“Sonnet CXXX” is a spoof of the typical love sonnets written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It ridicules the senseless depictions that poets gave their lovers whereas in comparison the speaker in “Sonnet CXXX‚” illustrates his mistress with honest comments. These remarks declare her “true” character and show the speaker’s absolute and total adoration for her because of it. As the poem opens‚ in the first quatrain‚ we are introduced to the narrator’s‚ “I”‚ “mistress.” This term however‚ is not
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“The Road Not Taken” I think that this poem is about regret‚ not the regret of the choice made‚ but that of not being able to choose both paths. In the first two lines of the poem‚ the speaker is at a fork in the road of and knows that he can only go down one of these roads. The word “yellow” in the first line makes me think of flowers‚ nature‚ and ultimately life. This is the path of life‚ which is full of choices. In the second and third lines‚ the speaker regrets not being able to go down
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Road Safety What can we do to improve road safety for children and adolescents? 1.2 million Die in road accidents each year. A child is killed in an accident every three minutes. Road safety is increasingly becoming a major killer and a worldwide concern‚ particularly for young people. What can we do to address the issue? The media has been a largely overlooked factor in creating road safety awareness. They would convey the message that safe driving is “cool” driving‚ and constantly reinforce
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Allen West 10/2/2012 A Fork in the Road Most people come to a point in their lives when they must make a big decision that can change the entire direction that their lives will go. A typical time for this to happen for a young adult is at the age when some will either go to college or not. It also may occur if the start of college doesn’t exactly go turn out to be like what you thought it would be‚ and
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and war-happy. During the McCarthy era of 1950-1954‚ however‚ they were more so being cautious of the Communist threat than being paranoid. Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) knew "how to win power‚ headlines and a passionately loyal following by manipulation" (Hugh Brogan). It was said "The McCarthy witch hunts were not born of fantasy‚" (Alan Axelrod) that is‚ the American people had reason to believe that perhaps there was a half-truth in McCarthy’s accusations. McCarthy rose to national infamy
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is a novel that depicts Jay Gatsby chasing his American Dream. Although Gatsby did it by illegal means‚ Fitzgerald honors Gatsby for the effort he put forth in trying to achieve his American Dream of winning Daisy back. With the use of symbolism‚ syntax to create a respectful tone towards Gatsby‚ and a mood of honor‚ Fitzgerald admires Gatsby for chasing an unattainable American Dream and almost succeeding. Symbolism is a major key to Fitzgerald’s novel and he uses it to represent how unattainable
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Lest We Forget: Poverty‚ Depravity and Desperation in the Rural South Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel Tobacco Road is at once a brute force portrayal of the Depression-era poverty of the Deep South and an exaggeration of rural southern stereotypes. But the story serves as a potent reminder of the despair of the not-to-distant past‚ and how ordinary people were left to fend for themselves at the hands of an indifferent and predatory society that was undergoing seismic change. Caldwell’s book
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MCCARTHY AND SALEM TRIALS Submitted for course number SSC 105 Readings in World Civilization Research project number 05023800 The topic which I have selected is McCarthyism and Salem witch trials. Basically we will see what are the similar things between them are and what things differentiate them from each other and also the impacts of
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Although most humans act as if they are above animals‚ they still tend to revert back to those innate instincts. In the excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald utilizes literary techniques such as diction‚ syntax‚ and detail to display the barbaric qualities of the characters in the novel. Fitzgerald uses detail to paint the image of the novel’s setting to show how the characters are uncivilized. The characters reveal themselves to be uncivilized partiers by their “slender
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In “Naptime” by Matt McCarthy‚ he discusses with us the importance of sleep and how sleep affects our everyday lives. McCarthy starts by introducing us to Major League Baseball player Mike Napoli. Napoli has been struggling with Sleep Apnea since his early twenties. Napoli informs us on how he would wake up fifty to one hundred times a night while trying to sleep because of his difficulty with breathing. This began to have an affect on Napoli‚ making him exhausted because he was not able to get a
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