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  2. pity this busy monster, manunkind - Wikipedia

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    The poem laments the triumph of progress—defined in terms of science and technology—over nature, describing progress as a "comfortable disease", and declaring "A world of made / is not a world of born". To Cummings, the "busy monster" is a society bent on subverting nature and individual humanity, the loss of which is to be mourned.

  3. Yiannis Ritsos - Wikipedia

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    Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet , he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".

  4. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - Wikipedia

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    Donne in the poem emphasise the idea of human world as a whole in which each human being is related to others. so Donne says that every man is a continent connected to the main, if the continent dies, it will certainly affect the main land, in the same way if a man dies his death is felt by the people related to the man.

  5. The World Is Too Much With Us - Wikipedia

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    The World Is Too Much With Us" is one of those works. It reflects his view that humanity must get in touch with people to progress spiritually. [1] The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBA ABBA CDCD CD. This Italian or Petrarchan sonnet uses the last six lines to answer the first eight lines (octave). The octave is the problems and the sestet is ...

  6. Leprosy - Wikipedia

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    Donaldson gained experience with the disease as a young man in India, where his father worked in a missionary for people with leprosy. 2006 — Moloka'i is a novel by Alan Brennert about a leper colony in Hawaii. This novel follows the story of a seven-year-old girl taken from her family and put on Molokai's leper settlement.

  7. Diseases of affluence - Wikipedia

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    Conditions and diseases associated with heart disease include: stroke, coronary heart disease, congenital heart disease, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, and cardiomyopathy. [32] Cardiovascular disease is known as the world's biggest killer. 17.5 million people die from it each year, which equals 31% of all deaths.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Without his realizing it, the program would suddenly click. And the feeling, Hamm promised, would be worth it. “It’s a blessing, man,” he said, “You will be amazed before you’re halfway through. And just, like I said, sit on your hands, man, and watch — watch this. It’s beautiful.”

  9. Fields condition - Wikipedia

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    Fields condition, [1] also known as Fields' disease, [2] [3] is a neuromuscular disease that is considered the rarest medical condition in the world. It was named after Welsh identical twins Catherine and Kirstie Fields, who are two of only three people known to have been affected.