I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. ... I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. ... Thoreau drinking at the stream but at the same time seeing the sandy bottom and detecting its depth is him living life and acknowledging how short and futile it is. ... This passage personally affects me because despite disagreeing with mostly everything Thoreau has to say in Walden, I find myself in agreement with some of this passage. ... After achieving the answer to the question, "why do I exist?" ...

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Realizing the unseen story and how it unfolds is a puzzle. ... The one question that lingers would have to deal with the abuse and which person in the children's lives was causing it. ... The English Governess sends off red flags through this passage on pages 212 and 213: He is said to have been a very gentle, obedient and rather quiet child at first [ ] But once when his parents came back from their summer holiday they found him transformed. ... The paragraph goes on to talk about how the Governess and the children's nurse were constantly quarreling because the Governess had wa...

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In this first paragraph, the audience's first question becomes "why do the flies come back from the corpse?" George Orwell does not answer this question, but continues in the scene of the corpse with the paragraph about the "crowd of mourners." ... Then he asks a series of questions, like "are they really the same flesh as yourself? Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects," which is racist towards the Moroccans and discloses who he intended this passage for-the colonialist. After goading his audience w...

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A passage from D.H Lawrence's, "The Rainbow," captures the true essence of a woman and manifests her desires amid living with satisfied men. ... The passage begins with a man's perspective on rural life, followed by a woman's, which differs in a countless number of ways. ... The rhetorical questions used throughout this passage help manifest women's longing for answers and knowledge to help them have a better understanding of the power in the world around them. In addition to comparisons and rhetorical questions, the repetition and diction used throughout the repetition acc...

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Question: In chapter eleven, Forster illustrates the insufficiencies and limitations of three of the major characters: Mr. ... As the Passage to India progresses, many of the characters take form and evolve. ... Fielding demonstrates his own flaws and idiosyncrasies, he accentuates how inadequate Adela Quested is and how materialistic she appears. ... This quote allows one to see that as long as you are in good graces with Dr. ... As Passage to India gradually continues, the true personalities and feelings of the characters within the novel become evident. ...

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A Passage to India "They didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, no, not yet, and the sky said no, not there'- (Forster, 362). ... Forster's novel, A Passage to India, there is a clash between two cultures, England and India. ... It is impossible for the different cultures to understand how the other thinks because they are brought up with different beliefs. ... Aziz finds this question very offensive, but Adela has no idea she was wrong in asking; Adela just thought she was making good conversation. ... He explains his good nature and how Aziz would never...

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A great question that many Christians have tried to answer now I will take my turn to try and answer this great question. ... This passage speaks volumes about the love God has for man as his creation, as an all omnipotent being God chooses to call himself our God and tells us not to fear him for he shall uplift us and that he is always with us. ... God could choose to rule over us with an iron fist instead he rules us with kindness, devotion, and never-ending love. ... This passage shows that God is our ultimate protector as that no man can harm us as long as our father God is looking over us...

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This journey is Telemachus" "rites of passage" where after completing it he has learnt how to act as a man. ... We are able to see just how much Odysseus" absence affects his family. ... Athena sends Telemachus on a journey, a "rites of passage". ... It parallels the increase in maturity with an increase in his language skills. ... Book XVI:476-477 The outcomes of Telemachus" "rites of passage" training can also be seen in the way others treat him. ...

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"How to deal with myself" This week's topic for SAT Guidance is "How to deal with yourself". At first, I was wondering, "How can you deal with yourself? ... I should be thinking about how I deal with what I myself cause. ... I'm sure you're familiar with this passage. ... So the answer to your question is that We don't deal with it. ...

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How to Become an A Student? ... Concentrating in class is very, very important because if the teacher saw you were chatting with other students, he would likely give you an after school detention. ... Obtaining more knowledge, needs doing more homework, learning in school are just letting you know how to do these questions. But homework is different, it can help you remember how to do those questions and how to use it in daily life. ... I think these three passages are the most important facts in order for you to become an A student. ...

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In comparing Edward Taylor's "Preface" with Job 38-41 there are several similarities in structure, language and imagery, and answers to the questions being asked in each passage. ... God responds to Job with a series of questions for the purpose of teaching. ... The passages both use the question format as their structure. ... The answer to God's questions in Job comes in Job 40:3-5 : "Then Job answered the Lord: "I am unworthy - how can I reply to you? ... In conclusion, both of these passages use their structure, language, imagery, and the question/answer format to convey a s...

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How does the dialogue develop your response to the character of Othello? ... For example, "I see sir you are eaten up with passion."" ... The passage in question suggests that the tragic hero, Othello is very much so in love with Desdemona. ... This passage shows us the audience an insight into the bonds between Othello and Iago and how Iago uses this to manipulate and slowly destroy the walls which hold together Othello s world. ... This passage sets the ball rolling for the downfall of a tragic hero. ...

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This passage offers a lot of insight into how "Women are written", and presents the two general ideas of how they are labeled. ... Hamlet plays with the fact that his mother may still be this sweet person with a real penetrable heart or if she has become evil, by losing her heart and having no feelings. ... To further his arguments, he mentions the marriage vows she took with her dead father. ... The classical Mary is seen as pure, innocent and perfect with no sign of evilness. ... Since the explication focused on Hamlet, the only question that could be answered was the latter: how women hav...

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Moshin Hamid begins the passage with a solicitous and beguiling question which sets the tone and voice of the narrator for the rest of the novel. ... ," demonstrates the conversational manner of the passage and creates a more intimate and confiding sense as the reader, along with the apparent American stranger, are revealed the details of the narrator's relationship with America. ... The passage is a dramatic monologue where the narrator is having a conversation with an American stranger, but with only the narrator speaking. ... Throughout the novel, the narrator is inquisitive, asking ...

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I chose this passage from the book because it focuses on how one Being so strong, so powerful, so meaningful in one's life could allow an episode so exhausting and detrimental to happen to an entire population. ... For it is in this passage, that even I question my own faith. ... Even now, as I reread the afore mentioned passage, I continue to question my faith in God. ... As I reflect on my thoughts and imagine what survival of the Holocaust was like or how I could have weathered this disgraceful event in world history, here is a man who not only lived, but persevered with his stronge...

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The thesis statement is crucial to your essay; please do not confuse a topic with a thesis. ... When you sit down to write your essay, try to imagine how your argument might best be broken into manageable "chunks." ... Then select from this list those passages which best back up your statements. ... Do the same in the case of poetry, but denote line breaks with spaced slashes. ... A really good conclusion will point the reader to other possibilities, raise questions that the essay's argument might lead toward, or perhaps offer an ironic turn on the conclusions offered in the paper. ...

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Begin with an opening sentence which makes a personal observation about the question that shows you thinking, get right to the point, and end with the thesis you made while brainstorming. ... You are presenting your opinion in response to a given question with the use of facts and ideas from the sources. ... There are between 55 and 60 objective questions on 4-5 passages in the time period of 1 hour. You should look through the exam, looking for passage lengths, writing styles, amount of questions, and the idea of the type of questions. ... Knowing how to explain it. ...

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There have been various theories that have been put forward to try and explain how creation took place. ... It can be argued that the Buddhist argument is the product of constant interaction as well as the debate with other Indian religions. ... The question tend to find out how the circumstance of the universe was at the time, what was God's position and even further what was his form at the time. These questions launch the perfect pad to the argument because they question the form and position of God before mankind was even created. ... The questions posed in the text about the creation...

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The passage begins with his reaction to Hedvig's disappointment; his speech and actions throughout the passage are very indicative of his nature and his position in the family. ... If Gina's reaction to this question is to "obviously lie" - to look uncomfortable, speak with an insecure tone, etc - then we as an audience will understand quite clearly that she is lying. ... Hedvig has two lines in particular, in the passage, that may carry different meanings depending on how they are interpreted and delivered. ... Gina and Hjalmar may be standing throughout the passage, so as a directo...

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Throughout the passage, Kennedy displays a tone of dedication. ... Kennedy has his goal in mind, and now he is determined to see it through to the end, no matter how long it might take or how hard it will be. ... He continues with this idea by asking if the world could perform a "grand and global alliance "(24). ... It furthermore ascertains how broken the world is. ... He asks this rhetorical question to gain a silent agreement within the hearts of the people. ...

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In the passage on private speaking, the wordy woman and the mute man, I was able to identify with most of the points of this passage. ... His reasoning to this was because at work he interacted with people all day long, he did not want to have a discussion with my mother first thing in the morning. ... When I ask him what he did during the day or how he is I get the same response of "nothing" or "I"m fine". ... In my personal experiences I think this passage rang most true. Anytime I have ever attended a seminar, or some type of social gathering, the men stood out more for their questions ...

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I have prepared ten questions for each passage to assess the participant's comprehension in the listening, oral and silent reading tasks. ... Since I am testing the participant's comprehension of these passages, none of the questions are passage independent. ... Questions to each passage were given orally immediately after it was read. ... Ten questions were answered for each passage. ... RESULTS Since each of the six passages has ten questions, the following scores are out of ten. ...

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" This is a puzzling question for most people to answer. Of course the achievement of a degree and the careers that go along with them are key factors but Andre Hacker and Claudia Dreifus did a fantastic job of breaking up details to support how college could be more valuable in the passage, Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admissions. ... After reading through most of the passage when you came across the paragraph beginning with the title, The University of Mississippi, I am pretty sure you knew that the paragraph following was about the college listed above and had something to do with ...

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• Explain and comment on the following passage by Sir Arthur Eddington. ... The implications of the short passage must be discussed in relation to the analogy of areas of knowledge in general and the net of the ichthyologist. ... As any question with a quote, is it necessary to discuss the implications of the quote and to expand potential knowledge issues associated with it. ... If this is the case, how does mathematics differ from other forms of knowledge? ... How would one justify the decision? ...

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(Tadmor, 104) Knowing this, we are left with two theories. ... (Freedman, 472 vol.2) Regardless of the exact date of this passage, we still know that it happened during the middle of the divided kingdom period when both Israel and Judah were falling in and out of love with God. ... Again some of the events within the Elisha cycle appear to be out of order with how they happened chronologically. ... (Freedman, 71 vol.4) This has been questioned many times and the current belief is that it was written during the time of Josiah's reforms, toward the end of the seventh century B.C.E. ... Th...

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