In Janice Mirikitani's poem "Suicide Note" a young Asian American college student apologizes to her parents for not being perfect. ... The poem begins: How many notes written / ink smeared like bird prints in snow./ not good enough not pretty enough not smart enough / dear mother and father ./ I apologize/ for disappointing you / I've worked hard, / not good enough / harder, perhaps to please you.(373.1-9) Clearly the girl in this poem the girl is apologizing for much more than grades. ... Obviously she was never appreciated for her work because she's constantly apologizi...

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Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" was written in the late 1800's when male domination was conventional. This short story depicts the typical life and marriage of a woman in this time era. Most women led oppressed lives, and catered to their authoritative husbands. One can infer, that Mrs. Mallard...

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Since Becket was being true to himself, he dies, but died on a good note, that he was a good man while he was alive. Because he died on a good note and was honorable, meant that you were sent to heaven in your after life. ...

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Broken and alone, Mike solemnly notes, "In her eyes she was already gone" (365), conveying that once again he finds himself alone because of the highly educated and success driven individuals which the college attracts. ... Bluntly noting, "He was dead with her" (369), Mike admits that he has finally passed the point of no return; his long list of petty crimes are outweighed by his cold blooded murder. ...

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Sonnet 10 by Donne is a Petrarcan sonnet because it has an octet and a sestet. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBAABBACDCDEE. In the poem, the speaker talks about Death and claims that Death should not feel too proud because it is not as "mighty" as many claim it to be. In actuality Death doesn't k...

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In "The Story of an Hour," there was a "young, with a fair, calm face" woman refers as Mrs. Mallard who is Brently Mallard's wife. Later in the story she receives a message from her sister that her husband has died in a train wreck. She reacts with sadness at first, but then realizes in a rush of...

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In both Alice Walker's story "The Flowers" and William Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily," the story's ending exemplifies the type of change that takes place in the main character. Myop, the protagonist of "The Flowers," undergoes a maturing, learning experience, while Emily, the protagonist of "A ...

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The poem, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," descried how a boy walking on Long Island beach hears the cry of a bird. The bird is a "visitor form Alabama," mourning his lost mate. At the beginning of the poem, Whitman "Taking all hints to use them," the descriptions were only the observation o...

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Character Analysis "A Rose for Emily" "A Rose for Emily" is a short story by William Faulkner revolving around the main character, Miss Emily Grierson. The story starts off with Emily being dead. Then Faulkner begins to tell about Emily when she was alive. Emily's father's death took its tol...

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Irony, or the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning, is used in pieces of literature to further the theme and intrigue the reader. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used to expand the main theme. Irony is used when Louise Malla...

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Emotional Changes in an Hour In the short story "A Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, the whole range of emotions are felt by the main charter Louise Mallard, in hearing the news of her husband's tragic death then subsequent revelation of its fallacy. Her husband, Brently Mallard was supposed to be ...

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During his lifetime, Ernest Hemingway was probably America's most famous writer and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was probably the peak of his talented career. On that same note, Harry, the main character, whose last name is unknown, may be at the peak of his talent, but is too caught up in other thin...

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Jonathan explains this in his note at the end of the novel, " In all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document: nothing but a mass of typewriting" (Stoker 400). ...

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Book Review Tomorrow when the war began is about two girls Ellie and Corrie, two bored teenagers planning a camping trip to a place behind Ellie's farm property, called Hell. They arrange for five other teenagers to go as well, to come along with them. They camp in hell for a week, during which t...

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For a few years, the right to die has been the most profound and difficult issue. Physicians as well as ordinary people struggle to find an answer to the question: "Is there such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived?" Those who support euthanasia seem to imply that, indeed, there is the ...

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Euthanasia or better known as mercy killing, is a practice of ending a life so as to release an individual life from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. This term is sometimes used generally to refer to an easy or painless death. Voluntary Euthanasia involves a request by the dying ...

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In the play "Antigone," Creon has sentenced his son's fiance', Antigone, to death because she has broken the law by burying her brother, Polyneices. Because Creon's son, Haemon, feels that his father is being irrational, Haimon tries to persuade Creon to stop the death of Antigone. Furthermore, Haim...

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Daddy Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath wrote "Daddy" just four months before her death by suicide in February 1963. In the months, before she took her life she wrote two to three poems per day in a frenzy to purge her system of the chaos of her thoughts and emotions. Daddy is a confessiona...

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After Mike's death his body was brought back to Mary's house, before he was buried. Mary lost a piece of herself when Mike died. She did not want to comprehend life without him. Mary gave away his clothes to strangers rather than giving to charity. This was a way for many to feel less grief. It was ...

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In William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, the title character's fight for revenge ultimately results in his downfall, and even though he succeeded in avenging his father's death, does not survive himself. This is very much like 'In The End' by the band Linkin Park, which has the recurring line, "...

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Leaving Early Expository texts often present powerful social issues which challenge the reader. Suicide is a sin to talk about in today's society. Yet it is one of the fastest killing diseases taking many lives each week. Bronwyn Donaghy has put together a factual informative expository text title...

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Hamlet's classsic "To be or not to be..."(Hamlet, prince of Denmark, 3.1.57) speech really shows who he is. Obviously Hamlet is horribly depressed. We have already seen several examples of this, but this speech gives us a clear picture of his sadness. More importantly however, his speech shows his w...

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It's Like Rain On Your Wedding Day When it comes to writing, irony is a great tool for an interesting story. When the unexpected occurs in a story, it usually makes the text more interesting. Kate Chopin used irony in her short story, The Story of an Hour. Stories are often found more entertaini...

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Langston Hughes witnessed things no person should have to witness at any point during his or her life. An execution, a tragic accident, and a suicide all occurred before he finally left for Columbia. These events helped to shape Langston into the man he became later on in life. In "The Big Sea,"...

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Veil, what is it good for? Sin, everyone has it and those who say they do not have it probably have more of it. It is not uncommon to experience it during your lifetime. But where sin becomes a huge encumbrance is when it is secret sin that is hidden from the world but it eats at you day after d...

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