The rivers and little streams with their hidden cresses and pale-coloured pebbles and their fool's gold must be washed and starched or shined into brightness, the sheets of lake water smoothed with the hand and the foam of the oceans pressed into neatness. ... First, the message of the poem -- that our planet must be loved -- is so vital a message for the 21st century. ... Page's poem 'Planet Earth' be read throughout the world as a message of peace. ...

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Soul are in many respects sensitive to ways of speaking and thinking about the soul [psuchê] that are not specifically philosophical or theoretical. We therefore begin with what the word 'soul' meant to speakers of Classical Greek, and what it would have been natural to think about and associate with the soul. Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mi...

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The long and windy ride of imagery and metaphors that Plath takes us on is exquisite in itself, without even thinking of her message. ... The only conclusion I can reach from this is that of when someone takes a sea shell to their ear and it sounds like the ocean. ...

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• Grade Level: High School