The point was fully revealed in her representative works of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, whose power is derived from love and nature, and affliction respectively. ... A tragic love story, which is more or less an epitome of the unforsakeble burden of the adults, is involved. Fortunately, the ending of this love story has turned out to be a happy one, thanks to the magical power of the garden, which stems from nature and love per se. ... The power of the inside world, arising out of nature and love, constitutes the flourishing and mysterious magic world in The Secret Garden, created...

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Garden Of Love is one of William Blake's poems from his "Songs of Experience and Innocence" era. ... The word Garden is used throughout the poem as well as the title, to me this relays an image of innocence and purity. ... So is love a sin? ... The fact that the chapel is in the garden of love, I got the sense that the garden is the euphoria that one feels in love and the chapel is the hardship that happens to one that is in love. ... I guess he is sort of saying that love ends in pain. ...

• Word Count: 593
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• Grade Level: High School

The poet seeing the garden as he finds his salvation from the loud noises of training. ... The poet contrasts this noisy, pointless listing of parts, with the silent garden. You don't have to name the parts of the garden. ... The thought of pollination and the words "easing the spring" remind him of the act of love, "fumbling the flowers", and of what he would much rather be doing, something more natural than learning the parts of a gun. ... The garden is there, tantalizingly close, but out of bounds, because they are forced instead, by the war, to train as soldiers. ...

• Word Count: 564
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• Grade Level: High School

Conflict of Love Romeo and Juliet is a famous captivating story of love, lust, and hate. ... Yet Romeo's deep capacity for love is merely a part of his larger capacity for intense feelings of all kinds. Love compels him to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter, risking death simply to catch a glimpse of her; anger compels him to kill his wife's cousin in a reckless duel to avenge the death of his friend, and despair compels him to suicide upon hearing of Juliet's death. ... Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral stat...

• Word Count: 468
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both gardens are exotic and pretty, but the garden of Eden is bright and tropical, while Dr. Rappaccini's garden is darker and mysterious. Both gardens are home to a type of "forbidden" plant, but the garden of Eden was created by a super-natural being, and Dr. Rappaccini's garden by Rappaccini himself. ... What seems to be a story simply of fatal love is quite possibly a retelling of the opening chapter of the Bible, Genesis. ...

• Word Count: 420
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• Grade Level: High School

The reason is because I love to explore about unique and historical buildings. ... However, the collections inside were well preserved and well arranged, which was made me love the site even more. ... I really love buildings with pillars because it represents magnificence. ... I only went to both buildings and a bit explore the gardens. The reason is because I am not really interested in something that is garden related, but I enjoyed the beauty and design of the gardens. ...

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Psychoanalytic Symbols in "Kew Gardens" Kew Gardens is one the most erotic short stories I have ever read. In Freudian terms it is the description of, if you like, a night's love making. ... The dialogues, which repeatedly interrupt the wildlife of the garden. ... Of those two, making love we find only his orgasm in the first paragraph. ... In the last paragraph, that describes the gardens wildlife, we can see this clearly. ...

• Word Count: 1085
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• Grade Level: High School

A Garden of Discovery for Mrs. ... Givings' failed attempts to feel like the woman she is supposed to be are aggravated by her wishes to feel loved by her husband. ... In the absence of this connection with the doctor, she runs to Leo Irving and decides she is in love with him. ... Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ... It is there, in the garden, where Catherine finally experiences her full sexual awakening. ...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the article of Our Mother's Garden, she talks about her search of the African American women's suppressed talent, of the artistic skills and talents that they lost because of slavery and a forced way of life. ... But all of these are not lost because somehow, these are manifested in even the smallest things that they do, and that they were also able to pass it down to the very people that they loved. ... This essay is written to inform anyone and everyone reading it about their stories, and of her discovery of her mother's garden. She was glad to know that it is possible fo...

• Word Count: 718
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The first three "the gardeners" and "the impotent grandfathers" and "the priest", have a very simple ideas if what "Law is" to them.. ... Law is "a timid similarity" to love. ... When the gardeners say law is what "all gardeners obey" the rhyme scheme is simple AABB pattern. ... Just as the law has a different meaning to each individual, so does love. ... Law is like love because "we don't know where or why", and law is like love because "we seldom keep." ...

• Word Count: 723
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• Grade Level: High School

I have a wonderful place in my mind that makes me believe in true love. ... A green carpet of garden runs from the main gate to the foot of the Taj Mahal. Garden describes its abundance of roses, daffodils, and fruit trees. At the center of the garden, there is a marble lotus tank pool with a folded border where the Taj's image is reflected. ... Long live the Taj Mahal and long live its memory of undying love....

• Word Count: 832
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• Grade Level: High School

They either go to a fast food restaurant or to a fine dining restaurant such as the Olive Garden. ... I love to eat at home because it gives me a chance to escape everyday life and also gives me something different to look forward too. ...

• Word Count: 731
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He ends up indirectly killing his own daughter, and leaving her loved one in mourning. ... Rappaccini knows his pride because he, himself, claims that he has created "The Garden of Eden" for his daughter and her loved one. ... Rappaccini's garden is sewn with the roots of pride and arrogance, while the real Garden of Eden was sewn by God, with love and compassion for the two people. ... Rappaccini's daughter suffered social alienation because of his sick love of science. ... He put his love of science before his love of his daughter, which led to her doom in the end of the st...

• Word Count: 435
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• Grade Level: High School

A True Love Story Growing up, I dreamed of the perfect love story in which I had witnessed on cartoons and in "Disney" movies. ... It was not until I witnessed this savior's purpose, life, and love, that I began to fall in love with Him. ... From the moment Adam sinned in the garden, humans were separated from God, and sacrifices had to be made to Him in order to forgive our sins. ... Christ is a gift of life and loves the ones who don't deserve it. He is the true illustration and story of love....

• Word Count: 544
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• Grade Level: High School

Although written quite differently, "In Search of Our Mothers" Gardens" by Alice Walker and "Seventeen Syllables" by Hisaye Yamamoto are quite similar in the messages that they convey about women and keeping culture alive that is passed down to their daughters. ... Children were also the product of women who were just looking for love, and got children out of the act of love (60). ... Walker also describes how her mother expressed her artistic self through her flower garden that she took so much pride in (63). ...

• Word Count: 712
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The plot of the story follows Candide, a young and naive man who discovers true happiness after he loses his true love, Cunegonde, and endures many hardships when he tries to find her again. ... However, when Candide kisses his love, Cunegonde, and is exiled from his uncle's castle, he embarks on a quest to find his way back to Cunegonde. ... By the end of his journey, Candide finds that the key to his true happiness is not his love for Cunegonde, but a busy life on a farm, kept occupied by literally cultivating a physical garden. ... This reflects the phrase "but let us cultivate our gar...

• Word Count: 887
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The second major setting is the garden. The author uses poetic diction to describe Rappaccini's garden. ... Hawthorne directly compares this beautiful garden to Eden when he writes, "Was this garden, then the Eden of the present world?" ... When Giovanni first sees Beatrice, he is love struck. ... However, later we see that Giovanni's love was actually lust when the student discovers that he has been infected by Beatrice. ...

• Word Count: 514
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The second major setting is the garden. ... When Giovanni first sees Beatrice, he is love struck. ... However, later we see that Giovanni's love was actually lust when the student discovers that he has been infected by Beatrice. ... In this passage, Hawthorne shows that Giovanni's love was actually lust and his tone toward Giovanni is critical. ... This passage shows the purity of her love for Giovanni. ...

• Word Count: 2625
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Rappaccini's Daughter" Out of the window of a gloomy chamber of an old edifice was a beautiful garden. The overflowing garden was filled with many beautiful poisonous flowers. However, no one new of what was to come of this garden and all the poisons in it. ... In Rappaccini's garden everything is poisonous including his daughter. ... All the beautiful flowers in the garden are poisonous, but one stand out, Beatrice's favorite. ...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She is a prisoner in the garden and her body is full of poison. Her spirit belongs to God and she craves love daily. ... But, Giovanni does not know the secret of her poisonous garden world. ... In both stories, a beautiful young woman becomes the victim of a misguided scientist/idealist who loves her. ... If Rappaccini truly loved his daughter he would not have made her this way. ...

• Word Count: 781
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• Grade Level: High School

When Higher Education Closes Doors: How Student Loan Debt Can Keep Us from Our Life's Calling By JOHN O. ANDERSEN July 20, 2002 A college education may not be an undiluted good after all. Especially if student loan debt trails in its wake. More young people today earn degrees than ever ...

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His name is Chance, but because he is a gardener and dos not offer any other last name, he adopts the name Chance Gardener. ... Chance was interested in her and loved her, as he later said, but he did not know what he had to do with her, and he expected to learn it from the TV. ... In the scene when he talked to Ben before he died, he showed his love towards Yves mostly through facial expressions - he opened wide his eyes and smiled when talked about her; also he used his vocal cues - when said that he loved her, he used a voice of sincerity and emotion. Those nonverbal manners showed us more ...

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For example, Auden writes, "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun..." A farmer or gardener can only do as much as the sun allows them. ... This is where Auden brings the idea of love into the picture. ... As love is, law is. ... If law is a feeling as love is a feeling, it is undefinable. ...

• Word Count: 1034
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• Grade Level: High School

Her environment portrays the social depression, while the garden shows her power and masculine. Elisa has trouble extending this power outside the fence that surrounds her garden. ... The fences, which surrounds Elisa's garden, her working environment, symbolize her life. ... She handles the chrysanthemums with love and care, just as she would handle her own children. ... Color Messages While chrysanthemums generally denote cheerfulness and rest, individual colors do carry specific messages: red for love, good luck and best wishes; white for truth; and yellow for slighted love. ...

• Word Count: 920
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• Grade Level: High School

Excessive love between couples can be harmful to their love. ... In the novel, Qingwen say, "I will leave the Grand View Garden then, it's not a place for me, because Grandmother Jia always complain about me. " (Cao, Pg. 731) Qingwen suicides after she leaves the Garden. ... She leaves the Garden and suicides only because someone complains too much about her. ... "I will never leave the Great View Garden, it's my only home. " (Cao, Pg1517) Strong love toward her family prevent Xue Baochai from leaving the Great View Garden, and it's also one factor that caused deaths of characte...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School