It was August 11th, it was a summer day and the first day of school was getting closer and closer. That day was just like any summer day for me, I just relaxed at home trying to enjoy my last days of freedom before heading off to school. ... I didn't really pay attention until I heard David Muir say "We have some said news tonight as we have just learned that 63 year old actor Robin Williams has died". ...

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Ethan finds himself falling in love with Mattie, drawn to her youthful energy, as, "The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave life and elasticity to Mattie". ... "While Mattie is young, happy, healthy, and beautiful like the summer, Zeena is seven years older than Ethan, bitter, ugly and sickly cold like the winter". ... "If she'd [Mattie'd] ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived" This has become one of the most meaningful quotes in the book. ...

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Esther is from a small town in Boston where she lives with her mother, (her father died when she was young) Her Family is very poor, but fortuantly she has a friend name Doreen whose into fashion also. ... Back home with her mother, Esther lacked summer jobs and schools. ... Finally, she wins an essay contest that gives her the chance to work as an editor for a woman's fashion magazine in New York for the summer. ...

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He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... To me it seemed like he was happy she died, because now he got all her money. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... It happened the summer before he was entering college at University of Massachusetts on a full academic scholarship. ... Even though, it was the day her mom died, she has the right to fight with her dad. ...

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He said the money is mine and not yours until I die, to his own daughter. ... To me it seemed like he was happy she died, because now he got all her money. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... It happened the summer before he was entering college at University of Massachusetts on a full academic scholarship. ... Even though, it was the day her mom died, she has the right to fight with her dad. ...

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During the Lieutenants suicide, his agony "burned as strong as the summer sun." ... In "Patriotism" Mishima implores soldier of the Imperial troops to live for their country and therefore die for their country. "Ever since her marriage her husbands existence had been her own existence and every breath of his had been a breath drawn by herself," Mishima tells the reader as Shinji is dying. The same is true of Shinjis relationship with Japan, which Mishima sees as dying. ...

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After the night in cellar the "the sodden November chill was broken by the last flash of autumnal summer." ... Finally, flowers symbolize the beauty and wealth Paul seeks, but ultimately demonstrate that when these goals are not acquired honestly, they can't be maintained, just as the flower dies in the cold. ...

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Yet, Richard Cory one calm summer night took his own life by shooting himself in the head. ... It is no doubt that as time rolled on they overcame the tragic death and the shattered dreams that also died. ...

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When an individual is experiencing one or more of the stages of dying, they tend to focus on a large amount of negative thoughts and periodically show it with their actions and decisions. ... It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of it (Morrison 14. ... One day during the summer, Sula hears her mother talking to her friends. ... Sometimes there is no reason to point the finger at when someone dies. ... Hannah dies by fire just like her brother, but in her case, accidentally. ...

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However, with all the events that happened during that summer, she was really inspired and she published an autobiographical novel named The Bell Jar. ... She talks about the first two times that she almost died, which has a direct link to Plath, who tried to commit suicide too; once when she consumed sleeping pills and the other time when she had a car accident. She expresses it by saying that she "did it again"(Plath 129), where the pronoun "it" means dying. Moreover, Plath also says "Dying Is an art" (Plath 130), as if it was a performance in front of an audie...

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Morselli's studies showed that suicide rates were high during summer because excess energy builds up during summer as life is easy during the season unlike in winter. ... He alternatively believed that the correlation is due to increase in daylight in the summer. ...

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Ernest Hemingway: 1950 - Death Ernest Hemingway was a famous American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. His writings have been recognized not just in the United States, but also all over the world. Hemingway's loves were bullfighting, wars, hunting, and fishing; which explains th...

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The first obvious and prominent symbol of the book is the "caged parrot" that seems to possess talent just like Mrs. Pontellier but no one was able to comprehend or recognize this except for the mocking bird "that hung on the other side of the door". The mocking bird represents innocence and unde...

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When the spring and summer seasons begin and there is greater exposure to longer hours of daylight, the symptoms of depression disappear. ... Her disheveled appearance, her dull gaze and lack of eye contact convey a sense of despair that totally engulfs her, as does the starving, dying dog curled in a ball at her feet. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate