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    Carol Ann Duffy: Stealing

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    Interactive Oral Commentary: Stealing My name is Kate Sampson and today I will be analysing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ Stealing. To begin with‚ I will provide some background information to help put the themes in this poem into context. It was published in the 1980’s during Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership‚ it is essentially a political poem in response to a new culture of greed and selfishness that ignored the working-class. There were constant poll tax riots‚ miner’s strikes‚ homelessness

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    In the short story “Janus”‚ by Ann Beattie‚ the central character is not a real character at all‚ but in fact is an inanimate object.   The cream colored ceramic bowl serves as the main character throughout the story‚ and is correlated to the Roman God “Janus” that is identified primarily with doors or other places of passage‚ and is also represented as being two faced.   Janus is one of two characters with names‚ which is also evident of her importance throughout the story.   The author uses the

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    Valentine Carol Ann Duffy

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    How does Carol Ann Duffy use language and imagery to explore love. Throughout the poem ‘Valentine’ love is explored in different ways for example in the first stanza ‘careful undressing of love’ has various meanings‚ one being the comparison of the onion which is supposed to mirror her heart‚ the core of her love; to get to her heart you have to take time to remove each layer of emotion in contrast to an onion where to get to the core you have to remove the layers of skin. You must be careful with

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    Bell-Mason Diagnostic The Bell-Mason Diagnostic and Prescriptive Method is a rule-based tool that is applied manually to characterize and plot the status of a high information technology venture at each stage of its growth. Four major elements of the Bell-Mason: 1. The five stages of company growth 2. The twelve dimensions that are measured to assess a start-up 3. The rules used to evaluate each dimension 4. A relational graph plotted against the ideal model for success Element #1 - The 5

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    Promotion Ceremony Speech Welcome to Mason‚ and thank you all for being here on this beautiful morning to see us graduate from the fifth grade. Hanging on the wall as you walk in through the doors of our school is a photograph of six students - the first graduating class at Mason Elementary. If one of those faces looks familiar to you‚ that’s because one of those students is my Grandfather… the one in the knickers. Sadly‚ my Grandfather has passed on. But‚ I still know that he is with me. I know

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    Conclusion of Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy Duffy uses an onion in her poem as she shows how this object can represent the positive aspect of love. In this poem she is saying that her love is different and unique. The first stanza tells us she is not giving what would be typically labelled as love like ’a red rose’. Instead‚ she gives an onion. An onion is very unusual gift to give to someone you care about. Although onions are acidic‚ smelly and not very appealing‚ she makes connection by comparing

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    It was October 31‚ halloween night. The moon was full and shining brightly. It was a night of excitement for me and my friends‚ because we were finally old enough to go to the Mason Street haunted house. The mason street haunted house was no ordinary haunted house‚ it was in a long mansion atop an enormous hill. There is a rule that you have to be at least 13‚ because once a kid was so scared that he ran and hid. after 3 hours of searching‚ they finally found him in the attic buried behind old boxes

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    Carol Ann Duffy Diction

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    The poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy portrays a realistic and honest view on love. Duffy has a unique perspective of love contrasting to the stereotypical way love is often thought about. She compares love to an onion‚ which is odd because an onion is neither visually appealing nor valued but Duffy’s insight on love and unconventional way of perceiving love is what makes the poem Valentine interesting. She presents her ideas by using a range of different poetic devices such as‚ choosing a distinct

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    Ann Hopkins Case Summary

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    Ann Hopkins worked at Price Waterhouse ’s Office of Government Services in Washington‚ D.C.‚ for five years before she was proposed candidacy for partnership in 1982. She was neither offered nor denied admission to the partnership that year; instead‚ her candidacy was held for reconsideration the following year. When the partners in her office later refused her proposed partnership‚ she quit and sued Price Waterhouse under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 charging that the firm had discriminated

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    Jenetta Robinson Ms. Tami Davis Eng. III-DP 13 November 2012 Originally In the poem “Originally‚” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ she is writing from a point of view of a child to adult for the reader to understand how she felt when she was a young girl moving to how she feels now. This poem is from the “The Other Country” collection‚ they all have a central theme of growing up with literary devices of imagery‚ diction‚ and alliteration threaded through the poem to help grab the reader’s attention. Duffy

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