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    Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps

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    “For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning”, this would be shocking to Whitman, because the amount of voices praising Whitman’s works has grown exponentially since his death. Walt Whitman’s works have gone on an intriguing journey from the time that they were first published to the current era. However, as time has passed Whitman has become to be known as a celebrated and innovative poet. Whitman versatility is seen by the thoughts of death, desolation of hearts, and…

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    Whitman’s introduction into Song of Myself sets a distinctive tone for his writing. Whitman’s influenced American in many ways and the driving forces of this influence are disguised within the complexities of his writing. Whitman’s desire was for humans and specifically Americans to be in harmony with the universe, with themselves as individuals, and with each other as a nation and he used his writing to encourage this belief between fellow man. Encompassed in the themes in Song of Myself,…

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    We were in the Mellonion forest, running for our lives, just Holly, Crank, Arty, and I, had just escaped another raid on the tyrants of Flabastian Mountain. This was the fourth attack we had planned this year, and it was going great until we ran into The Legend27. We would have planned more if we had not been on lock down for 3 months because of a mole somewhere in our camp. We had finally found the waste of a human life, we sentenced him to walk through the death swamp, and he had it coming. I…

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    hundreds of songs. His most prominent song, though, is “This Land is Your Land”, a song that explained that the USA is for everyone. He is often quoted because of his inspiring messages. The famous song is very similar to one of his quotes, but is different too. Both the song and the quote are proportionate in some ways. First, let’s knock off the obvious one: they are both by Woody Guthrie. Another similarity is they both state the fact that Woody Guthrie will not quit. In the song he says…

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    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered America’s greatest poets, and often remembered together because each revolutionized the genre, though they are starkly different. A Transcendentalist, Whitman felt joined to the world and writes in an expansive style that lists people and places to which he is united. Dickinson, whose views fit better with Dark Romantics, writes shorter poems with more conventional meter and rhyme schemes. As much as they differ in forms, they differ in their…

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    In this free verse poem, “A Song,” Walt Whitman is describing how great he believes America really is by using metaphors and by adding a touch of repetition, imagery, and personification to give the reader a warm and fuzzy feeling. The first line in this poem emotes a powerful feeling. By writing about “making the continent indissoluble,” Whitman is creating a backdrop for the rest of the poem. It allows the reader to understand that the words that follow include colossal ideas about a nation…

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    Discovering that Gabriella was a very intelligent Brainiac at her old school, Sharpay prints her information and puts it in Taylor’s locker. Taylor then asks Gabriella again to join the Scholastic Decathlon team based on the printouts Sharpay put in her locker, and Gabriella agrees. Hearing that the callback date has be moved up by request of Sharpay to the same date as the big game and the Scholastic Decathlon, Troy and Gabriella announce to the Jocks and Brainiacs that they are going to not…

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    Through the extensive storytelling form embedded in Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and How it feels to be colored me by Zora Neale Hurston, the common both works encompass a stylistic writing that draws imagery to circumstance. With comparable insight from a host of scholars, both of these short stories reveal a theme that examines the essence of human circumstance vs. the realities of Nature. While Walt Whitman directly exhibits the theme of man vs. nature through the story. He explicates…

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    is well-known for his rebellious songs that speak of civil disobedience and anti-war protests. Heron is described by many music artists as the “godfather of rap,” who brought a political consciousness towards music. His most famous song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” puts out the message that no more would people watch the revolution occur on the streets, but now people would all be part of the revolution on the streets. In fact, the title of the song was a popular slogan in the 1960s…

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    Blue Whale Research Paper

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    Bigger than life itself…… the Blue Whale Throughout history, different species of animals have come and gone. In this constant cycle of life and death, there has been one animal that tops the charts both in size and uniqueness. These ancient and magnificent creatures are known as the Blue Wale and they are currently living today. The
Blue whale, or as scientifically known as Balaenoptera musculus, is to date the largest creature to ever live on earth. Ranging from 82 to 105 feet (25 to 32…

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