“The Colonel” stands out as a poem for two distinct reasons. The first thing that you notice is that the author chose an untraditional format. That‚ paired with the line “What you have heard is true. I was in his house‚” and the indifferent tone‚ gives more of a ‘journalistic’ vibe. Without directly stating it‚ the author hints at the theme of disillusionment. At the beginning of the poem‚ she begins by describing a seemingly ordinary family evening. “His daughter filed her nails‚ his son went out
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Lisa Ho was born in 1963 in Albury on the boarder of Victoria and New South Wales. From the young age of 4 she was already making patterns out of newspaper and sewing with the help of her grandmother who was a tailor. By the age of 10 she had her own sewing machine and was making things for herself and her four sisters nearly every day. She graduated from Sydney Technical College in 1981. After working for another company for a year she decided to start her own line. Along with many other fashion
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Melbourne – Albury/Wodonga Melbourne to Albury/Wodonga via Seymour‚ Benalla and Wangaratta MONDAY – FRIDAY Service No. Train/Coach Seating/Catering MELBOURNE (Southern Cross) North Melbourne Broadmeadows Craigieburn Donnybrook Wallan Heathcote Junction Wandong Kilmore East Broadford Tallarook SEYMOUR Service No. TRAIN/COACH Seymour Avenel Stn Euroa Euroa Stn Violet Town Stn BENALLA Stn Benalla Stn WANGARATTA STN Wangaratta Stn Wangaratta City Springhurst Stn Chiltern Stn Wodonga TAFE‚ Univ. WODONGA
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conversation that the young girl has with the colonel shows how society idolizes men to always be a better than women‚ the term she uses to describe women being inferior “jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era” is a very common and coherent example all of us have been hearing for a long time. The colonel debates that women don’t have the “actual nerve control of men”. This clearly shows us that in this society men overpower women. The Colonel further says that a woman’s reaction to any crisis
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Those who are opposed to the idea of men and women playing baseball together‚ often defend their argument with the belief that women are not physical capable of participating in sports. In addition they often entice the belief that women are more susceptible to injury than men. This is not a valid reason to exclude women and there is an abidance of research that refutes this claim. In addition to excluding women based on their sex‚ the sport of baseball is connected to racial segregation. It was
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The most efficient strategy was Ho Chi Minh’s use of the Viet Minh. The Viet Minh was a National Independence Coalition that was founded by Ho Chi Minh on May 19‚ 1941. It was known as the only organized anti French‚ anti Japanese Communist group. The Viet Minh was initially formed to seek Vietnam independence. However it followed Ho Chi Minh to help him during the war. There were many tactics to the Viet Minh‚ including sabotage‚ traps‚ terrorism‚ camouflage‚ and ambushes. Sabotage covered: Road
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A Cinderella Story Have you ever done the unthinkable to get the attention of your true love? The film Memoirs of Geisha dramatizes how one can endure so much just to get what they want. The writer wants us to get up to a closer look into the life of becoming a Geisha so the film is narrated in first person point of view by Nitta Sayuri which is the main character. Sakamoto Chiyo (Sayuri) and her sister Satsu was separated from her family because their mother became extremely sick. When Chiyo’s
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A group of shareholders invested to set up a business called Binh Minh Co.‚ who trades Mobile phones. 1. 1/12 Invest to set up a business $8000 2. 1/12 borrow from B bank $5000 3. 1/12 paid in advance $1200 to rent a space in Dec and Jan. 4. 2/12 purchase equipment for $2100‚ useful life of 5 years‚ salvage value = 0. 5. 2/12 Purchase 100 mobiles for $50/unit‚ paid 60% in cash‚ the balance will be paid later 6. 3/12 Received $2000 cash in advance from customer
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life. Practically‚ study on the similarities and differences between the two languages and cultures English and Vietnamese has been one of my concerns. It is clear that there are many differences between the two languages of as those in grammar‚ lexicology‚ translation‚ phonetic and so on. However there still exist plenty of similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese that can be demonstrated contrastive analysis. When choosing the subject for the assignment‚ I put much attention
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Origins of a Memoir/ Autobiography I’ve read a lot of memoirs‚ autobiographies‚ personal essays‚ collected letters‚ and autobiographical novels in my life‚ but this is the first time I’ve studied the memoir/ autobiographical form as a genre. An interesting fact I learned right away was that the word “memoir” comes down to us from the Latin “memoria‚” meaning memory or reminiscence‚ through the Anglo-French memorie in the mid-1500s‚ meaning “a note‚ memorandum‚ something written to be kept in
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