...Throughout her poem, Crossing the Swamp, Mary Oliver explains the empowering journey she is taking from being a” poor dry stick” to becoming a “breathing palace of leaves,” in her personal swamp. The author uses devices such as tone to compare her to being a dry stick and the swamp being a safe haven continuously throughout the piece. Immediately starting off, Mary opens her poem by stating the simple word “Here.” this word is powerful in itself saying that she is there. She is in her own swamp, facing her redemption. To add even more emphasis she repeats herself in line eight, “Here is swamp.” She is right there ready to take that first step. Also, the title of the poem describes that she is on that journey, “crossing the swamp.”...
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...The poet, Mary Oliver, makes every effort to get through” the center of everything” in her poem Crossing the Swamp. Oliver uses literary devices to show her love/hate relationship with the unclear path through the “pathless, seamless” swamp. As claimed by Frederick Douglass, “without a struggle there can be no progress.” In the beginning, Mary reveals that the swamp is essential to her by stating that the swamp is “the center of everything.” Right off the bat she lets the readers know that the swamp is going to be a significant part in her story. The poet then goes on with her written work using alliteration. Mary states, “The nugget of dense sap, branching vines, the dark burred faintly belching bogs.” While alliterating the letter “b”, vividly enlightening how the swamp looks, Mary indirectly explains that the swamp is a...
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...Have you ever been on an adventure? Read as Odysseus and Mary travel, and what they learn. In the poem The Journey the author Mary Oliver ventures away from society. She was influenced by everyone around her to be someone else, but finally found her own voice. This is similar to the book The Odyssey where Odysseus courageously leads his men into the battle of Troy. After they leave Troy to return home there journey is only beginning. The authors use personifications and diction to further express substantial feelings. People take journeys to get to destinations, In doing so they find who they truly are. The authors use personifications to further express substantial feelings. Odysseus and Mary both find themselves in trouble, but battle to overcome it. On Odysseus’s journey home he lead his crew adrift for nine days before...
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...poem that has some kind of real life meaning to it. I can relate to the poem better. The poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver was a very inspirational poem. Oliver creatively uses imaginative language, emotion, symbolism, and romanticism which led to a very positive and upbeat tone in her poem. Throughout her poem, my main focus was on the positive and upbeat tones that the poem contained. By her use of symbolic and imaginative language in “Wild Geese”, the reader is opened to her underlying meaning behind her literary prose. Furthermore, the calm romantic tone of this poem raises positive emotions to rise up out of the moment, and invites us to further take a look at ourselves. She immediately engages the reader into considering the true meaning behind her choice of words. In lines one through five, the reader can envision being in a very noble place where rules are always followed. Mary Oliver (1986) noted that, “You do not have to be good. ”You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” I think she is trying to say that you do not have to follow the rules of society by bowing down to others or to repent for being who you are. The poem is trying to let the readers know, it is o.k to be who you are without feeling guilty on how God created you. Oliver used the symbol of an animal, you...
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...Mary Oliver is a renowned American poet who has achieved and been immensely awarded on account of her works. Oliver’s poetry finds its foundation in the natural world of Ohio, where she grew up and where she gets the majority of her inspiration. Mary Oliver uses vivid imagery and various figures of speech to bring to life the world of nature in her poems. Many of which explore the impulse and desire associated with the feelings of eroticism. Eroticism is known as the feeling of sexual excitement, if something is said to be sexually exciting in any sense it is said to be erotic. Many different things can be considered elements of Eroticism. Things that cause individuals to feel sexually aroused or excited can include various senses from sight, touch, smell to sounds and various activities or actions and may be considered erotic. Over this semester a number of the poems by Mary Oliver that we have looked at and discussed as a class are focused around the feelings and senses of eroticism. Three of the works in specific which may account for the most blatantly obvious examples of poems with erotic and sexual tones are “Postcard from Flamingo”, “An Old Whorehouse” and “The Snakes” – each of these using multiple elements and literary figures of speech to provide a feel of sexual excitement. Oliver’s use of titles, word choice, metaphoric phrases, and other arousing aspects provide these poems in particular with an overall feel of Eroticism...
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...When analyzing “crossing the swamp” by Mary Oliver there are a lot of significant and interesting things about it including: Extended metaphor, where the poem is compered with Olives real life struggles and life blocks, the other one is consonance, this is where the poem does not only apply to life but also manually, and finally with the use of alliteration and the repetition of a sound to transform the dead swamp into a “ bulling hissing swamp”. and altogether into the spit image of Oliver’s life of pain and gain. The swamp is a metaphor of its own. The poem describes something as a “struggle,closure”.It is interpreted as “the center of everything” this is because the author of the poem describes the swamp as the center of her life....
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...People may discover numerous things when they take journeys. However, the most signigicant, by far, are the things that they learn about themselves: their strengths, their weaknesses, their preferences, their moral values, what they possess, what they wish to possess, and so on. For instance, in “The Cruelest Journey”, Kira Salak states,”If a journey doesn't have something to teach you about yourself, then what kind of journey is it?” As an adventurer, Salak becomes aware of the fact that challenging oneself is done in order to test one's strength and grit. While on journeys, people may learn the strength of their willpower and overcome that of those who deter and doubt them. If somebody's perseverance is weaker than their fear, they will...
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...In Mary Oliver’s poem, “Some Questions You Might Ask”, Oliver discusses the common beliefs regarding souls, and analyzes them logically. The speaker utilizes rhetorical questions, as well as Juxtaposition to portray to the reader that souls are highly unknown, and they are likely not exclusive to only humans. The speaker begins the poem by juxtaposing strong rhetorical questions that force the reader to think about the concept of souls. The speaker asks, “Is the soul solid, like iron?/ Or is it tender and breakable, like/ the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl?” The contrast of iron with moth wings effectively relays to the reader that it is not known whether a soul will last after death, or if it will shatter into a million pieces. Another...
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...Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Sheila Wright Submitted to Sharon Mooney, RN, MSN in partial fulfillment of NR 460R Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Regis University April 9, 2010 Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice Throughout history, nursing practice has experienced change. Florence Nightingale initiated the greatest change in nursing in the mid-1800’s when she gathered data regarding the morbidity and mortality of soldiers (Chitty & Black, 2007). Nightingale recognized there was a need for change to improve patient outcomes. Her determination to provide the best possible care, based on the evidence she gathered, has inspired a profession. Today, the process of using research to care for patients is referred to as evidence-based practice. The purpose of this paper is to define and explain the importance of evidence-based practice, discuss qualitative and quantitative research studies which affect medical-surgical areas, and barriers preventing research utilization and how they may be overcome. Definition of Evidence-Based Practice There are numerous definitions of evidence-based practice (EBP). EBP is defined by Boswell and Cannon (2007) as, “A research-based, decision-making process used to guide the delivery of holistic patient care by nurses” (p. 340). Cope (as cited in Chitty & Black, 2007), defines EBP as “using the best available research findings to make clinical decisions that are most effective and beneficial for patients”...
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...Blume 12. "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett 13. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison 14. "Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall 15. "Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat 16. "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller 17. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl 18. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White 19. "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese 20. "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" by Brene Brown 21. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1" by Jeff Kinney 22. "Dune" by Frank Herbert 23. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury 24. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson 25. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn 26. "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown 27. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens 28. "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond 29. "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling 30. "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote 31. "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri 32. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison 33. "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest...
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...Paradise Lost By John Milton John Milton Biography Early Years John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608. His parents were John Milton, Sr. and Sarah Jeffery, who lived in a prosperous neighborhood of merchants. John Milton, Sr. was a successful scrivener or copyist who also dabbled in real estate and was noted as a composer of liturgical church music. The Miltons were prosperous enough that eventually they owned a second house in the country. Milton seems to have had a happy childhood. He spoke of his mother's "esteem, and the alms she bestowed." Of his father, Milton said that he "destined me from a child to the pursuits of Literature, . . . and had me daily instructed in the grammar school, and by other masters at home." Though the senior Milton came from a Catholic family, he was a Puritan himself. Milton's religion, therefore, was an outgrowth of family life and not something he chose at a later period in his maturity. Education Sometime, as early as age seven but perhaps later, Milton became a student at St. Paul's school, which was attached to the great cathedral of the same name. St. Paul's was a prestigious English public school — what would be called a "private school" in the U.S. Milton spent eight years as a "Pigeon at Paules," as the students were known, and came out a rather advanced scholar. He had studied the Trivium of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic and had probably been exposed to the Quadrivium of Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music. He...
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...Book's Name | Author's Name | A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River | V.S.Naipaul | A Gift of Monotheists | Ram Mohan Roy | A House for Mr.Biswas | V.S.Naipaul | A Journey | Tony Blair | A Minister and his Responsibilities | Morarji Bhai Desai | A Nation is Making | Surendra Nath Bandhopadhye | A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomash Hardy | A Passage to India | E. M. Foster | A Revenue Stamp (autobiography) | Amrita Pritam | A Strange and Sublime Address | Amit Choudhary | A Suitable Boy | Bikram Seth | A Tale of Two Cities | Charls Dikens | A Voice of Freedom | Nayantara Shehgal | A week with Gandhi | L. Fischer | Adventures of Sherlock Homes | Arther Canon Doel | All the Prime Minister's Men | Janardan Thakur | Allahabad Prasasti | Harisen | Amitabh- the Making of the Superstar | Susmita Das Gupta | Amukta Malyad | Krishna Deva Raya | An Unknown Indian | Nirod C. Choudhary | Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Aparajito | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay | Apple Cart | G. B. Shaw | Aranyak | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay | Arogyaniketan | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | Astyadhaye | Panini | Bakul Katha | Ashapurna Devi | Ban Palashir Padabali | Ramapada Chowdhury | Bandit Queen | Mala Sen | Bela Obela Kalbela | Jibanananda Das | Bengali Zamindar | Nilmoni Mukherjee | Bicramanchadev | Bilhon | Blind Beauty | Boris Pasternak | Buddhacharit | Asha Ghosh | Captive Lady...
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...Just Imported from Africa a Number of prime young SLAVES from the Windward Coast, and to Be Sold on board Capt. Gwin lying at New-Boston. Her small size and her missing front tooth let prospective customers that she was only about seven or eight years old. She was what was named as a refuse slave, which means one whose age rendered her of little market value. To the Boston merchant John Wheatley, however, she was the gift he wanted to give his wife, Susanna. His new acquisition had been stripped of her African identity to be made a product on the eighteenth-century global market. Her new owner renamed her after the slave ship that had transported her to America. The little girl who had been enslaved in Africa continued on her impracticable journey to become the founding mother of African American literature, Phillis Wheatley. “John Wheatley purchased the young girl as a servant for his wife, Susanna. Under the family's direction, Wheatley (who, as was the custom at the time, adopted her master's last name) was taken under Susanna's wing. While Wheatley suffered from poor health, her quick intelligence was hard to miss, and as a result, Susanna did not train her to be her servant”. When they caught Phillis writing on a wall with chalk. Instead of chastising her, the Wheatley encouraged her to learn. When they learned about her intelligence the Wheatley daughter tutored her in reading and writing. Phillis also studied English literature, Latin, and the Bible, but what she did best was...
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...appened in between 1800-1850 in England? 1800: Jan First soup kitchens to relieve hungry poor in London Autumn Robert owen begins philanthropic reform for workers employed in his mills at New Lanark Maria Edgeworth publishes Castle Rackrent, one of the earliest historical novels 1801 Steam carriae of Richard Trevithick carries road passengers at Camborne, Cornwall 1802 June 22 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, first protective factory legislation, no children under 9 in mills,maximum 12-hour day for children Madame Tussaud mounts the first waxwork exhibition in Lyceum Hall, London Chalotte Dundas, a wooden ship with a single paddle-wheel, covers 20 miles of the Forth and clyde Canal, the world's first steam vessel. 1805 October 21 Battle of Trafalgar, Nelso defeats Franco-Spanish fleet, but is mortally wounded. 1807 Mar 25 Slave Trade abolished in all British possessions June 4 Federick Winsor illuminates part of pall Mall with gas lighting. 1811 Regency Act in favour of Prince of Wales because of George III's insanity. Mar organised machine-breaking (Luddism) in Nottingham Jane Austen publishes Sense and Sensibility Fashionable women reject tight corsets and petticoats 1812 Mar Publication of first 2 cantos of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage causes sensation: "I woke one morning and found myself famous" autumn Countess Lieven, wife of russian ambasador, introduces waltz to London 1813 Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice Smooth-wheeled...
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...When I was young my grandmother was a flight attendant for American Airlines. She flew the DFW to Heathrow trip every couple of weeks; it was the only time I saw her. She normally only stayed one night, and although she would have loved to just sit and talk with us, we always did something special. One night when I was five, we went to go see The Lion King on the West End. Despite not remembering the show, I do remember being amazed by the vibrant colors, roaring music, and jaw-dropping costumes. The moment it was over, I wanted nothing more than to watch it on repeat for the rest of my life. Going to the West End became a memorable tradition for me and my mother. We went to both Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music in the year that followed. The first show I remember was Billy Elliot, which...
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