...In The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, the feeling is sorrow by the end of the story. In the story the author writes, “And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.” This quote proves that the feeling brought is sorrow because of Poe’s choice of words. Poe describes that everyone is “dropping” or dying, due to the Red Death. This brings sorrow because when a person dies, family and friends always feel the pain and sorrow. Throughout the story Poe also uses the words such as bedewed and despairing to create a mood. Both of these words resemble death and death brings a lot of sorrow and pain to individuals. Another quotes that proves sorrow is, “And...
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...Book Report: "A Child of Sorrow" Galang, Z. (1921) (A requirement submitted in English and PLE) August 22, 2014 I. Author's Background Zoilo M. Galang He is a Filipino encyclopedist and the first English-language Filipino novelist. He was born in Bacolor, Pampanga on June 27, 1895. He went to school at the Bacolor Elementary School and then went to Manila to study at the Escuela de Derecho, the country's eminent law school where he graduated in 1919. A self-starter, he learned typing and stenography in English and Spanish all by himself. Attracted to the English language, he took special courses at the University of the Philippines in 1925, then went to Columbia University for further studies in literature. He wrote the first Filipino novel written in English, "A Child of Sorrow", in 1921. He died in 1959. II. Setting Fertile Valley It is the home town of Lucio Soliman. Camilo's uncle lives here. It is where Lucio's family lives. Merry Town It is the home town of Camilo David. It is also where Felipa Garcia, Rosa Garcia, Pancho Ismael, Juan dela Cruz and Oscar Ramirez live. Manila It is the place where Lucio Soliman went to work. It is also where Lucio saved a mother and her child. III. Character Analysis Lucio Soliman He is the protagonist. He is a round character. He is slender and well-built with brown hair, dark clear eyes, and a gay and graceful demeanor. His face was oval and handsome in a truly manly fashion. He is calm pensive and poetic...
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...Eduardo D Villasenor Humanities 201 9/25/14 The sculpture that I viewed is called Man of Sorrows and it was sculptured in 1950 in America by Marion Perkins, an American artist that lived from 1908 to 1961. I viewed the sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago on gallery 264. The man of sorrows is a concrete piece of work; it is the sculpture of a face and does not show any sign of an abstract piece of work because there are no geometrical figures involved. This piece of artwork is complex because of the great detail in the face of the sculpture. The man of sorrow shows great detail on emotion; his ears are well shaped and his face expression is from a sad man with his eyes partially closed and looking down at the floor. In addition his mouth was shaped small and closed with a slight line in the middle as if he wanted to say the reason for his sorrow but he does not really want to say anything and rather stay silent. The sculpture is individualized because it is just one single face and the detail is and sizes of the features are unique. This sculptures is naturalistic because it would be the same face that an actual human being would make in times of sorrow. The hair, the ear, the beard, the nose and the eyes can all be compared to a humans’ and be found to be very similar. Also, the man of sorrow is realistic because it was sculptured with defect just as a normal human being would be. The dimensions and the facial features are bigger than what a perfect human would be....
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...have left my dead ashes, to sing the charms that the death of one so dearly loved can bring to the soul. I have known the darkness of occasional brooding, but I would dwell most upon a struggle with sorrow that has sweetened my nature, which otherwise, would have been stultified by the pain. Pain, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. I have known the people who have become bitter and cynical under the lash of sorrow, and I have known some who have never recovered from anguish. My experience is important only so far as it may help others towards growth: it is worthless to me if it implies vanity. Sonia is, to me, as fairy tale told or a lyric half lost in fancy, a delicate melody unsung. Had she grown into full womanhood, she might have become an intellectual, for she was deliberate and clear- cut in her language, precise in her reasoning, and keen in sensing nuances which matured minds about her could not appreciate; then, I should have been forever lost, the glamour of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppressive: "you shall always remember her as a child. "How beautiful I felt it was! What a beautiful things a man perceives in such sorrow! What keen and living poetry! For nothing but poetry could give such feeling. In such a moment reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to...
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...and Bob Dylan’s Time They are a-changing Powerless people suffered pain and distress, lives of the innocents were taken, and bloods were shared, all in the name of selfish leader. However, people have suffered physically and emotionally, but they never lost hope that their country will someday become a better place. Moreover, although, it may be painful, sorrowful, and deadly, people join their faiths and fought for the people’s right. The poem “America” by Claude McKay and the poem “Times they are a-changing” by Bob Dylan are alike in their use of symbolism, imagery, and theme. Both authors use symbolism to communicate sorrow. Claude McKay uses sorrowful symbolism to illustrate problematic issues that arose for people during the American Revolution. However, the character in McKay’s poem never gives up his hope and love for his country. Symbolism is employed in the McKay’s “Sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth” to describe the oppressive nature of his country. In addition, “Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood” which signifies that, the character’s country treats him as someone who does not exist. In other words, the character’s own home town neither appreciates nor loves him. Likewise, the symbolism in the song “Times they are a-changing” by Bob Dylan also illustrates negative emotions. Dylan also uses painful symbolism to reveal the problematic issues that occurred in his poem as a result of motivating people to fight for revolution. Moreover, Dylan used (verse 1...
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...Anthony Jackson Of the Sorrow Songs W.E.B DuBois Black American Studies Term Paper Professor Serrano African American slaves were faced with not only physical, but emotional hardships such as family tragedies, heart aches and trauma. There were numerous amounts of struggles that forced them into needing a loop-hole, or getaway for the mind. This led to the tradition of singing the famous “Sorrow Songs”. All of the unfortunate injustices they were put through were resolved by a new tradition: singing sorrow songs. W.E.B DuBois’s text, “The Souls of Black Folks” talks about the songs, which all originated in the south, that African American slaves sang and then passed down from generation to generation to get them through all of the hardships and pain through the years. Each song represented a different feeling the slaves had while working, but each one also portrayed hope. Du Bois states that the Negro Folk Song “stands as the most beautiful expression of human experience.” These songs were taught and passed down through African American grade schools where the African American kids would teach the teachers the songs, while the teachers would show them how to sing. The teachers would learn the songs and then teach other African American children who then taught other people and so on. This is how the songs were kept alive as a tradition. In most cases, the songs were misunderstood by bystanders and people of other ethnicities and cultures who could not...
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...Sonia PAIN, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. I have known people who have become bitter and cynical under the lash of sorrow; and I have known some who never recovered from anguish. My experience is important only so far as it may help others toward growth; it is worthless to me if it implies vanity. Sonia to me is a fairy tale half told or a lyric half lost in fancy, a delicate melody unsung. Had she grown into full womanhood, she might have become an intellectual; for she was deliberate and clearcut in her language, precise in her reasoning, and keen in sensing nuances which maturer minds about her could not appreciate; then I should have remembered her as reason grown into wit and perhaps into philosophy, but the impression of a fairyland would have been forever lost, the glamor of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppresive: "You shall always remember her as a child." How beautiful I felt it was! For nothing but poetry could give such a feeling. In such a moment, reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to explain why God had snatched away from me the thing I loved best in life, I would have allowed reason to rob me of sorrow to show me the way to a more beautiful, more full, and nearly perfect life. Sonia shall always live in my memory as a child who wonders why the stars shine in the...
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...Healthy Grief: Kubler-Ross Grieving Process and Stages of Grief Alice Verrett Grand Canyon University: HLT 310v June 16, 2013 Kubler-Ross Grieving Process and Stages of Grief We are examining the grief process and the stages of grief by evaluating and distinguishing differences, or similarities of Kubler-Ross, Job of the Bible, and Hinduism. We also looked at a connection and interplay linking joy, the grief process, and its stages we will also look at personal means of dealing with the grief process and whether or not it merits change. Kubler-Ross acknowledges; {People in some aspect of time in life will grieve over the loss of someone or something of importance in their lifetime.} We cannot forget about them. People will deny the grief process to avert pain but it will be much healthier for us to accept the loss as we journey through the grief process. Kubler-Ross says; “The grief process follows a normal sequence of deny, rage, trying to negotiate, a depressed state, and finally acquiescence”. (Kübler-Ross, 1969). Kubler-Ross five stages of grief: 1) Denial, 2) Anger, 3) Bargaining 4) Depression, 5) Acceptance.. A model proposed by Stroebe and Schut is also in place and utilized. The grief model used today is a two track process model. The first track looks at loss (separation distress), while the second track looks at re-establishment of means (the progression of opportunities in which to maintain living on one’s own). (Stroebe and...
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...Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Subject: English Literature (Classic and Modern), Book Report/Review Date: Topic: The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Reflections on “Of Sympathy.” I. Introduction of the subject, scope, and type of book The book, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” by Adam Smith was published in the year 1759.The genre of the book is Human Nature and Morality. It is a book by an intellectual, trying to understand what the borders of spirituality are, but unable to reach it. Spirituality is all about experiencing and it transcending mind-level reasoning. The book, however, from the secular point of view, is the foundation stone for the later works of Adam Smith on the subjects of ethics, philosophy, psychology, politics, justice, economics, arms and methodological underpinnings. II. Summary of the content of the chosen part: Reflections on “Of Sympathy.” In “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” (1759), “Adam Smith defines sympathy as the effect that is produced when we imagine that another person’s circumstances are our own circumstances, and find their reaction to the circumstances to be reasonable.”(Yupangco) However, the similar feelings we experience in our inner world is with less intensity. Because we are not the direct party for that experience and as such we do not share the events that created the response in the concerned individual. It is a sort of ‘fellow feeling’ according to Smith. Sympathy is the spontaneous passion...
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...wish that they taught me how to smile, in my life I started to believe in both smile and tears, some of the tear's means that you love because the love is a tear, not all the tears mean sad or sorrow, some time the flower use to cry, she cries with a nice view that can let us smile at it's sorrow, but if we saw a spin in the flowers we will feel sad, but if the flowers grew up in the middle of a farm of spin we will feel in such a great optimistic heart because the injustice is a piece of spin that will never exist in-front of the tears of love. Yeah; sometimes it will be hard to enters the smile to a home that is full of tears, when the sunset symphony played always at the moments of farewell on the pules of melody of sorrow, but sometimes the sorrow will never continue if er found a real person who is full of joys because the joys are the only things that we can give it without owning it because joys is the largest account that we never lose it, the problem that not everyone has this gift, some people got the money, but until now I didn't see any one in this Earth who succeed in buying the joyous. Don't allow the sorrow to enter your heart, sometime we can't stop it, but the solution for it is to never let the darkness to control your heart, mind, and feeling because the flower of sorrow and injustice will never...
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...Antonio Ochoa 07 June 2016 Stephanie Denny English 1102 “A Secret Sorrow” and “A Sorrowful Women” Question #1 In “A Secret Sorrow” and in “A Sorrowful Women” the two main women of the stories share different attitudes toward family life. In "A Secret Sorrow" the main woman has a certain idea of family. The woman wants to be the stereotypical housewife. However, she is unable too. She hides a secret from her significant other. This secret would make her unable to portray the role of the perfect housewife. Her secret would be her inability to bear children. As she stated "because I can't give you children!... I can't pregnant!... can't have babies!" (pg. 30). This made her believe she was not good enough for her fiancé, she would reveal her secret after to him. In contrast, the women in “A Sorrowful Women” the woman doesn't want to go along with her role in the family and wishes to relieve herself from this position. The difference shows that not everyone women believe in the typical role of a woman....
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...followed by decoration, usually gold. During the mid-18th century, literature took a new step having the first gothic novel, "The Castle of Otranto," first published in 1764. This novel was combined with a horror and mystery genre (Martindale). Gothicism began to be apart of churches by having stained glass windows and pictures of biblical people. The style of nudity from Adam and Eve was also portrayed to be gothic. As Gothicism grew it rose to the 1980's and started a movement called punk, and later related to Fantasy Art. It then, in the 1990s, blossomed to what is called Neo-Gothic Art. It is inspired by Charles Alexander Moffat and is a period when the people wanted to express themselves as more than normal in a number of ways. A person of example would be Marilyn Manson, whose personal style and music is characterized as being "dark" and "mysterious" (Folkenroth). Characteristics of gothic novels have scenes and settings where the character feels threatened, or has an overabundance of emotions, such as, anger, sorrow, surprise, and terror. We see examples of these in the novel "Frankenstein," by Mary Shelley. The monster feels sorrow and isolated and is angry when he thinks he has no purpose in the world he exclaims, "Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that ... instant, did I not...
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...He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.” ------------------------------------------------- 39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- For most part of the Gospel accounts, We would here of His power to heal the sick; His compassion for the weak and poor; the authority He has when He preached the Word of God. ------------------------------------------------- We don’t often see Jesus struggling in sorrow. Tonight we’re looking at another side of Jesus. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- The Press ------------------------------------------------- And The Pressure Of Gethsemane ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Jesus then went … to a place known as Gethsemane, which means “an oil press.” In a field covered with olive trees, oil presses were used to extract oil from the fruit. An olive grove was in that place ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- There Jesus left His disciples—except for Peter and two of Zebedee’s (James and John ,who went with...
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...CE and 570 CE, a time of political instability, most people had positive attitudes towards Buddhism, and after 570 CE, a time of political stability, most people had negative attitudes towards Buddhism. Most positive attitudes towards Buddhism occurred between 220 CE and 570 CE due to a need for a sense of salvation. According to Buddha, Buddhism is all about sorrow. Buddha believed that life was surrounded by sorrow, no matter what class in society a person was. He believed the basic teachings of Buddhism had to do with sorrow; what it is, where it comes from, and how to stop it. (Doc. 1) Zhi Dun, a Chinese scholar, author, and confidant of Chinese aristocrats, believed that people who served Buddha all throughout their lives would end up in Nirvana. The goals of Buddhism were to end up in Nirvana. Buddhism was very appealing during a time of instability like the Era of Division. (Doc 2) Also, according to an anonymous Chinese scholar, Confucius is not as good as Buddha. The scholar was very positive towards Buddhism. This was also in a time of political instability. (Doc 3) Zong Mi, a leading Buddhist scholar in the ninth century also believed Buddha taught well. Even though China was in a state of stability, he still had a positive attitude towards Buddhism. He believed that both Buddha and Confucius were good teachers. (Doc 5) However, most people did not like Buddhism during times of political stability. Most people had negative attitudes towards Buddhism during times...
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...Maxton Becker Representations of War David Houston 9/24/2014 Pain War is represented numerous ways in the book Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, but the most prominent, in my opinions, is pain or rather the “double sorrows of Troilus”. Throughout this book Troilus cries, complains and is at a kind of war with his pain; his pain takes the form of self pity, loss of his lover Criseyde, and anger which he takes out in battle. He mourns the loss of Criseyde which overall allows his enemy, pain, to defeat him. Pain is a kind of war represented in this novel and is as well a major theme in the story. Pain is a motif from the very first sentence of this book shown in the first stanza. “The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the kyng Priamus...
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