Washington said, "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."" ... At night Gatsby would step outside his house and perform a ritual, "he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock-(25-26). ... It may have been Gatsby's dream that helpe...

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However, in this essay I shall explore this in further depth by looking at three poems: "A dream", "A Birthday" and one of the many poems entitled "Song", beginning "When I am dead, my dearest." By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... "A Dream" is a biographical poem which charts the events of a dream which the speaker has had about her and her lover. ... In line 11, the speaker makes the connection between their dream and reality by saying "I thoug...

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Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. ... He is a man of dreams and illusions. ... She also is possessed by phony dreams. Hers is the dream of staying beautiful . ... She simply must have a light lunch with a stuffed tomato. ...

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Is it impossible to have two completely opposing realities in an actual existence? ... What have you got, Jamal? ... I knew I'd find you in the end. ... Having fallen in love with Daisy in 1917, prior to leaving to fight in World War I, he does everything he can to recreate the love he and Daisy had shared. ... I looked relatively happy but I felt like I'd been betrayed....

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In the end of the poem, the character dreams of "your Etectera" while he lies in mud, wishing he could be back home. ... Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," 4 where he uses "etcetera," as an adjective, adverb, and a noun. ... Also, the meaning of "etcetera," is "and so on," such as, "I need to eat, sleep, etcetera." ... However, the only person who doesn't share the same...

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Victor begins his tale to Walton by describing his early childhood, "I was so guided by a silken cord, that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me" (42). ... "My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued to be their single offspring" (p 42). ... Having never fully differentiated from his mother, Victor views his mother's death as his own. ... "Lacan treated the unconscious as a language and viewed the dream as a form of discourse" (169). ... "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree I shunned my fellow-creatures ...

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Had Romeo restrained himself from killing Tybalt, or waited even one day before killing himself after hearing the news of Juliet's death, matters might have ended happily. Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the first place. ...

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What the three women have in common, however, is a type of control over Paul. ... Morel's tools to make her dream and ambition come true. ... Morel's support, Paul's dream could not come true. ... "Everything seemed to have gone smash for the young man. ... Keep me from loving him, if I ought not to love him ". ...

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Martin Luther King talk about his dream. ... Don't ask me I don't give a damn. ... Tell you what I"m gonna do. ... I"m gonna cry all day-ay. Alice Cooper made it evident that laments can also have an edge. ...

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In this paper I hope to cover the main areas of this complex subject. I will address the stages of dating, the four types of chemistry between dating partners, unhealthy chemistry in women, various types of bad relationships, commitment, engagement and marriage. I will begin with the most natural start of male/female relationships, dating. ... Also know what personality characteristics and values you want your partner to have. ... [a] If you want your relationships to be more than previous generations have experienced, then new skills must be learned. ...

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When they quarreled, the little girl cut her down to size declaring aloud what she thought about the woman: "I am not deceitful: If I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Read."... Do you think I am an automaton, a machine without feeling, and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? ... We can easily prove Jane's rebellious spirit from her analysis on her own character: "I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with posit...

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"I dreamt a dream last night- and "Some consequences yet hanging in the stars- These quotes are talking about how Romeo believes his life is out of his own power and is being ruled for him hanging uncontrollably in the stars. He thinks of his dream as some type of premonition, which he can see into the future. ... "Romeo till I behold him dead- 3. ... œSir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child's love, I think she will be ruled- and 2."... He says if you don't marry Paris on Thursday I will disown you. ...

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With all of life's experiences to behold, I feel the autobiographer is seduced to relinquish his experience of suffering, above all else. ... Wordsworth's affection for mankind now begins to transform into a repulsive melancholy spreading throughout his imagination: What then I learn"d, or think I learn"d, of truth, And the errors into which I was betray"d By present objects, and by reasonings false From the beginning, inasmuch as drawn Out of a heart which had been turn"d aside From nature by external accidents, And which was thus confounded more and more, Misg...

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- I call that business."(Act 1 p8) "If I ever get married I"ll certainly try to forget the fact."... Cecily had always dreamed of loving someone "whose name was Ernest" (Act 2 p64) and felt the name inspired confidence. ... "When I married Lord Bracknell I had no fortune of any kind. But I never dreamed for a moment of letting that stand in my way." ...

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When   Juliet says to Friar Lawrence "Go get thee hence, for I wilt not away...." Juliet is telling Friar that you can leave Romeo since he is dead but I will not because I love him. ... I believe that if the Nurse had been around to help Juliet things may have turned out differently. ... She could not have gone to her parents because they would not have understood. ... She says, "It is and honor that I dream not of.". ...

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Franks to see if she was there , when I walked in she was there on the outside of a room 201 and I asked her what she was doing outside and she told me that the kid in room 201 has died and she started to cry ,since my friends were gone I thought It would be safe to hug her, so I did thinking it was the right thing to do and as I went to hug her " you don"t have to if you don"t want to" she said, so I did like any other gentlemen would, as I went home I laid on my bed in my room thinking about what made me hug Jennifer. ... After the whole conversation of the Prom she asked me if she could h...

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I know I have hurt you, but I would like to make the future different. ... They had an exciting courtship, got married at the height of the "in love experience," had the typical adjustments in the early days of marriage, and pursued the American dream. ... I wish it were different, but I don't have any feelings for her." ... I sympathized with Brent, for I have been there. ... However, if I have not learned her primary love language or have chosen not to speak it, when she descends from the emotional high, she will have the natural yearnings of unmet emotional need. ...

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Nel has an attraction to Sula's environment, which does not have "the oppressive neatness of her home (Morrison 29)." ... The world of Sula must have seemed very odd and new to Nel, and likewise for Sula. ... What would I look like leapin' 'round that little room playin' with youngins with three beets to my name? ... Soon as I got one day done here come a night. With you all coughin' and me watchin' so TB wouldn't take you off and if you was sleepin' quiet I thought, O Lord, they dead and put my hand over your mouth to feel if the breath was comin...

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"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. ... When he does speak of Priscilla, he defines her as someone who Coverdale desires to have control over. ... He even asks her "Have you nothing dismal to remember?... Coverdale follows this quote with, The sole bliss of her life had been a dream of this beautiful sister, who had never so much as known of her exis...

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She doesn't have to look at the "material things- Leonce bought, therefore giving her a sense of independence and removing the "ownership- title. ... He felt his entire being give way to despair at the though of having to lose her just when she was showing him more love than ever in the past; and he could think of nothing to do "he knew nothing, dared nothing: the need for immediate action took away the last of his presence of mind."" ... They do not really like each other, but they have a deep understanding of each other's passions and desires. ... (Seyersted 221) The older wo...

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Annie Hall In this essay, I am going to discuss a certain way of viewing Annie Hall to you. ... Rural lives are cyclical, dictated by the seasons, and generations within a family would have carried out the same tasks. ... So, in modernity, we have the "shock of the new" - everything in the city is constantly changing and new. ... The final line of the poem declares, "Oh you, who I could have loved, and you who knew it." ... As Alvy comments, "I don't respond well to mellow." ...

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A marriage is considered to be between a man and a woman who have fallen in love with each other and should never be broken apart (Reference 2). ... That is making it known that they are in love and do not wish to have any one come between them. ... People who are getting married have love for their significant other, but to make a marriage actually work they need to take a part in their roles work at the relationship. ... The husband and wife are distinct human beings who have different but possibly similar personalities, beliefs, feelings, and desires (Reference 12 pg. 86). ... Every marri...

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Morel is "a mother who is forced to desert husband on mentally, a mother who turns all her love towards her sons, a mother who longs for picking up the dream of her lost youth, and a mother who has no other way."6 The basic of Mrs. ... Morel cried:" I cannot bear it. I could let another woman but not her. ... Yes, I know it well I am old. And therefore I may stand aside; I have nothing more to do with you. ...

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How falling in love occurs, is associated with intense effective states and such intense states have been shown to have a particularly strong influence on judgment and behavior that can often override more cognitive decision making processes (for a review see Loewenstein et al., 2001). ... I would say the brain, but the heart is also related because the complex concept of love is formed by both bottom-up and top-down processes from the brain to the heart and vice-versa. ... The findings have major implications for neuroscience and mental health research because when love doesn't work ou...

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