foundational documents of Western culture and arguably the most profound analysis and celebration of love in the history of philosophy. It is also the most lavishly literary of Plato’s dialogues – a genius prose performance in which the author‚ like playful maestro‚ shows off an entire repertoire of characters‚ ideas‚
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The Itching Pressure to Conform It is no secret that humans want to feel accepted. Growing up and reaching adolescence‚ feelings start to change and the way people see you suddenly becomes a priority. In the essay‚ “Salvation”‚ Langston Hughes narrates his vivid memory of a religious revival with his Auntie Reed‚ a committed Christian. Hughes successfully demonstrates how emotionally straining it is to be expected to conform. Hughes fell into peer pressure at a church revival‚ resulting in him
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The memoir‚ The Color of Water‚ by James McBride‚ is a story of two charmingly similar but also enticingly different lives. One of narrations is of James himself‚ describing his struggles of growing up with a “very strange mother” (9)‚ as well as attempting to find himself as he was both black and Jewish‚ and was never quite sure of where exactly he fit in. The other narration is of his mother‚ a Jewish immigrant who has her own fair share of issues in life to deal with‚ as she is a white person
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By the Waters of Babylon Review and Assess pg. 586 (1-5) 1.) Even though this story was written in 1937 the comment “eating knowledge too fast” applies to the modern world of today. Johns thought simply means that without thinking of the consequences to come of the usage of knowledge before we have used it. It applies the modification of genetics‚ cloning and messing with nature. 2.) John has studied to be a priest with his father. He is now of age and this journeys purpose is like an
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By putting democratic beliefs into anecdotal form‚ it is easier for Republicans to understand the reasoning of the Democrats‚ without forcing the ideas upon them. During this anecdote‚ Obama uses anaphora to give power and urgency to his parents’ situation by beginning each of the sentence with “they”‚ like when he states‚ “They imagined --They imagined me going to the best schools in the land‚ even though they weren’t
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Water for elephants irp The story water for elephants is told from a series of memories of Jacob Jankowski as a 93 year old man that is in a nursing home. in 1931 a woman named Catherine hale is taunting him Jacob thinks to himself how he’s still a virgin even though he is about to graduate and he is ashamed of it.The class got interrupted by the school dean who pulls jacob out of the class with something eagerly important to tell him. The dean tells him that both his parents have died and just like
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John is the main character and the protagonist of the story “By the Waters of Babylon” and the son of the tribal priest. He is a character who displays bravery and determination in his personality. The reason why I chose the words bravery and determination to describe John is because he was brave enough to travel to the Place of Gods even though warned that it was forbidden to journey towards there. He assumed that he would have gotten killed if he trespassed the Place of the Gods instead risked
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Dalrymple 1 Kevin Dalrymple Matt Martinson English 101.9 1 November 2012 A Summary of David Foster Wallace‚ “In His Own Words” According to the article by David Foster Wallace‚ “In His Own Words” the “most obvious important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.” Wallace argues that a liberal arts education gives you human value instead of just materialistic reward; therefore it not only fills you up with knowledge but “teaches you how to think”. Not the actual
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geranium flowers thirsting for water and now that a geranium flower was plated over her‚ she feels as if she will be forgotten and lonely forever. Position in society: Mabel’s place in society was a lonely lady. Textual evidence: “And I‚ who had happiness to share And longed to share your happiness”9-10 Tone: lonely Figurative language: Simile- “You knew and saw me perish before you‚ like this geranium which someone planted over me‚ and left to die”16-18- The purpose of this simile is to get the reader
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Dumping in our Waters Water is probably one of the most important resources we have. People can survive without food for several weeks but without water we couldn’t live for more than a week. Millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing‚ irrigating crops‚ and cooling industrial processes‚ not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water sports centers. (Internet Source) Despite our dependence on water‚ we use it as dumping ground for all sorts of waste
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