Where have you seen this before? How are the passages similar? How are they different? What does this similarity/ difference tell us about a larger similarities/differences in the works of a whole? Example from teacher: Aeneid line 404-424 (Dido is broken hearted) Odyssey: 212-225 (Calypso- "Can I be less desirable?") similarity: both have broken-hearts- the protagonist is leaving them difference: Aneid- Rome calls‚ going to Italy to build a new home/ Dido refuses to accept his leaving/
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Five More This essay belongs in my book because I got to compare two different styles of writing. I like the story of Icarus and seeing it in different writing styles made me think. I loved being able to compare the same story told a different way. It opened my eyes on the changes a story can have based on the writing style. Flying Free Poetry and Folktales are two very different styles of writing. They represent ideas and thoughts in different ways. The genre of the folktale “The Flight of
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The two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine both talks about machines and they are related to our everyday lives. There are quite a few differences and similarities in the two poems‚ Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out and Portrait of a Machine. To start off with‚ the poem Plug In‚ Turn On‚ Look Out is warning everyone about how the machines would take over the world and teaching all of us what we should do usually to prevent them taking over and hurting us. The poem picks out all
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Many people consider that money is a very important in order to accomplish happiness‚ but a majority of the time money and happiness have nothing to do with each other. In “Jeannot and Colin” by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire the reader is presented with the story of a family who acquires a great richness and then ends up losing everything. With this story the reader is presented with many of the lessons of why money and happiness do not work well with each other. The reader is also presented with
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Brink and Harris note that the Catholic church and Jews have supported the civil rights movement (p. 133). That is not surprising. Both have little regards for the races that God created. Both lust for power. Turmoil often results in the concentration of political power. Both intend to control this concentrated power. In Chapter 9‚ Brink and Harris discuss what Whites think of Negroes. They conclude that Whites suffer from guilt about the way that they treat or do not treat the Negro (p. 138). This
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Zombie in definition means‚ a corpse said to be revived by witchcraft‚ especially in certain African and Caribbean religions; person or reanimated corpse that has been turned into a creature capable of movement but not of rational thought‚ which feeds on human flesh; a person who is or appears lifeless‚ apathetic‚ or completely unresponsive to their surroundings; a hypothetical being that responds to stimulus as a person would but that does not experience consciousness. However; I would argue that
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of Nations. The Commonwealth is an organisation where countries with diverse economic backgrounds have an opportunity for close and equal interaction. The primary activities of the Commonwealth are to create an atmosphere of economic cooperation between member nations‚ as well as the promotion of democracy and good governance in them. There are two terms that a country must fulfil for the country to become a part of the Commonwealth. The first term is that the country must have already achieved its
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Visit Malaysia Malaysia is a country that is located in Southeast Asia. Malaysia observes tropical weather but the best part is it is never too hot. On some days it is quite warm and nights are pretty cool in Malaysia. Needless to say‚ there are a lot of attractions in our country. Malaysia is made up of three main races. There are Malays‚ Chinese and Indians. In Sabah and Sarawak‚ there are a variety of ethnic groups with their own unique culture and heritage. All these
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Malaysia is a wonderful country as the other knows. There are three ethnics: Malay‚ Chinese and India. Furthermore‚ there are different cultures and festivals. When we talks about Malaysia‚ we can know that the weather is extremely hot and dry. What we can do? Complaining? Just forget about it. We just keep sweating. It is not temporary but permanent. How pitiful is the Malaysian? Dislike the other country‚ China‚ there is spring‚ summer‚ autumn nor winter. Luckily‚ Malaysia has a lot of delicious
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Culture of Malaysia WanWen Chen (Wammi) Brief introduction of Malaysia: Ethnic groups: Malay 50.4%‚ Chinese 23.7%‚ indigenous 11%‚ Indian 7.1%‚ others 7.8% (2004 est.) Religions: Muslim (or Islam - official) 60.4%‚ Buddhist 19.2%‚ Christian 9.1%‚ Hindu 6.3%‚ Confucianism‚ Taoism‚ other traditional Chinese religions 2.6%‚ other or unknown 1.5%‚ none 0.8% (2000 census) Physical or spatial distance: Just the same as in other country‚ in Malaysia there is an intimate zone reserved for lovers‚ children
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