being as dependent anymore. In Olds’ forth poem‚ “First Thanksgiving”‚ Reminiscing back to the diaper days‚ she draws memories of her once young daughter‚ “those nights‚ I fed her to sleep‚ week after week‚ the moon rising and setting‚ and waxing- whirling‚ over the months‚ in a slow blur‚ around our planet” (10-13). Thinking back to these times‚ taking care of her daughter‚ nurturing her‚ shows there was no similar effect as to her way of being raised‚ on her daughter. Just as her relationship was
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Slave Culture and the Harlem Renaissance: Finding a Home in Modernism For years scholars have noted the importance in history of the African- Americans from the time of the Atlantic slave trade‚ even up to current culture and entertainment. As prominent as the slave trade is taught within the schools and the education systems‚ there has been little noted in the history classes about the art and literature of that time period for African-Americans. However‚ in spite of the little we know of the
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The following morning Mr. Oakhurst wakes up to a white blanket covering the ground Bret Harte describes the conditions as “It came slowly in a whirling mist of snowflakes that dazzled and confused the eye. What could be seen of the landscape appeared magically changed. He looked over the valley‚ and summed up the present and future in two words—‘snowed in!’” (Harte 4). This was strong imagery used
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Nisus and Euryalus‚ two heroic lovers in the mold of Achilles and Patroclus‚ encounter their deaths with bravery as they die alone‚ separated from their allies on the Italian shore (Aeneid 9.410-449). Vergil employs this scene‚ and the vivid recollection of Homer’s Iliad that it causes‚ with the purpose of presenting his own thoughts about a situation only hypothetical in the Iliad. Homer portrays Achilles as immensely regretful that he allowed Patroclus to die alone and without him‚ but Vergil uses
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your mother decides to sell you at the Slave Market‚ there’s not much you can do but comply. Especially when you’re a naïve five-year-old still dumbfounded over her father’s death. A slave’s first auction is nerve-wracking. It’s all insensitive‚ whirling crowds‚ and harsh noise‚ under the sweltering light of the summer sun. There’s career slavers‚ frowning down their purposeful‚ aquiline noses at the young child about to be sold. It’s not unheard of‚ but unusual for this region of Moria. Usually
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1001 nights Chaucer used the frame of that collection of stories‚ to make all of the stories inside that frame more complicated‚ more ambiguous and more interesting. Our interest in this collection of story is in the frame on the way stories get told. But there are two things for all purposes in this course. The first one is the question what kind of a story does this frame require? The frame itself is in some ways more limiting than that in Chaucer’s since it only has one narrator and a very limited
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Black holes When the word black hole pops to mind our initiative thought is literally a black hole with no end. What is really the definition of a black hole? A black hole is a point in space in which gravity pulls in a drastic matter that not even light can exit. Not even human’s vision is capable of viewing these holes. We only take notice as stars around black holes act differently than other stars in space. We can only ask questions such like; when they were theorized? How big
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Devices for Heightening the Effect of Horror and Terror in Short Stories (Yuliya Usenko) ("MS. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe) In June 1883 Edgar Allan Poe won the short-story award with his “MS. Found in a Bottle”. The chairman of the awarding committee‚ John Pendleton Kennedy wrote a report for The Baltimore Saturday Visitor where he gave explanations of their selection: “Our selection of Ms. Found in a Bottle was rather dictated by the originality of its conception
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The water-clock marks the hour in the Tachung sz’‚ in the Tower of the Great Bell: now the mallet is lifted to smite the lips of the metal monster—the vast lips inscribed with Buddhist texts from the sacredFa-hwa-King‚ from the chapters of the holy Ling-yen-King! Hear the great bell responding!—how mighty her voice‚ though tongueless! KO-NGAI! All the little dragons on the high-tilted eaves of the green roofs shiver to the tips of their gilded tails under that deep wave of sound; all the porcelain
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How does Shakespeare use linguistic and dramatic devices to introduce the character of Hamlet in Act 1? Hamlet is first introduced in Act 1Scene 2 by Claudius; “But now my cousin Hamlet‚ and my son - ” There is the use of a dramatic hyphen which emphasises the significance of the entrance of Hamlet‚ as well as the use of a paraprosdokian sentence which surprises the audience and potentially causes them to try and reinterpret what has been said. Claudius’ sentence could also be interpreted as a
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