(line 5) as a one-word sentence to give it emphasis. ... As the two walk the author uses very descriptive words to give detail to the landscape, "Her down the street, across/A used car lot and a line/Of newly planted trees,/Until we were breathing/Before a drugstore. ... Instead of just saying we walked past a car lot and trees, the author gives us a more descriptive picture and uses "used" car lot and "newly" planted trees as images against the cold December walk. ... He trades one of his oranges, one of his symbols of joy, to buy his girlfriend a piece of chocolate, giving of his own joy i...

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In Genesis, "The Lord God planted all sorts of beautiful trees there in the garden, trees producing the choicest of fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge, giving knowledge of both Good and Bad.... ... But the Lord God gave the man this warning: "You may eat any fruit in the garden except fruit from the Tree of Knowledge-- for its fruit will open your eyes to make you aware of right and wrong, good and bad...." ...

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It did not matter how big or small, simple or ornate, old or new something was "Japhy freely gave or shared, but did not give for mindless reasons. "Smith, you don't realize that it's a privilege to practice giving gifts to others. The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery or Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were beat up old things but they had the charm of usefulness and the sadness of his giving-(76). 3 " not allowing the mind to depend upon notions evoked by the sensible world "by not allowing the mind to depend ...

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Vaughan gives a definition of Theosophy to be " a theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an inspiration of his own for its basis." ... Theosophy gives guiding principles that can be achieved through continuing development of the mind. ... A human consciousness will take the form of a human and the consciousness of a bird or a tree can only become a bird or a tree. ... Our genes are passes down from generation to generation and say a human couldn't give birth to a plant or any other animal. ...

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Carrying her baby in hand, she walked through the muddy streets to a field an then there; placed her baby on cornhusks then went to a nearby tree to read the letter. ... Her next realization came during her daydream by the kalamansi tree and with her baby almost hurt. ... Sometimes, when I'm having too much fun from all the freedom college life is giving me, I tend to forget my responsibilities and my duties. ...

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Mentioning the biblical story of Adam, Eve, and the tree of knowledge, Kleist says "we would have to eat again off the tree of knowledge to fall back again into a state of innocence" (Kleist, p. 26). ... They claim that reason does not need to permeate every aspect of life and that at times, it must give way to emotion or a lack of consciousness. ...

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Most fathers would for on not talk about money right after his wives death, and he would give the money to his daughter instead of being greedy. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... I actually know someone that came home one day from work and saw his own brother hanging from a tree in their front yard. ...

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Most fathers would for on not talk about money right after his wives death, and he would give the money to his daughter instead of being greedy. ... If my father ever refused to save my mother from dieing, I would give him a piece of my mind. ... I actually know someone that came home one day from work and saw his own brother hanging from a tree in their front yard. ...

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It can't give concrete answers to some questions, the questions of existence. ... This presumption that all things can be explained here on earth and can be understood and interpreted by us gives way to pride. ... Appreciation of nature requires much more than a mere knowledge of its parts and the transcendence it gives rise to can not be contained in the mind, it must spill over into the soul. ... As I stepped closer still I became almost bothered by all the individual strokes of the brush, I began to wonder if there was any set relation that they bore to one another, if I could perhaps ...

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In Tim O"Brien's novel, If I Die in a Combat Zone, a unique, young man examined the Vietnam War. Feelings toward the war at that time were mixed and questioned by many people in the U.S. There were many opinions ranging from positive to negative. Tim's beliefs somewhat remained the same since he alr...

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When the witches give Macbeth three prophesies, he comprehends them in a completely wrong manner because of his passion for power. ... Macbeth does not see that the witches are manipulating him and giving him prophesies that have symbolic and figurative meanings. ... Who can impress the forest, bid the tree Unfix his earth bound-root? ...

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The Cartesian mental state is what gives us the power to strip the world of function. ... This gives rise to ethical egoism, where "good"" is just an individual satisfying as many of his or her desires as possible, compatible with some agreement that we will sacrifice some satisfaction for the sake of safety and consideration for other people, as in a social contract with society. ... "Human nature is not as a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but as a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...

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During his studies he came up with a hypothesis: "science may be compared to a tree; metaphysics is the root, physics is the trunk, and the three chief branches are mechanics, medicine, and morals, these forming the three applications of our knowledge, namely, to the external world, to the human body, and to the conduct of life- (Ball, 1995). ... Descartes spent four years writing "Le Monde, which embodies an attempt to give a physical theory of the universe- (Ball, 1995), "it was near completion when news that Galileo was condemned to house arrest reached him. ...

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He likes to "drink gin and grape juice", and show the world that "we [narrator and friends] don't give a shit about anything". (112). ... He though maybe he would tell them that a tree had fallen on top of it while he was at Digby's house playing chess. ...

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