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    Essay 2 Situation: The Sense of Loss When Losing the Beloved Ones -- Comparing “ To a Daughter Leaving Home” and “On my First Son” How will you feel when you lose your beloved ones? How will you react toward the sense of emptiness? In Linda Plastan’s To a Daughter Leaving Home (1988) Ben Jonson’s On My First Son (1616)‚ both poems reveal the true feeling and reaction that we will have when we lose the person we love very much. The reason why they attract me is because the feeling is so simple

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    COURSE OUTLINE Course Identification Name of program – Code: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (410.D0/LCA.70) Course title: CUSTOMER SERVICE Course number: 410-DJ3-AS Total number of course hours: 45 Weighting: 2-1-2 Statement of the competency – Code: To implement and supervise a customer services operation using a quality approach (01UE) Contribution of the Course in the Program Course position This 45-hour course is given in the fifth semester in Business Management

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    seems to be the right thing to do. When reading the poem by Langston Hughes‚ Theme for English B‚ at first it appears to have a pessimistic approach but as it continues it really turns out to have a more optimistic approach. As for the poem by Linda Pastan‚ Ethics‚ and her words started off as being optimistic but had a closer connection‚ however to thinking more positively to the question posed to her. While as the poem m goes on it seems to be more of a pessimistic approach. Hughes words were

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    soldiers like family‚ like brothers. They were the people who gave him a reason to keep marching during those days when all he could was complain to Olivia in his letters. They are what caused him to reenlist back in February when he could have gone home to Olivia and the rest of his family in Ashville. The 44th New York had become his family though all the hardship‚ the fighting‚ and all the stuff Orsell grew to hate. This letter was a beautiful representation of how Orsell’s ideals about the war

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    3rd of February‚ 1991 Dear Carl‚ I’m sorry. I’m sorry for leaving. Sorry for sending you away. Sorry for everything. I just couldn’t stand it. Mum had left and I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t want to. I just had to get away. I know you despised her for leaving. But this is different. It’s for your own good. I couldn’t stand it. I’d have to put you and Harley in a foster home‚ and I almost did. But I saw you listening. I knew you were there. So I sold the house. Talked to Beryl. She didn’t

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    separate funeral homes. My father owned one and my grandfather owned and lived in one. There was not a day when someone wasn’t dying. Many of my childhood memories lead me back to the funeral home. Heck‚ I even learned to ride my tricycle in the area where all the caskets were kept! Many of my friends would find it neat that I knew all about the place and would always ask me to take them around for a tour. There is a story that I always tell people that happened at my grandpa’s funeral home one unique

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    motherhood? Being caring and having patience are the main two components that make a good mother. In the poems “Daystar by Rita Dove and “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan both of the mothers are going through different stages of motherhood. In both poems we see the similarities that both poems have and we also see the differences. Dove and Pastan show us an early stage of mother and a late stage of motherhood. Although they are different stages of motherhood‚ they are both tough stages

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    Leaving the Nest When children graduate from high school and move away to college‚ it can be devastating for parents. The children leave to gain independence from their parents. They feel they are going on with a new adventure in their lives and gaining a new experience as an adult in the world. They are in a parent’s life for so many years that they cannot imagine life without them in the house. They become sad at the thought of not hearing the laughter or tears every day. Two poems that pick up

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    Linda Wilke

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    Portrait of a Person-Linda Wilke Mrs. Wilke or Linda Wilke is the band director at Baltic School District. I have had her as my band teacher since fifth grade and I am in ninth grade right now. I don’t know her that well even though I have been close to her for a while. We are pretty good friends‚ but I am trying to get to know her more than just what I have learned in class. She was born on January 25 in Peoria‚ ILL. She also grew up there for a few years‚ then she moved to Minnesota. She went to

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    Linda Patan Poem the Marks

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    Feminist Theory The poem “Marks” by Linda Pastan is a short piece that focuses on a housewife’s duties being graded by her family as if it were her homework. The wife is graded by her husband‚ son and daughter using different three grading systems‚ each time being told that she could do better‚ but ends by saying that the family should “Wait ‘til they learn / I’m dropping out” (10-11). In an interview on “The Newshour with Jim Lehrer” with Jeffrey Brown in 2003‚ Pastan said that “I think I ’ve always

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