By the third stanza it is noon and the poet moves towards the far side of the house but is only able to reach the coalhouse door, again the poet exaggerates the effects of the wind as he states that the wind is so powerful that it dents the balls of his eyes, through those "dented" eyes the poet again uses metaphor by comparing the mountains to tents which are straining on their guy rope. ... In the last stanza the poet and some more people (which can be deduced from how he uses plurals in this and the next few lines) are sitting in front of a fire, the poet and other people are now...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The narrator of the tale describes his experience in a creepy dusty New York City apartment which he had recently moved in. ... By knowing historically that some men took advantage of the giant's image to make money over a naive middle class at the time by charging them a certain amount in order to see the statue, we can relate it to the tale and notice the critic Twain is trying to make on the exploitation that rich people have always been doing over the poor which is one of the points that the plot tries to reach. ...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the transition from passive to active women in society was not a smooth one; many people, both men and women, did not agree with these changes. ... A Rose for Emily comments on how one society dealt with these dramatic changes, and how ultimately America deals with these changes; both, in the end, push out the past and move on to the future, with a more equal society for women. ...

• Word Count: 1119
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

hoping that it was nothing and when you think this sort of thing, several images begin to move into your head, the better and the worse complicated situations, suddenly you imagine your life without your mother, and it makes you very sad. To forget these thoughts I decided to look out the window of my parent's room and saw that the day was quite cold; the street was covered with snow, with too few people walking down the street. ... We returned to the hospital, and ten minutes after, some people of our family began to arrive there, all too eager for the arrival of this new family member. ...

• Word Count: 1405
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bell also emphasizes on words such as "modern" and "old-fashioned" to express the difference in opinions of the people from a different time and generations. ... Nelson depicts this by quoting "As Sontag puts it in Regarding the pain of others, 'The image as shock and the image as cliche are two aspects of the same presence'- a notion that partially explains how the iconic image of the hooded prisoner at Abu Ghraib forced to hold a foreboding wire in each hand could literally sicken one's stomach when first viewed, then move on to become a much- parodi...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate