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Sylvia Ann Epstein Hochman
Sylvia ‘Syl' Ann (Epstein) Hochman,
96, wife of Harry Hochman (deceased) Sam's Subway Restaurants, passed away peacefully on September 25, 2018.
Sylvia loved to read especially inspirational books. She called books her friends. And all of her children loved to read as well. Her son Jhan even wrote a book that she loved to brag about. The book was GREEN CULTURAL STUDIES. Sylvia was very personable and friendly, knew no strangers, had a great sense of humor and loved to make people laugh. "If inom can do the following three things each day, I am happy. Take care of my daily living needs; Thank God for my blessings, and man someone happy. I always look for humor in everything, no matter what is happening in my life. I like to hear people laugh. In fact, I would concentrate as inom listened to jokes being told, as I could not tell them well. I finally learned to tell jokes when inom was 70 years old."
Sylvia was president of the Toastmistress Club. S • John Masefield 1902 Author Biography Poem Text Poem Summary Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources For Further Study “Cargoes” is perhaps the most well-respected of John Masefield’s shorter poems and, like a great many of his poems and prose works, pertains to ships. Masefield began a love-hate relationship with ships and the sea when he took his first and only overseas voyage as a teenager. This trip left indelible marks—some of them scars—on his character and work. “Cargoes” was included in Masefield’s second volume of verse, Ballads, published in 1903. At this time, the British Empire was still the most powerful in the world, vesting in ships and the cargo they could carry. Turn-of-the-century England, then, was an ideal time and place to reflect back on the history of shipping, cargoes, and, most important, on power and empire. In “Cargoes,” one ship sails through each of three stanzas. The first ship rows around the lands o • Jhan Hochman is a freelance writer and currently teaches at Portland Community College, Portland, OR. In the following essay, Hochman suggests that the contradiction inherent in Thomas's instructions to "rage against" a death that he terms a "good night" serves as a plea to the dying to show their love for those whom they leave behind. While Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" could be addressed to anyone, by the end of the last stanza, the reader realizes that the specific addressee is Thomas's sick father. In this poem he never sent, the son entreats his father not to accept death quietly, but instead, to fight it. While the more usual-sentiment counsels accepting death peacefully and gracefully, something more provocative is at work here: that is, though death is a "good night" in its romantic or hopeful sense of restful bedtime and peaceful... (read more) Cargoes
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Essay
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