To what extent did geography determine the location of the three West African kingdoms of Ghana‚ Mali and Songhai? Ghana‚ Mali and Songhai were the three largest Kingdoms to exist in the history of West Africa. They were located in West Africa during the 11th‚ 14th and 15th century. West Africa is the region in the western part of the African continent‚ it lies approximately 15° north of the equator. Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere. These three prominent
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Body Language Do you know you speak all the time? Even when you are asleep‚ your mind is occupied with thought. When you wake up in the morning‚ you are already thinking. Even your body speaks. It’s called body language. Body speak is very common‚ you hardly notice it‚ but it clues you in subliminally. In a nutshell‚ it’s how you present yourself. Facial expressions are part of body language. A smile‚ a frown‚ a look‚ a question are all part of speaking with your look. These things say if you are
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grievances forgone‚ And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er. . .” By having words such as ‘and’ and ’then’ repeated‚ this adds to the weight of the feelings in the poem. The emphasis placed on such words helps to add depth to the symbolic “session of sweet silent thought” that Shakespeare is envisioning. Shakespeare expresses feelings using symbolism as a gate way to other figurative language aspects and literary devices‚ such as imagery‚ anaphora‚ alliteration‚ and metaphor‚ throughout Sonnet 30. After
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range of people’s conscious awareness‚ a "silent language" that is usually conveyed unconsciously (see Edward T. Hall’s The Silent Language). This silent language includes a broad range of evolutionary concepts‚ practices‚ and solutions to problems which have their roots not in the lofty ideas of philosophers but in the shared experiences of ordinary people. In the words of the director of a project on cross-cultural relations‚ understanding the silent language "provides insights into the underlying
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Dramatic Monologues: According to M.H. Abrahms‚ dramatic monologue is a poetic form‚ "a lengthy speech by a single person"‚ addressing a silent listener‚ intended to convey his or her inner thoughts and emotions. It can be rewritten in jargonised terms as ’a cross or hybrid of the genres of drama and lyric’. A lyric poem is ‘any fairly short poem‚ consisting of the utterance by a single speaker‚ who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception‚ thought‚ and feeling’. Though
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Clara Bow was an American silent film actress. She appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies‚ her movies sold the most box-office tickets in 1928 and 1929 and and again in 1927 and 1930. Her performance in films was said to have set out sponserse . she first got famous when we was in a silent film in the early 1920s. she soon became the “it girl” of the 1920s Clara Bow was born in Prospect Heights‚ Brooklyn on July 29 in 1905‚ she had two older sisters born in 1903 and 194 but sadly they died
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was under a totalitarian regime (from Franco’s Spain to Stalin’s Russia)‚ experiencing the most conscious effort to eradicate a race of people in history‚ the Holocaust. A spectator of this carnage was the Catholic Church‚ whose leadership remained ’silent’ towards atrocities of the Holocaust throughout the entirety of the Second World War. Pope Pius XII chose to combat the Nazis through quiet diplomacy‚ never explicitly condemning the Nazi’s treatment and massacre of the European Jews. This policy
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illustrates the concept of silent letters‚ the overlooking of sounds. The “gh” in the correctly spelled word “light” is not pronounced‚ and though we recognize it exists‚ we do not verbally acknowledge it‚ giving the impression that we do not appreciate it‚ that it is taken for granted. This impression can be compared to how we actually appreciate light. We know subconsciously that it is there‚ but do not fully register its presence. Saroyan sees this‚ and by adding another silent part to the word‚ he
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metaphorical ways. Below‚ I want to analyze this poem from two points. One of these is what the poet’s attitude and what feelings he wanted to express. Another one is the significance of the poem for the author. In this poem‚ the author expressed his silent anger toward human beings and his feeling for the pathos of the sensual world by the use of simile and metaphor. From the beginning‚ “a lonely wolf lonelier than the angels” means the wolf is like angels in the sky that are distanced from human beings
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appraised of his right to have an attorney present‚ and that his statement was made “without threats or promises of immunity and full understanding of my legal rights….” ISSUE: Did the failure to explicitly notify Mr. Miranda of his right to remain silent and have legal counsel present violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination? DECISION: Yes‚ his protection against self-incrimination was violated OPINION: Custodial interrogations are‚ in and of themselves and by their very
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