Week 1: Short Story Reading Poison by Roald Dahl The short story Poison by Roald Dahl is set in India when it is still under the British rule. In this story the theme is represented by Harry‚ who thinks that the krait has crawled on his stomach and has made Timber call a doctor for help to solve the situation. The entire time I was reading the story‚ I thought that the main conflict is between the Harry‚ Timber‚ Dr. Ganderbai and the krait on Harry’s stomach. But in the last few paragraphs‚ I realize
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Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic‚ almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child‚ Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman‚ admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage‚ but Florence had other concerns.
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Ode to a Nightingale (Critical Appreciation) Written in May 1819‚ many believe Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” to have been written at the home of Charles Brown‚ when Keats sat and listened to the bird in the garden for some hours. In form this poem is a “regular ode”. There is a uniformity of the number of lines and of the rhyme-scheme in all the stanzas. Anyway this is more complex poem than "Ode to Autumn‚" consisting of eight stanzas and is a little more irregular in structure. Each stanza
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Diagrams of Florence Nightingale If you read the article on Florence Nightingale in “The Children’s Book of Famous Lives”1 you will not learn that she had to battle with her parents to be allowed to study Mathematics. If you read the Ladybird book “Florence Nightingale”2 you will not discover that she was the first woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. In looking around for an area of research I was intrigued to discover that Florence Nightingale‚ who I always thought
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“A Rose for Emily” is an appealing story not only because of its complex chronology‚ but also because of its unique narrative point of view. Most people think that the narrator‚ who uses “we” as though speaking for the entire town‚ to be young‚ impressionable‚ and male; however‚ after re-reading the story several times‚ you realize that the narrator is not young and is never identified as being either male or female. The character of the narrator is better understood by examining the tone of the
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It was the worst storms Rose Maret had ever encountered when her travels lead her to the city of Paris. Trees had fallen to the ground like little toys knocked off balance by their master‚ and she’d seen many struggling travelers too battered by the wind and water to go on. When she had finally arrived she had been forced to stand outside the gates for over an hour as the guards reviewed her name and appearance before letting her into the city. Shivering fervently she hurried through the large gates
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My name is Florence Nightingale and I was born in Florence‚ Italy on May 12‚ 1820. My father is William Nightingale of Embly Park‚ New Hampshire. He’s a Unitarian and a Whig that is involved in the anti-slavery movement. My mother is Fanny Nightingale who also came from a Unitarian family. I have one sister‚ that I love very much‚ whose name is Parthenope. At the time when I was born‚ many girls did not receive any type of education. My sister and I were lucky to have a father that believed
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Florence Nightingale my ears wander around interested. She became one of the people I now idolize. Her passion for nursing was beyond belief because when she approached her parents and told them about her nursing ambition‚ they were not pleased but on 1844 she pursued her first goal and enrolled as a nursing student despite the displease of her parents and how becoming a nurse itself was such a low position for women; she believed that nursing was her calling… Florence Nightingale was known
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Juarez Dr. Ward ENGL 2312 19 February 2013 Ode to a Nightingale In “Ode to a Nightingale‚” the most evident characteristic of Romanticism is the feeling and emotion. This is portrayed since the beginning: “My heart aches‚ and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense‚ as though of hemlock I had drunk‚ / Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains” (lines 1-3). The speaker feels as though he has been poisoned or drugged since he can not see the nightingale. The birds’ song has this paralyzing effect on him
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elite squad known as the Iron Rose. Over half the population were miners‚ constantly searching for this rare material. Without it‚ the light of mankind would someday burn out. A loud groan escaped Shujin as the alarm clock’s continuous buzz bounced off the cavern walls. The male fell lifelessly to the floor in an attempt to stop the noisy machine. He stumbled around aimlessly looking for his shoes. He could barely see; the faint blue glow
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