Tuesday‚ March 6‚ 2007 Ode to Evening - William Collins Introduction: “Ode to Evening‚” is one among the most enduring poems of William Collins. It is a beautiful poem of fifty-two lines‚ addressed to a goddess figure representing evening. This nymph‚ or maid‚ who personifies dusk‚ is chaste‚ reserv’d‚ and meek‚ in contrast to the bright-hair’d sun‚ a male figure who withdraws into his tent‚ making way for night. Thus evening is presented as the transition between light and darkness. Collins’
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"Hospital Evening" and "Monday" by Gwen Harwood are two poems that explore the hardship of immigrants in Australia. Written in the late 20th century after the "White Australia Policy" was abolished and thousands of immigrants landed on Australian shores‚ the poems revolve around Krote‚ a German music teacher‚ who has migrated to Australia and his struggles with racism and the harshness of the Australian environment. The poems negative construction of Australian people acts as a critique of the Australian
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Working Group on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Basic Human Rights Reference Guide The Stopping and Searching of Persons CTITF Publication Series Printed at the United Nations‚ New York 10-38601—September 2010—2000 SEPTEMBER 2010 CTITF Working Group on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Basic Human Rights Reference Guide The Stopping and Searching of Persons September 2010 With the support of Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection
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Editorial Cartoon: The creator of the cartoon uses pathos to exemplify what society is addicted to. The author presents a man injecting himself with various types of “drugs”. The “drugs” in the syringes represent the items that society believes are “essential” to live with. For example‚ one syringe says a Bigger House. Another syringe says a Sleeker Stereo. In addition to all the syringes on the table and in the background‚ the facial expression of the man help create an emotion of being overwhelmed
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English Commentary- Snowy Morning‚ by Henry Shukman. “Snowy Morning” is a melancholy piece about the difficulty and inevitability of saying goodbye to a lifetime of images‚ sensations and the beauty of the world around us. Shukman uses images from childhood to create a sense of nostalgia as well as establishing a paradox between the fear of death and dealing with death in a facetious manner. In addition to this Shukman uses semantic fields dealing with the senses in order to create a more involved
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Musical evening No‚ I haven’t been to a musical (lately). But Friday "my" choir and I had an appointment with‚ well‚ the rest of the population here‚ really. The local choirs (5) and whoever else who wanted to come along‚ were gathered to sing. The choirs had 2-3 songs each in between‚ but the rest was pure singalong (not karaoke..). Before going I felt as if I was a hundred years old‚ because that’s what I expected the average age of the people attending to be - but no such thing. Admittedly
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Not only the story of the ‘The Lonely Londoners’ sends a message to its readers. It is also the language of the novel that successfully communicates with the readership. By the manipulation of Standard English or by using some form of Creolized English‚ Selvon distance himself from the mainstream culture of the United Kingdom‚ the power that colonized his homelands for several hundreds of years. The novel is targeted to groups of readers‚ the black and also the white people. The white readers can
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In the Evening Hawk‚ Robert Penn Warren makes extensive use of figurative language‚ imagery‚ and symbolism to describe a foreboding scene that calls attention to the passage of time. He uses simile and the symbol of the Evening Hawk to convey a scene in which he suggests that man is being judged. Warren calls attention to the slow‚ grim passage of time with simile‚ suggesting that “history [drips] into darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.” Were there “no wind‚” he says‚ we might
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Lonely planet Introduction: * Type of organization: Lonely Planet has a internal culture in there company. That means that employees are free to be themselves‚ to exchange ideas and try new approaches to problems. The work space in informal and open‚ so that people can communicate easily with each other. * History: The company was founded in 1972 by the couple Tony and Maureen Wheeler. Their passion is traveling. They went on vacation and they wrote a traveling book so that they can
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The poem in study is As I Walked out One Evening by W.H. Auden. His views projected in this poem are suggested to have not varied since the time he composed this piece. Unlike his other poems‚ this piece was never revised. Here‚ Auden exposes the two sides of romance through the manipulation of narrative voices‚ the poet‚ the lover’s song and the chiming of the clock personified. As I walked out one evening is composed in a traditional ballad form. It’s consists of 15 quatrain stanzas conforming
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