"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," is a poem written by William Shakespeare. This poem clearly describes the complexion of summer by praising the beauty of nature. ... "The eye of the heaven" symbolizes the sun that shines on a summer day. ... The colorful flowers that bloom during the spring will die off during the winter. ... "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" (Shakespeare, Line 9). ...

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The wind impairs the beauty of summer, and summer is too brief. The splendor of summer is affected by the intensity of the sunlight, and as the season changes, summer becomes less beautiful. ... She, unlike summer, will never deteriorate. Summer has by now become the summer of life and beauty. In the next three lines the poets assurance becomes even firmer with promises that his beloved will neither become less beautiful nor even die, because she is immortalized through his poetry. ...

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This question is comparing her to the summer season. ... However in line 4, the speaker gives the feeling again that the summer months are often to short by saying, "And summer's lease hath too short a date." ... Her beauty will be one that lasts forever, "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." (Line 9), and never end or die. ... Then the speaker begins to describe the summer again with the "darling buds of May" giving way to the "summer's lease", springtime moving into the warmth of the summer. ...

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Lena stays home this summer she has broken up with her boyfriend Kostos who she met in Greece last summer. he comes and visits her and tells her that he loves her. But then something happens and kostos most go back to Greece later on in the week she finds out that her grandfather, Bapi, has died so the whole family goes to Greece. ... Tibby goes away this summer to a college class on photography and art. ... She also most face making a movie about her friend who had died last year, she put the tpes away because she missed her to much to look at her. ... Throughout the summer each gurl tak...

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In the summer I went to Lebanon. During my stay there my family and I decided to visit Bsharri. I have never been there but I heard all about it from people. Our journey to Bsharri was fun. I saw many amazing things like huge untouched, beautiful mountains forming spectacular shapes. I also saw an a...

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The Symbolism of Summer The life of a person can be divided into seasons. ... Just as summer becomes autumn, an adolescent becomes an adult. ... The winter season brings cold weather; this causes many plants to die. ... As stated previously, the story takes place in the summer. ... And the summer was over" (74). ...

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The story I Know What You Did Last Summer is about 4 kids who have an accident in the summer. ... They call an ambulance and drive away but the kid dies. ... The boy who dies brother comes back looking for revenge. ... Barry lives, but Helen dies. ... The significance of the title I Know What You Did Last Summer is that the killer writes a note that says I Know What You Did Last Summer. ...

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One of the leaders and important man of the town is Mr. Summers. Summer is a season of the year. It is the season of growing, the season of life. His name represents partly the old pagan fertility ritual because the harvest that is being sacrificed to is being grown in the summer. This is supp...

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Unfortunately Nathan died almost 6 years ago. ... Caitlin asked me to spend the summer at Martha's Vineyard with her, her dad, and brother. ... The two of us spent many summers together, making our relationship like no other. ... No one knows what happened to my "Summer Sister" but I know she's out there somewhere, and one day she'll come home. ...

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It was the summer after Daddy got home from the war. ... Anyhow that summer was weird. ... I hated summer school, the kids to stupid to listen to Ms. ... When July was ending our summer became a bad dream. ... I realized that Daddy didn't die all, he was reborn and I saw more than ever that Tom looked just like Daddy. ...

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June 27th is just after the summer solstice. ... Summers is a "jovial man" (137). ... Summers does not look happy like his name. ... Each winner of the lottery has to die, and the tomb is only the winner's home after death. ... Summers tease good-humoredly with her sep...

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Summers" (233). ... Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box"(233), but they did not want it. ... Summers 2 said soberly, "guess we better get started, get this over with, so's we can go back to work" (235). ... We see that even as Tessie is being stoned to death she does not question the reasoning behind the lottery, only why it should be her that has to die. ...

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In past summers I didn't have to read so many books, so this assignment was a bit of a shock. ... I read this book mostly when I was at work on breaks, which was kind of bad because I would clock back in for work all teary-eyed like someone had died. But it was true, people did die, so I had reason for tears in my eyes. ... Even though the summer reading took up most of my free time, I didn't mind it because it kept my brain working so that it wouldn't be a major change from having the summer off and jumping right into work. I am grateful for having the summer reading, but no...

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In this work the lottery represents a really old and almost unbelievably cruel tradition in which the winner is set into a position of a scapegoat and his or her inevitable fate is to die. ... So she almost forgets what day it is and finally she has to die. ... Summers who has enough time and energy to devote to civic activities. ... They act as if there weren`t any emotions and compassion inside of them, they don`t care that somebody will have to die at the end of this ritual, they don`t feel any guilt at all. ... Summers who owns a coal company, Mr. ...

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Armageddon Summer Marina and Jed were two strangers who were dragged to the mountain retreat on mount Weeupcut. ... p. 2 In the last week of the Armageddon many people who weren't the so-called "believer" but were scared that they might die were all trying to get in to this camp of people who were going to survive But couldn't so they sat out side of the camp. ... Then told Jed the worst news he would ever hear his father had died in the "Cut". ...

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Anorexia Nervosa In January of 1999, a ten year old girl named Kelsey asked her parents if she could go to a weight loss camp in the summer. ... The camp convinced Barbara that Kelsey would be helped at camp that summer. ... Twenty percent of people without proper treatment will die. Only two to three percent of anorectics die with treatment. ...

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A Mid Summer's Night Imagine yourself in the mountains on a mid summer's night, with your friends drinking beer and roasting hotdogs not a care in the world. ... I know what I did was wrong and regret doing it, all I felt like doing was to crawl under a rock and die, and I was so ashamed of myself. ... I have no doubt in my mind that I wouldn't be where I am today if it was not for that "Mid Summers Night" and my wife standing by my side....

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In Shakespeare's play, A Mid-Summer Nights Dream, love is one of the main themes. ... The fairy king, Oberon, and the queen, Titania, are arguing over an Indian boy Titania rescues after his mother dies. ...

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The narrator tells the story a few years after it has happened and what he remembers about the summer when his brother died. ... The story, "Before the end of the summer" is about a boy named Bennie who overhears a doctor telling his grandmother that she is going to die before the end of the summer. There are many events that lead up to the end of the summer in which many times Bennie thinks it will be the end, but it doesn't happen until the very end of the summer which symbolizes the end of summer as some things ending and new ones beginning. The story, "A Summers Reading" is about a...

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Summers arrived in the square, carrying the "black box." ... Summers must ask for help. ... However pleasant this picture seems, the villagers know fully that when the drawing is over, one person in the community will die. ... Summers whose name implies warmth and life. ... Although all life ends in death, in which fate may play a major role, we choose to believe that when the time to die comes we will have more control over our own destiny. ...

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How can the weather be perfect when so many people are dying? ... There is a core format: first spring then summer then fall then winter. ... They live their life, die in the fall and winter, then the next cycle begins. Also, each season has a certain characteristics: for example, summer is sunny and warm. ... Humans don't have to die when they are old they can die when they are babies. ...

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As the season changes from summer to fall in the later stages of The Great Gatsby, the vegetation starts to die off, which is strong foreshadowing of Gatsby's upcoming death. ... This is a strong clue that Gatsby will fade along with his precious summer. Gatsby tries to hold on to his summer as he "[stretches] out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that [Daisy] had made lovely for him" (160). ... Gatsby realizes that "he had lost the freshest and best" summer, "forever" (161). Summer is fated to die off, just like Gatsby. ...

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Every summer prior to the explosion at the stadium my father was the Operations Manager at the local baseball stadium in Fayetteville. ... 'What-if he is dying,' 'What-if he can't be the same as before,' 'What-if I lose him.' ... He spent all summer preparing the complex for this one weekend when thousands of people would come out to see the SwampDogs play. However this summer this game would grow to be extremely special to my family, my father, and the people of Fayetteville. ...

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In "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... The last quatrain and the couplet of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ... The main idea expressed is how the lover is different from summer because the lover's beauty will never fade or die. ... The city he walks away from is indicative of the lives of happy people who have not realized that they will die, and be swallowed by the darkness of the night. ...

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When the babysitter dies on the couch of old age, the kids take her car and money to get food for the summer. ... Shortly after the babysitter died, they ran out of money and didn't want to tell their mom because it would ruin her vacation. ... When the mother comes home from her vacation, everyone is still there from the fashion show; she asks Sue-Ellen what is going on, and she explains, but she leaves out the part about the babysitter dying. Her mother makes everyone leave and tells her that she can't work there anymore because she is going back to school after the summer. ... ...

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