Havisham by Carol Ann Duffy The poem “Havisham” is a dramatic piece told by the only character Miss Havisham herself‚ a character from Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”. Abandoned by her lover at the alter many years before the poem is set‚ she still wears her wedding dress‚ she’ll be wearing it for the rest of her life‚ while she plots revenge on all men. She hates what she has become‚ she hates knowing that she still and always will have her maiden name‚ in fact the poet cleverly used the characters
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contacted by Mr. Carl Robins; an employee of ABC Inc. Mr. Robins believes that he was wrongfully terminated and wants his job back. I took on the case and immediately set up separate interviews with Mr. Robins‚ his previous supervisor‚ Monica Carrols‚ and several key employees employed at ABC Inc. During my interview with Mr. Robins‚ he explained to me that he was a new hire with ABC Inc.‚ and had only been working for the company for 6-months. Mr. Robins was hired on as the company’s
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Throughout the poem ’In Mrs Tilscher’s Class’ by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the themes of innocence‚ happiness and fragility in childhood overlap with those of confusion‚ growing up and the threats of adult knowledge. The poem evokes feelings of nostalgia through its use of language and presents the classroom as a sanctuary. It is set out in four stanzas‚ the first two consisting of eight lines and the last two of seven. This change in form could be representative of the changes that children undergo when
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work. The story is about 19 year old Sally Carrol Happer‚ a young southern girl‚ who fall in love with the northerner Harry Bellamy. She is bored by her unchanging environment and decides to go to the North‚ to her fiancée. When she arrived‚ she feels everything is different from what she was expected. She feels cold and uncomfortable. At the end she returns home to the South. At the beginning of the story the author got acquainted us with Sally Carrol‚ a typical southern girl. She is 19‚ she calls
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Relationship between organisms and environment Mai Po Nature Reserve is an internationally significant wetland which is actually a flat shallow estuary‚ at the mouth of Sham Chun River‚Shan Pui River and Tin Shui Wai Nullah. Its 380 hectare area with diverse habitats provides a conservation area for mammals‚ insects‚ amphibians‚ reptiles and over 380 species of birds‚ some of which are highly endangered. During the field trip‚ we visited five different habitats‚ including fishponds‚ mangroves
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Sargasso Sea’ is a 1966 postcolonial novel by author Jean Rhys‚ who explores difficulties that arise when relationship and marriage are put in difficult situations and even forced. The Worlds Wife’ is a collection of poems published in 1999.Carol Ann Duffy gives famous female
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say in the world of politics as they only then gained the ability to vote. Even after‚ with restrictions of 30 years of age in contrast to men being able to vote at 21 years of age‚ women did not have a full political voice. Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy challenge these expectations of women being submissive and present their women characters as authoritative and devious. In ‘Macbeth’‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Lady Macbeth goes against conventions. Lady Macbeth is a desperate and controlling wife
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Explore the ways that poets present different attitudes to death The theme of death is a diverse theme present in many poems‚ which present the theme in a range of ways. In the poem ‘War Photographer’‚ the death of the civilians is presented as very worthless and the only memories of these people are the photographs that the war photographer took. This is idea of worthlessness is carried on in the poem ‘Not Waving but Drowning’‚ by Stevie Smith. The lack of emotion in ‘Not Waving but Drowning’‚
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‘Praise Song for My Mother’ written by Grace Nichols and ‘Morning Song’ Sylvia Plath both convey the emotional connection between mother and child‚ in the form of how a mother loves for and impacts her child. In ‘Praise Song for My Mother’‚ Nichols conveys the mother to be “Deep and bold and fathoming” as well as showing she is the “rise and warm and streaming” displaying the mother was a strong and bright figure in the Child’s life‚ through comforting and natural imagery. However‚ Plath’s persona
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Migrating waders in Roebuck Bay‚ Western Australia Many bird populations migrate long distances along a flyway . The most common pattern involves flying north in the spring to breed in the temperate or Arctic summer and returning in the autumn to wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. Of course‚ in the Southern Hemisphere the directions are reversed‚ but there is less land area in the far South to support long-distance migration. The primary motivation for migration appears to be
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