Nettles by Vernon Scannell The poem ‘Nettles’ by Vernon Scannell revolves around a father’s perspective on an accident involving his son‚ through which the poet explores a father-son relationship‚ wherein the father tries to protect his son from the various difficulties in life. However‚ despite his efforts to shield his son from these problems‚ they will be a constant threat in life. The boy here is a metaphor for the army‚ with the nettles being an extended metaphor of recurring war. The combined
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The first period of the ancient Greek comedy is known as Old Comedy. Out of the forty poets who are named as having illustrated the style of Old Comedy in 460-404 B.C. Aristophanes was one of the chiefs‚ whose works‚ with their political satire of sexual innuendo‚ effectively defines the genre today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Comedy) Also known as the Father of Comedy and the representative of Old Comedy‚ Aristophanes has been said to have recreated the life of Ancient Athens more convincingly
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My dad is not only a hero‚ but a father figure as well. He is my hero for many reasons‚ some of which no one will understand but me. My dad has taught me not only kindness and devotion‚ but loyalty as well. My dad did one thing that changed my life for a year‚ something I did not wish for him to do‚ but something he felt compelled to do. He withdrew from his life in West Point to take on the role of being a soldier for the National Guard. He knew that it would trouble us‚ but he always said “do
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English Comp. II Writing Assignment 1 Rough Draft February 10‚ 2014 Melanie A. Tucker Dissecting “My Son the Marine” The story “My Son the Marine” Is written by Frank Schueffer. The reason for this paper is to identify weather or no to author used logos ethos or pathos in the story. The story took place on a summer day. One day after high school a young boy decides he wanted to join the military. The young boy talks to almost all of the military recruiters except one. Later that afternoon
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Yes‚ yes. That’s my son. That...was my son. And I’ll tell you now‚ because I know you are going to ask. I don’t know why. Do you hear me? I don’t know why he did it. I don’t know why. He was my son. I don’t know why he did it‚ but I think...I think that I saw it coming. Not like‚ I knew for sure he was gonna...do what he did. He saw a therapist‚ every Tuesday. And she used to tell me some...some messed up things. He never really liked people. Was always anti-social. Always a little sad
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Balanchine’s Prodigal Son I was not familiar with this ballet at all although I have enjoyed Prokofiev’s music when watching Romeo and Juliet. It is not a long piece to watch and the dancing although slow in parts (when the Siren is doing her solo and the Pas de Deux) it is always interesting to watch. The principle male has to really be able to act and portray lots of different emotions – it’s not all about the dancing for this character. I thought for the time it was created quite a contemporary
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Case one During working on the birthing unit I looked after a 28 year old primaparous woman of Indian Desent. She was having her first baby at 39+4 and had prolonged rupture of membranes for 20 hours at the onset of my care with her. Prabinta (pseudeum) was under the care of an LMC midwife who would present to care for Prabinta once she was in established labour. She had been admitted to the ward hours prior and her intravenous antibiotics commenced at 18 hours as per hospital protocol. I received
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couple of weeks we have been studying readings that pertain to Innocence and Experience. The readings that I have chosen to best represent these concepts are "Advice to My Son" by Peter Meinke and "Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike‚ both readings deal with the Innocence and Experience of life. In the first poem "Advice to My Son" the author is trying to put emphasize how the words written can be applied to life. Also how choices have an impact on our life’s journey and ultimately how these choices
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James Baldwin‚ an american writer for his novels on racial and perosnal identity focus on civil rights struggles in the united states during the civil rights movement. Notes of a native son‚ written in the 1940’s to the eraly 1950’s allows the readers to understand baldwins first hand experiences during this movement‚ where he faces the consequences of racial descrimination. throughout the novel‚ baldwin explores the most obvious actions of sexual and racial descriminations in western
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Laocoön and His Sons "The prototypical icon of human agony"‚ The statue of Laocoön and His Sons‚ also known as Laocoön Group has been praised in high term ever since its excavation from The vineyard of Felice De Fredis‚ Rome in 1506. Today it remains in the public display at Museo Pio-Clementino‚ a part of the Vatican Museum‚ Vatican City. This essay is an attempt to address the marble sculpture which is considered a work of high art‚ of great value and significance to the species. The tale
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