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    Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin is known for being one of the world’s greatest painters‚ although he was not much appreciated at his time. His work seems to tell stories of his life. In his series of painting done in Tahiti‚ we can see the many wonders that Gauguin himself explored. Today Gauguin’s painting run for millions. For example; Paul Gauguin’s Maternite (II) done in 1899 was sold for $39.2 million. That wasn’t the case back when Gauguin first started

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    3.1 There are different methods for opening cases. To learn how to open a particular computer case‚ consult the user manual or manufacturer’s website. Most computer cases are opened in one of the following ways: The computer case cover can be removed as one piece. The top and side panels of the case can be removed. The top of the case may need to be removed before the side panels can be removed. 3.2 These are the power supply installation steps: Insert the power supply into the case. Align

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    or how to deal with it. Even more‚ poets and writers all over the world contribute works that express the saddening events and force the public to realize it is much more real than the informative articles we read about. One such poem is Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays which is a poem from the perspective of a young adult reflecting back on the childhood relationship with his father and the abuse his father inflicted. Another such poem is Theodore Roethke’s" My Papa’s Waltz" which looks carefully

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    is to learn to die first. He said‚” Learn how to die‚ and then you learn how to live.” When acceptance is made that death may happen at anytime‚ earthly things won’t be as important as the spiritual things in life. These may take the place of those things to feel whole again. This lead to when he talked about how we have appreciate things we haven’t before we did this process. We as a society don’t acknowledge things like‚ like the earth‚ stars‚ clouds‚ and sun as much as we should. We don’t think

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    "Those Winter Sundays" In Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays" a grown person‚ most likely a man‚ recounts the winter Sundays of his childhood. He remembers the early morning events that took place and how much the events portrayed his father’s love for him. The man realizes that as a child he failed to appreciate the hard work his father did in order to provide him with some basic necessities and some small additional perks at times. The theme of the poem is sad‚ and lonely. Assuming that

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    “And they took us from our family‚ took us away‚ they took us away‚ snatched from our mother’s breasts‚ said this was for the best.” Good Morning/Good Afternoon. Tribalism plays a fundamental role in our society‚ from children having fun in the playground to colleagues in a professional office. While tribalism does have its unifying aspects‚ in our society acts as a barrier and provides people with more reasons to stay divided. | . It can fuel hatred‚ hegemony and xenophobia. Tribalism is vicious

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    ENC 1102 “ Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden is a poem about how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sunday‚ a day which is usually a rest day by many people‚ to build a fire for him‚ so that he could get out of bed in to a warm house. However‚ he fails to appreciate his father’s love. This poem captures the sense of father and son relationship‚ and it also is a letter from Hayden to his father (Gallagher 245). It is sad because the son does not talk to his father

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    Douglas MacArthur Douglas MacArthur is a name most Americans should know. Born and raised in a military family MacArthur rose to become one of the most important Generals in U.S. history. MacArthur played important roles in World War I and II as well as in the Korean conflict. MacArthur was a very controversial figure being a great general but having a burning desire to destroy the communist governments that might have led to World War III. Born in the barracks of unnamed military base in Little

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    Scholarly Sources for “Those Winter Sundays” Upon first reading the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ I was an objective reader who assumed Hayden was looking back with nostalgia at his lost childhood. Without researching the poem‚ as well as Hayden himself‚ I had no way of knowing his background as an adopted child to unhappy parents in a dysfunctional household. After reading several sources‚ I’ve formed a somewhat new outlook on the poem and what it means not only to we the readers‚ but

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    How we learn English Two English Languages. Everyone has had problems using English language as effectively as it should be used. Many‚ if not most‚ of our problems with English develop when we forget that there are two closely related but essentially different kinds of English - spoken English and written English. To use the language effectively‚ we have to be able to switch from one of its forms to the other with ease. If these two forms of English were identical‚ we could simply apply

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