YOLO: A Confidence Booster Every now and then‚ a bit of slang comes along that draws a bold line between old and young. Today‚ that term is YOLO. If you’re over 25‚ the phrase probably means nothing to you and if you’re under 25 then you are probably either sick of the four word acronym or using it in anyway possible. YOLO is a phrase that means “you only live once” that shot to fame earlier in 2012 when the rapper Drake featured it in the hook of his song “The Motto”. According to Urban Dictionary
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi tags: carpe-diem‚ education‚ inspirational‚ learning 38‚294 people liked it like “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain tags: education 11‚482 people liked it like “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde tags: education‚ fashion 6‚803 people liked it like “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate
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encouraging people to wake up and start a new day‚ and the reference of ‘eggs’ at the end of the novel reiterates the excitement that some people get to having breakfast as it is a meal that would provide fuel and energy for most of the morning. Carpe Diem is a poem about love and how it could distract one’s life if it is very deep. The use of the phrase ‘a hand here pruning’ shows us an action of cutting plants so they would grow in a better way. However‚ there could be another meaning‚ possibly
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is defined by the headmaster Gale Nolan as "tradition‚ honor‚ discipline and excellence". The teaching methods of their new English teacher‚ John Keating are unorthodox by Welton standards‚ taking them out of the classroom to focus on the idea of carpe diem. In another class‚ Keating has Neil read the introduction to their poetry textbook‚ prescribing a mathematical formula to rate the quality of poetry‚ which Keating finds ridiculous‚ and he instructs his pupils to rip the introduction out of their
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used to represent real things or even abstract ideas. Symbols are normally metaphorical; in poems‚ poets use certain terms to indicate something beyond‚ with another layer of meaning. In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time”‚ a carpe diem‚ he uses several items from nature as symbols to show how women should cherish the time while they are still young and encourage them to do what they can in time. The most obvious ones are the flowers (rose-buds)‚ which mean the young virgins’ virginity
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Song of My Mother Towards the back of a closet‚ in the corner where the dust tends to linger and the light shies away‚ hangs a brown suede leather jacket right next to a pair of old jeans. A jacket that--in its newer days‚ when the zipper still worked and both pockets were hole-less--a young woman wore on occasion. But‚ both the jeans and jacket are a bit faded now‚ the threads have turned awry‚ and the zippers have lost their shine. The woman has now passed it down to her daughter‚ but her
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Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” is a prime example of dialectical argument. In a dialectical argument the author includes three main parts; the thesis‚ the antithesis‚ and the synthesis. The thesis states the preposition‚ no matter how obscure it seems. The thesis is the “If” statement. After the thesis the antithesis gives the “but” statement‚ the antithesis contradicts the thesis. When the author makes his two arguments he comes to the conclusion of his preposition‚ known as the synthesis
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In the movie Dead Poet Society‚ the students that stood on their desks at the end showed that they believed more in the transcendentalist belief. By standing on the desks the students are also showing that they have became more independent and can think on their own. The students began to think this way from their teacher‚ Mr. Keating and from how the way he teaches the students. After Neil’s death and Keating’s teachings‚ most of the boys matured and changed how they thought. But for some others
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The period of European history referred to as the Renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in Europe. It spanned from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century‚ and was regarded as the rebirth of antiquity. It was a time in which learning was transformed‚ and became an age of daring experimentation. Some of the most important literary figures in Spain’s history came from this golden period‚ one of them being the famous Garcilaso de la Vega. His sonnet‚ Sonnet XXIII‚ perhaps one
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and literary movement that consisted of many intellectuals. Authors such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson mainly focused on individual virtue and happiness which depends upon self-realization. They believed strongly in the concept of Carpe Diem and that all knowledge begins with your own self-knowledge. They pressed to view the world very optimistic and thought that political parties and religion corrupts ones self’s purity and individualism. Although society is taught to conform and obey
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