And each would have lost what they gained so costly. ... Her gains from the telling of this story are many. ... She shows that even through one such as herself, arrogant and headstrong, his unbelievable lack of understanding in native culture causes an unnecessary demise of the Price family. ... In other words, she gains her identity. ... She was the one who, more than gaining something for herself, gained something for the readers. ...

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In Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day," Oliver expresses her confusion, wonder and amazement for the natural world to express her understanding of identifying one's purpose in life. ... " This is Oliver's attempt at trying to grasp an understanding of creation. ... " This is when I first gained interest in Oliver's writing. ...

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"Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow, fail in order to know, lose in order to gain and sometimes we have to be broken so we can be whole again." ... Circumstances come to us with a purpose beyond human understanding. ...

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A complete understanding of all the texts we have read is essential in order to maximize comprehension of individual situations amongst our heroes. ... It is through our hero, that we ultimately gain the perspective needed to understand the Tao, the meaning of life, and the concept of death, among others. ... " (Mitchell 12) Gilgamesh, who has not yet become as wise as he would like to believe, behaves in a very naive way here, as he overlooks the true purpose of gaining his ally, Enkidu. ...

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Confucius Just as Confucius stated, that we need to do to understand, so to does Jim Saddler, the protagonist of the novel, realises that he must go to war and experience it for himself to gain a better understanding of things. ... Jim is a man of self-understanding and he does not want to have to look to others to tell him who is. ...

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It is impossible for someone to truly understand the depth of emotion that a service member experiences coming home from a grueling war. The United States ended WWII with a victory and began the voyage home. Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Soldiers all returning home after one of the deadliest wars in...

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Low-income Outreach: The Impact on Youth Would you like to know how to transform a delinquent teenager? Do you send him or her away to boot camp or military school? Teenagers who are involved in low-income outreach programs not only improve the lives of others but find themselves changed as we...

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Frankenstein In the literary work Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor the monster's creator, is usually identified as the protagonist. He is the victim of his own creation serving also as an antagonist to himself. This would have never had happened if he wasn't infatuated with the secrets of life...

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By discussing each of the poems and contemplating their meanings, the reader should have a better understanding of the message Dickinson is trying to send to her audience and a much greater aspect of what could be waiting for us after we die. ... As seen by analyzing and interpreting the poems, "I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", the reader can better understand the uses of death in her poetry and gain a fuller understanding of Dickinson on a poetic level....

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Gaining greater awareness of her mother's value and appreciating, after her mother has died, how important her mother was to her. ... What has it added to your understanding of change? ... A child once quick to mischief' has grown into a contemplative adult who has a greater understanding of life picking the last fruits of the temporal' (the last lessons of time/experience). ...

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Marquez gained personal ambition by "devouring" literature and desiring to write. ... Through Marquez's "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," he emphasizes that life without heroes, ambition, and a more contented understanding of death lacks the true passions in life. ...

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He tells the lazy man to drown his thought on all of the difficult accomplishments that he, the wise man, achieved and all of the knowledge he gained. ... But with this choice you are constantly progressing in knowledge and understanding, which will benefit life to no end. ...

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I came to the conclusion that by focusing my paper on that which Morrie so eloquently taught the reader, both me and my teacher would gain insight and understanding about living life to it's fullest. ...

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In the end, the author realizes that they may lose more than they had gained by saving time. ... Although saving time is necessary, people seem to use less time to take care of their family, they lack of time for understanding other people, and they have a rush life. ... Thus, "we may lose more than we've gained by forgetting the important things in life." ...

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It's great with surprises and rude awakenings, the challenge is to gain acceptance for it's place in life and from then on learn to handle the many forms it presents itself with grace and wisdom. ... Instead of wondering how his death happened, why not go ahead and be thankful for the times they spent and the great knowledge she gained simply by being in Dan's presence? ... As she gazed at Dan's body she leaned over and whispered "Thank you Daniel, even in death you've shown me beauty and understanding. ...

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Socrates did not think about questions or worldly things, instead he turned all his attention inward to understanding the concepts of justice, love, and virtue, and the self-knowledge that he inculcated (Online Encyclopedia). ... He says "the soul is imprisoned inside the body by the need for drink, sex, and sleep, with the result that it is kept from its true aim, the gaining of knowledge, thus, when we death releases the soul from its prison, its free to roam among the ideas that it dimly perceived while alive."...

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Reading this book has increased understanding of life and world around us by showing that life in other cultures have things harder and have to work through things just as everyone has to do. ... In the fourth and final part of the book "Come Wolf, Come Swimmer" it goes in to depth on what their winter is like that b4 it starts that the areas that aren't as fast moving that gain ice need to be broken up and that people need to stay up in shifts to break it up. ...

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Christina Rossetti's Death Through Time Christina Rossetti's "At Home" captures the true definition of time related to life and death through metaphors and ingenious word context. The true meaning of this poem is one that can be easily overlooked by many readers. Throughout the first reading, o...

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• Grade Level: High School