Commentary on Piano and Drums In the poem‚ Piano and Drums by Gabriel Okara‚ we see a comparison between the primal‚ old world and the more developed new world. Okara compares the two through the representation of the two eras in musical form. Throughout the poem‚ as we experience the two different music forms‚ the poet‚ Okara displays the various allures that the two different societies have on him. The old world displays itself as a very rugged but simple time‚ one that speaks to the primal man
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Tiffany Thet November 26‚ 2011 IB English Year 1 Heart of Darkness Commentary Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Conrad‚ a parallel of the very experiences that Conrad has gone through and ultimately a look at human nature at its lowest and cruelest form. The book centers around Marlow‚ an introspective sailor‚ and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz‚ reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities‚ as if he was a deity. Ultimately Kurtz’s mental collapse and subsequent
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Colin Andridge Professor Murphy Eng 201 MWF 2:00 3 March 2014 Data Commentary Introduction After reading and evaluating six articles written by experts on obesity‚ the data seems to imply that better educating people about how their behavioral lifestyle choices effect their future and current health is the best solution. The six journal articles evaluated and analyzed include: David Freedman’s article‚ “How to Fix the Obesity Epidemic‚” published in Scientific American in 2011. Green Gregory’s
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“I killed Adolf Hitler” Does love really exist? When two people meet their feelings are unbearable‚ everything seem fine. But when do you know if you really love that person? “People don’t know what they have till it’s gone”‚ it’s a very famous quote which many people believe is true. In the graphic novel‚ “I killed Adolf Hitler”‚ It’s a funny‚ sad‚ loving story. In the story there is this company that people go in and hire a hit man‚ to kill whoever is not liked‚ people that are no good
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Written Commentary: Dulce Et Decorum Est Word Count: 1001 Written by Wilfred Owen the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est is one of the many poems that described the war as it was. Owen uses a Latin quotation from Horace‚ initially used in recruiting propaganda‚ in contradiction to its own meaning. Through the use of visual and auditory imagery Owen creates a scenario that he himself might of experienced. The constant emphasis on the poor condition of the soldiers is just one of the many factors that Owen
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English Commentary- Snowy Morning‚ by Henry Shukman. “Snowy Morning” is a melancholy piece about the difficulty and inevitability of saying goodbye to a lifetime of images‚ sensations and the beauty of the world around us. Shukman uses images from childhood to create a sense of nostalgia as well as establishing a paradox between the fear of death and dealing with death in a facetious manner. In addition to this Shukman uses semantic fields dealing with the senses in order to create a more involved
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this two-page glimpse at the outcome of the events in Louie’s life‚ the most significant aspect is the resilience with which Louie carries out his actions on the raft. Although Louie’s crewmates have given up on life and accepted the defeat of being killed by a Japanese war plane‚ Louie does not allow the plane crash and starvation to demoralize him and cause him to forget the country for which he was fighting (xvii-xviii). This display of honorable character prompts me to wonder if I could ever have
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Who Killed the Electric Car? Video Discussion Questions Summary: It begins with a solemn funeral�for a car. By the end of Chris Paine’s lively and informative documentary‚ the idea doesn’t seem quite so strange. As narrator Martin Sheen notes‚ "They were quiet and fast‚ produced no exhaust and ran without gasoline." Paine proceeds to show how this unique vehicle came into being and why General Motors ended up reclaiming its once-prized creation less than a decade later. He begins 100 years ago
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Vargas Llosa‚ Mario. (1986). Who Killed Palomino Molero?. New York: Noonday Press. This is a narrative about the chaotic investigation of Palomino Molero. The story takes place in a small town in Peru during the 1950’s. There are two distinct worlds in this novel. The first being the Air Force base a few miles from town where the officers live in clean houses. They come equipped with gardens‚ swimming pools‚ and sufficient amounts of food. Then there is the poverty-stricken‚ hot and humid town
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Social Commentary Project: Poems Values ’68 By Spike Milligan The Price is dying ‘Give him air.’ Headlines! Crisis! Kennedy Shot! The assassin captured Too late! Kennedy dies! The telegrams flow And bury the body in- Arlington. Somewhere in Meekong A prince of battle is blown into bloody meat. No headlines No crisis And only One telegram. (Written on the day of Robert Kennedy’s assassination) Explanation: In this poem‚ the speaker discusses how people will
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