Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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The main reason for the cold war was because the Americans could not accept the lifestyle that the Soviet Union decided to live as communists. The cold war was heavily routed in American individualism and trying to impose our values on the Soviets. Americans value individualism. They believe in a society that associated with capitalism‚ and a thriving economy. They also believe that everything is possible and attainable with hard work and determination. The main priority is being individualistic
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Personal Response: Horses of the Night In the short story‚ "Horses of the Night"‚ the author‚ Margaret Laurence‚ discusses the idea of escaping reality. Chris‚ the male protagonist‚ is the character who is trying to escape reality. Chris is a young man who is struggling with life‚ and in order to escape his life‚ he dreams up his own world where anything can happen. Chris doesn’t understand reality‚ and he doesn’t want to be a part of it either. In the story it seems like certain things don’t
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NIGHT OF SCORPION - THE CRITICAL APPRECIATION --------------------------------------- Night of the scorpion written by Nissim Ezkiel is an interesting poem and the poet brings about a very appealing contrast between good and evil in it; altogether giving the poem an essence of equality. The poet makes it a trouble-free task for the readers to visualize the scenes with the appropriate use of various imageries. He has also done a marvelous work of adding various different senses into the
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CORONATION NIGHT March 30‚2011 INTRODUCTION Good evening Camalanda-an! Sa aton mga bisita halin sa nagkalainlain nga sitio kag barangay‚ members of the barangay council‚ fellow teachers‚ distinguished guests‚ friends mayong gab-I sa inyo tanan. Welcome to the HilayHilay Festival Coronation Night 2011. Tonight is the celebration of thanksgiving for the natures gift of bountiful harvest‚ for the blessings of wellness to all camalanda-anons and to the human empowerment brought by love‚ unity and
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All characters are presented as victims of a need to hide from their true selves. Choose four characters and summarise briefly how this comment relates to them. We are first introduced to Viola‚ one of the twins and central characters in this play. Going by the name of Cesario‚ she seeks to disguise herself in a man’s attire to assume the position of the Duke’s comrade‚ immediately conveying the notion of deception. In this manner‚ she illustrates that she does not deem herself fit to court the
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Fellow Word Shakers‚ When I started reading the book‚ Night Hoops by Carl Deuker‚ I was very bored. I felt like I wasn’t relating to the characters and the plot was moving too slowly. I questioned whether I should start a new book; however‚ I persevered just like Nick‚ and I am very grateful that I stuck with it. After reading Night Hoops‚ I have developed a new mindset on how I should pursue my goals no matter what impediments obstruct my ability to reach them. Nick‚ the protagonist‚ always
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Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters
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Dark and stormy night It was a dark and stormy night when she came to find me. I was sitting at my work desk‚ writing my daily report of the day’s work when my ears caught a soft knocking at the front door‚ timid but distinct against the fury of the tempest. Who could it possibly be at this hour and in this kind of night‚ I mused as I pushed back my chair irritably to answer the door. As I was about to slip back the latch‚ a small‚ seldom heard voice in the back of my head‚ which only spoke in
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Topic: The Cold War Research Question: The fall of the mutually friendly American Soviet relations was most significantly caused by the Soviet Union expanding it borders‚ violating its allied agreements‚ and imposing communist governments on its neighboring nations. Command Term: Analyze and Explain Dates: 1945-1990 Locales: Eastern/Western Europe Events: The end of world war two and the conferences during and following including Yalta‚Potsdam and Tehran. Also informations and influence of
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