Mikal Gilmore's Dream Dreams are manifestations of the subconscious, often related to events occurring in our conscience lives. Many times we address issues in our dreams that we will not or cannot address while awake. ... In this passage Mikal refers to the house as "my fathers", why is the house is not our house, or my parents house? ... There is an overwhelming feeling of imprisonment associated with this town. ... This is a disturbing quote to me. ...

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Donne expression is that we shall receive eternal life after death, a conception of the human race, with faith; our higher being shall grant us eternal life through our Jesus Christ, Our Lord. ... His poem discussed the eeriness on how people carry on in their daily lives despite ones suffering "Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torture's horse," quoted from the thirteenth stanza (Auden). ... However, what the people of his town did not know is that status does not provide happiness, because he was unable to live on with his life; in the last stanza "And Richard C...

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Interestingly, Kubler-Ross calls attention to American society's increasingly depersonalized approach to the aging and dying, and notices that our reliance on technology and machines is "our desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us- to ultimately avoid "[reminding] us once more of our lack of omnipotence, our own limits and failures, and our own mortality- (Kubler-Ross 23). This only intensifies this deep-set fear of losing control of our lives to nature. ... Death has now become a symbol of failure "a failure to retain control, ...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? ... Stated by Kotre, this quote allows us to recognize the long lasting effects we hav...

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