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    Mr. Bleaney Mr. Bleaney is a poem by Philip Larkin. It has seven stanzas split into two main themes. It is about the thoughts of Larkin as the landlady shows him around the room of the mysterious ‘Mr. Bleaney’. I think that ‘the Bodies’ was where he worked; it could be a colloquial reference to a particular part of a company. This would fit in with ‘They moved him’ as it could be a transfer. ‘Bodies’ is also quite relevant because the poem was written immediately after the Second World War.

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    In the poems “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin and “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ the authors examine the roles of parents in what their children grown into. Larkin takes a depressing and pessimistic view on raising children while Heaney sees tradition as an honorable aspect to family lineage. These poems represent different extremes of raising children and have completely different views on the value of family. Larkin presents an extremely pessimistic view on raising children. He believes

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    Philip Larkin presents women throughout both the poems ‘Wild Oats’ and ‘Talking in Bed’ in a superficial manner as he focuses purely on their physical appearance and sexuality rather than their personality. Predominantly in ‘Wild Oats’‚ Larkin reduces both women to stereotypes which highlights his objectifying tone. Examining this poem through a feminist perspective makes it fundamentally clear to see how he focuses on his privileged male perspective throughout leaving the woman’s viewpoint marginalised

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    Stanza forms and images in Philip Larkin The various fields of art‚ just as all ways of life‚ in the twentieth century were deeply impacted by the horrifying experiences of the two world wars and especially the second one. English poetry was not an exception either. "Among the poets of this time there is often a sense of tiredness‚ of things being worn out‚ and of helplessness in the face of world events which they had no power to change or influence‚ so that the strongest poems are often those

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    balanced and talented roster with players in their prime‚ coupled with a solid foundation of youth. Hence‚ the Blackhawks should be in contention for an NHL title for the next decade. Dylan Larkin - Center - Detroit Red Wings If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Detroit Red Wings center Dylan Larkin‚ it’s that

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    horrific catastrophe. Larkin returned to the war‚ fifty years after it had concluded to convey his sentiments on the subject. Larkin entitled the poem‚ MCMXIV. These are the roman numerals used to represent 1914; the year the war was initiated. Our attention is captivated through the use of roman numerals as they are a foreign concept to the imperial numbers that we use today. The roman numerals could signify the place in time this war has and all it symbolises. As Larkin wrote the poem after the

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    ever wondered what it would be like to be stranded on an island? Well Phillip has experienced it. The book‚ The Cay‚ is a book about Phillip and how he ends up stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere with a stranger. Phillip is a young boy that lives in Willemstad‚ Curacao. Phillip has been living in a war and his mother wants to move back to America. On his way back‚ his boat got bombed and he lost his mom. When Phillip wakes up he is on a raft with a person he has never met before‚ Timothy

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    Larkin & Lacey The San Francisco‚ CA based human rights organization‚ the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU) runs a human rights project through its offices in New York‚ Washington DC ‚ Puerto Rico and California. The projects cover advocacy‚ public outreach and litigation‚ which are all carried out in-line with ACLU’s long held commitment to protect civil liberties and civil rights of the immigrant community living in the US. The impact litigation program run by the group aims to

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    Taxonomy is a classification system and Bloom’s Taxonomy is a tool to classify learning objectives and skills for students. It is used extensively by educators in allied health fields‚ including nursing to structure lesson plans and outcome testing (Larkin & Burton‚ 2008). Learning objectives were classified by knowledge-type by Anderson & Krathwohl (as cited in Yan‚ 2006) with a two-dimensional framework to help nurse educators develop better understanding about intended learning‚ and enable them to

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    within‚ discuss how Bloom’s taxonomy apply to the case study presented by Larkin and Burton’s article ‘Evaluating a Case Study Using Blooms Taxonomy of Education’‚ and highlight the benefit of Bloom’s taxonomy as it relates to developing individualized nursing instructions. Larkin and Burton’s abstract preface the Joint Commission’s directive for effective communication among caregivers during handoff to ensure patient safety (Larkin & Burton‚ 2008‚ p.360). The case study reviews the lack of handoff practice

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