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of Robert Frost’s poems. The poems of Robert Frost are not as pessimistic as some believe. The poems are actually bright and show the good parts of life. Robert Frost’s poems show optimism through poems of love, nature, and a motive to keep moving forward. Love is the first point of optimism in the poems. Robert Frost has many poems showing this emotion. A couple of poems that show love is “Hyla Brook” and “A Line-Storm Song”. The tones are very pulled towards the thought of love. As Robert…

In the case of Of Mice and Men, there are many choices that the characters have made. Resulting in either pleasant or unpleasant circumstances. George chooses to look after Lennie after his Aunt Clara dies. George is often seen getting angry at Lennie as shown in this quote from the novella: “Whatever we ain’t got, that’s what you want. God a’ mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an’ work, an’ no trouble. No mess at all.” “An’ whatta I got? I got you…

In “The Lonely Land”, A.J.M Smith says “This is a beauty/of dissonance,/this resonance” (23-25). By this quote, he means that even though the land is not perfect, there is something to be found under imperfection such as something beautiful. Dumont repeats, “this land is not” three times throughout the poem to make sure the readers understand that the land is not to be taken advantage of. In both of the poems, the land is more than just a place to live. “Not Just a Platform for My Dance”…

The “Ins and Outs” of “Out, Out---“ In the poem “Out, Out---“ by Robert Frost the title can immediately foreshadow the poems events. The words “Out, Out” is what the readers first read, and by the end of the story will realize why Robert Frost may have titled it that way. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26h in the year 1874. Frost started to become interested in poetry during high school and Harvard, even though he never officially received his college degree. Frost later…

Sir Robert Peel created the “Nine Principles of Reform” in 1829 the first principle was “The basic mission for which law enforcement agency occurs so that they can avoid wrongdoing and complaints as an alternate suppression of corruption and complaints by soldierly strength and strictness of lawful penalties.” (Peel R. , n.d.) What he was implying was that the police are to prevent crimes and any other disorders The second was “The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent…

kind of pleasure (Mill, p. 20). Pleasure comes from an object. Because of this theory Robert Nozick shared with us in his book, the experience machine; a machine that we can just simply hook up to. He asks us to think about life in this machine that is able to replicate and give off to us the experiences of what we find most pleasurable in life. He argues though, that this type of life cannot be the ideal life.…

The American Nightmare Seconds after brutally suffocating an elderly man with his own bed at midnight, the narrator “[examines] the corpse” and then calmly states, “Yes, he was stone, stone dead” (Poe 190). Haunted by the old man’s eye, the mentally unstable narrator decides to murder him. The bloodcurdling narrator believes he can get away with murder, until the guilt overwhelms him; consequently, the narrator reveals to the cops that he committed the crime. Similarly, in Truman Capote’s novel,…

the qualities and features that comprise the foundation of human existence. Humans are prone to falling victim to nature’s temptation. For instance, we fall prey to the majestic beauty of a sunset, or the exquisite scenery at the Grand Canyon. In Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Stopping by Woods” is a gratuitous action, a grace note, and imaginative possibility” (Ingebretsen 2). Nature can certainly be described as the “siren of the sea”, alluring the speaker to…

good at, and until recently I still did not know. Placing oneself into a category that shows one’s strengths and weaknesses helps a person use that information to succeed in their life, home, and occupation. To people that categorize intelligence are Robert J. Sternberg, and Howard Gardner (Santrock, 2012). Intelligence can be interpreted in many ways so Sternberg made a theory, Matthew made a theory, and children can use these theories to excel in school, and life. Two ways to determine…

In the book “Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI” written by former FBI Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) agents Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman describes in the very first chapter a disturbed individual in which made Jack the Ripper look like an amateur. Chase was a sick being and his first murder dealt with a pregnant woman that he shoved animal excrements into…