The poem "Mother to Son" uses an extended metaphor comparing a stairway to the mother's life; this troubled yet courageous view of her life gives inspiration to her son and to future generations of all races. ... It also exemplifies the way to heaven after many hardships and oppression as in the song "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" originally sung in the fields and later becoming a traditional spiritual hymn in the churches. ... The first seven lines describe in detail the extended metaphor of the stairway detailing the condition of the stairway and subsequently, the conditions of ...

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In "The Tragedy of Hamlet," the author William Shakespeare tells the tale of a man named Hamlet who faces several conflicts and in the end has to face karma for his vengeful acts. Karma is a belief that whatever you do will come back to you, either in this life or the next. In other words, your acti...

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Also, as the population grew, they reshaped their landscape to meet their needs by straightening their rivers; digging in canals; and carving the sides of millions of acres of mountains to a terrace farmlands that were like stairways to the heavens. ...

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Feeling the immense mass of metal sway in the wind while I attempt to climb to the top is not how I pictured my field trip to the Statue of Liberty. It was October of my eighth grade year. Ever since I heard that my class was going to the Statue of Liberty, I anticipated the day we would depart. I was under the impression that we were just going to look at it; I never thought I would be climbing to the top, especially since I"m terrified of heights. At this point in my life, I wasn't feeling particularly adventurous, and the journey to the crown seemed like one that would never end. ...

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From left to right there is a gradual transformation from day to night and from below upward we are slowly raised toward the heavens. ... In the print Ascending and Descending, a lithograph made in 1960, we are confronted with a stairway that can be said to go upward, and downward, without getting any higher. ...

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Ancient Egypt: Old, Middle and New Kingdom The Ancient Egyptians are considered among many to be the civilization upon which much of the western world's views and attitudes are based. Everything from religion, to architecture, to art has been handed down, generation by generation, to us in the p...

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