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  • Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love, Her Reply, and Cecil Day Lewis

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    Comparing The Passionate Shepherd To His Love, Her Reply, and Cecil Day Lewis When looking at these three poems,  it immediately becomes noticeable that all of them are very similar.  They often share the same lines,  almost word for word,  and furthermore follow a smilar tone,  as well as having an identical rhyming pattern.  „The passionate shepherd to his love“ (poem number one)  is followed by an answer from his lover (poem number two),  and is then followed up by a further poem by Cecil

  • Comparing Sir Walter Raleigh's The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd to Christopher Marlowe's The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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    Comparing Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Sir Walter Raleigh wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" in 1600 to respond to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" written in 1599. In " The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", the Shepherd used double-entendres and hidden sexual images in an attempt to trick the Nymph into performing sexual intercourse with him. The Shepherd attempted to

  • Internet Censorship Essay - Censorship and the Internet

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    as her reply was a black female and her "hole." Although this may sound humorous at first, we must look at the larger picture. Imagine a young child who does this same search and gets the same reply. It is hard enough for a parent to explain the topic of sex to their child. Once they do the parent wants the child to think of this as something special. Not as something which is depicted on the Internet sometimes in extremely distasteful manners. We must think of a way to limit the replies that people

  • Word Play in Hamlet

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    Word Play in Hamlet A principal theme in Shakespeare's Hamlet is the strength and flexibility of language. Words are used to communicate ideas, but can also be used to distort or conceal the truth and manipulate. Throughout the play characters comment on the properties of language and exploit these for their own advantage. Claudius, the shrewd politician is the most obvious example of a man who manipulates words to enhance his own power, possessing a professional grasp of the language

  • Driving Miss Daisy

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    Daisy’s prejudice and Hoke. Here goes. Daisy showed her first type of prejudice when Hoke told her "yo zinnias cold use a little tendin’ to". She told him to leave them alone. He also offered to put vegetables in the garden. Daisy just gave him a rude reply. Now my opinion is that she didn’t want him to touch her garden because she wasn’t sure if black people knew how to take care of that type of thing. She also could have meant to be rude, not prejudice, because she doesn’t want help from anybody for

  • road less traveled

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    psychological problems? Scott M. Peck believes that the conceptual ideas of discipline, love, growth and religion, and finally grace all bind together to provide the answers to these questions. While I opened the book and began to read, the first-level reply is given in the first section of the book. It is said that we as a society and human beings lack discipline. When a problem is aroused and present, we as humans fail to confront and face them. We fail to solve our personal problems because it either

  • Learning Patience and Responsibility at Hell's Pizza

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    taught me the more about being patient and responsible than any other experience I have had. It was mid sophomore year of high school when I started the job hunt. I applied to many places, grocery stores, restaurants, and even the movie theaters. No reply from any of them. It was about a month and a half when Bob from Peter Piper Pizza called me up looking for new employees. “Hey this is Bob from Peter Piper Pizza, is this Brandon” Bob asked. “Yes it is” I replied. “How would you like to come in

  • Comparing Oedipus and Antigone

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    conversation where Haimon states; “I am your son father. You are my guide. You make things clear for me, and I obey you. No marriage means more to me than you continuing wisdom.” This statement is basically what Creon expects to hear out of his son. His reply of, ”Good. That is the way to behave: subordinate everything else, my son, to your father’s will.” Creon is used to having people do everything he wants them to do. The second example is the relationship between Antigone and her dead brother Polyneices

  • Kant's Second Analogy

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    accordance with a causal law. Although there have been numerous interpretations of Kants argument in the Second Analogy, we have not been able to find an argument that we can show valid. The modest title of a recent article, Another Volley at Kants Reply to Hume, (1) suggests that the problem of finding a valid argument in the Second Analogy, and an adequate response to Hume, is still with us. In this paper I will present an argument I have found in the Second Analogy for the necessity of presupposing

  • Epic of Gilgamesh

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    of creation saying, “You made him, O Aruru, now create his equal” (62). The people and the gods felt that if Gilgamesh had someone equal to him in strength and power that they would compete together leaving the city of Uruk in peace. Therefore, in reply to the grievances of the gods and people Enkidu is sent down to earth. &nbs...

  • Article Analysis on Manners

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    “Give me a bowl of special noodle. Where were you at? I’m waiting you for a long time. Hurry up!” The man shouted at the waitress in the very crowded restaurant and didn’t even give her a look. She didn’t reply but went back to the kitchen. That was a case that I witnessed in the restaurant next to my house. Therefore, when I read the article “Can I Get You Some Manners with That?” written by Christie Scotty, I can understand why Scotty feels kind of angry when the way others treat her depend on

  • The Internet and International Business

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    means of communication, an essential tool in almost instant communication. People can "talk" to others by sending email messages, at the speed of pressing the send key. This information is instantly transmitted to the receiver, who can in turn, reply quickly. Today, one can even literally talk to someone else, just as if he/she were actually phoning someone over traditional phone lines. While the quality is not as clear as regular lines, the cost is considerably less. The idea of less expensive

  • My Miracle

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    performance, and we had been practicing before and after school. While I waited for an answer from my dad, the game show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," sounded in the background. "Dad, I am going to run to Hailey's real quick," I repeated my shout. A reply came: "It's snowing pretty hard, wait for my show to end and I will take you. I am on my way to the store anyway." I looked out the window to see snow coming down pretty heavy. On any other day, I would have argued to leave right away, but for some

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark: Understanding The Birthmark

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    at it whenever he had a chance, and tried to be candid about it.  When it became apparent that Aylmer was quite concerned with this, Georgiana asked him to elaborate.  He was more disgusted by the mark than Georgiana assessed. Her most significant reply to him was “You cannot love what shocks you!” She is indeed compromising, offering her life in exchange for her husband’s contempt.  The bandwagon effect modifies Georgiana’s thinking towards the mark.  She then becomes critical of it, begging her

  • Backtracking E-mail Messages

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    (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F9B8511C7 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from (HELO 0udjou) [193.12.169.0] by 12-218-172-108.client.mchsi.com with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:42:31 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Maricela Paulson" Reply-To: "Maricela Paulson" To: davar@example.com Subject: STOP-PAYING For Your PAY-PER-VIEW, Movie Channels, Mature Channels...isha Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:42:31 +0200 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version:

  • Macbeth - Manipulation

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    she would have to push Macbeth into performing the deed and she starts by telling him "Thy letters have transported me beyond this ignorant present and I feel now the future in the present" (1.5.57-59) the moment they meet. From Macbeth’s reply "We will speak further" (1.5.69) he is obviously noncommittal, but was already thinking about it. The first step of manipulation has started. Not much further in the play, we see that Macbeth decides not to murder Duncan but rather, carry

  • Old Friends

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    it. Squinting, for a better look, I carefully separated the hair that grew from his temples, ordinarily bristling white, but now suspiciously black and tarry. Interrupting my cutting, I ventured, "Doug, what's all over your hair?" As I awaited his reply, I contemplated my long professional relationship with the man seated before me. I cut hair and work with hairpieces for a living. I design, install, and maintain them for fees far below those of large companies whose lavish infomercials are viewable

  • The Function of Blogs

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    article they recently read. In this case they usually link you to the article and state their opinions, or point out different aspects of it. Their comments are kind of a one-way discussion leading you down their train of thoughts. You can usually reply to what the author says, but the time delay in responses may result in the author’s lack of interest to questions posed. Walt Crawford threw an interesting concept my way in his article, Announcing Cubed: Media about Media about Media. Blogs are just

  • The Beauty of Color

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    As the car stopped, he caressed me immediately; in synch with the stopping of the engine was the start of us. I say us because I feel like that’s what it is to become intimate with someone, you merge, mesh, mix into some form of a united being. I enjoyed him. Intimacy was an act of passion. It didn’t take love to feel passion, and it didn’t take an appropriate union to become a part of another person. We were one as he kissed me, touched me. I felt him and he felt me. One. “You like that,” he

  • A Burning Intellect in Fahrenheit 451

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    conversation Montag is questioned why books are illegal and why firemen burn the books. CLARISSE also asks him if he had ever read any of the books that he burned. His reply was that it is against the law. Clarisse even asks, "... long ago [did] firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?"(Fahrenheit 451, page 38) Montag replies by telling her that that is nonsense, and that "Houses have always been fireproof,..."(Fahrenheit 451, page 38) Here you can see how brainwashed and blinded the truth