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    William Butler Yeats “When You Are Old” is a tribute to deeper love‚ an obvious interpretation of a poem that contains the word “love” five times in twelve lines. However‚ it is specifically the speaker’s personal analysis of what he imagines “love” to entail. It represents an elderly woman reminiscing of her younger days. A past lover whispers to her as she looks through a photo album. This is a very somber‚ regretful and resigned poem. It has a quiet‚ dreamlike feeling to it. And uses uncomplicated

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    Edward Ong Topic: The 7 kind of people you will most likely spot in a beach The beach‚ one of the favorite hot spots to hang out in Singapore. Without a doubt‚ Sentosa comes to your mind and the large crowds you will see during the weekends. Here comes the interesting part‚ out of the hundreds of people‚ there are certain classifications for all of them. In this essay‚ it will consist of the seven kinds of people who most likely stand out among the rest. In a beach‚ highly populated with different

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    When You Are Old

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    When You Are Old” The poemWhen You Are Old” written by William Butler Yeats is a poem spoken by an anonymous narrator. The narrator seems to be talking to a woman and refers to her youth and his love for her throughout the poem. In the first stanza‚ the narrator speaks about the woman being “old and gray and full of sleep”‚ this line is telling the reader that the woman is of older age. When the narrator says “take down this book‚ and slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look your eyes had once

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    English 1118-54 Online 19 October 2014 Explication of “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep‚ And nodding by the fire‚ take down this book‚ And slowly read‚ and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once‚ and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace‚ 5 And loved your beauty with love false or true‚ But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you‚ And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And

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    Poems are are great way for authors to tell a story using short‚ yet very powerful words. When reading the book/ poem‚ and watching the movie‚ the interpretation differs so much. When reading the poem‚ it is understood that drugs are taking over the thoughts of the afflicted‚ yet in the movie‚ it is just a playful story about some fictional characters. "One pill makes you larger‚ and one pill makes you small." The interpretation used in the passage‚ is that Alice was using some sort of drugs

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    First Poem for You

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    First Short Response – “First Poem for You” The Shakespearean sonnet “First Poem for You” has an iambic pentameter and consistent rhyme scheme. Every other line represents a true rhyme – the final accented vowels and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical. For example the words “complete” and “neat” (Addonizio 1‚ 3). Every line of the poem has a basic stressed and unstressed syllable format‚ except the last line. The extension of the last line “but touch them‚ trying” implements a

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    See See

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    work/life balance‚ play in the success of an organization. An employee wants to know and feel as though their employer cares for them and their family. When an employer cares this in turn compels the employee to return the favor by being productive. This creates for the employee the will to give your all to the company. When an employer recognizes that alternate work arrangements‚ such as part time work‚ job sharing‚ compressed work week‚ and telecommuting‚ can be a way to meet the employees needs

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    Now You See Me

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    Running head: REACTION TO THE MOVIE NOW YOU SEE ME AND ILLUSIONS Reaction to Now You See Me with Discussion of Illusions Abstract Illusions are everywhere. Prominently when one claims the use of magic. In Now You See Me‚ they repeatedly say‚ “the closer you look‚ the less you see.” This is because in magic‚ there is always a distraction you are focusing on and the actual action is happening somewhere else. Magic is defined as‚ “the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of

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    I See You Analysis

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    Discuss how both the form and content of I See You affirm Shukri’s assertion that he writes in the “age of interruption”. Thomas L. Friedman (2006) coined the term “age of interruption” which was based off of what Microsoft executive Linda Stone had said to be “continuous partial attention”(Rose 17). It is basically the idea that in today’s world we are perpetual state of interruption and we never truly pay attention to one thing at a time. It cannot be described as multitasking because the aim

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    Describe how crisis is shown in one poem The significance of crisis‚ and often more interestingly‚ the reaction of crisis is fundamental in many poems written by Auden. Crisis is depicted in O What Is That Sound as a major event‚ with panic and the unknown reaching a climax in the last stanzas. The structure of the poem is chronological‚ with the reader experiencing the events with the characters. The inevitable of the soldiers coming is known from the beginning of the poem by the one of the characters;

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