The Truth of a Southern Dream In Fitzgerald’s "Ice Palace"‚ Sally Carrol Happer is a Georgia girl tired of the lazy and unambitious South. She desires to break free from her hometown of Tarleton‚ captivated by the promises and new opportunities in the North. Her fiancée Harry is supposed to be the fiancée that can provide her this new lifestyle‚ but her romanticized vision becomes disillusioned. Sally Carrol’s misconception of the shimmering North is captured after experiencing the reality of
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essentially a perspective represented to express a variety of ways in which one can associate within society and themselves. The novel “Swallow the Air” by Tara June Winch‚ the short story extract “Scan” by Manifesto and the poem “Originally” by Carol Ann Duffy are all influenced by the different perspectives through exploring and reflecting upon the meaning that the composers have conveyed. I have viewed vast range of representations of belonging and the use of different forms and features help communicate
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leisure and Shakespeare’s Macbeth both have a very strong link to ambition and power‚ but they are by no means positive ambitions. In this essay I am going to analyse and compare the two piece of text. The poem ’Education for Leisure’ by Carol Ann Duffy features an enigmatic character whose personality is gradually revealed throughout the poem. The poem explores a character disillusioned with the education system under Thatcher rule and the detrimental effect this has on the individual. The poem
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Hour by Carol Ann Duffy Task – To write an essay exploring Duffy’s presentation of two contrasting sides of love in the poems‚ ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Hour’. Love is the main theme in Duffy’s poems Hour and Quickdraw‚ the similarities end there‚ as these two poems show two very different sides of romantic love. Just from the name‚ Quickdraw‚ the reader already forms an idea of the violence and hurt that will be presented to them in this poem. What we do not expect however is the way Duffy cleverly uses
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had an interesting life‚ accomplished great things‚ and contributed important inventions to the world. William Mills was born on April 24th‚ 1856‚ in Wear Street‚ Southick‚ Sunderland. He was the son of David Mills‚ who was a ship builder‚ and Sarah Ann Kirkaldy. William’s first job was a butcher‚ but he decided to change his job. He took a seven-year apprenticeship with a famous Marine Engineer in Sunderland named George Clarke. When he was finished with his apprenticeship‚ Mills spent seven years
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and war. As the soldiers’ dead bodies are returned from war‚ Dawe conveys the undignified treatment of the bodies‚ as they are closed “in green plastic bags”. Personification and similes are used such as ‘telegrams tremble like the leaves of a wintering tree’ to depict the dread that comes with receiving a
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comparisons How do the writers express/convey their emotions by focusing on the themes of control and freedom? 1) Prayer Before Birth (Louis Macneice) 2) Tyger (WIlliam Blake) 3) Sonnet 116 (William Shakespeare) 4) War photographer (Carol Ann Duffy) 5) Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas) 6) Remember (Christina Rossetti) Q1) “With strength against those who would freeze my humanity‚ would dragoon me into a lethal automaton.” Qa) “He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays
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in China‚ red is the colour of happiness and good fortune. The RED balloon bursting shows her loving dieing and her good fortune dieing. The balloon can also symbolise her love leavening her flying away like a balloon fly’s away to the sky. Carol Ann Duffy uses the word “bang” as personification to make us visualise all he love dieing away
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accurately portraying lesbians? To start‚ all three of the women mentioned above are attractive and feminine. All three have long flowing hair - always nicely styled and maintained - and pretty faces carefully done up with light make-up. This is what Ann Ciasullo refers to as “sanitizing of the lesbian through her feminizing” (599). In other words‚ Grey’s Anatomy offers up an image of lesbians that
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SPECIMEN GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION ENGLISH A641 EC IM EN Unit A641: Reading Literary Texts Specimen Controlled Assessment Material This assessment will be changed every year. Please check on OCR Interchange that you have the controlled assessment material valid for the appropriate assessment session. INSTRUCTIONS TO TEACHERS • • • • • one on a play by Shakespeare • one on Prose or Literary Non-Fiction • one on Poetry. In the responses to Prose
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