...that can be intrigued upon one being life the other death. I have chosen my focus on what I believe to be Oliver’s true intention of “When Death Comes” and that is, death is not something to be afraid of yet a curiosity to be looked upon. Oliver seems to touch the audience by speaking of death and curiosities of the afterlife. While answering the characters own questions about life and the characters time as a visitor upon earth to be satisfying. Oliver draws the audience in with a sense of speaking directly to the reader about death presenting that death is a possibility of an invitation to new adventure and knowledge; not just a mere cold, silent darkness to be afraid of as one passes onto death which is what some believe. Oliver wants to welcome death without fear giving the poem a more free versed technique in comparison to the character in the poem that comes across as free spirited and gentle character; which I will address in the next paragraph. Oliver shows no true structure of her poem with rhyming but what I did notice is that her words seem calm while she addresses death and sincere while allowing her words to flow emphasizing on sounds in the stanzas after reading them a few times out loud and they seem to just simply flow together like door and curiosity. Oliver demonstrates several similes to death and anaphora’s for images of death which I will further discuss later to persuade one that my belief of Oliver’s poem is to be not afraid of death and to embrace it...
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...In Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad uses Marlow’s physical journey through the Congo to show his psychological journey. Before his journey even begins, the doctor examining Marlow foreshadows this journey by taking precise measurements of Marlow’s head and saying that what happens to men in the congo is “psychologically interesting.” From this point forward, when the reader has glimpses into Marlow's mind, there are black to white transformations in his opinions, feelings, and subconscious. Marlow’s physical journey into the darkening jungle illustrates how he is changing psychologically. At the start of his journey, Marlow is mentally sound, emotionally sensitive, and personally humble. By his diction and actions, the reader can see that his mind is clear and that he is prepared for his journey. In his first testing moment, Marlow steps into the shade and is appalled when he sees overworked and abused natives lying moribund on the ground. This scene shows that Marlow feels for humanity and that he is starting to realize the hypocrisy of the company here and questioning his own morals in following them. Additionally, because Marlow knows it is essentially by chance that he received the job, he is humble in his...
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...Johan Rodriguez Professor Nadia Johnson English Comp. 1101 13 June 2010 The Heart of Darkness is a novel that describes many subjects. One of these subjects is read between the lines but is very prominent during the whole adventure through the African Congo. The topic is knowledge and the great desire of man to reach it since its childhood to adulthood. Conrad uses the main character in his novel the Heart of Darkness, Marlow, as an interpretation of the ignorance of human kind and its desire to find knowledge. Kurt represents the knowledge that human kind so dearly desires but usually is surrounded by darkness. The paper is divided in three different sections. The first section provides an insight of Conrad’s novel and identifies the desire of Marlow to find knowledge through his voyage. The second sections establish the new attitudes and split concepts Conrad uses as turning points of the characters in the novel. The third and final section demonstrates the dilemma that Marlow confronts once it has found the knowledge he was looking for. MARLOW’S CRAVING FOR KNOWLEDGE The HOD describes the great desire of the author for letting its audience know that the knowledge of light is Kurt, the desire of man to look for that knowledge is Marlow and the African Congo and many of the other characters are the darkness that individuals must surpass to find knowledge. One of the striking aspects of the novel is that only Marlow and Kurt are named; the other characters...
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...only begotten son not only wanted us to receive the free gift of salvation but wanted us in his royal family is astonishing. God not only wants us to be blessed but he wants us to accept the benefits of being in the royal family. Kingdom of God I have the ability to be so attractive. The kingdom of God is something that when placed inside of our hearts makes us attractive to those around us. We posses the solutions to the modern day questions. We walk with something that all mankind will react too because God created all in HIS image and are allow subject to HIS creativity entity. With the kingdom of God reigning in our hearts we allow the invisible kingdom to take reign and allow an everlasting kingdom to begin to open up opportunities for us. Opportunities like establishing that which was rightfully the LORDS back to HIM. The world has established it's kingdom and is in pursuit of capturing the sons and daughters of light. When we realize that we have the kingdom of God within us, we can begin to take authority over the kingdoms that threaten God's. The phrase "Uphold the Kingdom" is something that God placed in my heart since the beginning of this class. Uphold by definition means to "maintain", we are called to not only uphold the kingdom principles that have been established by God but we are called to maintain them. If we we're to attend a baseball game and arrive early we would see many different people doing various different jobs all...
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...Prophecy of the Raven Thump, thump, thump, thump Hearts beat to the tremble of a lost mind To foster the waves of phantom fullness O’ what a lie, caught up in the madness Of a long lost chaos, a liberty oh so far From what we once called the inner home of freedom I start to watch the raven so eerily sitting on the tree, out of real curiosity Of the dark prophecy He proclaims so clearly, quote of His darkness “Ye shall fall, ye shall bow, ye shall hear the three night owls” The owls He speaks of are a fright to me, as I see so clearly now what He Has seen all along, we are in the dark and are trapped in an eternal pillory pending our heed Fear, anguish, the agony of uncertainty Hail! Hail the raven for His prophetic warning! As we are a lost people, searching in the dark for the light of peace...
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...remarkable that of all the busybodies and impertinent people in parish, not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper (Pg. 240).” The narrator uses curiosity to make the reader more entide to the basic situation. The story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an enticing American Romanticism that conveys an interesting life learning lesson to everyone. The most well known American Romanticism characteristic of a story is love. However,...
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...that will eventually become adults and we value what they can give to us as adults. But in a child’s current form their is no value placed by our society, we are eagerly trying to teach them and cause them to grow up so we can cultivate what we deem truly valuable in them. This is why children who never grow up, for example individuals with Down’s syndrome, are not really seen as valuable even as they age. But children should be valued for what they have inside of them, the spirit that very few adults still have. Children are filled with a spirit of awe, innocence, trust, and the ability to forgive even the harshest of slights against them. Children are filled with lightheartedness, with infectious laughter, and a sense of discovery and curiosity. These are the attributes and gifts that are unique in children and freely shared by children, and for this children...
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...Allen Poe’s short story “The Descent into the Maelstrom,” and Nikolai Gogol’s “Viy,” evoke similar feelings within the reader. Both stories have fear as a central theme, specifically fear of the unknown. The stories have relatable ideas on how fear originates and what it can do to a person. In both stories fear stemmed from unexplainable chaos outside of the character’s control, terrorized them while simultaneously evoking human curiosity, and changed the protagonist for the worst. Both stories also have a clear message that fear can destroy you if you don’t take action against it. In both stories, the main terrors are sublime beings that cannot be explained. In Poe’s Maelstrom, the accounts of its phenomenon are mainly speculations, it is not fully explained. The main character says he has “inability to comprehend it… for, however conclusive on paper, it becomes altogether unintelligible, and even absurd, amid the thunder of the abyss.” (Poe 7) In Gogol’s “Viy,” the characters debate over how to recognize a witch- “’even if you knew the Psalter by heart, you could not recognize one’… ‘every witch has a little tail’…. ‘every old woman is a witch.’” (Gogol 43) Even a group of philosophers, men who should know the most about such supernatural things cannot explain them. Stories about the witch had traveled around, but it was hard to decipher fact from fiction. Each of the men had a different story to tell about the witch. “One had seen her come to the door of his house in the form...
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...According to dictionary.com, the term ‘responsibility’ is defined as the state or the fact of being answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, one certain character attempts to avoid his responsibility caused by his genuine desire and determinism for knowledge and fame, which eventually brings a catastrophic tragedy for the novel as a whole. Mary Shelley incorporates themes such as nature of man, curiosity, dangers of knowledge, expectations versus reality, the pursuit of fame and popularity to achieve and depict the character’s actions and reactions. In Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein is depicted as a character that creates the creature and is the primary...
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...In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses contrasts and ironies between the native Africans and the intrusive Europeans to prove that Civilization is not truly civilized. The Europeans claim to be in the Congo to “civilize” the “savage” natives, yet they are far from paragons of civility. The Europeans are violent, greedy, and extensively lazy while the natives show restraint, non-violence, and reluctant yet exemplary work ethic. Although the Europeans have enslaved the natives of the Congo, they themselves are slaves to greed. Marlow describes them best when he refers to them as “greedy phantoms” (137). The pilgrims and the company employees share a common goal, profit. They drift about day to day, unorderly, collecting ivory from their...
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...the walls fresh paint. She jotted down more notes. There was one more area to examine, the attic. Remembering that boards covered the windows, she needed something to pry them away to allow light into the space. Casey returned to the car to grab the flashlight from the glove compartment and a tire iron from the trunk before returning to the attic. As the door swung open a musty odor greeted her. Standing in the doorway, she waited a few moments while her eyes adjusted to the darkness before moving into the center of the room. Scanning the room for the general direction of the windows splinters of...
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...In the month of June in 2004, the sun’s hot rays danced through the clouds as if showing off its new moves before landing on the ground. The hotness surrounded me, clinched in every possible way. I stood to find a shelter, a place where I could save myself- and breath. As I entered, darkness filled the chilly room. Through the glass windows, bright eyes of every color stared at me, as if I were a meal, and ready to be munched on. Different shapes of these strange looking creatures stayed in huge tanks filled with water. Swimming freely, they seemed to own the place. Inside the other tank, I saw a lady covered up in a divers’ suit with an oxygen mask, feeding these creepy creatures. I saw countless of these creatures surrounding her; asking for more. The job seemed spine chilling or rather fascinating. It was here, where I noticed a life-changing spark of interest lighting up inside me. In that summer, I went to Sea World with my family in San Antonio. I saw people with reddened skin, half-soaked clothes, running here and there, and enjoying the heat. I, on the other hand, imagined myself at home, on a couch, watching Shark Week. However, it didn’t take long for me to stumble over my passion. It awaited me, begged me to explore. That dark and chilly room felt like heaven. Everywhere I looked, I saw different species of sharks. “Nothing could be perfect,” I thought. I stood in the room filled with sharks for an hour, taking pictures and videos of their every movement. The...
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...or downright awful for you. But education is still important because it opens the mind and expands it. And if your years in school were bad or boring you can still educate yourself now. Anyways, here’s some wisdom and inspiration from the people who have walked before us. It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.Epictetus Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. “Light! Give me light!” was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour.Helen Keller If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.Abraham Maslow You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.Clay P. Bedford Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.David M. Burns A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry B Adams Keep away from people who try to belittle...
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...Cabinet of Caligari women are portrayed in a way that matches up with Modernism concepts. Dr. Olsen’s daughter is kidnapped and the men quickly hurry to rescue her. This scene shows how Dr. Caligari makes no attempts to resist savagery, in film men often must come to the rescue of women, and the savagery exemplifies why there are boundaries and standards in the world. Dr. Olson’s daughter, Jane, puts herself on Dr. Caligari’s radar when she comes looking for her father. Caligari is using a sleepwalking man, Cesare, to commit murders in the town. Jane goes searching for her father, for no reason other than her curiosity and anxiety, and gets herself in trouble for it. In Modernism, searching for answers can be dangerous as one can see glimpses into the savage world, as Jane does with Caligari and Cesare. As we’ve seen over and over in this course, such as in Heart of Darkness, the savage world is truly too much for a civilized person to handle and leads to many problems. In this case, even though she wasn’t directly searching for knowledge on savagery, Jane’s inquiry helps get her kidnapped. Jane is kidnapped from her sleep. In Modernism sleep is often associated with being g able to see the truth as well as viewing one’s hopes, fears, and desires. While it’s impossible to know what Jane was dreaming about she is quickly awakened into a quick nightmare. However, this “nightmare” helps the truth about Caligari soon become known. Cesare chooses to kidnap Jane because much like in Modernism...
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...Street light purpose is to direct traffic in a orderly manner and ensure a safe traveling space for everyone. However if the light is malfunctioning, there is no control. Furthermore, the lack of light as guidance, the father path is restricted. He must wait until it is his turn to pass the intersection which further inconveniences him. However, the street is quite barren at midnight which show that the restriction is in his heart rather than the light. It's the father who did not want to come home instead of the broken light. He uses the light as an excuse to isolated himself further in order to avoid coming home...
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