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“Home is where the heart is” a known motto said by many but can have different meanings. Home is symbolized as the one safe haven many people turn back to and have the most affection for. In the poems “Africa” by Maya Angelou and “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott both show significant importance of how their home is for them. In both poems Africa is the main theme based in each of the author’s viewpoints Africa is expressed in its actions instead of a being harmonious and a place to…

Anguish Anguish is a slew written on pages, You 're not ready to turn. Anguish is a breathtaking morning waking, ‘Missing Persons’ lists a golden grin. Anguish is a phone booth begging to call you, Fistful of pennies and an ocean of apologies. Anguish is a blurred highway line, Drifting like the ring of thoughts on pills. Anguish is a stretch of pavement, With my memoir written in blood. Anguish is a savior arriving too late, But on time at my funeral. Anguish is a goodbye, I never got.…

An Explication of Love: “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is a powerful poem that describes love as something based off of more than mere beauty. The poem depicts the speaker pointing out the many imperfections of his mistress. This is a far cry from the ideal women many poets depict. An English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines “composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg” (“Shakespearean sonnet”). In…

Caroline Fairbank AP Lit pd 3a November 16, 2016 Poetry Explication Robert Frost’s lyric poem “Reluctance” explores the inner conflict related to aging and death. Now home, it seems as though his journey through life is at its end. However, he refuses to simply accept his fate and expresses reluctance to go. Frost uses an extended metaphor, specific diction and parallelism to convey the speaker’s unwillingness to accept the continuity of life. Throughout the first stanza the speaker recounts…

Small, Big, etc., and also that there is an ideal form of these things and others like it. Socrates claims that he can finally explain the ultimate cause of things now. Something would be just because it connects in some way to the ideal of Justice and something beautiful because it touches on the ideal beautiful. Therefore, things only bear characteristics because they connect to the ideal forms these characteristics represent. Furthermore, these forms can never admit their opposites. However,…

The world today has many forms of government such as absolute monarch, democracy, and dictatorship. In the past most of the world was monarch and still is today. Popular sovereignty was not introduced to the world until 1762 and did not take action until 1776 when America adopted it. However, it is quickly spreading throughout Europe today. Absolutism and popular sovereignty have many differences but are the two most common types of government on Earth. Absolutism is known for being under a…

The self is a person 's being and what distinguishes them from others. It is what lets people know that they are separate from other people, who they are, and how they interact socially with others. The self is hard to describe because scientists can not pinpoint any part of the body to what makes up the self. Because the self is so hard to clearly define it is broken down into three main parts: self-knowledge, public self, and agent self. Self-knowledge is the awareness of beliefs that people…

This paper will compare and contrast some of the forms of government that were found in the various city states across ancient Greece, including tyranny, monarchy, oligarchy, aristocracy and democracy. An attempt has been made to sort these forms of government according to how harsh they were on the population in general but like ice cream, each of these forms comes in different flavors (Me, 2016). Some tyrannies could have been more liberal than some oligarchies, some monarchies could have…

Concert Report: Junior Recital Joe Crabb, Trumpet Drew Bridges, Tenor After my experience in this concert, I discover that I will like to continue going to this concerts or recitals. Not only because the concert is free, but also because I enjoy seeing the talent that my schoolmates have. This concert was a sonata. Sonata means a piece for small number of instruments or a single one. In classical period the term usually was referred to compositions for one or two instruments only (Kerman et…

Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho stuck out to me above all other artworks we discussed. I really enjoyed the raw emotion and the humility of Sappho begging for emotional support. This is a prayer to the goddess Aphrodite, and speaks of times of trouble in Sappho’s life. Sappho is depressed because a woman that she loved has left in order to be married and, in turn, she is heartbroken. Sappho is asking Aphrodite for help in a lyrical poem that has three separate parts, each different in length and…