...she would have to take his place in the family. Before he died her father taught her all he knew about hunting. This is where she received all of her skills (SparkNotes Editors). Katniss’ role in her family was just as a father would be. She was the provider, caretaker, and essentially the backbone of the family. Katniss would hunt and gather food to either feed her family or sell to earn money. With her being a hunter, she had amazing archery skills. This gave her a huge advantage in the games (Bethune 1). This allowed her to get food for herself. Also, with her knowledge of nature, she knew what was edible and what was not edible (Bethune 1). This saved her and Peeta from eating poisonous berries, unlike their counter-parts who lost their life this way. So in a way, she was also a provider for Peeta. Since Katniss and Peeta were from the same District, they had a naturally formed bond, or alliance. Alliances also played a huge role in helping Katniss winning the games (Bethune 1). Katniss is used to fending on her own. This gave her an edge that no one else had. Not only can she work alone, but this means she is use to adjusting; meaning she will also be able to work well with others. At home she found a way to get out of her district to get food. This was not allowed at all. The citizens were not allowed to leave the premises, nor were...
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...Richard Le Gallienne (Jan. 20, 1866 - Sept. 15, 1947) Richard Le Gallienne was born January 20th, 1866 in Liverpool, England. His writing career began with the publication of My Ladies’ Sonnets in 1887, and expanded to contribute to The Star newspaper, The Yellow Book, and several other works of literature. Le Gallienne was part of a generation known as the “Lost Generation”, born in the wake of the first world war, which heavily influenced the subject and style of most of his writing. Richard Le Gallienne, in his poems “Soldier Going To The War” and “Ad Cimmerios”, conveys the Romantic ideal of nationalism, a Lost Generation focus on wartime and its aftermath, a Gothic preoccupation with death and tones of hopefulness and pride through the use of tense changes, figurative language, repetitive structure, allusion and apostrophe. “Soldier Going To The War” elucidates both Lost Generation influences with its focus on war, and Romantic influences with its nationalistic theme. Le Gallienne offers parallel hopeful and prideful tones in this poem along with its parallel structure. The first two stanzas address a soldier who is “going to” the war, while the last two shift to address a soldier who is “coming from” the war. This structure creates a sense of completion and victory that the reader can follow through the poem. The first two stanzas are effective in creating a hopeful tone through rhetorical questioning; the narrator asks if the soldier will “take [their] heart with...
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...Both of these characters have faced extreme adversity and have done everything in their power to survive it. However, for the house, it’s attempts of self-preservation would be in vain. A great fire had started in the house and the desperate attempts made by the house would be for nothing. “The house tried to save itself. Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire” (Bradbury 290). Despite the attempts made by the house the fire was still victorious. Towards the end the house was manic; ”In the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, the stove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, ten dozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which, eaten by the fire started the stove working again, hysterically hissing!” (Bradbury 292). Although there was nothing to be done the house continued to provide for the family that no longer resided within its walls. As for Jonathan, even though he was robbed in the night, and no one came to help he still endured. In fact the next morning Jonathan told a group people: “‘I count it as nothing’ he told his sympathizers,his eyes on the rope he was tying. ‘what is egg-rasher? Did I depend on it last week...
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...death was in the hearts of both Corith and Sir Francis. Corith wanted to kill Sir Francis and vice versa. However, Corith's hatred for the white man makes him to turn to Parson, who instead ends up killing him. The actions and death in this scene reveals incidences of revenge, mischief, and betrayal. Moreover, the death and the occurrences surrounding it helps in plot development. Analyzing the Dr. Futurist and the theme of death, Dunst and Stefan (67) explore stagnation, age and youth. They argue that there is Social Darwinism in the novel, and there is no reason for humans to continue living post reproductive age. This ideology makes the society to glorify death, and view it as something that will save them from societal problems. Victorious people do a lot within a short, but die before attaining thirty years....
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... | |12 |Ante, ant |before (antebellum) | | | | | |13 |Anthrop |man (anthropology) | |14 |Anti, ant |against, opposite (antivirus) | |15 |Auc, aug, aut |originate, increase (augment) | |16 |Aud |hear (audio) | |17 |Auto |self ( autocracy) | |18 |Belli, bell |war (bellicose) | |19 |Bene, ben |good (benefactor) | |20 |Bi |two (binary) | |21 |Bibilo |book (bibliophile) | |22 |Bio |life (biology) | |23 |Brev |short (brevity) | |24 |Burs |money, purse (bursar) | |25 |Cad, cas, cid |happen, fall (accident, cascade) | |26 |Cap, cip |head (capstone) | |27 |Carn...
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...Larkin has been regarded as one of the most pessimistic poets. Larkin surely takes a very dark view of human life. The main emphasis in his poems is on failure and frustration in human life. And then there is his preoccupation with death. In a number of poems he emphasizes the sombre and grim aspects of human life and in many poems he speaks of the cert of death. We are all aware of the facts of failure and frustration in human life and we are all aware of the faith of death. But what makes Larkin a pessimist, and a confirmed pessimist at that, is his repeated emphasis, and over-emphasis, on these aspects of human life. On explanation of his repeated reminders to us of the certain of death, he has been regarded as “a graveyard poet”; and the general and brooding atmosphere of melancholy and despondency in his poems justifies the label “pessimist” for him. A number of poems come to our minds in this connection. The poem Ambulances paints a gloomy picture of human life because of the fact that every street is visited by an ambulance at one time or the other. An ambulance is a symbol of disease and death. Dockery and Son contains the following pessimistic line: “Life is first boredom, then fear”. And this poem concludes with the pessimistic view that there is old age, and that the end of old age is death. Aubade is a poem in which Larkin’s fear of death reaches its climax. Larkin himself described it his “in-a-funk-about-death poem.” The Positive Features of His Pessimistic...
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...Paul Mbuya Aoko’s Life. Paul Mbuya akoko was born around 1891 in karachuonyo. South Nyanza. He served as paramount chief and also as member of east African legislative assembly. He believed in both Christianity and Lou traditional religion. He married two wives and had several children. In 1938, he published in Lou language, Luo Kitgi Gi Tembegi (Luo customs and habitats). At the time of his death in 1981, he was the “Ker” (ultimate moral or spiritual leader) of the luos. RELIGION and the concept of God He believed that long time ago, there were no denominations or factions in matters of religion. The luo regarded nyasaye (God) as omnipresent. People turned to him or help in all manner of ways. For example, the person going to war would appeal to nyasaye to help defeat his enemy. Where he was victorious, he concluded that it was all due to the favourable disposition of nyasaye. The interesting thing here is that the vanquished also expected the help of the same nyasaye. Now, when a patient recovered from his illness, he acknowledged the help of nyasaye. He believed also that there was, in addition, an element of luck but that it was nyasaye who brought luck his way. People acknowledged nyasaye and so when they rose in the morning, they looked at wang chieng (the face of the sun) for god was thought to reside there as one might expect an occupant of a house. The sun was therefore believed to be capable of acting the role of an intermediary between people and god. Thus, people...
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...College Writing II Searching for The Meaning of Life to make a Life Worth Living It was a typical Sunday night and after a long weekend you go to bed exhausted. After what seemed like minutes you open your eyes to the sound of the alarm blaring in your ear. Wanting nothing more but to hit the snooze button and drift back to sleep you turn on your phone and realize you are already running late to class. Immediately you jump out of bed, grab your backpack and sprint out the door. At the same time you run out of the door your phone slips from your pocket and it shatters on the concrete. You feel as if it is the end of the world, and the only thing on your mind is the thought of not being able to check Facebook or Twitter for the rest of the day and it just tears you apart. After what seems to be the worse day ever your phone rings. Irritated and unable to see who is calling you angrily answer the call. Realizing it is your mother on the other line you immediately interrupt her to tell her it is dire that you get a new phone as soon as possible. After ignorantly insisting for a new phone your mother then informs you that your grandmother has severely fallen and it is not looking to good for her and she might not make it. Taken back you instantly realize how selfish and ungrateful you were acting. Sometimes people get caught up in materialistic things and lose sight of the true meaning of life. It is moments like these that bring us back to reality and remind us not...
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...wedding a couple weekends ago that in my sense of adventure you trusted me in any situation, from snowshoeing a mountain and sledding down, to standing below me while I‘m chain sawing 80ft up above you. I have to tell you how I got started and became the guy you share these crazy adventures with. Skydiving one time has changed my perspective on life to be sure. Just starting out in a new job and trying to figure out what life was about and where I was headed. I decided it was time to mix things up, do something I didn’t think I had the guts to actually do. Go jump from a perfectly good plane attached to someone I didn’t know, that is an “expert“ in the area of falling from great heights (more than once!) . I had been in a plane only two or three times sight seeing, without the urge to open the door no less. The sky is a cold, crisp aqua marine with thin wispy clouds. The walls are a cold steel grey. Rivets hold everything together. A faded tan leather seat, cracked from years speed, pitch, heading and Altitude. A small window on my right side above my head provides the only meager view on the ascent to a totally new view on life. It’s dark behind me where the Instructor waits patiently for the call to go. There’s a small poster on the sliding door that says “Humpty Dumpty was pushed” with a picture of him falling (the irony of which, will hit me in a moment). The wind is leaping in and out of the plane as we speed toward our goal of 10,000ft. The man kneeling in front...
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...underlying message is that women are just as humans as men and they have the same yearning desire for freedom as the men in their life (Chopin, 1894). The story of Mrs. Mallard Louise Mallard is the major character of the story. She is represented as a fair and calm woman along with little indication of being strong. She was suffering from heart disease and that is why the death of her husband was disclosed to her after much hesitation. Her character envelops a mixture of happiness and grievance. It can clearly be observed when she got the news of her husband’s death. Despite of going into shock, she dramatically cried hard for a time (Jamil, 2009). Owing to the fact that she had a heart trouble, she must had went into shock, however, she was calm and started considering the new opportunities her life may pose her. She welcomed some mysterious things appearing to her from the sky and her actions show that she was feeling immense independence after her husband’s death. She was overjoyed with the fact that she could lead her life without any domination (Seyler, 2009). At start, the weaker side of her character was portrayed, whereas, in room alone she was stronger and her heart was full of energy knowing the fact that she was free. Her weakness returned when she realized that her husband did not actually died. The news quickly took her life. Doctors claimed it death due to joy, however, it was death due to shock of snatched freedom at once. Due to the fact...
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...Research Paper (Everyman) 3-8-2013 Mikeal Anderson Everyman is a metaphorical play that illustrates the value of life and death. Everyman was written by an anonymous author, but many believe that it was a priest or monk who would normally write morality plays. Everyman is a character that is supposed to represent your everyday human. In the story God decides that Everyman has become obsessed with wealth and other materialistic things. Resulting in Him teaching Everyman a lesson which is death. Death can be treated and perceived differently in many societies due to religious and moral beliefs. In the story, the author sees death as just important as life. The message that can be taken from this story is that death does not care who you are. It is impossible for anyone to escape death. The author sees death as a man’s final stand, in which there is no return. No man knows when death will come aside from God, so no man can prepare for it. The characters that the author use are to represent realistic characteristics that a lot people have and lose throughout their lives. Good deeds, knowledge, discretion, strength, Everyman’s five wits and beauty. The story begins with Death approaching Everyman to let him know that his life is coming to an end. In response, Everyman tries to bribe Death by giving him a thousand pounds but he declines by saying if he wanted wealth all wealth could be his. Death also tells him to find someone to accompany him on his journey. Everyman...
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...When it comes to matters of thermodynamics, which is the study of energy and it’s transformations, there are two laws that apply to everything in the universe. These laws, known as the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics, describe the flow of energy throughout an ecosystem, and also how the process of transferring energy provides the means to sustain life within it. The rainforest is a very complex ecosystem that contains many different species of animals, insects, plants, and trees. The 1st law states that an organism can not create the energy it needs to survive on it’s own and therefore must capture it from it’s surrounding environment, i.e., photosynthesis. During this process, solar energy from the sun absorbs into the plant and vegetation population, converting the chemical energy into sugar. Insects and animals in turn eat the plants, and then use that very same sugar as an energy source to power their movement. This is called biological work. The energy remaining is given off as heat and released back into the environment from which it originated. This ensures that the amount of energy present in the environment is always the same, as it is borrowed and returned, but never lost. The 2nd law simply states that the amount of energy that can be used to do biological work within the universe may decrease over time, however because it is both borrowed and returned, the total amount of energy present will not decrease, and therefore will always be the same. The rainforest...
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...01/10/2012-2nd paper Cold Nightsky I think of death as a transcendence to another state of being, that even after death I will keep on existing. At least I hope and live my life as such, since I love living, therefore I must keep on existing.. I must admit that I don’t think I would be in a healthy mental state to write this paper, if I really had pondered about the thought of death as an ending. I believe one would think of death in a real sense, either when they end up in a position of losing their health, or having a disease which is likely to make them feel death is near. Plato’s quote “the distraction of body on soul ” in this case would influence one to ask himself more serious questions and find real answers , instead of the ones he would ask himself, in his comfortzone of body and soul in harmony. Dying and being transformed into something else as particles in soil or whatever form that might take, is inevitable. Our physical existence will definitely become something else but our soul, will be separated from it, finally “splitting itself from the body” as Socrates interprets. From that moment on, our soul will no longer be disturbed by other effects such as time, and this state would be “all that a philosopher (a mortal) would ask for” he adds. But how is it that the soul lives on when the body dies? I can think and philosophize about things and happenings I have acquaintance with , how is it possible that the soul can keep thinking in a form without the...
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...would have been forever lost, the glamor of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppresive: "You shall always remember her as a child." How beautiful I felt it was! For nothing but poetry could give such a feeling. In such a moment, reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to explain why God had snatched away from me the thing I loved best in life, I would have allowed reason to rob me of sorrow to show me the way to a more beautiful, more full, and nearly perfect life. Sonia shall always live in my memory as a child who wonders why the stars shine in the sky and the rain drops from heaven and the grass grows on the wayside; as a child who finds all things pure and true in her innocent eyes. I shall look in those eyes and see so much confidence and faith when I feel that I am losing my own faith and confidence. I shall draw from my memory of her a child's enthusiasm for life when my heart is heavy and my eyes are dim with age. This is my ideal;...
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...her mother that she made her vows to herself that her life would be different life, and made her decision that the best way to avoid that to go back to school, but she accepted at Humanities Preparatory Academy as public high school which they did not know she is herself as homeless. She did become more intelligence student and loved to learning she can do. At last, she finally accepted to enter into Harvard University after her 15 different of scholarships already awarded. Liz felt her parent made her feel loved and understood that her parent had disease that prevented them from giving her more than they did. Her father, with whom she is close and has developed AIDS,. Liz does not feel she has moved past of her childhood rather she stayed her part of everything about who she is. She has learned from her experiences and looked her new life. She now is brilliant and intelligent education and person. She can share with all the people how she felt her experience about her homeless life. About Murray Barr, I hadn’t known very well about his life, but I do know Liz’s life than Murray. I read his article which is showing no real reason why he was homeless considering he was ex-marine. He just did not like to attempt to make a change his life because he just did not want to help from someone and want to stay on the street till God take his life after he dies. I think that he had no self-control and became his way of life where he was able back to drinking and living on the streets...
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