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    The Road Not Taken

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    The Road Not Taken By: Robert Frost Imagine that your making a decision and you are stuck to choose between two things that could change and impact your life greatly. What would you do? What pathway would you take? Robert Frost wrote ‘The Road Not Taken’ in 1916 at the age of 42 in New England‚ Massachusetts. ‘The Road Not Taken’ is one of his most popular works due to the ideology of choices that people would have to face in their life. In the early 20th century‚ Robert Frost based the majority

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    The Ambiguous Road

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    The Ambiguous Road Melissa Wise ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Elizabeth Parks Jun 3‚ 2013 The Ambiguous Road Robert Frost was a brilliant American poet. According to the biography list on the poet.org website‚ Frost lived from 1874 until 1963 (2013). While he is a world renowned poet‚ one of his greatest works was “The Road Not Taken.” Frost had a way with words that managed to touch the very soul of his readers. While there are many different methods that critics use to analyze

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    T. Coraghessan Boyle uses irony in his short story Carnal Knowledge‚ which gives it a humorous tone. The way the narrator reacts to ironic events shapes our understanding of both him‚ and the meaning of the story as a whole; although humans can adapt to their surroundings to get want they want‚ they will always return to their original basic set of morals and standards. The first use of irony is arguably the most humorous‚ which foreshadows the ridiculousness of the narrators actions throughout

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    Drawing on what you have learned from the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1‚ describe some inequalities on City Road. Contemporary Britain over the last fifty years has come to welcome a wide and diverse community made up of nationalities‚ races and religions‚ none more so‚ as seen on City Road in Cardiff. This particular street is featured in the Making Social Lives DVD and Learning Companion 1 (LC1)‚ from which it is evident that there are noticeable differences and inequalities

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    In the short story‚ "The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien writes about the soldiers of Vietnam and the burdens they had to carry with them. In this story‚ O’Brien uses symbolism‚ irony and the theme of burden and guilt to portray how the war has affected the men and the ways they cope. O’Brien’s usage of these literary devices serves as a remembrance of what the soldiers have left behind and a false sense of security about the violence and death that surrounds them. We are able to see the way each

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    Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s

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    The Silk Road

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    Question: To what extend would you agree with this description of the Silk Road (Internet of Antiquity) and his (Yo-Yo Ma) comparison of it to the Internet of our world today? A comparison of the Silk Road and the Modern Internet surprisingly reveals that these two systems share their own similarities and differences. From analyzing both systems‚ it came up that the modern internet could be a repeat of what happened in the Silk Road‚ although in a more advances and modernized way! Now‚ although these

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    Irony in Animal Farm

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    much power in the hands of one individual can lead to inequality and unfair advantages.  In the story it was said all animals should be treated equally‚ but as the story  progressed all the animals began to be treated unequally.    In the story Orwell uses the literary device irony‚ dramatic irony. Orwell was  showing us the hypocrisy coming from the pigs before the animal were able to see. the  animals told each other ​ “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk‚ he does not lay eggs‚ he is too

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    Road Tolls

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    Financial Times discuss the economic argument for extending road tolls across the country. Road tolls cure form of road pricing and have already been introduced by the M6 spur road “M6 Toll road opens‚ the barriers at the M6 Toll booths were raised for the first time at 1010 GMT after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at which Transport Secretary Alistair Darling was the guest of honour” stated in the bbc article online and in the article “M6 toll road around Birmingham opened in 2003” ‚ as it means of correcting

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    Road Trauma

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    Road Trauma; two little words‚ that pack an almighty punch into the lives and families of those affected by vehicle accidents. A definition by the Australian Academy of Science: “The word ‘trauma’ is especially appropriate to describe the injuries inflicted by road crashes. The medical profession uses it for any bodily injury or wound‚ but more literally it means ‘a powerful shock that may have long-lasting effects’ – an apt description for the sudden violence of a road crash”. (NOVA: Australian

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