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    Dickinson Whitman Compare Contrast The real distinction with Emily and Walt was that Emily had short and apparently straightforward ballads. In any case‚ Walt’s sonnets were long and frequently mind boggling. Emily’s works were considerably more discouraging then Walt’s written work was. Additionally Whitman utilizes extensive and tedious depictions as a part of his verse‚ yet Dickinson is straight to the point. In Comparison Whitman and Dickinson are both artists for the Romantic Era. Both artists

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    Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are two poets that helped shape the way we think about poetry. While their backgrounds and writing styles were quite different‚ both Dickinson and Whitman challenged accepted forms of writing and are regarded today as important poets. Dickinson and Whitman had very different upbringings. Dickinson was raised in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ and had two siblings. She was always put in the best schools and even received a college education at Mount Holyoke. Her family

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    When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1. Bio: Walt Whitman practically taught himself to read through the works of Homer‚ Shakespeare‚ Dante‚ and the Bible during his time as a printer’s apprentice in New York City. After a printing district fire in 1836‚ Whitman became a teacher‚ and then a journalist. In 1855‚ he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass‚ sending a copy to Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ famous transcendentalist. In 1865‚ the updated edition included Emerson’s letter

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    the necessities of the human race. We need medicine to heal us‚ laws to keep us in order‚ business to keep us off the coach and engineering to advance us. He is saying that we stay alive for “poetry‚ beauty‚ romance [and] love.” John quotes one of Walt Whitman’s poems “O me! O life” to gather further meaning to what he was saying to the students. It’s almost like John is saying the answer to our lives and why we’re still going is poetry.

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    Although all of the texts that we have read in class are of equal importance‚ I have chosen to compare “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy‚ “Faust” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe‚ and “From Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman. All works have to do with the sense of self and coming to terms with the world around them. To begin‚ “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is about a man who lived a life based on the world around him and what was expected of him‚ he was not living for himself. Ilyich’s life was an

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    ””(Chaudhry 635) While a lot of people are fascinated by the self-expression and democracy facilitated by the new technology that is constantly being developed in society today in this new blogger democracy‚ Lakshmi Chaudhry published an article titled “MirrorMirror On the Web” to argue how the medias have rapidly evolved into tools for one to become famous. She is worried that self-expression has fallen effortlessly into self-promotion. The media culture made people; especially the young people’s appetite

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    the mirror says that it’s unjudgemental and it just reflects everything it sees.... it calls the candles and moon liars and goes on about how the woman needs the mirror. It also compares and places itself within the ranks of godliness. This poem is not a riddle‚ speaking with the voice of some mysterious "I" until the end‚ where the reader is shocked to find out that it’s a mirror‚ and not a person speaking. Instead‚ the poem lets us know from the start that we’re hearing from a mirror‚ with its

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    Walt Whitman” Literature scholars inevitably encounter Whitman at the commencement of any poetic exploration (Perlman 21). As proposed in the novel Walt Whitman: A Measure of His Song‚ every twentieth century American poet has some encounter with Whitman‚ and each encounter is different. “Roy Harvey Pearce‚ in The Continuity of American Poetry‚ suggests that ‘All American poetry [since Leaves of Grass] is‚ in essence if not substance‚ a series of arguments with Whitman…’ One way to understand twentieth-century

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    MIRROR -The simplest and the most common optical instrument. -Uses the Law of Reflection to redirect light it receives. -It reflects most of the light in one direction. -Good reflecting mirrors can have 85% reflectance. Types of Mirror 1. Plane Mirror A mirror with a flat surface. Image formed: Laterally inverted Upright and always the same size as the object they reflect. Virtual image (images appear to behind the mirror) at the same distance as the object in front of the mirror. Examples:

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    MirrorMirror on the Wall Indonesia’s advertising Industry which is one of the youngest in the region‚ is almost at its adolescence trying to come to terms with all the rapid changes that it faces as it comes of age to find its own well defined personality and identity. A philosopher rightly said about life “We see life not as it is but as we are”. This seems so true in advertising too. Advertising should draw upon people’s emotions in order

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