the three parodies in the poetry anthology ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ and ‘Come live with me and be my love’ are poems that show what the poets are willing to offer to their loves if they are to come to live with them. ‘The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’ is an answer to the shepherd’s request. In all these poems‚ the first and last two lines of the stanzas rhyme. For example in “The Passionate Shepherd” the rhyming words are ‘love’ and ‘prove’; ‘fields’ and ‘yields’ (lines
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I have picked the “In Cuba I was a German Shepherd” by Ana Menendez. I chose this story because it is the first option from the reading assignment and perhaps I don’t have much knowledge about Cuba and haven’t read any Cuban short stories before. This story is about a group of four aged men‚ who meet every morning at Domino Park in Miami to play domino‚ where sometimes there are also tourists stop by and stare at them while playing. One of these four men is fond of throwing jokes anything about
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I picked the short story "In Cuba I was a German Shepherd" by Ana Menéndez because I was able to connect with the protagonist (Maximo) and feel his pain over how his life had changed after fleeing from Cuba. The story is about Maximo‚ one of four older men who gather in Domino Park in Little Havana in Miami to play dominoes. As a result of the Cuban revolution‚ Maximo‚ then a university professor‚ fled from Cuba with his wife and two daughters. He struggled to start a new life in Miami and ended
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The reality of life‚ love and nature are widely popular topics among humans. Everybody has different beliefs and ideas about it. Some people are more romantic‚ while others are a bit cynical. “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe‚ “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh and “Raleigh Was Right” by William Carlos Williams are all poems that show different viewpoints on life‚ love and nature. Williams developed and transformed the central idea of these three
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A World without Work Could the world one day be run by robots due to technological advances? In the article “A World without Work”‚ Derek Thompson writes advances in technology have taken over thousands and thousands of people’s jobs. Published in the July/August 2015 issue of The Atlantic‚ Thompson makes you think what if one day you will be jobless due to advances in technology; just like the 50‚000 lost jobs in Youngstown‚ Ohio. Thompson clearly presents plenty of credible evidence to support
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makes it clear that only ‘if all the world and love were young’ she would be his love. Using repetition‚ she also tells him promises are short lived; they will soon break‚ soon wither‚ and soon be forgotten. In stanzas three and four‚ she tells the shepherd that while his offer may seem desirable it lacks foundation and is transient. She attacks and ridicules him with satire by stating that his ideas are unrealistic. Apart from its connotation‚ this poem’s alliteration adds a sense of humor and irony
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Aleshia Ledbetter WR 121‚ 9:30am April 7‚ 2011 Summary of “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” In “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus”‚ the author‚ Derek Bok shows how expressing yourself falls under the First Amendment‚ whether it is on a private college campus or public college campus. He further explains that just because it is protected by law does not mean that it is “right‚ proper‚ or civil. Bok goes on to show how censoring freedom of speech would cause people
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On my visit to the Dallas Museum of Arts‚ I was stunned by so many different types of arts that ranged in the forms of sculptures to paintings in different eras and areas of the. One of the most visually stunning artworks I’ve witnessed is The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus and Remus to His Wife by Nicholas Mignard located in the Rococo section of the European Art floor. A simple oil painting made in 1654 on an unknown canvas medium‚ it is encased in a golden frame with intricate carvings that
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The Declaration of Arbroath‚ possibly one of the most famous historical documents of its time‚ written in the name of the whole of The Community of the Realm of Scotland and fundamental to the unfolding of events in its aftermath. It was a famously eloquent political document in the form of a letter to Pope John XXII in April‚ 1320. It written by the Barons and The Peoples of Scotland asking him to recognise Scotland’s historical claim of independence‚ a plea for acknowledgement of right of the people
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Summary of “How I Wrote the Moth Essay---and Why” In her essay “How I Wrote the Moth Essay---and Why”‚ Annie Dillard explains how she wrote the first essay “Form Holy the Firm” and tells us the reason why she decided to write it. She concludes the wisdom on writing and expresses her attitude towards the personal writing. Annie Dillard had detailed journals descripting how the moth flew into the candle and got burnt. She was happy about that she had kept notes of what she read
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