Women in our society are obsessed with personal appearance some would say. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” emphasizes just how much people care about their appearance. Mirrors tell the truth‚ but people have a hard time accepting it. I believe that Sylvia Plath uses the mirror as a living entity to convey the message that accepting oneself is a hard process‚ but everyone is capable of doing it. The poem’s title “Mirror” is very important because the mirror in the poem is the speaker. The poem allows
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Another thing you probably don’t know about him is that he has had several different medical issues. He has had major heart surgery‚ was treated for depression‚ and suffered from a minor stroke. “…but he never quit fishing or hunting” says his wife‚ Rhea Chiles. How he dealt with this was the best way any human being can deal with it‚ by “just rolling with it”. He was the strongest man I know to be a governor. If he was to live longer‚ he would be a very healthy environment. He would probably be still
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Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see
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Romulus and Remus were twin brothers. Their father was Mars‚ the God of War; their mother was Rhea Silvia‚ a vestal virgin and daughter of the King‚ Numitor. Numitor’s brother‚ Amulius‚ had taken the throne from him and had forced Rhea Silvia to become a vestal virgin so that she would not have any children who might try to take back the throne. When the boys were born‚ Amulius seized them‚ put them into a basket and threw them into the river Tiber. He hoped that they would drown. However‚ the boys
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The Power of Purity A vision in white surrounded by the air of purity and near divinity was the image of a Vestal virgin. These women became synonymous with the eternal existence and safety of Rome. The representation of influence‚ devotion‚ and power were characteristics of these six women who sacrificed their sexuality and family cults to serve the Goddess Vesta and to profit from the advantages that such devotion earned. The life of a Vestal virgin was unlike that of any other Roman woman with
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Anchises have Venus Anchises a son named Aeneas‚ whose story is told by the Aeneas Roman poet Virgil in an epic called the Aeneid. Aeneid Roman poet Virgil Aeneas’ descendents rule the Kingdom of Alba in Italy. One of his descendents‚ Rhea Silvia‚ is Rhea Silvia made a Vestal Virgin‚ but she is impregnated by Vestal Virgin the god Mars. She subsequently gives birth to Mars twins‚ Romulus and Remus‚ who‚ because of the Romulus and Remus King of Alba’s (her uncle’s) fear that they may one day dethrone him and because of
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Q5.A) Theogony is the fictional literary work the best for the ancient Greece because Theogony means the birth of the gods‚ this poem is from the 8 the century BC. First‚ it was one of the first to put humans at the center of the universe. Unlike the animal deities of Egyptians and Mesopotamians‚ the god of Greeks is human inform. Second‚ it is hymn of Zeus‚ the king of gods and men‚ but it involves the ancestor of the world and the other gods. Third‚ the poem shows the creation gods and universe
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Remus were twin brothers‚ the sons of a virgin named Rhea Silvia ( also called Ilia) and the god Mars‚ according to legend. The grandfather‚ Numitor‚ and the great-uncle‚ Amulius‚ who between them divided the wealth and kingdom of Alba Longa‚ a city founded by Aeneas’ son Ascanius‚ but then Amulius seized Numitor’s share and became sole ruler. To prevent retaliation by offspring of his brother‚ Amulius made his niece a vestal virgin. When Rhea became pregnant‚ her life was spared because of the special
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Romulus and Remus were the offspring of Rhea Silvia‚ priestess of Vesta‚ and Mars‚ the god of war and agriculture (Brittany para 1). As babies they were exiled to the Tiber River‚ in which they were picked up and nursed by a she-wolf. After that‚ they were taken under the wing of a shepherd whom they succeeded (Brittany para 3). While they were shepherds‚ there was fight amongst shepherd where Remus was kidnapped. Romulus goes on a quest; soon after‚ to retrieve his brother from King Amulius (Britannica
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Khudai Tanveer’s Honors Pre-IB English 9th Block #3 Compare and Contrast
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