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    A man is in his bedroom, very late into the night. He is reading a book and dozing off when he hears someone knocking at his door. It was in December, so it was very cold. He had a fire going, and he watched the ashes fade. He was excited for tomorrow, he was to read another book. That book was full of sorrow, just like he was at the loss of his love, Lenore. The man saw his purple curtains moving, and it thrilled him because he did not know the cause of this. He took it to be the visitor at…

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    Diego Rivera full name is’’ Diego María de la Concepción’’ he was born in december 8 1886 in Guanajuato ,México Diego Rivera was a very famous painter. He was mostly know for his political painting in murals, He’s also known for the affair that he had with her lover Frida Kahlo . Diego rivera participated in the mexican mural movement. He did a lot of painting and some of then were about presidents etc . Diego Rivera’s work was at a modern museum in new York. Diego rivera died in November…

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    The study of Longfellow: His life and works of Longfellow was an outstanding poet in his time, and even if the time managed to show that he is something less than a remarkable artist, he never claimed that he was, we can still read the naive his poems and get a taste of the 19th century American through them. He was born February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine for the parents, Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow, Henry, from the very beginning had a reputation for being hard-working and, among other…

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    What Is My First Reason

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    My first reason is horses are a symbol of freedom and the poet wants to be free. A quote that supports this is “Because I have come to the fence at night, the horses arrive also from their ancient stable” (Wrigley 1.1-2). When going to the POL web site and look up Robert Wrigley it can be found that he grew up in a coal mining town. Using this evidence, the meaning of the poem is wanting to be free. Horses are a symbol of freedom and the poet used them in his poem because he wants to be free.…

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    “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” by Margaret Atwood tells the very vivid story of a mother’s son’s death. The tone used by the author was reflective, happy, and yet still sorrowful. Atwood sort of describes the son’s death as an adventure, giving the poem a happy and optimistic tone. She uses words that make it seem almost like a journey, for instance in line 4 she uses “voyage,” in line 25 “long trip,” and line 13 “reckless adventurer,” that make it seem almost exciting. There is also a shift…

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    “Annabel Lee” was Edgar Allen Poe's final finished poem, penned in 1849. In a scant 41 lines Poe manages to incorporate his principal themes of Beauty and sadness as the foundation of the poem, as it's about the death of a beautiful woman and the grief his narrator feels for her passing. This grief drives the narrator to near madness, as he refuses to leave her side even after she's entombed. The journey Poe takes readers on in Annabel Lee is to realize his two primary objectives in writing…

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    Edgar Allen Poe Facts

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    Edgar Allen Poe is an author who has wrote many stories, he has written, “The Black Cat”, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, and many more. Poe tends to write stories in a way which the characters are the same. Poe has had a tremendous loss in his life and so he usually writes stories about death. His characters always appear to be dark and horrific. In the short story,”The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, there is a guy named M. Ernest Valdemar, he likes to have things done to him in a…

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    Dead Souls

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    Dead Souls Euro Paper During the Nineteenth century in Russia, many people had serfs and land, which was a form of wealth just like the feudal system in Europe. There were also some people who tried to exploit the wealth like Pavel Ivanovich in the book Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol. Some major points in the book include the Social class based around the amount of serfs and land a person owned, the poverty of serfs, and the ways wealthy children were treated. Pavel tries many times to buy a…

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    Edgar Allen Poe's Poetry

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    last complete poem composed by Edgar Allen Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it relates to the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. All the women in Poe's life died young, including his mother, sister, and wife. After their deaths, devastated, Poe continued to abuse alcohol and drugs until his death in 1849. I believe this poem was solemnly based upon a long lost love. The poem…

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    Lincoln's Bully Campaign

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    It is obvious that the first half of the old lion is brilliant and successful.But the rest of its life,the boar,bull bully it,even the donkey bully it.It can’t stand after a reproach.This makes it very collapse. However,we must know,in our life,we will suffer setbacks and even bullied.Maybe,before success;Perhaps after success.In 1832, Lincoln unemployed, it made him very sad, but he determined to be a politician, when state senator. Unfortunately, his campaign failed. In year two, it is…

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