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    of the outcomes of things in life, even traumatic ones such as exile. No matter how horrific things get, there can always be a possibility of happiness from the pain. In Huxley’s Brave New World, exile is a very important central theme. One who rebels against the accepted norms of the World State are at risk of being exiled to places they would most certainly rather not go. A different type of exile, however, is presented through the life of Linda.…

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    pressure of caring for the deceased creates a separation of the living from the rest of the community (pg.39). They become contaminated as the dead. They must be in isolation until they become clean again. This strict imposition on their life affects they whole life. They can no longer live the way other humans do. Much like the body and soul, the living loses his identity and must be cleansed before they are incorporated back into the community. The closer the kinship between the dead and the…

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    S. Eliot is a modernist poet with numerous works to his credit and the masterpiece is The Waste Land crowning him as the greatest poet in the twentieth century. Eliot fulfilled his self-imposed duties by using the materials of the city life to build up his poetry. The ecological theme of Eliot’s The Waste Land is very rarely discovered which tries to probe this espousing theme of literary criticism. Eliot has splattered an ecological inequilibrium and a world which has not regenerated…

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    the advantages from prescribed burns and that they can see however effective and necessary they're. hindrance is that the key to society of late and is unquestionably a crucial consider saving lives. If a lot of lives will be saved still as land and life, prescribed burns…

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    The Glass Castle Poverty

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    suffer from because of the limited amount of food and cash. As a result, they had to constantly move from places to places such as Battle Mountain in Nevada, Phoenix in Arizona, Welch in West Virginia, New York City and so on in the search of the survival. Some places provided the better quality of life while some worsen it. Thus, the author and her family were living under the condition of the poverty, where they had to struggle for the basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter because of…

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    One day you’re binge watching Netflix, the next you’re dead. No one knows when they are going to die and sometimes accidents just happen; we can’t do anything about it. But sometimes those accidents that should have taken a life don’t. A near death experience is something one will never forget, something one will never walk away from the same, and something that could have easily been one’s last experience. I will never forget the day I was buried alive. As I stepped out of the ground I knew…

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    Theme Of Death In Poetry

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    “his harness bells a shake - To ask if there's some mistake” as the narrator unexpectedly stopped in his tracks. Through these two lines we can deduce that the horse symbolizes wisdom; it senses that something is “queer” and reminds the narrator of life and its responsibilities, causing him to discard his initial decision of killing himself. Nevertheless, as opposed to the the dark and luring woods, death is represented as a kind and chivalrous man in Dickinson’s poem. In the speaker’s words,…

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    constant assistance. A less popular route is to leave society completely and become an independent, otherwise known as living life on the road. This alternate path is depicted in Into the Wild, a documentation of the life of Chris McCandless and his journey to Alaska. The author, Jon Krakauer, justifies Chris’s actions of cutting off all ties with his family, living life as a nomad, and dying in Alaska, with his own experiences of…

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    It’s all about Thrill of the Chase The following 20 odd lines that I am going to rant about is nothing new. Everyone knows about it at the back of their mind or even consciously. We are all well acquainted with the basic human need of being needy all the time. No living being is satisfied with what they have. The phrase 'A bird in hand is better than 2 in the bush' no longer holds true because of the same human tendency which makes us go after the 2 in the bush and take the one in hand to be…

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    How is change or evolving essential to life? How much change is needed for the survival of a community? Change is almost inevitable, fore it is the driving force of life. Without change, life would not be able to adapt to its surroundings and survive. The title “The Chrysalids” implies that it’s a novel about change. The word ‘chrysalid’ is another term for the word “chrysalis”. According to the free dictionary, a chrysalis is, “a pupa, especially of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in firm case…

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