Although Frost uses ordinary subjects, he tends to use a wide variety of emotions, allowing his poems to shift from humor to tragedy. ... The poems opening line, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall", implies that walls are unnatural, and that the vague "something" is a force of nature that destroys the walls people build. ... He adds humor and tragic tones in his poems which he concentrates on ordinary subject matters of life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Not many people fulfill there dreams. ... The story The Immortals by Martin Amis, is a prime example of an ordinary person who has never felt fulfilled. ... This story shows a different perspective of looking at humanity, no boundaries for the human imagination and an ordinary person looking to be special. ... He is representing the ordinary man who strives for more, more answers then a book can give and experienced people can describe. ... Sure, it may seem funny but that's the mentality of people. ...

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During My Left Foot we travel through the heart filled tale of Christy Brown trying to be just another ordinary person in a brutal world. ... So he would attempt to do things that ordinary boys his age were doing. ... As for Christy Brown he did live a satisfying life and make several people proud, but most importantly him made himself proud and that really all he wanted. ...

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Camus was known for being very sensitive and ordinary. ... In all his effort, Camus proves that he was a standard man who spoke for ordinary people with realistic and compelling expressions. ... His techniques adds to the absurd ideas that can be found in this world and the absurd behaviors of people and they show the humans eagerness for meaning in life. ... He writes in the novel that we think we choose our fate, but one and the same fate was bound to choose not only me but thousands of millions of privileged people (The Stranger, Pt. 2, Ch.5). ... He doesnt know why he does Certain things...

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• Grade Level: High School

The modern idea of yearning is squandered in this story by the people of the small towns. ... These ordinary people were lost in the shuffle of this small town, yet they were afraid of the criticism because they were different. Death is the ultimatum that brings out the truth from these people. ... Even in small towns where life is assumed to be simple, there is always something people want. ... The people of Spoon River yearn for different things. ...

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Ruth Reichl makes it obvious from the beginning of "Tender at the Bone-, that she grew up in a far from ordinary family, her mother being the cause of much of this weirdness. ... This attitude affects Ruth greatly; She adopts an ability to look past the boundaries of the ordinary, and is thus introduced to a life of people and experiences that is truly unique. ... Ruth doesn't judge people or opportunities by society's standards. ...

• Word Count: 1198
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their destinies intersect with the one of the people who live close to them. ... This is why here, the destiny isn't a burden like in the ancient tragedy, there are no heroes or heroines, only simple people with lives confined between birth and death, people who cannot deviate from their written course of life. Actually, the characters are so ordinary that they don't even want to be more than their condition lets them. ... The denouement reveals the characters in a surreal place, somewhere after death, not looking back towards their lives, but towards the people they left behind. ...

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He was now confined to his wheelchair and the dependence on other people and machines. ... Ordinary things were now a joy. Talking with people was not sad and depressing because they knew he was dying, but lively because they were glad they had a chance to talk one last time. ... Taking his own advice, he would have lived each day like he would die, not taking anything for granted, forgiving people, keeping in touch. ...

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When Oliver starts describing the grasshopper, a minute aspect of creation that she can empathize with, she uses clearly defined diction in paradox Oliver sees a picture of her "wild and precious life" in the ordinary doings of this sugar-happy insect, known more for its wanton destructiveness than its bliss. ... These people are secure with their Catholic catechism beliefs or those of other religious denominations, and thus are not as desperately curious as I am. ...

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But we people cannot face the fact that we have to die one day. ... I have personally seen people cry over somebody's death for many days. ... So people with such attitudes have problems accepting death. ... We shouldn't harm other people instead help them. ... Death is just ordinary thing and accept that everybody who are in the world have to dir ...

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Some people spend their whole lives feeling sorry for themselves. ... No one likes people who are full of self-pity, they are no fun. ... Morrie is not your ordinary man though. ... They discussed how people today don't take marriage seriously. ... Most people don't care how sacred the vows of marriage are. ...

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People have come to believe several different stories about the incident. ... People have also been manipulated by the media to believe such absurd things as alien life. "People seem to want UFOs, ancient astronauts, crashed saucers, and pickled aliens to be true" (Korff 223). The public has been brainwashed to accept things that are out of the ordinary. Some people will believe these stories of aliens whether they are real or not. ...

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Now, these were no ordinary clocks. ... The people threw stones at him and broke every clock in the shop. ... Things were not going as planned by most of the people in Dakota. The people became scared thinking, "when will I die?" ... Just like Adam and Eve, two people who had to originate sin, these people of the city Dakota, had to originate death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the end of the day, people are usually exhausted from work and the stresses of the long day. ... I strongly concur with Thoreau on the idea that people should focus more on life, and less on the unimportant or materialistic things in life. ... Thoreau is pretty much correct when he makes people out to be sort of robotic in the way that they go about their days. ... Once life starts to become a routine, people tend to eventually get unhappy with not doing anything out of the ordinary. ... People day to day strive to obtain the most of everything. ...

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To her great surprise the voice was that of Caroline's ex-suitemate, Tara, and the tone was somber, immediately letting Caroline know that something out of the ordinary was going to come pouring through the phone into her ear. ... As more and more people found out the information, the more possibilities for the cause of death came up. ... Surrounded by people sobbing and questioning "Why, why, why?" ... As she saw the snow slowly fall to the ground, Caroline began to see how simple life could be if people just learned to live simply. Dan had always wanted something major, always wanted to...

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Some lessons take long to understand and sadly, some people never learn these lessons. Many people go through their whole lives without ever discovering what is truly important to them and their family and what is real happiness. ... Although he is nothing really out of the ordinary, he tends to portray a false image of great success. ... He lies about how much people like him and how good of a salesman he is. ... It is unclear to what extent she knew about Willy, for at the funeral, she asks, "But where are all the people he knew?" ...

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In my opinion, this would be a very bland and ordinary being. ... There are perfect people that live in perfect houses and live perfect lives. ... There are a few people that decide to go against the flow of Omelas. ... Mentally ill people are just as important as everybody else. ...

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That they were the people we had built the fire pits to protect the city against. ... "They were the people who had done this to me and my brother, the men who had killed my parents". ... "That these people were not in possession of the cure for what they had done to us never occurred to me". ... Emiko justifies the teaching of death being just a consequence to life by stating that the war had proven to show that death was just an ordinary consequence. ...

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Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses different types of figurative language, and imagery like metaphor, repetition and symbolism and others; these help her create a poem that people can understand it in many ways. ... Many people use the "Grim Reaper" or a related dreadful person, but in this case Death is polite man. ... The speaker's slow drive in the carriage displays a metaphorical logic of timelessness in the after life, where people do not have any rush in any expedition. ... As the speaker goes by her childhood happy memories are brought from her ordinary life. ...

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In conclusion, the poet was trying to say that Jews are very unfairly treated, and they have no opportunities compared to "ordinary" people. ... Even though it's been about 75 years since this poem was written, it is still a current issue in today's society, as discrimination is a problem that many people face. There have been some changes, yet some people are still being discriminated and treated with prejudice. ...

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Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." ... "I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and the prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey." ... Once again the love of the family seems to conquer all, as it is shocking how they were able to endure being infested by fleas, having the lavatory of the whole street outside their door, attracting rats and...

• Word Count: 941
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School