THE GUITAR (Magdalena Jalandoni) Its slender strings that are bright as gold Sing tenderly as a wild dove… In the night hours‚ its elect voice Is like the plaint of a precious feeling‚ Like the slow sigh of a soul in tears… For perhaps in the heart of the strummer Lies a deep sorrow that cannot be undone‚ And as each single string is singing No one can help but listen‚ enchanted‚ No one can help but feel the strong grieving. I WANT YOU TO KNOW (Amado Yuzon) I want
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Childhood Obesity In America English 122 Instructor Fawn vonFrohling October 20‚2012 Obesity is a growing problem and it is prevalent in all ages of society. America is no exception; in fact‚ America is the leading source of obesity. The obesity problem is tackled by Greg Critser and Mary Ray Worley. In Critser’s article‚ “Too Much of a Good Thing‚” he explains how obesity takes
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When I was born a girl‚ my mother said‚ "one day‚ she will grow up to be a doctor!" Father said‚ "one day she will grow up to be someone great." Today‚ father has long left for the mysterious afterlife‚ merging into the moist Earth. Mother cries that I had never become her doctor. During the period from 1839-1860‚ Ch’ing China faced the downfall of a dynastic cycle plagued by a dual threat‚ externally from the West and internally from the rebellions within the country. Thus in discussing the
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Childhood Sweetheart I just let her slip away my grip got so weak‚ I think about her each hour each day each week We grew up together ending so far apart‚ as the distance grew further it broke my heart Even if you were a million miles away‚ the love that I feel grows each and every day I wait by the phone hoping to hear you call‚ a text an email no nothing at all I hear from friends that you moved onto someone new‚ but they’ll never give as much love as I’d give to you
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BY John Celes~ Does Happiness depend upon comfort? ’ The answer is definitely a big‚ ‘No! ’ Happiness lies in not comforts alone! Happiness is not a static quality of the human mind‚ body and soul. All can’t remain happy all the time. It would be foolishness to wish for a life‚ filled with happiness alone; Happiness is more when woes come in-between. Happiness is just a feeling weird! Life could become boring and monotonous‚ when happiness is prolonged. Even the pauper can be
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Because of transcendentalism‚ our world received a new perspective. Those who have became “free thinkers” and have intellectually questioned the “normal” or the “worlds opinion” have gave us opened gates to new mental worlds. Although that path to those rigorous gates may be challenging and may result in defeat‚ its those courageous individuals who have kept striving to get those doors that have changed the world. Although the path may be dangerous‚ the discovery and entrance of the new world
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Sir Francis Bacon’s‚ The Four Idols‚ and Steven Jay Gould’s‚ Nonmoral Nature‚ are quite compatible as comparisons. I would say more so than comparing Gould’s work with Charles Darwin’s Natural Selection‚ from a literary standpoint. I think Bacon and Gould would have shared some similar ideas and agreed with one another on several issues. When describing Bacon’s Idols of the Tribe‚ Bacon states‚"have their foundation in human nature itself‚ and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion
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their views on war‚ but to intensify the reader’s emotions as well. Binyon uses euphemism to glorify war‚ and in essence‚ serve his propagandist purpose in the poem For the Fallen. However‚ both Owen and Waugh use graphic‚ hard hitting language to reveal the gruesome truth of war through the poems Dulce et Decorum Est and Cannon Fodder. The poem For the Fallen by Robert Binyon was first published in The Times newspaper in Britain as a piece of propaganda to persuade young men to join the army. He uses
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may backfire and hurt us. It’s a fear that comes naturally because we all know that we are too trivial to gain control over the world. In the poem “The Story”‚ Karen Conelly examined the confrontation between insignificance and vastness and conveyed the idea that human’s deepest fear is the fear of being consumed by things he does voluntarily. The poem is highly metaphorical and symbolic. The story‚ on the surface‚ really is about swimming in the ocean alone. However‚ as we readers examine further
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Reading of a Poem Maria Clinton ENG 125 May 31‚ 2011 Tiffany Griffin-Minor Close Reading of a Poem ON THE AMTRAK FROM BOSTON TO NEW YORK CITY: BY SHERMAN ALEXIE On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City is an emotionally provocative poem by the Native American Indian writer‚ Sherman Alexie. It describes a train journey from Boston to New York City in which an elderly white woman excitedly points out historical sites to her fellow passenger‚ a younger Native American Indian. The poem demonstrates
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