In John Updikes excerpt of The First Kiss‚ Updike uses metaphors and other rhetorical devices to convey the audiences attitude of the opening season baseball game. The audiences clearly have great interest of the environment around them as they optimistically keep their eyes glued to the players. The way that Updike combines sentences along with the sentence structure is also support as Updike shows the audiences point of view towards the game. The use of metaphor‚ syntax and diction show the attitude
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First Australian Kiss Australia may not seem to be the most romantic place in the world‚ but it is still a place where I had one of my best adventures. I had just turned fifteen when my family and I had to move to Sydney. Our house was very close to a stunning seashore where I went every day after school to surf and to photograph sunsets. All around me was simply beautiful‚ yet I never imagined that it would be the perfect place for my first kiss. In school‚ I met an amazing Californian girl;
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First Things First In his book First Things First‚ Stephen Covey describes setting priorities as the most important aspect of successful (personal) improvement. No matter how efficient you do your work‚ if you´re doing the wrong thing‚ nothing will really improve. Covey compares the difference between efficiency and setting priorities with a compass and the clock: how fast you go is not as important as where you´re going. In the first part of the book‚ SHORTCOMINGS OF TIME MANAGEMENT are discussed
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The Unlived Life: Rejecting Pleasure to Avoid Pain in The Handbook of Epicurus According to The Handbook of Epicurus‚ achieving the good life can only be done by living the life of apatheia- life free from emotional disturbance and worry. Epicurus proposes that in order to achieve true apatheia man must completely detach himself from everything outside his control: from the body‚ from possessions‚ from death‚ and from relationships with others. It is only through accepting that we lack control
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When I Wear Lipstick vs. Lip-gloss I fell in love with coloring my lips with make-up at the age of 5‚ the way my full lips pop with a pretty color made me wanted to kiss my own lips. I have tried all lip make-up‚ Chap Stick‚ lip balm‚ lip-gloss and lipstick; my favorite had to be lipstick and lip-gloss because of the color choices I can add to my lips. I can put my favorite color on my lips with lip-gloss and lipstick but their textures make a difference in the color. They can inappropriate to
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We met on the 12th of July 2008 and he took my breath away. He was so cute and adorable that he stole my heart on the very first day. I saw him almost everyday after we met and we started to spend a lot of time with each other. 16th of July‚ he asked me out. As each day went by our love grew for each other more and more. Everything seemed so perfect‚ and although we had ours ups and downs we never let it get to us and we always managed to get through it. Our love was the strongest element of our
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There are several different works called The Kiss‚ created by different artists. Auguste Rodin‚ Constatin Brancusi‚ and Gustav Klimt all have their own version of the work. While Rodin and Brancusi created a sculpture‚ Klimt created a painting. These artists conveyed many different emotions for their viewers to perceive. These works of art also have several things in common. It is important to learn about each artist in order to learn the ideas and thoughts that come from their works. Auguste
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Klimt’s The Kiss features two figures in the centre of the composition – one male and one female. The two lovers are embracing each other‚ their figures intertwined‚ the female having one of her arm wrapped across the male’s neck while the male holds her face and leans in for a kiss on the cheek. Only the female’s face is fully visible‚ the male’s face being blocked by the angle of how he leans in to kiss. They kneel on the edge of a flower field‚ with a gold/green background. The canvas itself is
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Gustav Klimt is an Austrian Erotic Symbolist and his subject was usually female body. Gustav Klimt painted “the Kiss” or “Der Kuss” during 1907-1908. Klimt was one the founding members of Vienna Secession. Some people say behind the respectable facade Klemt was a man with a ferocious sexual appetite; he fathered at least three known illegitimate children. His work considered being very modern during that time. Klimt believed that no one had the right of censorship over his work. His work methods
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gravest thing I have seen is a kiss that lasted a bit too long. That doesn’t seem enough to grant banning all forms of public displays of affection (PDA). I believe that it should not be banned. Hugging is not just a way to show affection‚ high school is supposed to get us ready for our life beyond BHHS‚ and finally PDA keeps people in line‚ no fights etc.‚ and banning it would lead to student’s unhappiness and therefore our enthusiasm to work would diminish. First‚ hugging is not just a way to show
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