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    Setting: Nana and Papa’s house, it is a natural setting that the child is comfortable being in. He has a routine when he comes to the house. He has his own toy area and knows where his toys are. He has his own chair that he brings out when he comes over. There is a large room that is full of plants that he likes to play in, but isn’t allowed to touch the plants. He does anyways. He likes to play in the dirt. I imagine that he thinks it’s like a jungle. The house is a walk through house,…

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    The Road Not Taken v. The Armful Robert Lee Frost created poetry with mysterious yet clear, heartfelt lessons of choices and struggle, two of which are well shown in The Road Not Taken and The Armful. The two poems perfectly depict some of Frost 's own triumphs, despite the hardships endured, the inspirations channeled from Frost 's wife, Elinor White, and the scenery of the England 's countryside. The moods perceived throughout the works of literature brings mysterious feelings of failure…

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    Did you know that John Steinbeck is a Nobel Prize winner? The book Of Mice and Men was based on a well-known poem called “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns. The book Of Mice and Men is about two migrant workers named George and Lennie who have a dream to own a ranch one day. How does Steinbeck use foreshadowing in his book? Foreshadowing is shown in Steinbeck’s book through these four things. He relates his book to the poem “To a Mouse”, explaining Lennie’s obsession with soft things, the idea of the…

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    Throughout the story Of Mice and Men express themes of hope and loneliness. All the characters throughout the story express and show these themes in one way or another. Lennie and George and Lennie seem to be the sunshine peering through the droopy, bleak clouds of the other farmhands. Many characters have given up their hopes and dreams in the past and live in the now. We must have hope. If we don’t have hope we have loneliness. Loneliness can make us feel depressed, and with depression comes…

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    Lennie’s Sympathy Of Mice and Men features Lennie Small, a strong, large, not so smart man and George Milton who is much smaller and serious. The two men set off to work at a ranch and live in a bunkhouse with several other ranchers, after having to leave their previous town because of an incident involving Lennie touching a soft girl’s dress. Their dream is to live on a farm and supply for themselves. Lennie is portrayed as a sympathetic character because of his character traits such as…

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    Silence can be just like passing wind. Sometimes silence can leave people feeling awkward and trying to make up their own conclusions from silence. Potok, in his novel the chosen uses silence to convey his message. The importance of the silence is not understood until the novel comes to an end. The characters in the novel try to debate the meaning of silence. The silence moments used in this novel are many ranging from the painful moments to casual and comfortable moments. Silence brings a lot…

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    involved in other types of arts. Land art was labelled as modern ‘sculpture’ but its versatility and introduction of new concepts and visual materials made it difficult to ascribe it to one field or term. Later on, the term “Earth Works,” coined by Robert Smithson came to use, but Earth Works only refers to works that use earth while Land Art is an all-encompassing umbrella that includes…

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    fruit off a dirt organism In the poem “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost there is a complex message as most poem or works of literature do. In this specific poem there is a message of death or the thought of death and how the narrator feels about how his life was lived and when his own personal end will come. As he thinks his life was to repetitive and not as he wanted it since he is just a simple apple picker. In the pome Robert Frost mentioned “Long ...Or just human sleep” (Apple-picking…

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    In this paper I will be comparing the similarities between three poems. These three poems have different authors, time and the love each authors describe. These poems authors are Lord Byron (George Gordon), Queen Elizabeth and Thomas Campion. For the very first poem which also my favorite poem On Monsieur’s Departure. Queen Elizabeth is deeply in love with a man but she couldn't express or showed how she truly felt about him. I personally think this poem basically mean she chose her country and…

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    Introduction Born on the Black Sea port of Taganrog, Anton Chekhov, one of the finest Russian writers to have existed in the nineteenth century belonged to a poverty stricken family that extended to his grandparents with whom he spent his early childhood. Chekhov’s days were spent roaming in the countryside satisfying his curiosity about human love for nature. Later he assumed the role of a student of medicine and simultaneously became an author by publishing his writings in the newspapers and…

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