“Simile‚ Willow and Ginkgo” is about how the Ginkgo tree is ugly and the Willow tree is far superior over the Ginkgo. Throughout the whole poem‚ the poet makes you believe that she favors the Willow tree more‚ until you read the last stanza where the poet says that her heart goes to the Ginkgo tree. In “Simile‚ Willow and Ginkgo”‚ Eve Merriam uses form‚ figurative language‚ and sound devices to show the reader that some things may be ugly on the outside but beautiful on the inside. The poet
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experience on this kind of journey. The use of adjectives gives the attitude of the narrator to the industrialisation‚ such as "ugly villages of workmen’s houses"‚ the "grimy cold little market-places" and the "little ugly place of industry‚" which all portray his aversion to industrialisation and its destruction of the natural beauty of the surroundings. The repetition of the word "ugly" reinforces the narrator’s idea that it is not nice to look at. Yet‚ his personification of the church "perched high and
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called "stark realism." The naturalist thought that the realist had not treated all aspects of life and was determined to show everything connected with life. The naturalist also accused the realist of failing to depict things which are unpleasant‚ ugly‚ or sordid. Consequently‚ the naturalist often concentrates to a greater extent on those aspects of life which are of dubious value‚ and seldom does it depict the higher nature of humanity. In theory‚ the naturalist saw humanity trapped by forces
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question is that more often than not‚ the prophecy foreseen by the Fates consisted of a negative outcome for the God or human receiving it. As a result‚ the characters that predicted a doomed future for the Greeks and their beloved Gods were painted as ugly‚ haggard‚ witch-like figures in mythological tales. A classic instance where the Fates exercised their power over the Greek people is in the story of Oedipus. In Oedipus the King‚ Sophocles recounts that Oedipus “was fated to lie with my mother…
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In The Color Purple the main character Celie believes she is ugly‚ and only good for working on a field and taking care of the children. I believe how Celie sees herself relates to how Alice has seen herself in her personal life. In the book‚ Celie falls in love with Shug who is seen as a beautiful‚ strong independent black woman. In the novel The Color Purple written by Alice Walker‚ Walker exposes how life was like to feel ugly versus the life of being pretty in the early 1900s. In the beginning
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Medical Malpractice | The Good‚ the Bad‚ the Ugly | | | | | The outcomes of medical malpractice lie in the following explanation of perspectives‚ referred to as “the good‚ the bad‚ and the ugly.” This paper provides a presentation of facts of the two highest single-incident medical malpractice lawsuits in Connecticut: Daniel Jacob D’Attilo et al. v. Richard Viscarello et al. (Case 1) and Elizabeth Oram and Simon Oram as Parents and Next Friends of Spencer Oram at al. v. Corinne
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mixture of friend‚ idol‚ lover‚ and teacher. Change happens for people who work for it. Celie was always told that she was ugly‚ that she was useless‚ that she was worthless. Alphonso and Mr.----- never lost an opportunity to tell her so. And so Celie became and believed she was ugly‚ useless‚ and worthless. Even Shug‚ when she first met her‚ exclaimed "You sure is ugly" (pg.48). Shug was told‚ first by her mother and then in the "respectable people’s" opinion‚ that she was a whore‚ that she was
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not happy. Something was wrong: was this the face I had waited for through eighteen years and almost thirty operations? I couldn’t make what I saw in the mirror correspond to the person I thought I was. It wasn’t only that I continued to feel ugly; I simply could not conceive of the image as belonging to me. It even seems that she actually enjoys being unhappy to an extent. No matter what happens in Lucy’s life‚ she always finds a way to be dissatisfied with it‚ and thus cannot move on towards
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“The Devil You Know” started off with the theme ugly‚ then went on to delve deeper in synonyms for the word ugly ‚coming across many but deciding on the word evil. Thoughts quickly shifted to the struggle between good and evil .The inner struggle of good and evil that many tragic heroes in history and film have been faced with but usually overcome was used as a platform to go from‚ but in our version evil overcomes good to convey the message of ugly more clearly. The psychological struggle we all
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Philosophy & Film Midterm I. According to Dr. Rāhula‚ the Absolute Truth in Buddhism is: “According to Buddhism‚ the Absolute Truth is that there is nothing absolute in the world‚ that everything is relative‚ conditioned and impermanent‚ and that there is no unchanging‚ everlasting‚ absolute substance like Self‚ Soul or Atman within or without" . To see things as they truly are is to experience Absolute Truth. To do so requires one to separate oneself from dukkha. Dukkha‚ as stated
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