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Move Forward High Water
749 wordsDemonstrates and points out the harsh and pacific realities of life. The river teaches us to let go of regret and move forward in one direction. The more constricted a river is the more violently out of control it becomes. Growth. Give the river credit. Every river is different. What matters? Why do you love? What do you know that no one else knows? Take a chance. Talk, listen, cry, roll off a waterfall. Laugh. You know how to laugh. Make a fool of yourself. Enjoy the high water, appreciate the ...
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Aristotle States P 53
1,475 wordsNichomachean Ethics by Aristotle attempts to define the meaning of ethics and to create the perfect society as did Plato in The Republic. In Aristotle's attempt at definition he discusses the difference and significance of voluntary and involuntary action. Beginning by defining, Aristotle soon realizes many situations are too complex for just black vs. white terms and he introduces another term; non-voluntary. This leads to discussion of choice and deliberation, bringing his viewpoints into appl...
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The Road Not Taken In Choices Of Life
1,178 words"The Road Not Taken" in the Choices of Life "I shall be telling this with a sign Two roads diverged in a wood, and I And that has made all the difference. " (Frost 751) The narrator of this last stanza of "The Road Not Taken" is Edward Thomas, eluding that the choice he has just made may be the wrong, or the right; but only time will tell. On the surface, Robert Frosts poem is a story about a walk on a wooded road, but it had deeper meaning to him and how he feels about the road. Also, the poem ...
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Retirement Income Retirement Accounts
790 wordsPeople of all ages should begin planning for retirement and managing their money well so they are ensured enough income when they do retire. Retirees estimate that people will need 71 % of their pre-retirement income to maintain their current lifestyles. Stocks and 401 (k) plans are recommended. Facts Non retired Americans with household incomes that average more than $ 50, 000 assumes they won't be able to retire until age 59. More than a third of affluent retirees with children and grandchildr...
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National Cancer Institute Teenage Pregnancies
1,529 wordsThe Aftermath of an Abortion To have abortion or not is a very difficult choice to make. The final choice comes from religious and ethical beliefs. However, to have an abortion means to participate in a horrendous crime against humanity, God, and oneself. Abortion can also have deleterious effects on the mothers health and well being. Many of the couples, mainly the mothers, that have an abortion tend to go into a state of depression known as Post-abortion syndrome. Negative effects on the mothe...
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Choices We Make Human Behavior
999 wordsSuppose that every event or action has a sufficient cause, which brings that event about. Today, in our scientific age, this sounds like a reasonable assumption. After all, can you imagine someone seriously claiming that when it rains, or when a plane crashes, or when a business succeeds, there might be no cause for it? Surely, human behavior is caused. It doesn't just happen for no reason at all. The types of human behavior for which people are held morally accountable are usually said to be ca...
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Romantic Poetry Imagination And Emotion
1,043 words... r is thinking and the whole poem is a 'train of thought'. The speaker is saying that as well as being sad, he finds it strange to not be able to go back to the "days that are no more." It is the last stanza of the poem is where there is most emotion and sentimentality; a great yearning for something that will never happen again and about lost time. "Dear as remembered kisses after death, He says that the days that are now gone are as dear to him as the kisses of loved ones that are now dead....
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Curiosity Of What Couldve Notre Dame Life
894 wordsEvery day a person makes hundreds of decisions. Some of these include the mundane things in life: What am I going to wear? What do I eat for breakfast? However, each person at some time comes to a point in their lives when they must choose a path. This event is appropriately named a crossroad because that decision could entirely change the direction of ones life. This event does not happen just once in a lifetime although each time it could mean something totally different. I myself, at the youn...
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Gentle Into That Good Night Believes That Man
551 wordsSociety has taken up the fact that everyone will die at some point. What society is divided on is if death should be feared or not. Dylan Thomas tries to persuade the reader in the poem Do not go gentle into that good night, to not fear death, but at the same time fight for life until you cannot fight anymore. He also tries to persuade society to live life to the fullest. The poem Death do not go gentle into that good night, is a perfect representation of how to perceive death. Live everyday of ...
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Live His Life Traveler Expresses Road
963 wordsThe Road Not Taken can be interpreted many different ways. Depending on the past, present and future attitude one has at the time he read it determines the way the poem may be interpreted. As the title indicates the central theme of this poem is choices. Most people agree that in the poem that Frost was expressing the belief that it is the road or path that one takes or chooses that makes him the man who he is today and will be tomorrow. Everyone is a traveler on lives roads. In the poem there i...
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Matt And Richard Andre Dubus Strout
973 wordsThe story Killings written by Andre Dubus narrates about parents coping with a sons death which shattered Matt and Ruths world. They were full of sorrow for their son, and hatred for the man who did this to him. But what is more vivid is that this story is an exiting depiction of murder created by two people who seem unalike but in reality are actually quite the same. The story focuses on the two murderers different approaches to their crimes, creating a question of whether or not either murder ...
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Hester Prynne Committing Adultery
677 wordsMs. Scarlet Letter Jessica Holland Ms. Davis Adv. Eng. III Per. 6 10 April 2000 The Greatest Sin People waste their lives all the time by making bad decisions, focusing their lives on destroying others, and wallowing in self pity and regret. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, that people go through their lives casting off their true potential. Through the characters Hester Prynne, Roger Chillingworth, and Arthur Dimmesdale, Hawthorne shows that sin is not only evil becau...
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Point Of View Story The Narrator
1,703 wordsThe Point of Point of ViewPoint of view is an essential element to consider when reading literature of any kind. How an author chooses to tell a story, directly affects how and what the reader sees and feels. Most authors write their stories with a certain point of view in order to keep the reader interested and to help them better understand the characters and their situations. In Truman Capote s, My Side of the Matter, and John Cheever s, Five-Forty-Eight, these reasons are the basis for their...
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Thoughts And Actions Light And Dark
2,118 wordsColor Imagery in Macbeth A Tragedy of Many Shades Does William Shakespeare write with blood pouring from his pen? Do the violent images that his colors produce play a role in the tragedy, Macbeth? It is Shakespeare's creative mind that produces each drop of blood that is evident with every new line of thought. Within Macbeth, an entire spectrum of colors helps develop and reveal the plot as each color brings a new meaning. William Shakespeare understands the importance of violence and bloodshed ...
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Choice That He Has Made Colour Of The Wood Frost
882 wordsThe poem is basically about a person who has at some point in his life been posed with a question of which path to take. Obviously, there would be a dilemma on his part and the poem revolves around his decision. Frost s narrative style has lent itself to a certain amount of ambiguity in what he is trying to convey. This ambiguity that Frost has left the reader to contemplate is basically divided into two schools of thought. The first is that Frost has a regret for the choice that he has made and...
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Christina Rossetti Second Stanza
700 wordsConsider The Ways In Which The Theme Consider The Ways In Which The Theme Of Past Regret Or Missed Opportunity Is Explored In Two Or Three Of Christina Rossetti's Poems Consider the ways in which the theme of past regret or missed opportunity is explored in two or three of Christina Rossetti? s poems In? A Summer Wish? , Christina Rossetti seems to be giving a message to the readers that you should live your life now and enjoy it while you can. The word? Oh? in the poem comes up two times. This ...
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Make A Difference Human Behavior
1,073 wordsWe ought then regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its previous state and the cause of the one which is to follow. An intelligence knowing at a given instant of time all the forces operating in nature, as well as the position at that instant of all things of which the universe consists, would be able to comprehend the motions of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the smallest atoms in a single formula provided that it was sufficiently powerful to submit all thes...
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Fried Green Tomatoes Live Her Life
1,585 wordsFried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Caf HER ORIGINAL NAME was Patricia Neal (Reynolds 1), but the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is better known under the alias: Fannie Flagg. In the novel Fried Green Tomatoes she uniquely compares the modern day world to the world in the early and the middle 1900 s. As the novel shifts from the 1930 s to the 1980 s the significance of life is seen through two of the main characters, Mrs. Cleo Threadgoode and Evelyn Couch, as life ends and begins. Fannie Fl...
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One Less Traveled Stopping By Woods
1,854 wordsAmbiguous: capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways Is our destiny set forth in front of us without the possibility of our own intervention? Should we follow traditions rather than making a new path for ourselves? These are but a couple of questions that Robert Frost sets forth for us to answer. Robert Frosts use of ambiguity in the poems The Road Not Taken, Design, Mending Wall, Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening, and a few others, gives his poetry a different perspe...
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Nuclear Arms Race War With Japan
3,347 wordsRegret is unacceptable in terms of using a destructive weapon in times of war. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was, if not a complete mistake, poorly timed. Unfortunately, the moment it was used, it may have seemed to be the only solution to bring peace. This paper will examine the untimeliness of the bomb as manifested in postwar regret and nuclear warfare. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thrust the United States into World War II, and thus helped reshape modern warfa...
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