The Whole Town’s Sleeping ‘It was a warm summer night in the middle of the Illinois country. The little town was deep far away from everything‚ kept to itself by a river and a forest and a ravine.’ So begins the ominous story by Ray Bradbury called ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ revolving around a serial killer called the Lonely One who murders only single pretty women and Lavinia Nebbs‚ hus next victim being reckless and uncautious. Ray Bradbury‚ with his use of vivid description‚ manipulation of time
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| No. Of Classes | June | Drama – As You Like It – Act 1‚ Sc 1 & 2 Prose – Dusk & The Gift Of Magi | 18 | July | Drama – As You Like It – Act 1‚ Sc-3 / Prose – The Umbrella Man / Poetry – If & A River | 22 | August | Drama – As You Like It – Act 2‚ Sc – 1&2 / Prose – A Fishy Story / Poetry – The Road Not Taken & No Men Are Foreign | 12 | September | Drama – As You Like It – Act 2‚ Sc 3 / Prose – Monkey’s Paw / Poetry – To India My Native Land & Our Casuarina
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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AP® English Language and Composition 2008 Scoring Guidelines Form B The College Board: Connecting Students to College Success The College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900‚ the association is composed of more than
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questions with implied answers that the reader must determine by an author’s purpose and tone. When Prose uses rhetorical questions‚ she writes them after suggesting the solutions earlier in the essay‚ using the questions as a sort of conclusion. After an analysis that books such as Huckleberry Finn are only being studied in school for their racist aspects instead of their true meanings‚ Prose asks a series of rhetorical questions in paragraph 39‚ beginning with the following: “But why not tell
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Sejarah Sistem Operasi Menurut Tanenbaum‚ Sistem Operasi mengalami perkembangan pesat yang dapat dibagi ke empat generasi. 1. Generasi Pertama (1940-1955) Merupakan awal perkembangan sistem komputasi elektronik sebagai pengganti sistem komputasi mekanik‚ hal itu disebabkan kecepatan manusia untuk menghitung terbatas dan manusia sangat mudah untuk membuat kecerobohan‚ kekeliruan bahkan kesalahan. Pada generasi ini belum ada sistem operasi‚ maka sistem komputer diberi instruksi yang
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ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence
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commit them. In “The Cask of Amontillado‚” the guile Montresor seeks vengeance on Fortunato‚ an imprudent man who has an addiction to alcohol by using Fortunato’s desire of Amontillado against him to lure him to his death. In Connell’s amazing short prose “The Most Dangerous Game‚” Rainsford‚ a skillful hunter‚ falls off a yacht into the Amazon. There he meets the hunting fanatic General Zaroff‚ who eventually implies that the only creatures that give him a thrill to hunt are humans. Rainsford thought
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diction of eighteenth century. His theory has some merits and at the same time has certain demerits. Wordsworth rejects poetic diction by saying‚ “avoid poetic diction”. He says that neither there is nor could be any difference in the language of prose and that of metrical composition. Previous critics like Dr. Johnson were of the opinion that a noble and graceful action is degraded when described in ordinary and simple language. Gray said that language of the age could not be the language of poetry
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(The Gaurdian 2013). The ’Library of Birmignham’ is the largest public library in Europe (Daily Mail 2013). It is situated in the heart of Birmingham’s citry centre in the Centemany Square. It is designed by the world renowned architect Francine Houben and has got the largest number of books held by any pubic library. Nearly 3 million people visit the library every year and Houben described it as "People’s Palace" (Daily Mail 2013). Designing is the most important and a major part
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