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The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

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Allen Tate
Age: 79 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 19
Died: 1979
Died: February 9
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Winchester
Kentucky
John Orley Allen Tate
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My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.
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Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red Reverberance of hail upon the dead Thunder like an exploding crucible!
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But we shall not know the world by looking at it we know it by looking at the hovering fly.
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
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So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.
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we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.
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So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
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The twilight is long fingers and black hair.
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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
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