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The quote "The good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively" to me means that what one man does is small to the impact that a group of people may have. To many people they may think about September eleventh 2001 when the people of our country came together to help our country men in a time of need even tho they knew what may happen to them. If you look at what one man did there is minute to what the whole group did and is still doing to make it a better place. A family member of mine went up to help with a group and when he came home he was extermaly sick and was bedridden of an unknown illness and he all most did not make it until he had a doctor tell him that he would never be where was at beforeuntil he went to another doctor who gave him steroids and he is now back to being a fire fighter. Another example of this would be when hurricane Katrina struck and once again the people of our country came to help one another. Some of them gave there life to try to save another, just that act alone shows the we as a nation are stronger in what we do than if we stood alone and tryed to do the same thing. Also all the animals that need homes and people who did not have room or maybe enof money gave up parts of there lifes to save an animal. One of the biggest one of all is when the tsunami hit Japan and the world as a whole came together to help Japan when they needed it the most. Many countrys and nations gave what they could to help thos people who needed it the very most. but the most important part is that they worked together for a greater cause. This is just one of many time the world has came together and put aside there different because a group of people needed help. This quote reminds me of an ant colony where if one ant brings home food there will not be enof but if the whole group brings home food they will thrive and grow. If a predator comes and try to attack there colony they will all fight it together as a group instead of just one ant. Another example of this would be lions one lion came make it on there own but a pride of lions will work together and make killing there food easyer and less dangerous and be able to hunt more land and be able to raise young ones and keep there pride strong. These are all examples of the quote and how the good of one man is not as big as the good of a group. I fell that this quote will stand true for as long as the world helps thoes who needed it.

Title: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sonnet 1 To Sonnet 20

Author: William Shakespeare [ More [|Titles by Shakespeare] ]

I (//Sonnet 1//)

From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty's rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,His tender heir might bear his memory:But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,And only herald to the gaudy spring,Within thine own bud buriest thy content,And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:Pity the world, or else this glutton be,To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. he is talking about life and death in this poem. he is also talking abouttalking about how man is the killing the world. he uses simblisonism in this poem.


 * by gary soto****HOW THINGS WORK**(1985)

> Today it's going to cost us twenty dollars To live. Five for a softball. Four for a book, A handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls, Bus fare, rosin for your mother's violin. We're completing our task. The tip I left For the waitress filters down Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won't let go Of a balled sock until there's chicken to eat. As far as I can tell, daughter, it works like this: You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples From a fruit stand, and what coins Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue, Tickets to a movie in which laughter Is thrown into their faces. If we buy goldfish, someone tries on a hat. If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom. A tip. a small purchase here and there, And things just keep going. I guess. he uses metaphors to theach his daughter about how the world works.about how the flow of money goes with how its spent. people spend there money and people use it in a different way.