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    Dream Theme

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    There is no doubt that dreams draw profoundly on our imaginations‚ and much work remains to be done on the connection between dreams and the area of the brain that produces creative art. Dream Themes Mammals and Reptiles Most people dream more readily about domestic animals than about wild ones; dreams of household pets often center on our own characteristics‚ mirrored int hose of cats‚ dogs‚ birds‚ and even fish. Freud suggested that dreams of wild animals represented our most sensual passions

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    EWRT1A Instructor: Luis Limcolioc Title: Silence Speaks More Than We Observe "Silent Dancing" By Judith Ortiz Cofer There are moments in which the silence can convey a message which is much more momentous than any other words which can be spoken. "Silent Dancing" by Judith Ortiz Cofer is a great evidence of that. In this piece of work the writer conveys a message about her childhood. Around the young age of three‚ the writer along with her mother and her younger brother shifted from their homeland

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    events. Sometime during the incident Achebe tells the reader‚ “All was silent‚” (123) a statement clearly lacking any reference to the time in which it took place. What causes a silence is imperative in determining the emotion in the silence‚ but without this the reader is pushed to consider for himself what caused the silence‚ the shock from Okonkwo’s gun exploding‚ or possibly of the sadness from the realization of the son of Ezudu being killed. To further this point‚ the sixth sentence of the paragraph

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    Themes in Purple Hibiscus

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    identity until she excavates her authenticity once she found herself and a relationship in Aunty Ifeoma. At the beginning of Purple Hibiscus‚ Adichie demonstrates that patriarchal fear can squander self-actualization and she does so by using Kambili’s silence in her own home and community as a symbol of what fear can take away. On the outside‚ Kambili is viewed as shy and wealthy‚ but once someone knows her within her own home‚ it is seen that her home life strongly affects her. Originally‚ Kambili is

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    American poets that wrote about life in America during two of the most influential times in American history‚ The Harlem Renaissance and post Civil War‚ but both wrote from two totally different points of view. Even though both poems‚ “I Hear America Singing” and “Let America Be America Again”‚ have many differences there are also some commonalities‚ one factor being that affects both poems was their own point of view of the American dream. Some of the many differences that separate the two poems

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    The poems I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman and A Nation’s Strength by Ralph W. Emerson are two poems that are from two different literature time frames but remarkably they have similarities and also some differences. Emerson was a harvard educated white man who wrote poems and became one of the key figures in the Romantic era including Transcendentalism. While Walt Whitman was the son of a farmer brother of eight other siblings whose love for America can be traced back to his own upbringing

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    explains that every individual group of people helped build America and helped make it successful as a nation. Also these groups had some different and similar ideas of the American Dream. The idea of the American Dream is introduced in “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes. These groups of individuals had a dream of being successful in America. The American Dream promotes the idea that our country is full of dreams and opportunities. While Whitman

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    Book One: In the first book (The 5th Wave)‚ the aliens (The Silencers) were trying to take over the world to have it for themselves. The alien invasion had 5 waves. 1st wave- Lights Out. Where all power was lost. Wave 2- Surfs Up. Where there was a giant tsunami. Wave 3- Pestilence. Where there was an awful plague that killed off most of the humans on earth. Wave 4- Silencer. Where the “Silencers” toke over and you didn’t know who was a silencer and who was a human. Wave 5- Where the ‘Silencers”

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    The article “Singing a Subversive Song of Hope” by Lydia Neufeld Harder focuses on the different definitions of service and draws on how service that is inclusive has strong connections with a feminist reading of the Bible. The ideal definition of service is “something a person does for someone else‚ thus at least temporarily preferring the other’s good to one’s own (Harder‚ 14). For Harder‚ service strays away from this ideal model when there becomes ambiguity where love for oneself and love for

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    successful country. Both believe in promoting the American Dream but they have different ideas about who gets to contribute to that success. “I hear America Singing” and “Let America be America again” have similarities The poems both explain about the American dream. In “I Hear America singing” it staits “I hear America singing‚ the varied carols I hear” “Let America be America again” is saints “Let America be the

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