Antonia Snowden Mr. Moiser English IV 24 September 2012 The Best Advice We receive advice from someone just about everyday. Rather its good or bad ‚ right or wrong ‚ or easy or difficult. The best advice I have ever received would have to that life goes on. Because it’s true‚ no matter what mistakes you make in life. Life will go on. People make mistakes all the time. We know mistakes are prone to happen sooner or later. Don’t get sad‚ mad‚ frustrated or give up what your doing because
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This is a tale rather than a story. There is no dialogue; no one speaks to the reader but the narrator‚ who spins the yarn and asks the questions of interpretation at the end. He knows the story‚ but one senses that he does not have omniscience‚ that he is not there himself. He knows more than the populace and king‚ yet he does not know and will not reveal the outcome. That seems unfair—he leaves his readers dangling—but that is his purpose from the beginning. The story is a tour de force‚ hinging
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they use. This can be seen by observing the social issues the episode “Lisa the Tree Hugger” is exposing‚ clarifying the type of humour used to uncover the social comment and analysing if using humour is an effective technique. Exposing social commentary through humour is an effective method used by sitcoms. The comment the Simpsons’ creators are trying to depict is that extremists make many people feel insecure because they don’t express their beliefs as boldly as them. The Simpsons doesn’t convey
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Ode To a Nightingale In Keats’ 19th century poem‚ Ode To a Nightingale‚ he comments upon the short-lived nature of human life and the concept of mortality through using a contrasting image of a nightingale. In the poem‚ the narrator speaks of this bird yearningly‚ envious of its ability to remain immortal through it’s song‚ and of its detachment from the human world. It is clear that the narrator is experiencing feelings of melancholy‚ and he discusses a personal escape from an existence tainted
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Alessandra Kortenhorst March 17‚ 2009 English HL Y1‚ E Block In His Shadow In Jon Stallworthy’s poem “Two Hands‚” the narrator expresses a son’s idolization of his father. This idolization is not based upon an intimate emotional relationship‚ but rather‚ on the son comparing himself to his father. His vocation‚ a writer‚ falls short when held against his father’s‚ a surgeon. In “Two Hands‚” a son narrates‚ through metaphors and mood‚ his frigid and distant relationship with his father.
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Ellie Wiesel portrays the full effect of indifference during his speech “The Perils of Indifference” by using firm language choices‚ to emphasize indifference. With the use of diction‚ alongside the use of efficacious allusions‚ he reveals the suffering “behind the black gates of Auschwitz” and presents how Jews “felt abandoned by humanity”. He impudently questions the reader “Have we really learned from our mistakes?”. He aches to get his point across‚ to allow people to look at themselves and see
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This passage is taken from the book Songs of Ourselves. This poem written by Sujata Bhatt is written post the British colonisation of India and importance of religions and culture in India. It is a poem written about the social and political concern of the lost of cultural identical renunciation of Indian identity. The poem is based on Religion and a bit of Greek Mythology. All the lines are not of the same length. This shows us that the poem is meant to be read slowly with understanding. The effect
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Margaret Atwood’s poem The Landlady presents a depressing and frightening experience of one living in a rented room. The landlady is very much the dangerous gaoler of this prison‚ and one who specializes in oppression. The poem is striking in its use of language‚ including imagery‚ sounds‚ and rhythms‚ that vividly portray the feared landlady and the shrinking tenant. The comparison of the speaker’s living situation to that of a prison‚ a place of oppression‚ is the dominant thematic
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China to put duties on US chicken imports The article centers around anti-dumping tariffs on United States chicken imports. The duties were introduced by China‚ which claims that American poultry firms are exporting the meat at unfairly low prices. The effects are growing trade disputes and accuses between the two countries. Tariffs can be explained as a tax levied on imported goods. Tariffs are a form of protectionism. Tariffs can be ad valorem (percentage of the value of the good that is being imported)
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"Of Mice and Men" is a novel written by the 1962 Nobel Prize winner‚ John Steinbeck. It is an emotional tale of the extraordinary friendship between George and Lennie‚ who are traveling workers in the harsh depression years of the 1930s. George is a caring person whose love to Lennie is just like a father-son relationship‚ where Lennie‚ a mentally challenged man whose strength lies in body rather than brain‚ appears to be very dependent on George. "Of Mice and Men" teaches a universal theme about
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