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    Literature intensive-Epsilon Seo-Ei-kyoung In the book “the picture of Dorian grey‚ Dorian is influenced by Lord Henry and becomes ruined. Then Dorian influences numerous people and makes them ruined as well. Whether the responsibility lies to those who affect others or those who is affected is not easy to determine. However‚ the one who is affected has more responsibility for their corruptness. It is one’s own job to decide their behavior. Even though‚ people are surrounded by friends who

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    Florence Nightingale

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    Diagrams of Florence Nightingale If you read the article on Florence Nightingale in “The Children’s Book of Famous Lives”1 you will not learn that she had to battle with her parents to be allowed to study Mathematics. If you read the Ladybird book “Florence Nightingale”2 you will not discover that she was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In looking around for an area of research I was intrigued to discover that Florence Nightingale‚ who I always thought

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    Oscar S Labor Day Essay

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    Oscar Bravo English 2 08/28/14 Labor Day Coming home from work late at night stressed out and tired. You come in and you’re in a bad mood so you ignore your kids because all you really want is some sleep to get ready for another day of working late. People should really complain to their boss about having a no work day‚ cut hours or at least ask for a better pay because they get paid very little for working such long days. In this essay I will explain why people should stand up to their boss about

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    Ode to a Nightingale

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    Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza

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    Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic‚ almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child‚ Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman‚ admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage‚ but Florence had other concerns.

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    lifestyle is treated in Wilde’s version in contrast with Self’s explicit‚ open treatment of the same issue; the way in which Self has chosen to place more emphasis than Wilde on the 16 year time-frame in which the narrative takes place and Self’s addition of an epilogue. I will reference Koen Van Cauwenberge (The Ambivalence in Oscar Wildes ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and its relation to Postmodernism)‚ picking out his point about the gay stereotype only really coming into existence after Wilde’s writing

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    Florence Nightingale my ears wander around interested. She became one of the people I now idolize. Her passion for nursing was beyond belief because when she approached her parents and told them about her nursing ambition‚ they were not pleased but on 1844 she pursued her first goal and enrolled as a nursing student despite the displease of her parents and how becoming a nurse itself was such a low position for women; she believed that nursing was her calling… Florence Nightingale was known

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    Ode to a Nightingale

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    Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect on him

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    Florence Nightingale

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    My name is Florence Nightingale and I was born in Florence‚ Italy on May 12‚ 1820. My father is William Nightingale of Embly Park‚ New Hampshire. He’s a Unitarian and a Whig that is involved in the anti-slavery movement. My mother is Fanny Nightingale who also came from a Unitarian family. I have one sister‚ that I love very much‚ whose name is Parthenope. At the time when I was born‚ many girls did not receive any type of education. My sister and I were lucky to have a father that believed

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    Nightangle & the Rose

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    The Nightingale and the Rose is a romantic tale with desire set as the main theme. We know this‚ from the very first line “She said she would dance with me if I brought her red roses” (p.1) this line illustrates the desire of the student to dance. The author Oscar Wilde’s use of romantic symbolism is found in the form of a red rose. I will be analysing the character‚ plot‚ setting and atmosphere/themes of this story and how the story in ways relates to Oscar Wilde’s life. The author portrays the

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