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    techniques and complex word choice. These visuals are vivid and very clear; so it helps the responder visualise the text and therefore relate to the texts and also deepen their understanding of the short stories. Two short stories composed by ‘Henry Lawson’ that use techniques and word choice to portray distinctively visuals are ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘In A Dry Season’‚ these two texts are strongly opposite to the visual ‘The English Countryside’ by an unknown composer. Both ‘The Drover’s Wife’

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    The book “Child of the Dark” is written from Carolina’s point of view. She begins writing on July 15th‚ 1955‚ the birthday of her youngest child and daughter; her daughter’s name is Vera Eunice. The story continues to detail her life during 1958 and 1959. Carolina wants to buy her daughter new shoes for her birthday but they are poor. They live in the favela (ghetto) and Carolina struggles everyday to manage to feed her family. She has three children total‚ two sons and one daughter. Her sons’ names

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    Reflection Writing of The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson I’ve never been reading a tremendous story such “The Drover’s Wife” before. “The Drover’s wife” was written by Henry Lawson is a short story about a woman who live in a bush with her four children and a dog‚ Aligance‚ while her husband didn’t at home because of driving. The story wants to mention on the woman who was a good mother and also a strong lady. In a dangerous event‚ there was a snake in her house. In order to protect her children

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    Child of the Dark: Modernity and Its Discontents Following the Kubitschek regime in Brazil in 1955 through 1960 the problem with the model of modernization offers a historical context for understanding the life of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Kubitschek was consisted of just developing but it had its limits. There is a limit to the progress populism can have on the poor. The develop of the cities could not solve the problem of rural unskilled workers. His encouragement of foreign investment bought an

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    Carolina Maria de Jesus’ journal "Child of the Dark" is a complete account of five years spent living in a favela in Sao Paolo‚ Brazil. Carolina and her children spent their days and nights trying to survive in the most horrific of slums while the rest of the nation looked down upon them‚ scolding them for being poor and complaining about how the residents of the favela were nothing but a burden on the rest of the world. Rarely did anyone take pity on the single mother and her young‚ defenseless

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    transport them to their imagined landscape. This is especially shown through Henry Lawson’s both tragic and comic short stories‚ ‘The Drover’s Wife’ and ‘The Loaded Dog’‚ with his exceptional use of dramatic verbs and juxtaposition and other literary techniques.

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    Do you agree with the suggestion in source C that Henry and Wolsey conducted an effective foreign policy in the years 1515-30? Explain your answer using sources A‚ B and C and your own knowledge (40 marks) Collectively all three sources (A‚B and C)explicitly disagree with the suggestion that in the years 1515-30 Henry and Wolsey conducted an effective foreign. However both sources A and C do have evidence in which shows significant agreement with this suggestion. Source C (by David Grossell) is

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    Good afternoon teachers and fellow year 12 students. The question posed‚ was “Henry Lawson creates a distinctly visual image of Australia.” Do you agree? I’m going to talk to you about why I agree that Henry Lawson creates a distinctly visual image of Australia in his stories and how he does it. Henry Lawson is a well-known Australian author‚ who has written a number of short stories. Most of his stories are about the harsh conditions‚ in the Australian bush. ‘The Drover’s Wife’‚ one

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    Child Is The Father Of A Man “Child is the father of a man”‚a Wordsworth statement means that the qualities exhibited by a child will deepen and appear in a marked form when the child grows up into a man. By observing and studying the behavior and the tendencies of a child we can form an idea as to what sort of man he will develop into. Therefore childhood may be taken as basis ofone’s manhood. It is in this sense that the child has been called the father of man. The biographies of several

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    Rafi 1 Name: Salman Rafi Roll#: 09-27311 Prof: Liaquat Date: 13th May‚ 09 “Child is the father of Man” Wordsworth wrote a poem The Rainbow and left behind a very famous saying that “child is the father of man.” This statement has been interpreted by various critics in various ways. For Wordsworth‚ it is important because a child is spiritually very elevated. He has a direct link with nature. He says that a child is a symbol of purity and innocence which remains untarnished until he grows

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