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    Contribution to Democracy

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    Natalie Mora World History‚ Period: 2 Mrs. Rosado-Mejia September 27‚ 2012 Democracy has existed since long ago. Of course it took time to create it. Slowly‚ it began to form. Democracy is rule of the people‚ by the people. Greeks‚ Romans‚ Jews‚ and Christians all took part in molding today’s modern democracy. All these different cultures made an effect to democracy. For example‚ Greeks philosophy was equality to all‚

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    This is a sample document for upload. This should be a unique document‚ not marked as inactive‚ or duplicate paper. Below is some sample text from children story: Once upon a time‚ a good many years ago‚ there was a traveller‚ and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey‚ and was to seem very long when he began it‚ and very short when he got half way through. He travelled along a rather dark path for some little time‚ without meeting anything‚ until at last he came to a beautiful child

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    Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet during the Medieval Era. While he does not appear to have been a social reformer‚ he drew attention to the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in his works‚ The Canterbury Tales. Scholars agree that little is known about Chaucer. We do not have much personal inform- mation‚ such as “the memorabilia‚ letters‚ diaries‚ personal reminiscences‚ that cluster thickly around such later figures as Byron‚ Shelley or Yeats” (Morrison 7). Most

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    compulsion. The poet is talking about the minds of the people of his country. He says so because his country was under the subjugation of the British‚ who perpetrated all sorts of oppression on his countrymen. (ii) The words ‘the head is held high’ mean to have self respect. The head is bowed down because of exploitation and oppression of the Indians by the British. It needs to be held high with pride and dignity which characterised the Indians before India was reduced to the status of a subjugated

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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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    Environmental Poetry

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    Environmental poetry expresses emotions and ideas about the surroundings and conditions to the readers and listeners. Three different landscapes are illustrated‚ by poets of different eras‚ with the use of sensual imagery‚ sound techniques and allusions. Robert Gray presents a post apocalyptic future of the impact of cities‚ through the didactic poem “Flames and Dangling Wire”. A subjective view of the environment is conveyed in “William Street”‚ Kenneth Slessor reveals that beauty lies within. In

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    Narrative Art in Poetry

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    CHAPTER ONE THE POETIC ART OF NARRATION 1.1 A Historical Perspective Narrative‚ as a generally conceived term‚ is the type of literary composition which recounts a single event‚ a tale‚ or a story constituting a series of events usually told in chronological order. However‚ in some types of narrative works‚ the focus is on the nature of the plot itself regardless of the criterion of ordering the events according to a preconceived plan based on chronological structure (Abrams and Harpham

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    Marcus Garvey’s Contributions Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.‚ born August 17th 1887‚ also known as the "Black Moses" is one of those leaders most people are unaware of. It is a shame because he was a great man and through his actions‚ his beliefs‚ and the man he was he made many contributions to the Harlem Renaissance. Jamaican and US black nationalist leader. In 1914 Marcus Garvey along with Amy Ashwood founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). After moving to the United States in

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    Poetry Analysis

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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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    Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the

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