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    Comparative essay characters and themes- Wasps & Flowers Stories are made of different parts: plot‚ setting‚ theme and characters. The characters play a main role in making the story as it is‚ characters can represent theme too. The author can use the characters in any way they want and this will be examined and explained here. At the start of the story ‘Wasps’ Therese is innocent and bored. “That was the summer Therese stepped on the wasps” This shows that she was bored so she went outside to

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    Comparing and contrasting essay of Dylan Thomas and A.E. Housman poems Both of the poems‚ “ To an Athlete dying young” and “ Do not go gentle into the night” are referring to the subject of death but show different outlooks and seem to explore the helplessness with growing old and the progress towards death. Although the poems are against death each have a different way of how it should be approached. Both poems show views on how people should deal with death while one sees death as a misfortune

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    essay number one I am going to discuss the changing views of man’s place in relationship to his God and to his earthly existence as shown in the Puritan poetry by Taylor and Bryant. Using the poems "Huswifery" and "To a Waterfowl" to discuss the views mentioned earlier. Both of these poems are very interesting poems and also are the use of nature in them that both the poets use. They are both religious in there own way by the way mention God or the Lord doing something for the creature to help them.

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    Americans know about the events of September 11th. Many poems‚ songs and books have been written about it. Brian Doyle talks about people jumping from the twin towers in his poem “Leap.” Billy Collins also talks about individuals in his powerful poem “The Names.” Both of these authors wrote poems about a very powerful event in history that have both similarities and differences. The two poems differ when it comes to the imagery used. In the poem “Leap” the imagery used makes you feel sick to your

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    I am comparing the poems ‘Flag’ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (CLB) which are both from the conflict cluster. The poem ‘Flag’ is written by John Agard and the poem ‘CLB’ is written by Alfred Tennyson! In the poem ‘Flag’ the poet starts off by using a rhetorical question which settles a vivid image in the reader’s mind‚ unlike ‘CLB’ which starts off by a repetition of three‚ in a different point of view this makes the reader think just before the start to read the poem. This makes them think

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    LIFE IS ACTION‚ NOT CONTEMPLATION 1. The end of man‚ said Carlyle long ago‚ is action and not thought‚ though it be ofthe noblest. Is it not logical‚ after all‚ that what man knows or thinks to be rightshould find expression in what he actually does? If we go on thinking andcontemplating about the rights and wrongs of a particular course of action and donothing practical‚ we might earn the reputation of being ivory-towerphilosophers‚ and that would be all. Total absorption with the thought processes

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    The Loss of Innocence Alice Walker (1944)‚ an African/American woman was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia. She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her best-known novel‚ The Color Purple (1982). Her short story‚ The Flowers‚ is from 1973‚ a time where the Civil Rights Movement was trying to create an equal society‚ where blacks and whites could live peacefully together. It was also a time‚ where many African-American people lived in fear of the racism of the white (reportingcivilrights)

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    Comparing Two Love Poems

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    of poems they think of a kind of love poem‚ in truth poems can be about anything‚ good or bad. These poems all develop a main or central idea over the course of the poem‚ and in some cases over the course of multiple poems‚ each with a different main idea‚ but are based off of‚ and use the stories of other poems to develop there own point. One such poem is by a man named William Carlos Williams‚ he wrote the poem "Raleigh was Right"‚ which was based off of‚ and a response to two other poems. These

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    Comparing and Contrasting the Old and the Young 1. There are many similarities as well as differences between the elderly and young adults. The most common factor in both of these groups it seems is the overwhelming ability for being narrow-minded 2. Young adults as well as the elderly both think they know everything A. If you listen to the elderly many do become wise but many others seem to get stuck in their past B. On the other hand young adults readily accept changes in

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    Beauty of a Flower “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns‚ or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln” Most important living organism other than human beings are animals and plants. Flowers and weeds have a huge role in life that they tend to play. Flowers and weeds are completely different in which they grow to reproduce or grow to destroy. Knowingly that weeds also reproduce. Flowers are known to be a brightly colored and conspicuous example of such a part of

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