The repeated rhythm of the words, "Go and open the door" and "maybe," encourages the reader to at least seek change and open the door as there is still benefit in experiencing whatever we find, no matter how insignificant or momentous the finding is. No matter what we find and how we perceive it, the poem emphasises that "even if" we think "nothing/is there! At least/there'll be/ a draught," suggesting that we will feel something, even if it is just the movement of the door. The way, in which we open that door will ultimately decide how the opportunities and possibilities ...

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Professor Chargois asked me to pick three poems and tell how they changed how I see something in life. I thought to myself, I can do this. ... I decided to choose three out of the poems we discussed in class. ... Being a soldier myself, you would think I would know how war is or what to expect. ... Even though it is impossible to predict the future, I believe I can help them by at least being stern. ...

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In other words, only they think he is losing out; he does not. ... Robinson shows merely how Cory appears to the outside world. ... He thinks through this, he will gain meaning. This is seen when the speaker is told in the third stanza that "we [society] thought that he was everything- and that "we- who worked hard and "went without meat- wished to be in his place. ... For this reason, we only see the outside, materialistic Cory from the perspective of the narrator, the proverbial "we."" ...

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Eventually, we lose our image of God and even "kill him". ... We can already see a change in Faustus and it is starting him towards his long and painful downfall. "After the bond is signed the discussion is renewed, but while the devil loses nothing in dignity of serious discourse, we can already detect a change in Faustus: his skeptical levity takes on a more trulecent and jeering tone. ... Beauty always overcomes us and we lose sense of our true beauty or even worst, our soul. ... We expect so much of people that we sometimes change to meet others" or even our own expectations. ...

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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly" (pg. 85). ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... I can relate my thoughts to his quote because of some events that has happened in my life. ... I even had high expectations of myself and I did not mind at all. ... This continued until I started to realize s...

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We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly" (pg. 85). ... We must take their attitudes, their wrong perceptions of how to seek the meaning of life, and change that so they may find the truth, that life dictates what questions we answer, that we do not ask the questions of life. ... I can relate my thoughts to his quote because of some events that has happened in my life. ... I even had high expectations of myself and I did not mind at all. ... This continued until I started to realize s...

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The wonderful thing about being human is that we change "evolve "on almost a daily basis. ... This same principal can be applied to how we live our lives. Our meaning and purpose can not be derived from one hour, one day or even one year of our existence. ... We know our thoughts and feelings. ... But what we can not see is how what we have said or done transforms others (negatively or positively). ...

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Even though we fail to serve the best dinner for tonight, we have tomorrow night. Even if we have to eat instant food tonight because we are so busy, we can have gorgeous dinner on weekend. ... In this book, the author, Fannie Flagg, tells us three secret recipes about our life; how important being ourselves is, how we can find our real life, and how to help each other through our life. ... We can see how much Idgie keeps her belief in heart from what she says to Ruth, "I still want you to come back and I"m not a kid anymore, so I"m not gonna change. ... She even knew how she would kill hersel...

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That even though we (humans) realized that the earth revolves around the sun, we still believe that we are at the center of life. ... Eiseley is insisting that even though we can think of ourselves as the center of nature, we are definitely not. ... "How Flowers Changed the World" explains how flowers and plants came into the world. ... It can be seen how complicated and different theories can be. ... If so, how can someone comprehend infinity? ...

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Our mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, and anyone else who has a predetermine thought about how people should live their lives. Berne says that people have an illusion on how we react to each other. ... You can's play act. ... I guess it's not so surprising by how and what you say can really influence a child. ... The conclusion that I got from this book is that there are many things that can go right in your life and there just as many things that can go wrong and since you can't change most of what has happened to you, the only thing you can do is change is how you ...

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I thought we would never change. I thought that we would always be there for each other and especially the animals. ... I always feel the pain when I think of that day. ... I realized how much we all changed and how much our outlook on life changed. ... Hurting a poor animal like that shows how disgusting people can be. ...

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But if he allows passion to govern his thought wholly, we would have seen an end to his uncle shortly after the instruction by the apparition. ... These thoughts are outlined in hisTo be, or not to be? soliloquy which can be summarized as Hamlet's contemplation with ending his life. ... No matter how much we try to avoid it, death is going to come to pass, and no amount of makeup or deeds are going to save us. He realizes that we are all dust and that even the dust from the decayed body of Alexander the Great might be used to stop a hole in a beer barrel. ...

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I mean what else can we do? ... My personal theory on this subject states that we are here to impress God with our thoughts and actions, in order to prove to him that we can handle any obstacles on Earth in order to achieve faith and glory to be prepared for God in heaven. ... In our lifetime we do all these things and usually we don't even think about them. ... Even if we don't believe that possibility then we can make ourselves belief that it is achievable because many people around us were able to do it. ... If there is no such thing as God, then how did we get on this planet and ...

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"This was fighting we lived in trenches, in dung-coloured mud into which dung and every filthiness had been trodden, in our dung-coloured uniforms; we were cold, badly fed, and lousy." ... "She is part of a past that cannot be recovered or changed by anything I can do now. ... If you think her a saint, she is a saint to you."... The contrasting setting of Deptford and World War two, World War Two and Buckinghamshire shows how significant the changes are in Dunstan Ramsey's environment and the effects it had on him. ... The powerful role of religion shows how characters in the novel can tr...

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This linear perspective picture taken by LIFE magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, shows us how a lifetime full of emotions can be warped up in one moment. ... At first glance one would think these two "love birds" were celebrating a long time apart with a romantic kiss, but as we know there is a deeper story behind a moment in time captured by photography. ... Knowing that a photographer for a highly regarded magazine took this photograph we can assume that he took hundreds if not thousands of them. ... All the losses that are encountered, the life changing circumstances that...

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I think about his death little and can only speculate as to its effect on me. ... His whole demeanor changed for depression had found him. ... How can someone be such that they find life repugnant and long for death? ... I was at a friends house where we had partied with some other friends. ... A change had taken place in me. ...

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Almost the way gravity holds us down to Earth it seems as if where we come from holds us down to that level of success and no matter how high we jump we're immediately pulled back down. This undoubtedly can lead to despair and feeling hopeless in an unforgiving world. ... The only thing I could think of that seems worse than being judged as a person is to not be thought of as a human at all. ... No matter how hard we are brought down there's always at least a small part of us that desires something better. ... As adults we all know a light of hope and happiness can come upon you in...

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Some thought, "why could Timex and other Greek gods live forever but we have to die?" ... After awhile, people started to think, "what happens if we kill Timex, then we won't die and everything will be as it should!" ... Even the smartest man in the city could not figure it out. ... The fact is true though that today in this day and age, there is nothing you can do to escape death or to know how you will die. ... You just have to think more deeply about what you will do with situations in your life, because you never know when it will change or effect everybody else's life. ...

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Johnson stated " We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it." ... Even after knowing her for such a long time we had never talked about real issues besides what had changed since the last appointment. ... I thought of my family's busy schedule and how we only talk when we have time. ... When we do find time, we either talk on the phone or e-mail each other, which seems to work enough to have people comment and even envy. ... We acknowledge that money has become the central role in a family and even kids seem to measure their happiness with how much money their parents...

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While on the surface, poems like "The Tuft and Flowers" and "Mending Wall" can be read on a literal level, upon closer examination, we realise that the poetry of Robert Frost is highly metaphorical, aswell as thought provoking and philosophical. ... It's a heartbreaking and poignant poem and the idea that even though we share this earth, we are essentially alone here, is also communicated in the closing lines. ... I think that this is an extremely effective line as it portrays how the two men are bound by tradition and convention. ... I think that the unstructured natu...

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The whole story is only 200 pages long and has tons of messages inside directed to the thoughts of the author, which are about how to live our lifes. ... We shoud see that we can have tons of difficulties while trying to find our legends. thats normal life difficulties. ... And he realised that even a tiny of sand is enough to think about the whole universe on. ... I think here we should get that we have to get pilled from our lifes. ... We are making our lifes just how our surroundings wants it. ...

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Jerry thought of her dog in the same way. ... Jerry thought that the dog was evil. ... I think that he knew that he was going to kill himself before he even met Peter. ... PETER - We call it north. ... The format of having just two actors in one scene shows what a simple thing life is, yet in the play we are shown how complicated life is. ...

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Loving mothers think of their children as gifts not as burdens or "interruptions of quiet time- suggests Addie. ... The "them- she was describing was children in general (This of course was before she married, and even when she did marry her opinions of children never changed nor her desire to be alone). ... If this woman thought of marriage this way one can only imagine how she would react to having children. ... We know before she never believed in words and now she's disobeying God. ... This is how this woman can be related to Kurtz from Heart of Darkness. ...

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At times Carolyn seems angry and cold even though the "real" her is lost and venerable. ... Ricky, who is played by Wes Bentley, is Jane's boyfriend, is first seen as the "weird "person but minutes later is the most wise. ... The film sees through these obsessions as well as the characters and makes a realization that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that life, although has made a wrong turn, can always be changed. ... And the other theme the beauty of life and how people should cherish it even the simplest things. ... I almost don't know what to think about these people...

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Once religious notions are put aside many people can see how irrational and inexplicable life is. ... We can often see ourselves as Paneloux does. ... Once we realize that we are plagued with an absurd existence we must ask ourselves how to proceed with our lives. ... Even if it appears futile and pointless, we have to make something out of our lives. ... They have seen the rats coming out to die, but they just think it's gross; they aren't anxious or concerned. ...

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• Grade Level: High School