the flowers accept death with open arms and a smile. This poem by Henry King praises flowers for not only their humble lifestyles but also for their acceptance of death. Henry King uses the literary device of personification‚ a strong and effective way to give the flowers a voice‚ and to help the reader grasp and understand the poem. He also uses that literary device to humble the reader in order to better understand the way that the flower smiles in the face of death‚ and to help us make a
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and attentively to every detail that Mezie gave.Mezie’s boss was the topic of the family rendezvous that day. Mezie’s kids came up an idea‚ it was the “smiling strategy”. The smiling strategy entailed that Mezie did everything for his boss with a smile. This of course wasn’t going to be easy knowing the kind of boss that he had. Notwithstanding he embraced the advice of his family. Discussing his problem with his family in the rendezvous alleviated his pain.
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expressions reveal true emotions. Researchers have distinguished real smiles (so called Duchenne smile) from fake smiles. Ekman and his associates have developed methods to detect other emotions suchas anger‚ disgust and distress. They call their method as Facial Action Coding System (FACS). FACS has been used to study the facial expressions of CEOs and found that they vary dramatically not only in their Duchenne smiles but also in the degree to which they display positive versus negative
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anne’s bakery barely two days later. there’s something about harry that pulled louis in and simply won’t let him go. he enters the shop with a cheerful expression and his hands in the pocket of his hoodie‚ "hello harry!" he calls out‚ a flustered smile spreading across his face when he sees harry. he’s extremly feminine today‚ a sharp contrast to his attire two days ago. a skirt shorter than the purple one louis had seen rises just above the middle of harry’s shaven and muscular thighs‚ the whiteness
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After untying his rags‚ he takes off a piece of plastic from his right leg and unfolds it. It shows yellow newspaper clippings and a beaten-up harmonica. With a eaten-up harmonica and yellowed newspaper clippings‚ in hand‚ Lemon Brown smiles. A humble smile appears across his face as he describes his career singing the blues. He explains how his wife died and so his son‚ Jesse moved in with her sister. When Jesse grew up he went to go fight in the war. While he was in the war‚ Lemon Brown kept
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some had already decided they were having a bad day. My perkiness probably threatened that. When we arrived at my daughter’s school‚ I stopped to hold the door open for the other parents dropping their children off‚ also saying “good morning” with a smile. This time I got a lot of great responses‚ some ask me if I was a new teacher!! With my daughter at school it was time to head downtown to see how much kindness I could spread. When I got off the bus I made sure to look the driver in the eye and tell
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mind a day of relaxation is a day at the salon where you walk in and seem to be all smiles‚ even with knowing that there is the most numbing smell and the extensive and prolonged filing that the nail artists seems to do. So my day began when I walk through the door of the salon I receive a warm welcoming from the usual employees. It seems as if I could be having a bad day and then having someone greet you with a smile can turn your frown upside down‚ just as fast as the moon sets and the sun starts
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As he crawled around looking for his glasses‚ and I saw a tear in his eye. As I handed him his glasses‚ I said‚ "Those guys are jerks. They really should get lives." He looked at me and said‚ "Hey thanks!" There was a big smile on his face. It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude. I helped him pick up his books‚ and asked him where he lived. As it turned out‚ he lived near me‚ so I asked him why I had never seen him before. He said he had gone to private school before now. I
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rhyming in the poem suggests the Duke doesn’t take the death of late Duchess very seriously and with much grief. The fact that lines 43-46‚ “Oh sir‚ she smiled‚ no doubt‚/Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without/Much the same smile. This grew: I gave commands/Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands…” rhyme is a little disturbing. Browning makes the Duke lightheartedly‚ poetically and with distinctive style tell the servant that he is the one who caused the Duchess to stop smiling. It seems
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lets have the best adventure my trainer!” it looked up at you with misty eyes seemingly unable to fathom that it had a trainer of it’s own She couldn’t help but smile petting it’s head “you’re so sweet you’ll make a perfect companion” it’s eyes seemed to well up with happy tears the snivy huffed “good riddance at lest I’ll be picked by a trainer who has a sense of style” she felt a pang of sadness for Isabella
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