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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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" 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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How would you describe the type of language that he used in this passage? ... Your response to the second prompt should lay out strong and convincing reasons for your choice of passage-why is it important to the whole narrative, and why does it resonate with you? ... You should be able to demonstrate why the passage is important to the narrative as a whole, and present good reasons why it resonates with you. ... What might this specific passage tell us about the experience of urban slaves, how plantations functioned economically, the politics of slaveholders, religious practices during the an...

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Many themes are recurring throughout the play and this passage. ... In this passage, the theme of illusion and reality is clearly shown. ... Those questions are at stake in this passage. ... The second predominant theme in Macbeth and particularly in this passage is order and disorder and how Macbeth's figure dramatically changes from one to the other. ... All of his questions are rhetorical but they help us understand the way he thinks and how he struggles. ...

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In order to understand the text to its fullest, the reader must read attentively, formulate thoughtful questions on the text, and animate the evocative text with imagination and creativity. ... In Gunn's example, he focuses on the self-formulated questions of plot and character as the most significant part of the study. ... Continuing to shine new light on some of the controversies of this passage, Dunn offers some new insights on many of the characters in Genesis 19. ... In comparison with my readings of this passage, Gunn related to the characters on a much deeper level of understandin...

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In this essay, I will analyze a passage of this poem and give examples supporting how Grendel is not as petrifying as he pretends. ... First of all, it is significant to understand how this passage is so relative to the period of the text. ... This passage begins with a sense of liminality. ... Although the danes are presented in the text as very protective considering how fearful Grendel is of them, their protection could be questioned after Grendel managed to take thirty of them away. ... The passage also says that once he took the thirty warriors back to his lair that he was "thrilled with ...

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We have no idea what Hamlet's relationship is with Gertrude and/or Hamlet Sr. before the play begins. ... (II.i.77-82) A third symptom of depression is shown when Hamlet questions his self-worth and expresses self-reproach when he says "O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" (II.ii.570) and "How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge" (IV.iv.32-33). ... One could quote many passages that argue to the contrary. ... Shakespeare is poising deeper questions for his audience to ponder: what is the nature of madness; where does madness come from; how is madness a part ...

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Alfred Prufrock also deals with this same foible just as much, or more, than Hamlet does. ... Hamlet has a way of dealing with his problems. ... An example of Hamlet's questioning becomes evident in Act 3, Scene 3, when Hamlet is in the Chapel with Claudius. ... Next, Hamlet procrastinates, putting off the killing of his uncle: To take him in the purging of his soul, When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? ... Prufrock questions, procrastinates, then rationalizes. ...

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The essay argues that due to scientific evidence pointing towards the fact that the planet is plunging towards its inevitable end, humanity's focus should not be on how to stop or save the planet anymore, but on how to deal with its impending death as well as facing whatever problems the present offers. ... So how does one come to terms with the inevitable? ... " In the epoch of the Anthropocene, the question of individual mortality - "What does my life mean in the face of death?... "How do we make meaningful choices in the shadow of our inevitable end?" (Scranton 4) A...

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In the passage, Sanders questions the morality of continuous migration and also references past events that exhibit the detrimental effects of migration. ... The rhetorical question in lines 40-42 criticizes the audience's ethics and humanity's ability to decimate a landscape and then simply move on without remorse. ... Subsequently, with factual evidence, Sanders gives concrete examples of how migration can damage a region. ... On that note, he expresses logos by referring to how "the Spaniards devastated Central and South America," "Colonists brought slavery with the...

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Essay: The Red Room Question: How does H.G.Wells convey the experience of fear in the red room? ... In the story he described how the red room is haunted but a young man doesn't believe it, in the end narrator discover that the red room is truly haunted. ... "The chilly, echoing passage" described the environment is very dark, damp and cold. ... This passage is the beginning of growing fear of the young man: "Gave me the impression of someone crouching to waylay me" The writer did not visually describe a ghost, but made it invisible. ... Also, at the beginnin...

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Thus, when contemplating the passage and reading it for a second time, the fog became clear. ... High school was different because the longest thing I had to write was a five paragraph essay with no word count. ... The questions require critical thinking rather than answering questions that all you have to do is look within page numbers to find. ... It was mostly reading book with the class and having the teacher point out the important information. ... College level classes actually teach you how to do it yourself which I never got in high school. ...

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In the excerpt from Fredrick Douglass's autobiography, it focuses primarily on how education is important and ignorance or the lack of knowledge is the state of being passive because, you do not possess the skills to criticize or comment on ideas you do not fully understand; we see this in passages such as "Shutting me up in mental darkness... If you think or express yourself differently, and the attempt or effort is not made from the receiver to comprehend your point of view, your intentions, motivations and in some cases, even religious beliefs are questioned as seen in Wright's a...

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Emerson and Dickinson both show some similarity in how they express their views of God. ... This passage says that he becomes a part of nature or an essential part of God. ... In this same poem Emerson according to his passages would have probably said that was just the absence of spirit or God. ... He goes through his whole essay giving reasons why nature is the way to God and how to get to nature. ... She gives evidence of negative feelings toward God and questions him. ...

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But writing freely might be able to help you feel like there's nothing to hold back and that's how I feel. ... This has been widely used to claim divine sanction for slavery and segregation, with this passage being unknown and not familiar with details it is time the misunderstanding of this passage come to an end. ... So the question becomes is the black church a pattern of the white Man's church. ... The book mentions how in the past African-Americans have been mis-educated based on training and how the educated Negro has inherited his religion from the early white Methodists...

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Documents 2 and 3 promote Buddhism and the advantages that come with converting. Document 2 begins to talk about how a Buddhist should live their life. ... The questions are by by those who are against Buddhism (thus, pointing out of the flaws). ... Documents 4 and 6 provide us with an opposing argument of the previous passages, thus, revealing the negative responses in regard to the spreading of Buddhism in China. ... Document 6 takes the same as approach and discusses the problems with Buddhism. ...

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