Author: Kelly Larsen


  • “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
    -Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations”

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  • “Mother to Son”Examining the advice in Langston Hughes's "Mother to Son"

    “Mother to Son”
    Examining the advice in Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son”

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  • Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period
    His friend’s committing suicide prompted the artist to begin this notorious phase

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  • “What the Living Do”Marie Howe's poem shows that life is more than just the problems we tackle

    “What the Living Do”
    Marie Howe’s poem shows that life is more than just the problems we tackle

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  • “Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
    -Howard Zinn

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  • “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    -Douglas Adams

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  • “We Have Not Long to Love”Tennessee Williams illustrates the necessity of savoring every moment

    “We Have Not Long to Love”
    Tennessee Williams illustrates the necessity of savoring every moment

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  • “Elegy”Natasha Trethewey's poem offers her take on death, and so much more

    “Elegy”
    Natasha Trethewey’s poem offers her take on death, and so much more

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  • “Tomorrow Is Another Day”
    Mathieu Lehanneur’s unique design inspires meditations on both life and death

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  • “Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
    -Charles M. Schulz

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