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    FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES

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    3 FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES TONE: Tone is the change in the pitch of the voice. The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then‚ it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables. In the rising tone‚ the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables. STATEMENTS We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which

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    The Effects of Gallipoli

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    Before 1914‚ all major political parties in Australia supported military training for young men. Labor leaders such as Billy Hughes‚ born in London‚ and John Christian Watson‚ of Scottish descent but born on board ship in Valparaiso Harbour‚ Chile‚ were ardent supporters of the Australian National Defence League. In his recent Soldier Boy: The True Story of Jim Martin the Youngest Anzac‚ Anthony Hill explains how young Jim was imbued at school with pride in being part of the British Empire and was

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    Republic” was one of the more important aspects in the Easter Rising. It´s a historic – circumstantial text. In order to maintain secrecy the Proclamation of the Irish Republic was printed out on a hand press a few hours before the Rising. It was produced in two sections and due to the shortage of lettering‚ the letter “e” had to be improvised‚ standing out for the rest of the text. Easter Rising has a special meaning for the Irish people. The Rising was an insurrection located in Ireland during Easter

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    David Characterization

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    ’” (9) | BA | Sensitive | Dreams about Sophie being killed by his father “My father held Sophie with one arm just as he had held the struggling calf. He raised his other hand high‚ and as he swept it down the knife flashed in a light of the rising sun‚ just as it had flashed when he cut the calf’s throat.” (28)Makes preparations before the actual need to escape“I even went as far as making some preparations before I went to bed that night – at least‚ I put a bow and a couple of dozen arrows

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    The book‚ Esperanza Rising‚ is a story of a young girl and her once wealthy family who journeyed to the United States in hopes of finding better lives. Throughout the book Esperanza‚ hear family‚ and her friends undergo many hardships such as bad living conditions‚ little to no health care‚ long work hours‚ and social issues. The social issues that this group of struggling people faced are fairness‚ class‚ gender‚ race‚ and power. The biggest hardship faced in the story is class. Esperanza grew up in

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    - Patrick Pearse The Proclamation was a statement issued by the Irish Volunteers‚ and the Irish Citizen Army involved in the 1916 Rising. The political activist‚ and one of the leaders of the Rising‚ Patrick Pearse‚ read the Proclamation to passers-by outside the GPO on the morning the Rising began. The document holds many characteristics that are unique‚ and interesting; the language within the 1916 Proclamation‚ for example‚ is quite unusual; a typical reader

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    ’September 1913 ’ Yeats shows his aversion to democracy and capitalism‚ and expresses his belief in an aristocratic society preferably governed by elite Protestants‚ as they had supremacy over Catholics in his view (Chaudhry‚ 33). The events of the Rising initiated a metamorphosis in Yeats. ’Easter 1916 ’ shows how Yeats (usually not supportive of violence as a political movement) credited it with achieving something (Macrae 77). This poem enables us to see that Yeats ’ strong belief in politics is

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    organisation were arrested and executed‚ proving the Irish Rebellion of 1798 to be a failure‚ the rising being described as "the most concentrated episode of violence in Irish history." It could also be argued that these key figures became martyrs following their execution‚ allowing the idea of a republic to live on the people‚ which it has been proved to have done as a sequence of many other risings followed this

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    and thought. John Donne was part of this literary movement and he explored the themes of love‚ death‚ and religion to such an extent‚ that he instilled his own beliefs and theories into his poems. His earlier works‚ such as The Flea and The Sunne Rising‚ exhibit his sexist views of women as he wrote more about the physical pleasures of being in a relationship with women. However‚ John Donne displays maturity and adulthood in his later works‚ The Canonization and A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

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    Yeats "Easter, 1916"

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    the poem Yeats is taking the role of flamers and he is giving the description of normal daily lives of people. He also tells that he wants to go and meet his friends at theatre and say “A terrible beauty is born”. This shows a dualistic nature of rising. It said a terrible beauty because it caused death and beauty of their step towards independence. The revolution caused many problems which ruined the normal days of people as shown in the poem. Yeats describe about a revolutionist woman leader

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