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    Coach Collins Book Report

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    For my teammates it was a athletic experience but for me it was a life lesson to be by Coach Collins. My former coach’s name is Javier Collins. He has a smaller than most men‚ but you knew by speaking with him that he had an equally as big heart as everyone else. I always felt like when he was telling me something that it would be important. We met last year in the high school gym for basketball workouts. The first time I met him I thought I wouldn’t like him and that I wouldn’t keep coming around

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    Metaphors In Poetry

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    While some people may think that an author does not use any sort of elements of poetry to write‚ they actually do use it more than we all know. They tend to exaggerate a lot when writing‚ making things seem “bigger” and more important. They also use metaphors to compare things to other things totally unlike them. They also use rhyming to its full capability to get their points acrossed. They use rhyme schemes in couplets to get their points across. When an author is writing about something

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    1.  What is diction? (5 points)   an author’s word choice words that are inverted connotation in dialect formal language in poetry 2.  Which of the following lines from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" shows an example of dialect? (10 points)   "I wish you would write me‚ say once a year‚" I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy. How long I sat beside Calypso I don’t know. "What were ye doin’ there?" 3.  Read the following paragraph from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" and

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    Poetry Analysis

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    When exploring literature‚ poetry is my favorite to read because my mother’s a published author. Therefore‚ yes before this course I read poetry. As a published author she writes poems‚ which covers a variety of topics such as spiritual‚ military‚ current events‚ and several other items. Therefore‚ I am a little bias when it comes to poetry. However‚ some other reasons I enjoy reading the poem is because it allows me a means to be open minded and examine ways that these poems can alter the environment

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    Yeats Poetry

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    Yeats Poetry Essay “Yeats sees the poem as a complex relationship of images‚ rhythms and sounds which‚ in conjunction‚ becomes a symbol for emotional experiences otherwise inexpressible in words” The poetry of W.B Yeats is highly valued today as it explores many issues that are important to his audience and their perception of both themselves and the history of their world. Yeats reflects upon many issues of his life and his world that the audience can empathise with and appreciate. Such ideas

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    Introduction

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    Introduction The Manila Ocean Park is an oceanarium in Manila‚ Philippines. It is owned by China Oceanis Philippines Inc.‚ a subsidiary of China Oceanis Inc.‚ a Singaporean-registered firm that has operated four oceanariums in China. It is located behind the Quirino Grandstand at Rizal Park. It opened on March 1‚ 2008. In terms of floor space‚ the 8‚000 square meters (86‚000 sq ft) oceanarium is larger than the Sentosa Underwater World oceanarium in Singapore‚ and features a 25-metre (82 ft) underwater

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    Poetry & Love

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    For the Love of Poetry As once said by prominent activist Helen Keller‚ “the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” One of the few things that can’t be touched but experienced with the heart is poetry. Just as poetry is embraced on a more powerful level with the heart‚ so is the universal concept of love. And although love can come in a combination of ways whether it be between a child and a mother‚ an old withered couple

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    Protest Poetry

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    Year 10 Homework Option 2: Protest poetry Aboriginal Charters of Rights We want hope‚ not racialism‚ Brotherhood‚ not ostracism‚ Black advance‚ not white ascendance: Make us equals‚ not dependants. We need help‚ not exploitation‚ We want freedom‚ not frustration; Not control‚ but self-reliance‚ Independence‚ not compliance‚ Not rebuff‚ but education‚ Self-respect‚ not resignation. Free us from a mean subjection‚ From a bureaucrat Protection. Let’s forget the old-time slavers:

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    Poetry and Word

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    1. In poetry‚ what do you call a group of lines? 2. What element requires the use of senses? 3. What type of poem requires a 5-7-5 syllable pattern? 4. What do you call the element of poetry that is concerned with the shape? 5. What is a poem that doesn’t rhyme? 6. What is a type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings? 7.8. What are the 2 kinds of Language? 9. What do you call it when words share either the same vowel or consonant sound but not both? 10. When a word rhymes to a word

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    Billy Elliot‚ The Movie Review The story takes place in a coal mining town located in Northern England ‚ during the 12-months long strike in British coal industry‚ which later considered a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the conservative party. The main character‚ Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a 12 years old motherless boy. Youngest member of Elliot’s family‚ a patriarchal miner family where the father (Gary Lewis) and older brother (Jamie Draven) are both

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