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    culture and journey as a whole in order to portray to world that female students deserve an education through the use of fictive figurative language‚ egalitarian and religious ethos‚ and abstract symbolism. She adopts a defiant tone in order to educate the Western world of the opportunity that is taken for granted‚ yet deprived of

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    lit paper (“Forgive my guilt” and “Once upon a time”) In a world of poetry for CXC written by MarkMcwatt and Hazel Simmons-McDonald there are two poems “ Forgive my guilt’ and ‘ Once upon a time” which illustrates the wrongful acts of innocent minded children. Childhood experiences to me are the hyper and innocent yet so passionate phase in one’s life. Each poem deals with different situations create contrasting moods. The poems also elicit different responses from the reader. ‘Once upon a time”

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    Anne Bradstreets is an amazing poet of her time. The poem The Flesh and the Spirit is a struggle between two sisters that can never be separated‚ Flesh and Spirit-body and soul‚ ultimately ending in final peace. Their inflamed arguments are about the ideal values of life and what matters to the human race. Flesh is for riches‚ pleasure‚ and the publics eye. She values earthly items and her fulfillment of her wants. Spirit finds satisfaction is God and the thought of Heaven. Their fight ends up in

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    Oh God Help Me The poem For Deliverance from a Fever is a beautiful poem by Anne Bradstreet. The use of rhyme and rhythm throughout this poem depicts to me that Anne had an exceptional understanding of poetry and how to write poetry. Anne uses a great array of words to make the poem more appealing to not only the reader but also herself. This finely written poem portrays to me that Anne was a very spiritual women but maybe had doubts about everything going on around her. The course of this

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    Abstract: Figurative idioms paly an important role in English language. They represent the national culture and they are the core in language. The fgurative meaning and unity of idiom make the language colourful and vivid. Keywords: Figurative idiom; English language; Unity With the continual development of human society‚ language is developing as a tool which of people using it to express thoughts and communicate with each other. In all the elements of language‚ the change of

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    Communicating the Workplace Dovey House University of Phoenix ENG 120 Dr. Thomas February 07‚ 2011 Communicating the Workplace “Shooting an Elephant” is a short essay written by George Orwell. The occupation of the main character‚ also narrator‚ Orwell‚ is a subdivision police officer. He protects and serves a small town in Moulmein‚ Burma. He includes a great deal of details and facts throughout the essay. I will attempt to analyze how tension between the facts and the artistic

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    Beyond Denotations If used skillfully‚ the language in poetry can capture the essence of words. It draws power from both the writings of the poet and the intellect and imagination of the reader‚ storing many layers of meaning in ordinary words. A poet does this by harnessing the connotations of words‚ meanings associated with them. While denotations are dictionary definitions‚ and may not change for a long time‚ connotations are ever-changing and gain new meanings as time passes. For example‚ in

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    6) In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne employs figurative language to explain the symbolic character of Pearl before she becomes a woman. To Hester‚ her child who is often associated with sin is‚ “Her Pearl! ...she named the infant “Pearl”‚ as being of great price‚ --purchased with all she had‚ her mother’s only treasure!”(6‚1). This allusion of the Gospel of Matthew‚ the merchant man seeking goodly pearls gave up everything to get that one pearl‚ similarly connects to how Hester gave up

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    WW1 Poetry Comparison Essay Darlene D’Mello “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke are both poems borne out of World War One. Despite the vast differences between the two‚ Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen were both poets during the war and their poems were written with 3 years of each other‚ “the Soldier” at the start of the war and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” towards the very end. Rupert Brooke wrote “The Soldier” right after the outbreak of the war‚ when patriotic

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    Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide

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