Years of Latin American oppression by power-greedy and money-hungry imperialist countries prompted the poet Pablo Neruda to write "Ode to the Americas."" ... The first stanza of the ode revels Latin America's once peaceful and beautiful past. ... The poem shifts again in line 53 with the repetition of the impassioned phrase that began the ode: "Oh, pure Americas ."" ... Diction plays a particularly important role in the final section; words such as "victory,""(line 87) "garlanded,""(line 86) "radiant light,""(line 91) and "flutter-(line 93) convey the speaker's positivism. ... T...

• Word Count: 954
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reason played a huge part in Puritan opinions. ... So, even though people might not agree with the Puritan's method of maintaining order in Massachusetts, they can't argue the fact that oder was kept effectively, thus another puritan ambition fulfilled. ...

• Word Count: 670
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Myths always played an important role in human societies. ... Music could play a similar role, communicating situations and emotions by sounds and harmony. ... Spectators were seated on a hillside to view these early "plays". ... The choral odes, accompanied by dancing and music, were part of the entertainment itself. ... The earliest surviving texts of plays are seven tragedies by Aeschylus dating from the first half of the 5th century BC. ...

• Word Count: 1396
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a sense, the matter of sexual violence plays a big role in Jacobs eventual fate as a fugitive slave, while it only marks the beginning for Douglass journey. ... Douglass first looks out at Chesapeake Bay and calls out to the ships that sail in and out to contrast their ever-moving state with his own stationary imprisonment.What begins as a lengthy ode to the beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen (365) ends in his declaration that this misery will only increase [his] happiness (365) when he becomes free. ...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate