It was as if fate had brought us together in the same art class in her last few months. ... Even now, I can't stop picturing her face beautiful face, the smile she carried even in the gloomiest days and the eyes that always sparkled with enthusiasm. ... It would be awarded to a person who would show as much dedication as her. ...
Golding has several characters in the book that fit under each broad category and as the names show, have specific traits that put them there. ... Simon is the only character in the novel to have a grasp on the bigger picture of what goes on. ... The last main character in the novel seen as "good- is Piggy. ... Jack has a progression in the novel that shows that evil can get worse. ... Referred to as the "littleuns- by Golding, these boys show the innocence that once existed in all of the boys on the island. ...
He shows us how most humans are now living a dull, passionless life and that we yearn for the excitement, wonder, desire to savor and listen in order to hear the whisper of God and to fully live a meaningful and rewarding life. ... I laughed, I cried, and smiled at the stories, while picturing me being a part of each one. ... In just this last month, Colby has also shown me an example of unconditional love. ...
The author condenses two years of living into one entire year in the book to show the unimportance of calendar time and call for attention of the significance of the symbolic time. ... It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. ... Walden as a story ends with the last chapter, but it will be continually passed down one generation after another as intellectual philosophy about the human society ...
Robinson shows merely how Cory appears to the outside world. This is actually the sole driving force of Cory: he wants to be society's picture of the perfect man. ... This explains the positive imagery juxtaposed to the telling of his death contained in the last two verses on the poem "And Richard Cory, one calm summer night/ Went home and put a bullet through his head."" ... The speaker utilizes the words "imperially," "crown" and "king" to show that Cory is looked upon highly as far above the common folk, which intensifies his state of aloneness and feelings of loneliness, since nob...
I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple and the hardwood floors, counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant nothing to me personally: movie stars, supermodels, the latest noise out of Princess Di or Madonna or John F. Kennedy Jr. " (p 42) This quote shows that Mitch had changed from the extrinsic mindset of tabloids, to the intrinsic mindset of the value of his friendship. ... "Instead, I buried myself in my accomplishments, because with accomplish- ments, I believed that I could ...
In this segment, "or that a great namy people disagree with me and speak in opposition to me" Socrates paints a picture of him being out tune with the people of Athens. ... It is my belief that Socrates already knew that he didn't want to escape but he couldn't past up what could be his last opportunity do what he does as a philosopher and that was speak about philosophy. ... Of course the situation that Achilles was in was somewhat different to Socrates situation but it was brought up in his argument to show how he feels about shame. ...
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
Therefore, the life expectancy of a person living in the nineties is about twenty years more on an average from that which people enjoyed at the start of the last century. ... Though only a piece of the great jigsaw puzzle of life, it leads us one step closer to the whole picture. ... Some people see red in this citing discrimination of the less fortunate individuals where though genetically they are at a risk for some disease which they do not even show symptoms of. ...
The importance of reading ability in English learning shows not only in English syllabus of different levels, but also in the proportion of reading item in various English examination. ... An investigation data shows that '87.2% of the teachers more often do word explanation and grammar analysis in class.'...
