and dreary points of our world. They understand the moral failure that so much of our planet endures. They know about the distant, permanently undiscovered details of the universe that are so vast and numerous, they masquerade as a great, black emptiness to our simple, mortal minds. Yet, these people who are completely aware of the dark or disappointing aspects of existence, have the extensive intelligence that is needed to take blissful pleasure in small, insignificant things like a sunny day or
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like. Mr. Enfield walks the streets that are “as empty as a church” (Stevenson 4) when he is alone that night. The use of this simile is emphasizing the stillness portrayed when Mr Enfield was walking the streets. It helps the reader understand the emptiness around Mr. Enfield and how quiet it was. The simile gives the setting a dark and lonely tone and gives the reader a better understanding of the character’s
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associated with purity and innocence which is a juxtaposition to how Tom and Daisy actually are, perhaps Fitzgerald wants the reader to believe that the people who live on East Egg are innocent; alternatively the colour white can have the connotation of emptiness and loneliness so Fitzgerald may have used the adjective white to symbolise how empty the upper class people’s lives were in that time because often they had no role in society as their families had made their money a few generations ago so they
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The Great Desert of Despair and Desolation Today, there are so many people living in the desert of desolation and despair. There, in the desert of their self inflicted loneliness, they seek objects to fill in the emptiness of their hearts. Just as Jesus was tempted by the Evil One for 40 days, they are being tempted, and many are falling and giving into the "Great Lie", and they choose the "Lie", that which is contrary to God's Law and Precepts. But like Adam and Eve they choose the evil. The heat
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I am not sure if I am willing to go with hatred being more powerful than love in the book. I will say that the book shows fear being more powerful. In either case, I can go with love as being secondary in the book. I think that part of this comes from the fact that Orwell is dying as he is writing the book. Certainly, this aspect of knowing one’s reality and one’s fate that cannot be avoided and is inevitable is something that looms over the reading of the novel and Orwell’s writing of it.
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life begin with a doubt and nothingness. In a scorching hot solitude place, I, myself excavated to an endless desert of finding the passage of my existence, if so, there is to look for. Is this the desert I’m searching for? A boundless existence of emptiness unlikely to the vessel I bore to have. Beholding upon the breath of the cupola, I reach the fading bluish white dome extending my earthly body to climb the unreachable escape of the nothingness. I grab it and there I find a futile thought of escaping
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personal desires, such as those in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby. When a sudden, unexpected event such as the death of a loved one occurs at a point in one's life, it causes a very solemn impact to one's mentality. A void is formed and a sense of emptiness will overcome you, memories of a past relative or friend constantly bombarding your everyday life. In mournful situations such as this, people tend to change to mold themselves to the decease's teachings or personality in order to preserve his or
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I sat numb for half the car ride, unable to form thoughts and feel emotions. Until Alivia hit the stop sign on Hiatus. This is when my brain jump started and kicked into overdrive filling my mind with so many thoughts I could no longer process, until I hit a wall and broke down crying. I was shaking as Brittany held me in her arms. We raced down my street and in the distance I could blurrily see the red lights flashing through the tears that piled on the crevice of my eye ducts. The car was thrown
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shape rather than the barred spiral Milky Way. And will completely change our night sky, with Andromeda suddenly dominating. Scientists assure that the sun and Earth are unlikely to be hit by stars or planets from Andromeda because of the vast emptiness of the two galaxies. Therefore, Earth, they say, should easily survive what will be a 1.2 million mile per hour galactic merger. Even at that speed, the event would take about 2 billion years. "It's like a bad car crash in galaxy-land," van der
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Happiness, what is happiness? According to the English dictionary it is a state of well being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. To be realistic no one would really use a dictionary to define happiness. Happiness could be anything, listening to children playing in the background, financial stability, falling in love, travelling the world. Everyone defines happiness in his or her own way. In most if not all religions around the world, emphasizes that the soul purpose
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