W.S. Merwin immediately sets a tone for “Losing a Language” in the title‚ hinting at the lament-like characteristic of the poem. In fact‚ the title is not supposed to be a metaphor or even contain a hidden meaning that the reader must deduce by reading on. The poem is exactly what the title suggests: language and words‚ and thus communication‚ has been lost. Merwin creates a nostalgic and sad tone to emphasize the loss and quickly establishes the direction of the poem using simple diction. He carries
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Preservation of Virginity Before Marriage Preserving virginity before nowadays are little dying. In the past‚ preservation of virginity is very important to a girl before they agree to have marriage. The girls before wants to make sure that the boy can wait until they married. For them‚ it is important the respect of each other. Now that the modern times come‚ the boys wants to explore first the girls before they married. For them it is like an old fashioned to wait after marriage
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Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant — Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant is a poem by Emily Dickenson written in 1263. The poem describes how telling the truth is the best. The main theme of this poem is the truth; the whole poem basically goes on and on about the amazement and dazzling awesomeness of telling the truth. In this poem the author means by the truth‚ is the truth about life‚ and living in a true and honest way and the truth of god. She means the truth by who we are and what are we
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Article from http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/814676.shtml#.UyCHTvmSwmU Judgmental netizens lack heart Global Times | 2013-9-28 18:23:02 By Du Qiongfang Losing one’s baby is a heartbreaking experience for any woman‚ no matter the reason. So when a 19-year-old college student in Shanghai surnamed Yang became unexpectedly pregnant with twins and felt she had no choice but to have an abortion‚ she expressed her sad reluctance and posted photos of the pregnancy test and ultrasound on her
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Losing our Language: The Deterioration of the English Language The English language has and continues to rapidly evolve within the United States and around different places throughout the world. Even though there is uniformity in the Standard English language‚ it also exists in many varieties such as dialects and registers as stated by John Algeo in The Origins and Development of the English Language. Dialects are a variety of languages that are associated with a specific place‚ social level‚ ethnic
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“A father tell his son about the Statue of Liberty” In the whole world‚ people are searching for Liberty and no discrimination of who they are. Everyone have different cultures colors and religions. America is known for having many different races and cultures in their country. In the 60’ties racism and discrimination was a big problem‚ not to mention the time where white people had black people as slaves. Because of all this ignorance the KKK got created. KKK was a group of people‚ who hated
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writerbrittany MY BLOG ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING! HOMEPOST 1: ABOUT ME RSS ← The Online Prison Bare Facts of Virginity → Foreign Policies: European Affairs 14 JAN Washington and Monroe believed the United States should not become involved in European affairs. Is it possible to follow the same policy today? Why or why not? I believe that it is still slightly possible to follow the principles of the Monroe Doctrine — to a point. Europe has not been bothering us‚ except for the influence of
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Assignment on: The bog bodies and what they tell us about the past What they tell us… clothing- fabrics‚ fashion etc. hairstyles.… physical diseases – what was around and how they treated it. Also height and physical things. Punishment and ritual killing.. how and why . day top day things… food‚ tools invented etc. In Europe and Britian‚ in areas of boggy‚ marshy soil‚ several well-preserved bodies have been found. They were prevented from decaying by the airless conditions of the bog. Due
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down I’m realizing more and more what I’m losing when you are gone. First‚ I’m losing a cheerleader. No matter what I did you were always there to cheer me on even ifI didn’t reach the finish line you were there to comfort me and remind me to keep going. Second‚ I’m losing my game show partner. People can only imagine how many nights we had competing against each other. If it was not jeopardy then it was idiotically or wheel of fortune. Finally‚ I’m losing one of my best friends yes corny but it’s
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Dr. Hopkins EC 4350 11 September 2012 Reading Journal #2 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism Chapter 2 What they tell us: Shareholders are not guaranteed any fixed payments. What they don’t tell us: Shareholders really only care about the short-term profits instead of long-term investments which in turn reduces the growth of the firm in the long-term.” …the L word‚ that is limited liability‚ is what has made modern capitalism possible.” (12) -Karl Marx defends capitalism Adam
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