In slip-shod measure loosely prattling on‚ Of farm or orchard‚ pleasant curds and cream‚ Or droning flies‚ or shoes lost in the mire By little whimpering boy‚ with rueful face- Come‚ Muse‚ and sing the dreaded washing day (Pg. 70 Lines 1-8) Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem “Washing Day” is categorized as mock epic. A mock epic is defined as: epic tone and form but for ‘ordinary’ subjects. Another example of a mock epic is Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (1712). This literary work stands
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CBSE TEST PAPER-01 CLASS - XII ENGLISH CORE (FLAMINGO) Lesson 1- The Last Lesson Short Questions 1. Give 2 reasons why Franz thought of running away and spending the day out of doors? 2. What was more tempting than the rule of participles? 3. What was the bulletin board famous for? 4. Describe the usual scene and how was it different that day? 5. Describe the appearance of the master M. Hamel that day? 6. What surprised Franz on entering the classroom? 7. What was the news that came as a thunderclap
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privileged they are. This can sometimes end with them demolishing things for other individuals without contemplat-ing it. They will often ruin it for them more under privileged than themselves. This is what hap-pens in the short story "Number Three" by Anna Metcalfe where an‚ poorly payed‚ Chinese teacher is appointed “International Hostess” for an English teacher named Mr. James from Eng-land. He is hired to educate at a public middle school named "Number Three". Here he requests a higher pay‚ free cleaning
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Tone and Diction in Quilt of a Country and The Immigration Contribution Quilt of a Country by Anna Quindlen is an essay written after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. In this piece Quindlen explains how America is like a quilt‚ and made up of all different cultures sewn together by a common enemy. In her essay Quindlen uses a diction that easy to understand‚ but at the same time it gives you good information. In the first paragraph of the essay the author states “America is an improbable idea
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High school is a strange time. After three years of trying to develop identity and friends in middle school‚ students are expected to mature immediately on the first day of ninth grade‚ but I never did this. I never fully realized in the earlier grades how important high school success‚ as measured by GPA‚ would be to my future life‚ and as a result I am applying to college with seemingly contradictory measures of my ability to perform college-level work. If I had worked and studied hard rather than
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In the article “Stuff Is Not Salvation‚” by Anna Quindlen‚ she discusses American materialism and the desire to acquire a greater number of things than needed. Quindlen talks about how television commercials have made it possible to purchase unnecessary things. She discusses how American society over-spends and stuck with financial obligation by mass over consumption of products they do not use. She furthermore discusses how America society has fallen into so much financial obligation and that more
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Question 4 How consistent were Bismarck’s aims and methods from 1862 to 1871? The key word in this question about Bismarck was ‘consistent’. Most of the answers deployed accurate knowledge about developments from 1862 to 1871. The most successful essays used this knowledge to examine how far Bismarck’s aims and methods changed or remained the same. Moderate answers sometimes asserted in an introduction or conclusion that he was consistent and otherwise relied on narratives of developments
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January 5‚ 2015 Embassy of the Republic of Philippines in Jakarta (HE) Ambassador Maria Rosario C. Aguinaldo 25 Jalan Imam Bonjol‚ (+6221) 310.1167 jakartape@gmail.com Dear Ms. Aguinaldo: Greetings from AIESEC Davao! Present in over 1‚700 universities in 113 countries‚ AIESEC‚ the largest youth-run organization in the world with a membership base of 60‚000 members worldwide‚ is an international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to make a positive impact in
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What is Loneliness and Companionship Today Introduction Anna Quindlein’s article titled Doing nothing is something published on May 12‚ 2002 and William Deresiewicz’s The End Of Solitude published February 30‚ 2009 seek to explain how modernity has changed the way man socializes and spends time. Quindlein views this change from the perspective of a busy scheduled life more so for children who now lack time for themselves while Deresiewicz looks at it from the angle of a lonely but an overly
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Requiem is about Anna Akhmatova going through stages of grieving over her son being imprisoned and later killed by the NKVD‚ the soviet secret police. She experiences the different stages of grieving. In this particular section she is confronting death and accepting the fact that it is inevitable for her son as well as herself. It is as if she is welcoming it upon herself as she gives up hope for a different outcome. In this piece Akhmatova‚ a Russian poet‚ is attempting to create a memorial
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