many toddlers‚ I was fascinated by building blocks. They held me spellbound for hours on end and pushed me to make some imaginative‚ if not structurally unsafe buildings. I thus grew up with a great passion for architecture‚ and was very certain I would one day be an architect. But as I drifted into Secondary school‚ my interests changed. History‚ among all subjects captivated me the most. I grew very much interested in the past‚ and as I went from “Ancient Egypt” to “Communist Russia” I found myself
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Tragedy of Macbeth‚" Macbeth is given a look into his fate from the witches who had plagued him earlier. However‚ despite being given an idea of his fate‚ he was not told exactly how it would happen‚ showing that even when one knows his fate partially‚ only a divine or all-knowing being such as God‚ the leader of the witches‚ or an abstract concept such as time‚ can know one’s fate. In W. H. Auden’s poem‚ "If I Could Tell You‚" Auden uses the poem’s villanelle structure‚ and a few poetic devices
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unpredictable‚ and tomorrow is not guaranteed. If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden is a villanelle much like others using rhyme‚ repetition‚ and meter‚ that revolve around the main idea of the continuity time and its unforeseeable nature. The rhyming of the alternating ending lines‚ “Time will say nothing but I told you so” (1) and “If I could tell you I would let you know” (3) keep the rhyme scheme which stays on the central themes. “Time will say nothing but i told you so” shows that time keeps going
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school. Little did they know the Ku Klux Klan had placed a bomb on the building and it ended up killing three of the girls and left one in critical condition. The day after the bombing one of the most cereal thing was said. "Birmingham is not a dying city; it is dead."(Cohen‚ The speech that shocked Birmingham). Shortly after that The Selma Marches took place. The
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Remember the Titans The U.S. Supreme Court put into affect a new law that would combine both white and black students into public schools in 1971. T.C. Williams High School was one of the first schools to integrate this new rule‚ which was located in Alexander‚ Virginia. This was an opportunity for someone like Herman Boone (a black man) who was hired on as an assistant coach to prove his leadership and talent in coaching football coming from a double A to a triple A district. He was offered the
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where I grew up. I unfortunately had no other choice to but to follow where my parents went. Moving to a housing track with only two inches between each house is a big difference from a huge house in the “country”. Not only is it a big change in atmosphere but I had to leave all my friends behind. I still to this day miss living where I grew up. Imagine a huge U shaped house built out of nice red brick and wood‚ sitting right o top of six bright green acres. In the back of the house we had a big
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When I look into your eyes It’s like watching the night sky Or a beautiful sunrise There’s so much they hold And just like them old stars I see that you’ve come so far To be right where you are How old is your soul? I won’t give up on us Even if the skies get rough I’m giving you all my love I’m still looking up And when you’re needing your space To do some navigating I’ll be here patiently waiting To see what you find ’Cause even the stars they burn Some even fall to the earth
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“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson‚ was first published in 1862. Dickinson was known for writing poetry mainly about death. When we think about death‚ we imagine something terrifying‚ but in this poem it is seen in a different perspective. In the poem‚ the speaker comes upon death‚ but not in a scary or bad way. Yet‚ death has approached her in a gentleman-like way. In this poem it’s talked about as a kind human being‚ who is simply taking her along a journey around town and
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Introduction The orchestra concert that I had watched and enjoyed was the school concert‚ which has performed at 25th October 2014‚ 12:30 pm. The concert was conducted at PERTRONAS Twin Tower (KLCC)‚ MPO hall‚ which also known as Malaysian Phiharmonic Orchestra. The school concert has conducted for nearly 1 hour‚ which ends around 1:30 pm. The title for this concert was “The Mysterious Maestro”. There were total of twelve pieces that have performed by the orchestra. The first piece was named “Overture
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Had I had the power to go back in time‚ I would go back to the time where Bill Gates had invented the first computer. I would invent it before him by myself. I would also back in time to the time where Coca-Cola company had just opened. These two companies and many other companies who are successful I would go back in time and open them too. This would lead me to being the richest person in the world as I opened all the main companies and I would own them all. I would basically open only those companies
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