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The Theory of Contraries in Robert Frost's Narratives
<p>Robert Frost's theory of contraries pervades both his short, lyric poems and his longer, narrative poems. This theory, which is the idea that life consists of two opposing elements, is recognized by the critics to be one of the most common themes running through his lyric poems. However, the …
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Responding to Local Needs in a Global Economy: Community Colleges and Their Mission
The study focuses on the perceptions of community college leaders about how their colleges must adapt and change to remain relevant in the 21 st century, based on a recognition that globalization is affecting nearly every level of education, society, and the economy. The investigation is grounded …
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Divergent Roads: Pre-Sublime Terror and Sublimated Tragedy in the Poetry of Robert Frost and Joseph Brodsky
… of Eliot or other prototypical modernists: Robert Frost’s work, for example. It is true that Frost experiments with form and theme, as do Eliot and Pound, yet, on the whole, he does so in a way that does not sacrifice or sublime the imaginative strength or emotional complexity of his poetry …
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Uncertainty and Information Processing
<p>The purpose of these two studies was to examine two factors that may influence the effects of uncertainty on information processing. The first factor is the positioning of uncertainty relative to a target of judgment, and how this affects people’s judgment processing. The second factor had to do …
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A Momentary Stay Against Confusion : Robert Frost's Use of the Creative Process
<p>Robert Frost's fight against depression and insanity has not been widely known or understood. None of the many accounts of Frost's life written before 1966 accurately portray the poet as the complex man he really was. Lawrence Thompson's three-volume biography, however, revealed Frost's …