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    supervision of our parents. But when the right time comes and that we are already in the right age‚ and we are ready to engage ourselves with relationships‚ we must be given the independency from them. Electra complex termed by Carl Jung refers to a girl or woman who falls in love with her father and becomes jealous of her mother and or the girl daughter and the father has an intimate relationship towards each other. “House on Zapote Street”‚ a short story written by one of the famous Filipino writer Nick

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    “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” is a poem about a couple on the eve of their separation. The speaker is trying to convince his lady to accept his departure by describing love as something that transcends the physical and therefore can endure or even grow through separation. John Donne makes three main points throughout the poem. He informs the reader that the love he and his partner share is beyond a normal love‚ that their love is strengthened in absence‚ and that he compares their love to twin

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    Taylor further talks about the mourning dress and explains how funerals were a great platform to exhibit one’s rank and wealth in the society. Even the women in the family zealously participated in the display of their family’s status through their intricate mourning dresses (2010‚ p- 20). 3 In the pictures above‚ mourning dresses have been depicted as another form of Fashion of that period. Taylor says that‚ “the wealthiest and the most fashionable women had their mourning clothes made up by Court or

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    African American Walden University Death & Mourning: African American Practices Death is a sure event that will happen to all of us in life‚ it is a subject that many dread to tackle for it signifies an end to life‚ and end to things. In fact‚ in many cultures‚ it is a forbidden discussion. African-Americans or the Black minority however embrace death as a part of the life process‚ with death traditions‚ customs‚ procedures‚ mourning practices & burial rites given great attention. The

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    food. The Iroquois were a deeply spiritual people‚ and this spurned Mourning Wars. Their spirituality supported their belief that any member of their tribe that died a violent death‚ such as a warrior‚ could not be buried with their family‚ as their spirit was destined to wander the Earth in search of revenge. Their kinsman‚ however‚ sought vengeance for their fallen family members among their enemy tribes. An Iroquois Mourning War could be set into motion by a woman of the dead tribe member’s family

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    A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and The Sunne Rising To say that Blake and Donne do not write uplifting poetry is a great injustice to their works. Although some of their poems discuss themes of depressing nature‚ on a wider scale both Blake and Donne write poetry which is not only uplifting but also inspiring and extremely worthwhile to read. The two main themes covered by these two writers are love and death. The poems which use love as the main theme inspire the reader and

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    does so effectively in his poem “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”. Valediction comes from the Latin verb valedicere‚ meaning to bid farewell‚ the context of the poem. Through beautiful language and structured form‚ he speaks of the troubles of love and loss‚ the physicality of love‚ and how emotionally the person you care about is always there‚ and all of it changes and effects the people involved. John Donne’s “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” mirrors situations in my own life concerning love and

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    Ancient Greece through Euripides Electra Electra is one of the most prominent female figures in Ancient Greek literature as all three of the renowned tragedians‚ Aeschylus‚ Sophocles‚ and Euripides have written their own respective plays centered around this one woman. I read the play of Electra written by Euripides. If the play was written by a woman it would be totally different. I even checked out some info about the other versions of Electra and they portray the same type of

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    Compare and contrast the use of conceit in the two poems “A Valediction forbidding mourning” and “Atlas” both effectively include the use of conceit in their exploration of love. They discuss love from different angles‚ portraying different views of the role that love plays in life. 
 Although the poems have very different structures‚ similarly both poets choose to use unexpected objects as the subjects of their metaphors. John Donne explains the love between him and his partner through the

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