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    Poetry Analysis/ Discussion Mirror I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is‚ unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel‚ only truthful- The eye of the little god‚ four cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink‚ with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me‚ Searching my reaches

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    Name Professor Institution Date A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles dickens first published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843 and adapted for film in 1938. The film tells the story of bitter old miserly protagonist Ebenezer scrooge who does not give to others and is only concerned with his own money and affairs. The film tells of his transformation resulting from ghost visits by Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmases’ past‚ present and future. As the

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    Analysis of a Poem: “The Lamb” by William Blake “The Lamb” by William Blake is a strong teaching of the image of Jesus. The author writes it as a form of a child’s song which an adult is asking questions to a child and the answer to “Who made thee?” This is also a form of a teacher teaching a lesson about Jesus (Blake line 1).The author uses of repetition‚ metonymy‚ personification and allusion build the image of Jesus. The lamb unquestionably symbolizes Jesus. The lamb is a traditional image

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    a wistful and bitter tone‚ as the young boy achingly reminisces his childhood. Words like ‘‘romped’’‚ ‘‘battered’’ and ‘‘scraped’’ clearly demonstrate a negative connotation and are purposely used by Rothke to suggest that the boy in the piece of poetry is a victim of physical violence. The speaker‚ the young boy‚ metaphorically compares waltzing with his alcoholic father to getting beaten by him. A ‘‘waltz’’ is a dance that is performed by a couple who turns round and round on the dance floor‚ which

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    Many great books and dramas are made into movies that are always both slightly different‚ and slightly the same. Charles Dickens’s famous drama‚ The Christmas Carol‚ was not an exception. There have been many versions of the movie‚ but the one that will be discussed today is the 1984 take‚ on Dickens’s original script. As mentioned before‚ there are many similarities and a few differences between the two renditions‚ none of which are plot changing‚ or quite so dramatic. Some such similarities are

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    At the very start in the beginning of the Christmas carol book Ebenezer scrooge is a very mean and nasty man. He kept all of his money to himself and he loved it so much he did not share a penny of it to the poor or the sick. I have got a paragraph here from the book Christmas Carol explaining what scrooge was like. ‘Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone‚ Scrooge! A squeezing‚ wrenching‚ grasping‚ scraping‚ clutching‚ covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint‚ from which no steel

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    Mary. He then travels to the capital of Argentina ‚ Buenos Aires. He says the wind sounds like bagpipes. Ramon de Sismundi owns a shops and he seems to be unhappy throughout the whole poem. Meaning – Rain symbolizes a lot of things especially in poetry where there is not a real meaning. The rain Lorca rights about is cleansing him‚ starting a new life. All of the difficulties he had in Spain and America are now behind him‚ it is time for him to move on and start a new beginning. Many people are

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    According to the supplemental material‚ Carol Gilligan identified that males see themselves as separate from others whereas females see themselves in terms of their relationship with others. Therefore‚ Jon always placed himself outside of his peers and never within. Jon felt that his peers classified him as not being ‘normal’. Jon defined the term being ‘normal’ as an individual that “get drunk‚ go on dates‚ not do any homework‚ hang out‚ and just love living life without a care in the world” (Garrod

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    “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Mother Any Distance” by Simon Armitage focus on the role of being a mother and having to give up something. In “Before You Were Mine” its Carol Ann Duffy’s mother letting go and giving up her carefree lifestyle‚ to take up the important role of a mother. Whereas in “Mother Any Distance” its Simon Armitage’s mother realising she has to let her son grow up and leave her grasps. The poem “Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ focuses on the fact that

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    EN160G March 25th ‚ 2014 Poetry paper final copy Travis McCoy feat Bruno Mars “Billionaire” I wanna be a billionaire so fucking bad Buy all of the things I never had Uh‚ I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights yeah A different city every night alright I swear the world better prepare For when I’m a billionaire [Travis "Travie" McCoy] Yeah I would have a show like Oprah I would

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