The Road Not Taken by: Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. ... Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. ... One ...

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For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that will cause me to be ashamed of myself but that I will always be ready to speak out boldly for Christ while I am going through all these trials here, just as I have in the past; and that I will always be an honour to Christ, whether I live or whether I must die. For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying well, that's better yet! But if living will give me more opportunities to win people to Christ, then I really don't know which is better, to live or to die! ... He lays out his arguments as f...

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People are born, die, and catch the plague with no warning. ... Religions tend to lay blame on people, or attribute events to God's will, but the view of a chaotic, random world does not coincide with this. ... He allows himself to die untreated because of his deep beliefs in the order of things. ... He says that he realized at one point that he " had had plague through all those long years in which, paradoxically enough, I"d believed with all my soul that I was fighting it. I learned that I had had an indirect hand in the deaths of thousands of people- (251). ...

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I send you one who will be greatest of the wizards of Gont, if the wind blow true" (p36). ... Once he is recovered, he is told that nothing could protect him but the power of the Masters and the defenses that lay upon the island. ... Ged begins to say a spell to bring the fever down, but it does not take hold and he thinks the child is dying. ...

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When asked why he wrote this book he said "I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any condition, even the most miserable ones.... Inmates performed hard manual labor, such as digging ditches and tunnels for water mains or laying railway tracks, while working on a near-starvation diet. ... I do not want to go through life without a meaning, without affecting peoples lives in a positive way. ... This book has made me want to be a better person, and love every day I live on this earth. ... Even so, the entire book ...

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Instead, when an insect takes even the smallest bite of these potatoes, it will "supposedly keel over and die- (Pollan 506), saving the plant from being harmed in any way. ... They could be in the French fries that millions of people consume each day "at McDonald's or in a bag of Frito Lay chips- (Pollan 521). ... And yet as I watched then multiply I couldn't help thinking of them as existentially different from the rest of my plants- (Pollan 508). ...

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I enjoy this poem, because it displays Frost's capacity for independent thought. ... I think that the unstructured nature of this poem is a reflection on its sentiment. ... He says "die early and avoid the fate" and if you are to lead a long life then "make the whole stock exchange your own". ... However, like all of his poems, this poem can be read on a metaphorical level and beneath the cynicism lays truth and reason. ... Frost says "I found a dimple spider, fat and white on a white heal-all". ...

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