The conflict of reality vs. imagination is explored through images of bent birches. ... Reality vs. imagination is explored with the symbolism of a boy used to represent imagination. ... The final way Frost gets the theme across of reality vs. imagination is through the tone used in the poem. ... The tone Frost uses proves that he prefers imagination rather than reality. In the last line of the poem, "One could be worse than be a swinger of birches," the speaker sounds calm and relaxed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gender-Typing vs. ... For instance, if we were to be free willed in what we say because of not being taught certain ways then we could very easily offend people. ... Well my thoughts are that if we downcast our children to believe these have any true meaning and to raise them with those stereotypes being withdrawn they would have the benefit of being more of themselves rather than that of which society has molded to do their bidding. ... Discouraging the tradition leads to a freer mind which is much better than that of a molded mind. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There was the government vs. Vietnam and the Government vs. the People, and to think the U.S. was losing lives on both ends of the spectrum. ... Although he does say that the people with college degrees were more for the war than people with high school and no education, but it does not take a genius to figure out why that was. ... They would rather go to jail then be put in the situations of the Vietnam War. ...

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Physical abuse vs. ... That's when people take that opportunity to intensify the type of things they say making the abuse worse, and then becoming noticeable but only when it's too late and is extreme. ... If verbal abuse is never considered as or more harmful than physical abuse, our society will always continue to hear cases of mental breakdowns and suicide. ...

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"There's nothing worse in life than being ordinary". ... It's the argument of appearance vs. reality. ... If you are talking about Lester's job then in that respect Lester is an ordinary guy making an ordinary living. ... There are always areas of people or objects that can fit the description of being normal, but if you look at the whole story about that person or object then it's not ordinary. ... Life is much more complex than that. ...

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He goes from person vs. person conflicts to using emotional characteristics to describe the feelings of all major characters. ... "The coal miner must be shot publicly, because the theory is that others will then restrain themselves from killing our men." ... There are many more examples of Rationalism than Transcendentalism in this piece. ...

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(Lines 97-98) His statement juxtaposes white vs. black imagery along with animal imagery to enrage the senator. ... Yet I"ll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. ... Put out the light, and then put out the light. ...

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According to Sartre, when immanence is not immanent to something but itself, then it is only possible to speak of a plane of immanence. The plane then can perhaps be radical emparisism.therefore the plane presents events that are expressed in the form of words as concepts. ... "When immanence is no longer immanent to something other than itself it is possible to speak of a plane of immanence.Such a plane is, perhaps, a radical empiricism"pg 47 Radical empiricism would therefore be an operation which consists in liberating immanence, returning it to its own movement. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Plato's basic theory is that an idea is more real than an instance of that idea. ... Going with this theory, then ideas change as well. ... and then realizes that no, it is not, it is an image of a pipe. ... If you most agree with Plato's definition, then the concept of reality itself is not real at all. ...

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• Grade Level: High School