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    Written Commentary: Dulce Et Decorum Est Word Count: 1001 Written by Wilfred Owen the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est is one of the many poems that described the war as it was.  Owen uses a Latin quotation from Horace‚ initially used in recruiting propaganda‚ in contradiction to its own meaning. Through the use of visual and auditory imagery Owen creates a scenario that he himself might of experienced. The constant emphasis on the poor condition of the soldiers is just one of the many factors that Owen

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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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    fire. Edmond Dantes had a twisty kind of life. He went from a young captain‚ in love‚ too scraggly man in prison‚ to a millionaire‚ to a revenge seeking count. Dante’s was wrongfully imprisoned for treason; throughout his time in prison‚ Dantes learned the whereabouts of some long lost treasure‚ as well as received an education. Dante’s was able to escape from prison‚ obtain the treasure Abbe Faria told him about‚ and return to Marseilles‚ France as a ‘new and changed’ person. Dantes is fresh out

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    IB SL English 2 Commentary on The Comfort of Strangers In one part of the novel‚ The Comfort of Strangers‚ the English writer Ian McEwan describes the admiration with which his male character‚ Robert‚ contemplates his sisters playing dress up. Though the speaker’s age is never divulged‚ we readily jump to the conclusion that he is around ten years old because of the childish and rudimentary language. The structure of the sentences is also very reflective of the child’s young age‚ as well as

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    Michael  Abushacra     English  SL           Commentary:  The  Nine  Tailors     In  this  passage  from  The  Nine  Tailors  by  Dorothy  L.  Sayers‚  Wimsey‚  the  main  character‚  climbs  up  a   bell-­‐tower  and  endures  the  deafening  vexatious  shrills  of  the  bells.  The  clangor  from  the  bells  causes  him  

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    Araby: An Outline Commentary ‘The Sisters’ and ‘An Encounter’ are about the same length. ‘Araby’ is roughly a hundred lines shorter than these. There is a progression in the three stories. The boy in ‘The Sisters’ is a passive witness‚ limited in his capacity to act by the weight of the adults about him. The boy of ‘An Encounter’ rebels against this oppression but his reward is the menace of a bizarre and abnormal adult. The boy in ‘Araby’ strives both to act and to realize an actual affective

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    Karl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and called the founder of analytical psychology1; he described “individuation” as “the process of learning to differentiate oneself from others…. It means to discover those aspects of the self that distinguish one person from another. (p. 2)” Essentially‚ he states that individuation is the metaphorical DNA of one’s personality; without individuation‚ we would all be the same—drones‚ rendered unnecessary. As described by Plummer‚ Ophelia Syndrome is the inability

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    In the Novel Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Sàenz there are many recurring motifs. Two of the most repetitive and meaning full were the sparrows and the desert. In the book‚ sparrows represent the loss of Aristotle’s childhood and innocence while the Desert represents his personality. Aristotle’s innocence and childhood were portrayed by a sparrow. Aristotle grew up alone‚ his childhood was depicted as a period of time rushing to adulthood. With a father of

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    prison‚ Dantes initially turns to God. He keeps his self together with prayer‚ eventually he got depressed. He is so sick with grief and hopelessness that he finally decides to kill himself by not eating. Just when he’s about to die‚ he hears a scratching sound coming from the other side of his cell. When the jailer comes to give him his dinner‚ Dantes places his dish in a spot where the jailer will be sure to step on it. The dish breaks and the jailer left the entire pot for Dantes. Dantes is able

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    http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library0061.html The text is a speech “Florence Kelley Speaks Against Child Labor” from Irene Stuber‚ Hot Springs National Park. The intended audience of this speech is the citizens in the United States‚ especially people who are the entrepreneurs of the American industries‚ the US government officials and legislators. Targeted at both genders‚ this speech targets at adults. This is because adults have the ability to voice out and take action against

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