"O Captain! my Captain!" Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! my Captain!" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman describes Lincoln as the captain of the ship‚ as the leader of the country; he also refers to him as a father: "Here Captain! dear father!"(13)‚ "My father doesn’t feel my arm‚"(18). Clearly‚ a captain is not a father. Why‚ then‚ does Whitman connect the two together? Are there certain similarities between them that can’t be avoided? A captain is
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“O Captain! My Captain!” Literary Analysis Every great nation’s past contains a great leader who sacrificed everything for his or her country. Abraham Lincoln gave his life after striving to abolish slavery. Soon after Lincoln’s murder‚ Walt Whitman wrote an apostrophe poem to Lincoln. In this eulogy‚ Whitman praised Lincoln’s accomplishments and mourned his death. In “O Captain! My Captain!”‚ Walt Whitman uses repetition‚ symbolism‚ assonance‚ and metaphors to portray the theme that every great
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Questions over articles. Differentiating Instruction Why Bother? By Carol Ann Tomlinson‚ in Middle Ground‚ August 2005‚ Volume 9‚ Number 1. 1. The author opens the article telling about two of her middle grades teacher‚ one math teacher and one English teacher. a. Briefly describe and compare these two teachers. In this article author has describe both Math and English teachers clearly and their method of teaching. Math teacher has her own teaching method and English teacher has own. If I compare
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Prompt #1. In my third year of highschool I was on the girl’s basketball team. I was one of the team captains. The experience of being a team captain helped me realize that i am a good helper and I always come to practices and games with a good attitude. On the basketball team there were a few people who didn’t know how to play. My responsibilities of being a team captain was to make sure my other teammates knew where to stand‚ know what plays to call out‚ how to dribble the ball correctly‚ shoot
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Compare the methods Armitage and Duffy use to convey their ideas about change in the poems you have read so far. Both Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage use a range of methods in their exploration of the theme of change. Duffy ’s poems tend to be more personal although in her poems about change‚ such as ’Pluto ’ and ’The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team ’ she writes in a male voice which then distances her from the speaker. Armitage writes more universal poems‚ few of which
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Ann Taylor: Survival in Specialty Retail Founded in 1954 by Robert Liebeskind‚ Ann Taylor starting out in New Haven‚ Connecticut‚ is first stand-alone store. Ann Taylor was considered a store for the busy socially upscale women- polished‚ refined and versatile women. Although Ann Taylor wasn’t a real person‚ her persona lived up to the character of the customer. Ann Taylor has been one of the most popular women’s clothing companies in the United States. Ann Taylor has four divisions; Ann Taylor
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Duffys Forest Summary Duffys Forest is a northern Sydney suburb that sits about 28 kilometres from the central business district. It is part of the Northern Beaches and is also part of the Forest District. The biggest attraction and claim to fame for Duffys Forest is the Waratah Park Earth Sanctuary that was closed down in the 1970s due to the lack of tourists. This sanctuary was where they filmed the show‚ Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. In August of 2009‚ all animals were removed from the sanctuary and
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Ann Richards Ann Willis Richards is arguably one of the most important women in Texas history. Her broad political life included County Commissioner‚ Treasurer of the State of Texas‚ and the second woman Governor of Texas. She created opportunities to countless women‚ improved Texas economics‚ and made reformations of many crises faced by early Texas. Ann Richards was born Dorthy Ann Willis in Lakeview‚ Texas on September 1‚ 1933. She grew up in Waco‚ Texas and was granted a scholarship to attended
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Ann Taylor (based on an earlier version of the case) 1. Consider the performance of A nn Taylor. How well is the present strategy working? Ann Taylor compared to the industry: I n fiscal year 2005‚ Ann Taylor was number six in the Women’s Wear Daily’s top twenty of the publicly traded retailers specializing in women ’s wear. ANN maintained this position from the previou s fiscal year 2004. Ann Taylor compared to key rivals: Several retailers that target the same or similar demographic
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Carol Ann Duffy &Sheenagh Pugh LT1 exam The alliterative ’m’ in ’Magnificiant‚ she murmurs ‚ moving on’ creates a seductive slow pase tone which constructs a dream like feeling‚ again distancing herself away from her reality. In the third stanza Duffy brings the two characters together revealing the fact that they’re not so different. The metaphorical use of ’stiffens’ creates a sexual imagery along with another sexual reference‚ ’he dips the brush repeatedly’ suggesting that he is responding sexually
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