...demonstrating the love and concern a mother has for her son and educating him on how life may be. The overall message is to never give up, although life is hard, one can never give up no matter what your struggles are, keep pushing forward. This poem implies that experience can teach life lessons, which the mother has been through time after time. She explains to her son in a well spoken way that things may go wrong, don’t get content, move forward and never give up. This poem reminds me of a novel named Push, written by Sapphire in 1996, it illustrates the conditions of living in Harlem in the 1980’s and the suffering of a girl, Claireece Precious Jones, who experienced sexual harassment, being committed twice by her own father, having two children by him, but never giving up. The first couple of stanzas show that the son may have asked his mother a question, because she starts with, "Well, son, I'll tell you." The mother then goes on and uses the metaphor “Life for me ain't been no crystal stair,” which can symbolize her spiritual pursue towards Christ or telling her son that life is a journey and not something you can walk through with ease. The mother says it had tacks and splinters which could symbolically mean the life she has experienced is complicated. This also could mean the places she lived at had “no carpet on the floor”, and/or lifted boards. The damaged parts of the stairway may represent the powerlessness of individuals to repair the ripped structures of...
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...mainly focused upon the three main characters within the novel, Fuselli, Chrisfield, and Andrews. All three men have homosocial relationships, which to clarify is not romantic in nature but simply a friendship between people of the same gender. Within Three Soldiers I will assess how Fuselli, Chrisfield, and Andrews conducted themselves within these homosocial relationships. This novel starts with Dan Fuselli anxious to be promoted one day to corporal. Fuselli even dreams about the day that Mabe, his girl back home, will send him a letter addressed to Corporal Fuselli which is when he is barely starting in the army. “The corporal didn’t look...
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...Spirted The short story “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston is about a man who steals another man’s wife from him, and shoot and kills the husband then dies from being in an accident at the mill. The town knows about the affair and what the husband Joe to do coming about. Karma happens when a person does wrong like killing, lying, and stealing. Men feel that they have to is masculinity in order to have a woman but don’t realize the dangers. Spunk as being very known around town he the type of person who goes for what he wants and achieve at it. He is wrong to take another man’s wife but when you have a lively spirt it doesn’t matter to a person. Spunk feels that he is powerful and no one can defeat him. Joe unlike Spunk is weaker and gets killed because of listing to others and feeling less of a man The reader can feel bad for poor Joe but he gains the courage to go against Spunk which of course was not the smartest thing to do but he wanted his wife back he says, “Ah’m goin’ an’ fetch her back, Spunk’s done gone too fur.” (215) He knows he has to get his wife back from Spunk so he can stop being the clown of the town and he loves and missing her even with her being a terrible wife. The dialogue in the short story was hard to understand and it that is very bad because most of...
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...He has always had to take care of Lennie and guide him through life. On the other side, Curly’s wife is living a life she never wanted to live. Her husband never listens to her, making her always feel isolated and lonely. Throughout the book not only do we learn about George and Lennie’s problems, but we also learn about the loneliness George and Curley’s wife experience. First of all, George is a lonely character in this book for several reasons. George and his best friend Lennie dream about owning their own farm. Lennie is a big tall man who happens to be mentally handicapped. Even though they are best friends, George still faces loneliness every day. He has no one to talk to about his problems because Lennie wouldn’t understand. George feels that his life would be so much better if he didn’t know Lennie. In the book, Steinbeck says, “God a'mighty, if I was alone I could live so easy.....I got you! You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get.” This proves George is a very...
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...kuroi.zetsubo Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is the shocking story of two friends, George and Lennie, who have nothing but each other and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own and no longer have to wander round the country in search of work. The direction in which the story is heading becomes clear as it draws to a close. When George kills Lennie because he believes he must take responsibility for him. “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head. The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied, he pulled the trigger.” George realizes that he must be the one that kills Lennie and not the other ranch men. In the same way that Candy should have taken the responsibility for his dog, George believes that he must take responsibility for Lennie. He must have realized that even if they were to run away again, Lennie would get into trouble and they would have to run away again. It really must have killed George inside when he saw Lennie lying dead at his feet. He and Lennie were portrayed as having been together a long time. Now George is on his own and no different from any of the other ranch men , he no longer dreamed of having a house of his own, that dream died when Curley’s wife was found lying in the hay. George tells Lennie how different they are compared to the other ranchers. “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world....
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...Is there a proper time to shoot one's best friend, even if it is the right thing to do? In Of Mice and Men shows loyalty, obligation, and love. George wouldn’t allow the others to shoot Lennie, even when Lennie killed many animals including Candy's dog. Does he mean to? But George's love for Lennie made him have to do the right thing and let George die happy, in the place where his memory of the dream farm. So was George doing right? In the novel George went from being Lennie’s caretaker, to have to kill Lennie the right way. So George went from being loyal to being obligated. In the beginning of the book George was loyal to Lennie, and still is through most of the story. Lennie said, “I thought you was mad at me, George.” “No” said George “no Lennie, I ain’t mad. I never been mad, and I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want you to know” (Steinbeck 106). This...
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...Plato’s Truth in “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara Imagine a prisoner who was born in a cave and have never seen anything besides a wall is one day released. When he leaves the cave and approaches the light, his eyes hurt and “he is not able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.” This metaphoric example shows that when a person is placed in an uncomfortable situation, he is first in denial. He doesn’t want to accept things that he sees as reality, continuing to live according to his old false perceptions. As he looks longer at the sun he slowly starts to realize that his perceptions could be wrong. He now sees the light and a new world, which he never thought exists. Sylvia, the heroine of the short story “The Lesson” by...
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...born to protect the innocent. Are humans decidedly cruel or is there some moral good in each of us? In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a different view of the individual, specifically that within each person there is a struggle between right and wrong, but that evil will end up winning in the end. Initially, the boys listen to their consciences and act according to the moral code they were taught during their...
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...other than his minor stardom. He’s a local basketball legend; not a great player, but a good one. And most of all, a real lucky one. Ritchie Braddock is what you call a nice, quiet guy, who never makes trouble, is a fair athlete, and does well with his studies. He mainly keeps to himself, except for one or two good friends. He lives in a spare back room at Mrs....
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...tragedy play is a source of drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to extreme suffer or sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with lack of approval or support. Arthur Miller’s tragedy play, Death of a Salesman can be viewed as a urology of a man who was a constant dreamer, which represents his life and tragic death as he tries to fulfill his visions of having the American Dream. American tragedy explores the great myths that govern a society by examining the lives of its most ordinary citizens. Miller vividly expresses ideas throughout his play by demonstrating a changing society. Also, reading Death of a Salesman allows the play to be psychologically viewed as one man’s journey from shame and his own lack of self-confidence. Arthur Miller portrays Willy, his family, and other characters situation by the use of symbolism and themes, he accurately puts into words what every human being thinks, feels, and worries about, but often has trouble expressing. The lead character is Willy Loman, a failing door-to-door salesman coming to the end of his life but doggedly holding on to lost dreams. In the beginning of the play, we see Willy returning home to his wife Linda after almost crashing his car. Linda begins to worry about her husband and fears what may happen in the future. We soon learn why Willy is unable to continue his career as a salesman, which he has followed for many years. He starts to explain to...
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...Magazine had ordered it from him and, after his death, the unfinished manuscript was found in his room, on his dusty desk. The story as it here appears was published in the Cosmopolitan for September, 1910.] MURRAY dreamed a dream. Both psychology and science grope when they would explain to us the strange adventures of our immaterial selves when wandering in the realm of "Death's twin brother, Sleep." This story will not attempt to be illuminative; it is no more than a record of Murray's dream. One of the most puzzling phases of that strange waking sleep is that dreams which seem to cover months or even years may take place within a few seconds or minutes. Murray was waiting in his cell in the ward of the condemned. An electric arc light in the ceiling of the corridor shone brightly upon his table. On a sheet of white paper an ant crawled wildly here and there as Murray blocked its way with an envelope. The electrocution was set for eight o'clock in the evening. Murray smiled at the antics of the wisest of insects. There were seven other condemned men in the chamber. Since he had been there Murray had seen three taken out to their fate; one gone mad and fighting like a wolf caught in a trap; one, no less mad, offering up a sanctimonious lip-service to Heaven; the third, a weakling, collapsed and strapped to a board. He wondered with what credit to himself his own heart, foot, and face would meet his punishment; for this was his evening. He thought it must...
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...mine till the end of time you came to me like the dawn through the night just shining like the sun oh out of my dreams and into my life you are the one, you are the one said i love you but i lied cause this is more than love i feel inside said i love you but i was wrong cause love could never ever feel so strong said i love you but i lied with all my soul i’ve tried in vain how can mere words my heart explain this taste of heaven so deep so true i’ve found in you so many reasons in so many ways my life has just begun i need you forever and i need you to stay you are the one, you are the one said i love you but i lied (said you love me but you lied) cause this is more than love i feel inside said i love you but i was wrong (oh yeah) cause love could never ever feel so strong said i love you but i lied you came to me like the dawn through the night just shining like the sun (shining like the sun) out of my dreams and into my life you are the one, you are the one said i love you but i lied (said i love you but i lied) cause this is more than love i feel inside (i feel inside) said i love you but i was wrong (said i love you but i’m wrong) cause love could never ever feel so strong said i love you (said i love you) but this is more than love i feel inside said i loved you but i lied Lirik Lagu Agnes Monica & Christian Chavez En Donde Estas Lyrics Disfrazando con un beso este vacío que se siente Ocultando...
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...record. Convicted people know that they can’t get jobs after they get out, thus they decide to plead guilty. Initially, they become servers of a system that is merely evil. The stripped pajamas African- Americans were wearing reminded me of the same pajamas Jews wore during the Nazi regime. There were parts when blacks were being severely beaten while lying on the ground naked. The level of humiliation and violence done to the blacks was traumatic. No wonder there were cases where people killed themselves once they were let out. All the trauma and mental damage done probably haunted them even when they were free. America is known as the land of the free, but the openly violations that are done to African Americans is definitely a reformed way of control, and these violations don’t happen anywhere in the so called “modern world.” While watching the movie I noticed that a part of the 13th amendment was highlighted. Since then, I’ve read the 13th Amendment at least five times. I’ve been trying to comprehend how did this vain- worded sentence with forty-six words abolished slavery...?!Whether they fully planned how this amendment could one day be violated I’m not sure, but surely “for those convicted of a crime” wasn’t unintentionally just put there for any reason. It seems that the mass incarceration and the creating of a labor workforce was thought and established long before people knew what it truly meant. In my opinion the 13th Amendment was a claimed law written by those who...
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...Wind and Window- Robert Frost She Walks in Beauty- Lord George Byron Agape (Unconditional Love)- Definition How Do I Love Thee- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is More Thicker than Forget- E.E. Cummings Biographies Epilogue Storge Affection Affection- is the love through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The closeness and love that a truly spiritual person has for God or any other religion is a “gift-love”. The love a mother feels for her child is a “need-love”. There are other types of love: Affection, Friendship, Romantic, and Unconditional. I wanted to bring together poems that would reflect all types of love. I rearranged those poems the poems by the type of...
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...Bill of Rights is far, really far from being alone. For example, the slightly older French "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" is generally considered as the reference for Human Rights. As for the religious aspect of the American Bill or Rights, claiming it's a good thing is a matter of personnal opinion. That and its lack of universalism (it's only about American citizens) are probably the reason the "French" Bill of Rights is considered the reference. You (like other answerers) also seem to think that Democracy (and everything it implies politcally) is an American invention and that it only exists in the US, which is very, very much wrong ! You already knew money can't buy love — but it turns out it can't buy happiness either. The real key to finding happiness is personal autonomy and freedom, which, in many cases, can be the result of having a sufficient amount of money. This is good news for...
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