In his poem‚ "Traveling through the Dark‚" William Stafford presents the reader with the difficulty of one man’s choice. Immediately‚ the scene is set‚ with the driver‚ who is "traveling through the dark" on a treacherous winding road when suddenly he sees a dead deer in the road. Right away‚ the speaker realizes what he must do: “It is usually best to roll them into the canyon.” The reader can recognize that this is not a new situation for the speaker and he makes it clear that to leave the deer
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“Traveling through the Dark” by William E. Stanford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin a man must make the choice of nature and its ways. Both poems have their similarities and differences. Traveling through the dark and woodchucks share various ways of similarities‚ Man vs Nature Death situations are involved in both poems. Through the use of narrations both poems have different attitudes. Traveling through the dark starts off dark and progress towards a more serious tone and‚ the reader sympathizes
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In the poem‚ “Traveling through the Dark”‚ William Stafford conveys the story of a person coming across a deceased doe at night and has their mindset to move the body out of the way rather than drive around it. Then when the doe is approached‚ it has then occurred to the person that the doe passed away with an unborn fawn. After much though‚ the narrator decided to dispose of the body with the fawn into the river. The central conflict in the poem is an internal conflict within the person of what
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Mirna Garcia 6/30/11 Assignment #3 William Stafford’s "Traveling Through the Dark" is a poem that expresses the challenging aspects of having to make difficult decisions accompanied by sadness. The narrator expresses his struggle of how he deals with a tragic event he runs into while traveling in the dark on a swerved road. As he is driving down a narrow road he runs into a dead deer. Most people view these animals as beautiful creatures belonging and associated it with our beautiful
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Writing to Argue - Capital Punishment Justice? Or simply revenge? Capital punishment is a horrendous and completely brutal punishment - an utterly barbaric way of society. Why educate the children of today’s modern world that an eye for an eye is appalling behaviour‚ however‚ allowing them to grow in communities where their teachings are lies? Hypocrites. The sickening miscarriage of justice. It is concealed away by the evil mask of the government. Statistics acquired show that 4 out
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Irwin March 14/11 Tommy Douglas’ “Capital Punishment” focuses on the negatives aspects of the death sentence in Canada. “I am in favour of the motion to abolish capital punishment and I am also supporting the amendment to put it on a five-year trial basis” (Tommy Douglas 558). Being a person who lives abroad in the public with millions of others‚ I must say I disagree with Douglas’ argument as to abolishing the punishment‚ as I feel having capital punishment would indefinitely reduce the murder
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Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Debra Johnson PHI103 Informal Logic Instructor: Philip Bence June 11‚ 2013 Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Public support for capital punishment has eroded across the nation‚ largely because Americans are ambivalent. Many think that capital punishment is acceptable‚ but they are apprehensive about innocent people being executed. As the political debate of the past two decades centered on wrongful convictions and
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Death Penalty Capital punishment has been and will likely always be a highly controversial issue. Throughout history‚ the death penalty has been used as a form of public display for crime deterrence. Examples in the past include beheadings‚ hangings‚ and now lethal injection. Modern research has been done around the issues of deterrence and whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. This begs the question of whether it is ethical to execute a person just to deter
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Capital Punishment Capital punishment‚ also known as the death penalty‚ is the toughest form of punishment enforced today in the United States. According to the online Webster dictionary‚ capital punishment is defined as “the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime‚ often called a capital offence or a capital crime” (1). In those jurisdictions that practice capital punishment‚ its use is usually restricted to a small number of criminal offences‚ principally
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Capital Punishment Someone who believes that capital punishment is immoral or is completely against it‚ until he or she look at certain cases‚ people are quick to say‚ “Put them to death”. The public often contradicts their opinions when the discussion of capital punishment arises. Adding on to what Jeff Lindsay stated‚ most people often say that capital punishment is inhumane‚ yet when a ‘special’ case arises their stance changes; but only for that particular case. Of course there are many pros
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