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    Joan the young warrior who created an impact on the world Joan was a brave warrior‚ a loving character to everyone around her. Joan of Arc is one of the many women who have created a major impact on the world; though she started very young‚ she followed the instructions given by God through Saint Catherine to help unite France and drive the English out. Joan‚ as a child‚ was very well disciplined. Her father Jacques d’ Arc‚ was the village’s central farmer and head chief; he had a way of running

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    Anyone who has read Shaw ’s St Joan‚ or has witnessed the play can state with certainty that one of the fundamental objectives of the writer was to remove Joan of Arc from the romantic perception that grown around her. Shaw had a clear and simple vision of showing the world what she was really like. He wanted to shed the illusions people had constructed since her death and lend his audience the opportunity to view Joan from a perspective that had been lost for more than 400 years. Upon reflection

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    A Dog's Tale Tone

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    humorous tone and amusing descriptions to make the reader laugh. “My father was a St.Bernard‚ my mother was a collie‚ but I am a Presbyterian.” Mark Twain try’s to make a humorous effect by describing how the narrator’s parents are by using dog descriptions to describe their personalities. For example‚ the

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    Keeping Close to Home By Bell Hooks Bell Hooks essayKeeping Close to Home”‚ describes her struggles after she was accepted at Stanford University to further her self-realization. In this essay Hooks talks about her journey to educate herself and no losing her sense of where she came from as African American woman from a working class background. Hooks parents wanted her to go to a school close to home‚ a non-diverse like Stanford was. They wanted her to go to a school no just close to home

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    Keeping Fit

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    meats and flesh with doing lesser physical works compared to the past. Many people‚ however‚ want to eat a balanced diet without many meats and do more exercise instead in order to keep fit. Keeping fit has become a trend nowadays‚ and that poses both positive and negative effects. There is no doubt that keeping fit can exercise your body. By doing so‚ you can stay more healthy with the enhancement of cardiorespiratory endurance which prevent you from some cardiovascular illnesses as well as speeding

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    Curley’s Wife – do you dislike her or feel sorry for her? Dislike her: We should dislike CW because she is horrible to other people‚ especially those who are weaker than her. “what am I doing standing her with a dumb-dumb‚ a nigger…” For example‚ she says to Crooks “you know what I can do to you if you open your trap.” which shows her using her power against him as she has the power to get him hung.. When she tells him to get back into his place she is reminding him of how low he is because he is

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    Tone Of Invictus

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    criteria one can use to evaluate it. Historical significance‚ tone‚ and subject matter can all be used to evaluate a work of art. For example‚ all of these criteria can be used to evaluate the poem‚ “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley. The circumstances surrounding the creation of the poem are significant because of the state of modern medicine at the time. The subject matter is one that many people can and have related to over the years. The tone is gloomy‚ yet inspirational. “Invictus” is a poem written

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    As part of my Creative Writing coursework I have written a short story entitled ‘Little Figures’. Little Figures is a story that revolves around the major theme of homelessness‚ and follows three sub-themes throughout; trafficking‚ government control and helplessness. My aim in exploring these four themes was to gain knowledge of homelessness as a global issue. My purpose was to inject this knowledge into my writing and pass it to the reader‚ in the hopes that they will realise the seriousness of

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    THE HONEY INDUSTRY IN GHANA: AN OVERVIEW SYNTHESIS REPORT FINAL VERSION -------------------------------------- Accra‚ Ghana‚ November‚ 2010 2 STUDY TEAM: ALAAZI DOMINIC AKANGAAMKUM (SNV‚ ACCRA)‚ MAXWELL AGBENORHEVI (SNV‚ TAMALE) AND CASSANDRA OKUDZETO (SNV‚ HO) 3 TABLE OF CONTENT LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...........................................................................................5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........................................................................

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    France‚ and was copyrighted in 1955. The novel is an erotic tragicomedy set in France and America in the 1940s. 2. Humbert Humbert’s personality is quite erudite. Humbert uses words very carefully in speech as well as in writing. Humbert uses his tone and diction to take the reader’s attention from the terrible acts which are actually being described and as a result‚ he becomes far less despicable to the reader. Playing with words softens the blows of the horrors of Humbert’s lived fantasies.

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