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    Women’s Empowerment Principles Equality Means Business Women’s Empowerment Principles in Brief 1. Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality. 2. Treat all women and men fairly at work – respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination. 3. Ensure the health‚ safety and well-being of all women and men workers. 4. Promote education‚ training and professional development for women. 5. Implement enterprise development‚ supply chain and marketing practices that empower women

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    The underlying values of texts ultimately connect them. Margaret Edson’s 20th century‚ postmodern play W;t and John Donne’s 17th century‚ metaphysical poetry are inextricably linked through their exploration of key concerns of humanity. Accepting one’s mortality and redeeming sins are underlying values of both texts. The importance of accepting one’s mortality is an underlying value which ultimately connects W;t and Donne’s poetry. The texts explore the anxieties of the personas’ potential death

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    of ?Holy Sonnet XIV? by John Donne and ?Sonnet 130? by William Shakespeare John Donne and William Shakespeare both wrote a variety of poems that are both similar within the structure of a Sonnet but with very different content. This essay will compare two of their sonnets ? Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare and the Holy Sonnet by John Donne. John Donne?s poem is a personal sonnet in which John Donne questions his faith in God. It becomes clear from the sonnet that John Donne feels that he has been

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    his brother dead after being convicted of catholic sympathies‚ and his wife‚ buried after his 12th child. John Donne writes as a cry to god “Holy Sonnet IX” to express the suffering he has experienced and questions God for this pain. Through a variety of allusions and tone‚ Donne questions the undeserving cruelty of God ands begs for forgiveness. Despite being a very religious poet‚ Donne faced many questions on the morality of God. Many of the allusions from the sonnet expresses his disagreement

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    Comparative essay on two poems: A Feaver & The Flea By John Donne Introduction: John Donne is remembered today as one of the leading interpreters of a style of poetic verse known as “metaphysical poetry‚” which flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.1 Metaphysical poetry usually employs unusual verse forms‚ complex figures of speech that are applied to create elaborate and surprisingly unorthodox metaphorical examples‚ and learned themes discussed according to

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    men and women should show an equal amount of emotion‚ yet they still do not. In John Donne’s poem‚ “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning‚” the author is leaving for some time and he remains unusually calm even though he will be without his wife. Through metaphors‚ Donne is able to explain to his wife that she needs to stay calm because their love is strong and they will surpass it all. In the first two stanzas‚ Donne utilizes one of the most bizarre and unromantic metaphors to explain why they should

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    John Donne’s sonnet entitled “Divine Sonnet X” looks closely at death and Donne fervently writes about his views on death and his strong belief that death should not be feared‚ but embraced. Donne personifies death all throughout his poem as he challenges death by stating that death is not the “mighty and dreadful” part of life that most people fear‚ but rather an escape from life where people can be at peace like they are when they are sleeping. Donne is literally conversing with death‚ and pleading

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    Many suffer from Depression and they just take an Antidepressant and expect things to get better. What if Antidepressant isn’t the best medication for depression? What if I told you that friendships are the best cure for depression? Mayo Clinic and John Donne both describe in different articles and different time eras that a friend can always be a benefit for hard times. It is common today to see people who are going through a rough time say to their friends or even to themselves “I just need some

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    John Donne Death is a very complicated subject that people view very differently in different situations. In John Donne’s Holy Sonnets‚ he writes about death in Meditations X and XVII. Both meditations use many similar rhetorical devices and appeals‚ but the tones of the meditations are very disparate. Donne’s different messages in Meditations X and XVII convey tones of defiance and acquiescence towards death‚ respectively. His apparent change of attitude towards death could be accounted for

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    in pairs of texts set for study. To what extent is this made evident in the texts you have studied? Connections between John Donne’s Selective Poems and Margaret Edson’s play Wit to a great extent enrich the audiences understanding of each text and the themes of death and love. When these texts are studied together it is evident through continual intertextual reference that Donne has heavily influenced the play Wit. Although the texts differ contextually‚ with Donne’s 17th Century poetry and Edson’s

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