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    All the King’s Men Commentary #1 We left the bay‚ and lost the salt‚ sad‚ sweet‚ fishy smell of the tidelands out of our nostrils. We headed north again. It was darker now. The ground mist lay heavier on the fields‚ and in the dips of the road the mist frayed out over the slab and blunted the headlights. Now and then a pair of eyes would burn at us out of the dark ahead. I knew that they were the eyes of a cow-a poor dear stoic old cow with a cud‚ standing on the highway shoulder‚ for there wasn’t

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    English Commentary Footnote on the future – James Thurber James Thurber’s “Footnote on the future” is a first person limited narrative written as an account of the author on the topic of science and the future. The piece is written with the aim of entertaining the reader; many elements in it – comedy‚ colloquial and conversatonal language‚ irony‚ personification and unusual imagery - reflect this unified effect. It is important to remember that although the author criticises scientists‚ himself

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    Matthew Harrison Poli 201-001 October 8‚ 2012 Commentary Paper Yahoo News’ Senior Political Reporter Holly Bailey wrote an article after the first presidential debate about Mitt Romney. Unlike most articles about Romney’s lopsided win over President Obama Bailey’s article is about how Mitt Romney is showing a different side to voters. Mitt Romney has always been given the unfair classification of a aloof rich guy who enjoys politics as a side hobby. But in this article Bailey references how

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    Commentary on “Ten Trillion and Counting” The video is a well demonstration of debt issues that the U.S. government faces. It starts with the tough economic condition that Obama inherited from Bush. Then‚ it talks about Bush’s centerpiece economic agenda: cut taxes‚ as well as the way Bush always put politics ahead of economics. After a serious of expenses related to two big wars; two enormous tax cuts; and a variety of new entitlement program signed by Bush had been spent‚ the economic began

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    POEM COMMENTARY A POISON TREE BY WILLIAM BLAKE A Poison Tree is a poem written by William Blake which is themed around hate‚ anger and revenge. The poem is basically a metaphor or a piece of pathetic fallacy wherein the speaker has ascribed his feelings and state of mind to the form of a tree. William Blake wrote a series of poems called Song of Experiences‚ which were a collection of texts in which he shows the human spirit when it is confirmed to rules‚ resulting in strong emotions of anger

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    Commentary on ‘The Lesson’ by Roger McGough Roger McGough the author of ‘The Lesson’ is a well respected British poet who is still writing poems and is a poetry performer today. His work has become so well recognized that he has received an O.B.E for his contributions to poetry from the Queen. McGough was born in Liverpool and attended school in the nineteen-forties and fifties during a time when corporal punishment was widely present in British education. ‘The Lesson’ by McGough is a poem

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    American Tongues Film Commentary In the film “American Tongues‚” enormous majority of American from different cities have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment. There are a few scenes in the film where people share what they think about using certain dialects in positive attitude. In one scene

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    The "Space Traders" Commentary on Racism "Space Traders" is a short story written by Derrick Bell‚ a current professor of law at NYU. Bell is not a science fiction writer‚ nor does he claim to be‚ but he uses science fiction to portray a story of racism that sounds ludicrous upon first reading. However it does in fact tell a story that is relevant to the issues America faces on racism today. Being a lawyer‚ Bell approaches this story from a political standpoint‚ giving symbolic meaning to even

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    “Punishment” “Punishment‚” a poem written by Irish author Seamus Heaney‚ speaks of the discovery of the body of a young bog girl‚ who as realized later in the poem‚ was punished for being an “adulteress.” (23) On closer inspection and as the poem shifts from past to present the faith of the bog girl is compared with the faith of another woman in more recent violent times‚ namely The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In this poem Heaney thus comments‚ through the use of literary devices such as enjambment

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    Commentary on Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green started out with a montage of America in the early 1980’s and ended with New York City in 2022. The movie was based on what the future could look like for the world if we continue to become over populated. It looked beautiful in the country with plenty of hay for the cattle and food for people‚ taking a ride in the afternoon in the country side was a beautiful luxury‚ people were trying different experiments like the Wright Brothers in

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