line "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (line 1) the protagonist

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    What Snyder meant by "unbroken children" is that they are not broken off from life‚ much like the child. They are not broken off of the sea‚ much like the shells. The child and the shells seem to have a valuable bond in portraying the girls solitude form society. This idea becomes even more graspable if we look at lines seven and eight: "But she plays soberly with the sea’s small change...". Websters New World Dictionary defines the phrase small change as " petty or unimportant"(721). It may

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    Lines 1-2 FIVE years have past; five summers‚ with the length Of five long winters!  • The speaker doesn’t open with a description of the view or even an explanation of where he is‚ he starts by telling us how much time has passed since he was last here (and we know from the title that "here" is "a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey‚" on the "Banks of the Wye"). • And boy does he tell us. He doesn’t just say "five years have past‚" he really emphasizes that five years is a super long time

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    Who Is My Mother's Legacy?

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    that my mother released herself as unseen and I witnessed her affirmed and becoming. … I had asked a boy about sexuality’s double standards. A woman deemed the very pinnacle of shame if she deviates from expectation‚ commands her own power and pleasure. I asked what he would think of a girl who slept around‚ even slept with multiple men in one night. “That’s a dirty hoe. Disrespecting herself. I wouldn’t fuck with that.” Except. I asked him if he would sleep with her. “Yeah.” Would you think of

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    pre-dawn London scene in the summer‚ a time of warmth and sun‚ however we are offered a nineteenth century London that is typically portrayed with a bleak‚ grey backdrop. Few people roam this neighbourhood apart from those “whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure‚ or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business‚ cause them to be well acquainted with the scene.” This leads to the belief that each summer’s morning starts off like this‚ colourless and melancholy; the people who happen to be awake at this dreary

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    The Sublime In Lyotard’s reading Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime‚ he explains how critical thought exists within an infinite amount of creativity with no principles but in search of them. Lyotard understands the Kantian sublime as a way to comply with the standards that critically analyze postmodernism using deconstruction. Kant differentiated the sublime between the vastness and greatness and the dynamic sublime. The vastness sublime is so great we can’t just use our senses like we normally

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    quality‚ no sense of belonging or need in society‚ and a lack of meaningful interaction with others. Fundamentally‚ isolation is the opposite of socialization (Leming‚ 2016). Isolation and solitude are two things that need to be differentiated between by the person who is having the issue. What may seem like solitude to them‚ may actually be isolation. Others around the person may notice this as well‚ and that is when watching Netflix can become a big issue. When an isolated person starts to forget about

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