The poem Acceptance Speech by Lynn Powell is about a housewife who feels undervalued by her family and by society. The title of the poem suggests that the character has received an award for achieving something brilliant‚ but in fact she is being sarcastic and conducting an imaginary award ceremony for herself in her kitchen‚ since no one else is willing to appreciate her hard work. The poet uses irony and personification of kitchen utensils and ingredients to add humour to the play. She uses the
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Nick-O-Las Reading this article‚ I was at first confused as to what the author was complaining about. As I kept reading I began to understand that the author was angry with the people who opposed the governments healthcare plan or as he called it‚ “Obamacare”. The author kept on giving examples of opponents who would just twist the information about the healthcare reform to make it seem like it was a bad thing and one that would scare Americans from wanting the government to provide healthcare.
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The poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge takes its reader on a journey of unexpected rhyme schemes and odd syllabic patterns which add to the abstract and unfocused story line throughout this entire poem. This poem is made up of several two-syllable units‚ in which the stress is placed on the second syllable: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph‚ the sacred river‚ ran”. In the short lines at the beginning of the poem‚ the line length is
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After reading the novel Feed‚ I’ve begun to realize that our society has been evolving in to a digital age. Also being in a digital age we have been manipulated by mass media. I have chosen to address these issues because the novel feed can relate to them well. Every character has a feed‚ which is directly into their brain. Having internet connected to you at all times‚ you get very reliant on it. Now a days if you don’t know something or don’t understand something‚ we look toward Google for an
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There are many alarming issues in the world‚ and each day there are more problems and complaints and less solutions and good actions. Many of these issues are based on the environmental problems. This concerns everybody‚ but almost nobody tries to do something about it. As regards this‚ many organizations have been starting to do campaigns against pollution‚ and trying to encourage people to care about the Earth. Both text 2A “Both Text 2A “Terrified” and Text 2B “Friends of the earth‚ what your
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‘Doing It For The Girls’ is a multi-modal‚ promotional article from a women’s magazine‚ and is mainly aimed at working-class women or women looking for a career path. It features the young engineer Katie Fish and informs the reader of the increasing number of young women working in the engineering sector‚ specifically in nuclear power. As shown by the bold “Promotion” in the picture‚ the purpose of this article is to promote nuclear energy and challenge the stereotype of women taking up engineering
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Feet September 1948 “Feet” is an extract from a novel by Seamus Dean‚ Reading in the Dark‚ set in the year 1948. The event is narrated in a first person perspective‚ from the point of view of a young boy‚ who is hidden under a table‚ such that all he can see are the feet of the people in the room. In this extract‚ the author conveys the observations through the innocent perspective of a boy who might only be around eight to ten years of age. The first scene that we are introduced to seems
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Stacey’s life is a struggle against domination of the male society. She lacks the bravery and self-confidence because of her lack of education. She feels herself down because of her appearance. The lack of confidence makes her to leave Manawaka for Vancouver in search of better living‚ though she gets it‚ it remains only temporary. She marries MacAindra at the age of Twenty three‚ to live under a happy protection but it turns out a failure. Mac wants to live his life according to his own wish and
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Commonwealth ------------------------------------------------- Analysis made by Maria Thygesen ------------------------------------------------- In the article “A royal salute to the Commonwealth” by Peter Oborne‚ which serves as a personal commentary on how the British Duke and Duchess visits Canada‚ he is very content on pointing out that it is important for UK to maintain a good relationship to the other Commonwealth-countries - partly because these countries have a joint history and partly
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I am going to write this assignment by referring to the points generated from the online tests‚ some academic journals and something I know about myself. Before I start‚ let me tell you some of my background. I am 27 years old now. I am working in a bank as a relationship manager in the personal finance department. I setup my own restaurant last year in Vietnam. I worked for 6 years since graduation‚ which it may seem not so experienced when comparing to other students studying this MBA program.
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