¶ … rings appear to be the same, at least to the viewer's casual eye. There the rings lie, side by side. Two simple gold bands, each embedded with five diamonds. The two rings are exactly the same in appearance, yet so different in their meaning to the wearer. One ring is a ring that is now lost to the wearer, the other is the ring's replacement. But although the rings look the same, the symbolism of the gold and five diamonds has changed and shifted. The first ring, the lost ring, is my ring. I can never wear it again, although...
It is -- it was, my wedding ring. Three years ago, I my wife put it on my finger when I married her. The two of us chose the style of our wedding rings together. I loved her, but at the time the selection of the ring, like so many of the details of the wedding, did not seem as important as the greater details of the life we were about to embark upon together. I would have been just as happy to marry her with another kind of ring, any ring she chose. To me, the importance of the style of the ring was…
Miami was where it all happened. I dated then. I guess you could say I had a life. Back then, if I were to be living under any rock, it had to be a very beautiful one, such as limestone, the kind of limestone that grew in small crevices on the road leading up to my grandfather's home on the island. I felt then that Prince Charming would come, eventually
Death and Dying Death is a pretty extreme event in someone's life; one that everyone must endure. We all know it is coming one day, but most of us take it for granted as we go about our daily lives. However, once in a while a person will be a part of another's death and get to experience the process from a close perspective. I have a personal experience regarding death
Erik Erikson was an American developmental psychologist who was born in Germany and went on to organize eight stages of psychological development. He developed a model that talked about the eight stages every human passes through as he grows. These stages depict and analyze a person's life from when they are baby until they die. It mentions how in every stage a person is presented with problems and challenges. Every
Othello, a tragedy by Shakespeare, can be likened to a modern day soap opera or murder drama. All the elements are there: deceit, jealousy, passions, and more. But one mysterious element runs through this play -- the handkerchief. All throughout history, the handkerchief holds significance in many ways, from the time of Christ to the modern day. Handkerchiefs were thought to have spiritual powers, starting when the woman in the Bible
Hero's Journey in O, Brother! Where Art Thou? And The Lion King The journey home may, at times, be complicated and met with obstacles that must be overcome. O, Brother! Where Art Thou?, the 2000 film directed by Joel Cohen, depicts one man's journey to get back to his family after being made part of a chain gang in rural Mississippi during the 1930s . Similarly, the animated Disney picture,
) "Sonnet 130" by Shakespeare and "Sonnet 23" by Louis Labe both talk about love, as so many sonnets do. Their respective techniques however, differentiate them from each other. Shakespeare uses a rhyme scheme that became known as Shakespearean rhyme scheme or English rhyme. He writes about love in a sarcastic manner though. He is mocking the traditional love poems and the usual expressive manner in which women are often compared
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