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    focused on nature and often secluded themselves in nature because they believed that it would help them think and also that it would be a good inspiration. In the novel Frankenstein, romantic Mary Shelley portrays the idea that loneliness is caused by how one interacts with those around him, or rather with himself, but even more so by one’s outward appearance based on the judgment of the people that surround him. Loneliness comes in many different shapes, one can become lonely by the way that…

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    My Childhood Stereotypes

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    up to me and asks how my dad is doing. This gets annoying after a while, but also shows me that he knows everybody and they all like him. He taught me everything i know. People always tell me that when I was a baby I would never leave his side. There’s no question to it, I was a daddy’s boy. I am blessed to have my dad in my life and growing up with him teaching me to be a man really shows me how good I have it. I am the man I am today because he would press manners and how to treat people…

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    though inequality is seen throughout them. He wrote pieces based off of his experiences like many African-American artists did so the reader got a different point of view from Hughes and his experiences with inequality. In his poem “Democracy” it is pretty clear that inequality is being shown in line five through nine: “I have as much right./ As the other fellow has,/ To stand,/ On my own two feet/ And own the land.” (Hunter). Hughes means that no race is any more special than African-American’s…

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    /Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”. The angels were envious of their love so the narrator is blaming the angels for making Annabel Lee sick and pass away. Also, apparently everyone in their town knew that it was the angels’ fault for her death. Even though Annabel Lee has passed away, the fifth stanza describes how their love will last forever. “But our love it was stronger by far than the love/Of those who were older than we/Of many far wiser than we” shows that even though they were young,…

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    How the Great Depression Impacts Characters from To Kill a Mockingbird “At its highest point during the Great Depression, unemployment reached 25% (in 1933)” ("The Depression Facts "). The timeless novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about a small southern town. Throughout the book racial prejudice is shown as well as one man’s courageous fight against it. The setting takes place between 1933 and 1935 during the Great Depression. We are also introduced to the social hierarchy…

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    The Defensor Pacis was written by a man named Marsilius who came from an Italian town called Padua. He wrote the book in 1324. This book is his biggest achievement as an author because it helped the reformation ages progress further and the protestants with improved ideas on how to improve the states and church, explained by different chapters Marsilius wrote. The main idea or thesis of this passage is that peace is everything and you should do anything possible to fight for your peace.…

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    themes of life. They also both utilize certain literary devices to get their points across. It is because of all of these things, that both To Kill a Mockingbird and The Chosen are still relevant today. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb, a small town in Southern Alabama in the early 1930’s. Though this was during the Great Depression in the United States, the Finch family was rather well off financially. Maycomb was…

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    extra spacing to be able to control how long his readers meditate on a certain idea. His poem has a very limited number of words on one line and is oddly punctuated. Cummings also merges some words together such as when Cummings adds, “eddieandbill” (Cummings 638). The merging of words creates a sense of confusion and need for thinking. Cummings enjoys playing with his readers on thinking and interpreting. Most of Cummings’s nature poems are very good examples of how he relates his structure and…

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    several different men and my grandfather raised them as his own. My mother’s parents were only married the one time and they were married about fifty years. My parents have also only been married the one time, they do not agree with anyone getting divorced, no matter how far the couple grows apart. My sister has actually been married and divorced and is now engaged to a racist man that I have never met. I have also been divorced and am now remarried to a wonderful, caring man that I see me…

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    Rose For Emily Symbolism

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    of Fury and As I Lay Dying. Faulkner is commonly known for writing stories that are set in the south and all of his stories include and obscurity that results from an unusual circumstance. Faulkner often writes about the Yoknapatawpha county and the town of Jefferson and thing that happen in the society. “A Rose for Emily” is about a woman who is never allowed to have relationships with men until her father passes away, then she starts a romance with a Northern man, which can be ‘forbidden’. Her…

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