On 3rd August 2009‚ Monday‚ the swine flu death of Riya Sheikh‚ a fourteen year old school student from Pune’s Camp area shocked Pune and the entire country. It was the first case of swine flu death in India. Till now we were casual about swine flu epidemic spreading in Western countries. Even occassional detection of swine flu in India did not panic us. Ria’s death only made us aware that swine flu virus can be contacted locally and is fatal. After her death panic gripped not only Pune but the
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By looking at Shakespeare’s similes and the descriptions of the mistress‚ we can see that the beauty standards of the time are haunting the mistress and giving her a corpse-like appearance. Shakespeare’s sonnet consists of similes used to describe the mistress in unpleasant ways in order to show how different she is from the typical woman one would see during the Elizabethan Age: “If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun / […] / I have seen roses damasked red and white‚ / But no such roses
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"My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" is a poem written by William Shakespeare about the love towards an imperfect woman. He explains that although his mistress is imperfect‚ he finds his love special and "rare." If the modern day reader is not careful‚ he/she might be quick to assume the role of the woman that Shakespeare writes about. Although the word mistress now refers to a sweetheart or a woman who lives with a man without being married to him‚ in Shakespeare’s time‚ it meant a woman
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Eye of the Beholder Shakespeare’s‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ is a sonnet that contains fourteen lines. Each line possessing ten syllables and the meter of the sonnet is Iambic pentameter. In these fourteen lines Shakespeare beings to describe the beauty of his mistress and shows how she is still yet a human being with flaws. Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ can be broken into four pieces‚ three quatrains and a couplet. This sonnet by Shakespeare
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Donne’s poem ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’1 appears on the surface to be a poem celebrating the beauty of the female body and the joys of sex. However it is through a closer reading that we see that this poem is in fact not celebrating the woman at all‚ rather she becomes an object through which the speaker can achieve his desire. By looking at Slavoj Žižek’s essay ‘Courtly Love‚ or‚ Woman as Thing’2 and Susan Bordo’s ‘Unbearable Weight’ 3 we can see how Donne represents the mistress of this poem to
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚--yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing
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Haidt & Graham -- 1 When morality opposes justice: Conservatives have moral intuitions that liberals may not recognize Jonathan Haidt and Jesse Graham University of Virginia February 1‚ 2006 Second draft of invited submission to special issue of Social Justice Research‚ on emotions and justice [8026 words for full MS] Abstract Researchers in moral psychology and social justice have agreed that morality is about matters of harm‚ rights‚ and justice. With this definition of morality‚ conservative
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The Scarlet Letter Chapter One Character List: Mistress Hibbins: a witch‚ who was bitter-tempered Group of women: harshly discuss and criticize Hester Prynne and her sin Hester Prynne: wears a fantastically flourished gold and red letter “A” (the ScarletLetter); tall with dark hair‚ very pretty and lady-like‚ prideful and strong; has a baby Reverend Master Dimmesdale: a godly pastor Magistrate: contains governor‚ counselors‚ a judge‚ a general‚ and ministers; decided Hester’s punishment
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147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities that society during this time
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great influence in his life. She brought him up as a Christian‚ but he gave up his religion when he went to school at Carthage. There he became adept in rhetoric. In his Confessions he repents of his wild youth in Carthage‚ during which time he fathered an illegitimate son. At some time in his youth he became a convert to Manichaeism. After 376 he went to Rome‚ where he taught rhetoric with success; in 384‚ at the urging of the Manichaeans‚ he went to Milan to teach. His years at Milan were
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