Musical evening No‚ I haven’t been to a musical (lately). But Friday "my" choir and I had an appointment with‚ well‚ the rest of the population here‚ really. The local choirs (5) and whoever else who wanted to come along‚ were gathered to sing. The choirs had 2-3 songs each in between‚ but the rest was pure singalong (not karaoke..). Before going I felt as if I was a hundred years old‚ because that’s what I expected the average age of the people attending to be - but no such thing. Admittedly
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"Hospital Evening" and "Monday" by Gwen Harwood are two poems that explore the hardship of immigrants in Australia. Written in the late 20th century after the "White Australia Policy" was abolished and thousands of immigrants landed on Australian shores‚ the poems revolve around Krote‚ a German music teacher‚ who has migrated to Australia and his struggles with racism and the harshness of the Australian environment. The poems negative construction of Australian people acts as a critique of the Australian
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In the Evening Hawk‚ Robert Penn Warren makes extensive use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to describe a foreboding scene that calls attention to the passage of time. He uses simile and the symbol of the Evening Hawk to convey a scene in which he suggests that man is being judged. Warren calls attention to the slow‚ grim passage of time with simile‚ suggesting that “history [drips] into darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.” Were there “no wind‚” he says‚ we might
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Tuesday‚ March 6‚ 2007 Ode to Evening - William Collins Introduction: “Ode to Evening‚” is one among the most enduring poems of William Collins. It is a beautiful poem of fifty-two lines‚ addressed to a goddess figure representing evening. This nymph‚ or maid‚ who personifies dusk‚ is chaste‚ reserv’d‚ and meek‚ in contrast to the bright-hair’d sun‚ a male figure who withdraws into his tent‚ making way for night. Thus evening is presented as the transition between light and darkness. Collins’
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An evening on the beach Night was falling. The setting sun’s red rays lit up the sky above the western horizon. I could see an oil tanker making its way across the sea just on the horizon. Soon the sun disappeared below the horizon and the sky turned dark but my two friends and I sat on the beach gazing at the place where the sun went down. Sunsets are mesmerizing as we discovered. Only when the mosquitoes started coming in great number were we brought back to reality. We picked ourselves
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Lowell Mill Girls Kenneth Mooney U.S. History I Winter 12-D-8-HST201-2 Colorado State University – Global Campus March 8‚ 2013 Lowell Industries Lowell‚ Massachusetts is located in Middlesex County and was named after Francis Cabot Lowell. Mr. Lowell was an industrialist who helped create the first planned industrial community. During the industrial revolution‚ Lowell dominated the woolen and cotton textile industry for over 100 years
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death after death. One by one they passed away in tragic‚ horrific accidents. On top of the daily deaths‚ wages dropped and riots began. Women and children began to question whether the mills in Lowell‚ Massachusetts were a new beginning for them‚ or the end of it all. In the early to mid 1800’s‚ Francis C. Lowell‚ an American born and raised in Massachusetts‚ created mills to generate a working place for women and children. While the mills provided shelter and money for girls‚ these were considered dead
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Flower arrangement is the combination of several elements to produce a visually pleasing display of fresh‚ silk or dried flowers. Flowers are arranged in several basic designs‚ including vertical‚ horizontal‚ triangular‚ crescent‚ and oval arrangements. Other options include a minimal arrangement‚ such as the lazy “S” or “Hogarth’s Curve‚” and free-standing arrangements. Hogarth’s curve is named for English painter William Hogarth who introduced designs shaped like the curves of the letter “s” into
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Beauty of a Flower “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns‚ or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln” Most important living organism other than human beings are animals and plants. Flowers and weeds have a huge role in life that they tend to play. Flowers and weeds are completely different in which they grow to reproduce or grow to destroy. Knowingly that weeds also reproduce. Flowers are known to be a brightly colored and conspicuous example of such a part of
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A flower‚ sometimes known as a bloom or blossom‚ is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta‚ also called angiosperms). The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction‚ usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs. Flowers may facilitate outcrossing (fusion of sperm and eggs from different individuals in a population) or allow selfing (fusion of sperm and egg from the same flower). Some flowers produce diaspores
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