...Edgar Allan Poe’s poems “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Raven” are unique poems. Poe was a very interesting writer. He wrote numerous poems about his life and how it affected him along the line. Poe had a very sad, mad, depressing life when it started the age of 2 years old. Also, didn’t get over with until he died at age 40. Poe’s poems that we read in class are a lot alike because they all had something to do somewhere in his lifespan. They all talk about how he lost someone very close people to him. Also, Poe had decided that he wanted to write about them in his poems. How are the three poems “To Helen”, “Annabel Lee”, and “The Raven” alike? Poe’s poems are alike because he writes about people and love in his poems. They all have something...
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...Death, grief, melancholy, pain, and suffering. These are all the characteristics of Edgar Allen Poe’s life and stories. Edgar Allen Poe is a writer of dark romanticism. Dark romanticism is a genre of stories and movies that give a sad, dark, and evil vibe to the reader. This terrifying genre is centered on Poe’s work. It is supposed to make you feel scared and/or scared for the main character. Sometimes you can be scared of the main character. When the main character is sad you are sad. Poe conveys this in many of his writings. Poe wrote these because of his own troubled life. When is wife died he wrote Annabel lee in morn of his wife. Poe uses many techniques in his stories to help the reader understand and see what he sees, such as metaphors...
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...FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Revised and Expanded Edition Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vii PREFACE TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION xi 1 INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How “experts”— from criminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists—bend the facts . . . Why knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understanding modern life . . . What is “freakonomics,” anyway? 1. What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common? 15 In which we explore the beauty of incentives, as well as their dark side—cheating. Contents Who cheats? Just about everyone . . . How cheaters cheat, and how to catch them . . . Stories from an Israeli day-care center . . . The sudden disappearance of seven million American children . . . Cheating schoolteachers in Chicago . . . Why cheating to lose is worse than cheating to win . . . Could sumo wrestling, the national sport of Japan, be corrupt? . . . What the Bagel Man saw: mankind may be more honest than we think. 2. How Is the Ku Klux Klan Like a Group of Real-Estate Agents? 49 In which it is argued that nothing is more powerful than information,...
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