How living in different places affect humans‚ based on Sharp Objects. Life in a small town where everyone knows everyone is special compared to life in a big city – that is one of the messages raised in the book Sharp Objects by the author Gillian Flynn. Even if there are many things that are alike in a life in a big city and a little town there are also some clear differences. These gaps are about growing up‚ cohesion and increased gossip and prejudices that exist. The cultural differences shape
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GEK2001/SSA2202 CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF SINGAPORE TITLE OF PROJECT: CLARKE QUAY - THE PAST IN THE PRESENT � INTRODUCTION Ever since independence in 1965‚ Singapore has been striving to build its nation for its people. According to an exhibition catalogue (10 Years that Shaped a Nation‚ 2008)‚ instilling a sense of identity and a sense of pride amongst the citizens‚ as well as binding them together were given great attention as they were important for the survival of Singapore as a rising nation
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This essay will have three sections. The first section will briefly outline the concepts made by Clarke and Critcher (1995) of material and cultural ’ (Clarke‚ J. and Critcher‚ C. Leisure and Inequality ’ in C. Critcher et.al.‚1995‚ Sociology of Leisure: A Reader. London: E+FN Spon‚ p247) constraints to leisure. The concepts shall be detailed‚ and briefly explained and elaborated. The second section will illustrate these concepts by relating them to a article by Green‚ E.‚ Hebron‚ S. and Woodwood
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of his son’s Downs Syndrome‚ it became his "first death". The emotion is so strong that the poem describes an out of body experience‚ as he "wrestled against gravity". The imagery of Stallworthy’s poem is also reminiscent of the play: Stallworthy laments that his son will never "come/ ashore into my kingdom/ speaking my language". The misery of not being able to pass on what he treasures – his"language" – is as strong as Prospero’s anger at his dukedom having been usurped. The strength of parental
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Compare and contrast the way the poets present a rustic activity? The two poems ‘Photograph of Haymaker 1890’ by Molly Holden and ‘Hay-making’ by Gillian Clarke portray rustic activity in a similar way. The poem ‘Photograph of Haymaker 1890’ consists of two stanzas and this could be linked to the fact that it is a reminiscing photo of a man who cuts hay. This shows the rustic activity due to the fact it is the poet possibly describing a relative of hers working. Whereas‚ the poem ‘Hay-making’ has
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How is the idea of parent/child relationships presented in Digging by Seamus Heaney a poem by Gillian Clarke and two poems in the Pre-1914 poetry bank? In Heaney’s poem Digging the poet demonstrates his affection and respect for Father and Grandfather. Clarke‚ in her poem Catrin demonstrates that parent/child relationships can provide a battleground a battleground for positive and negative feelings. Ben Jonson in On My First Sonne shows that pride and love are a father’s most obvious feelings
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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Gillian Clarke’s poem ’Cold Knap Lake’ centres on a childhood memory of a girl almost drowning in a lake in South Wales. The poet‚ with her parents‚ ’watched a crowd’ of people pull the girl out of the water. It seemed at first that they were too late: the girl’s lips were blue and she ’lay for dead’. The metaphor ’dressed in water’s long green silk’ tells us that she was covered in weeds from the lake. In the second stanza‚ Clarke describes her mother as a ’heroine’ as she knelt down to resuscitate
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The representation of women within the domestic unit throughout Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)‚ Gillian Clarke’s Selected Poems (1996) and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) is similarly presented. Although Clarke was writing at a later date they all show representations of women as nurturing‚ maternal‚ passive‚ subordinate‚ imprisoned and as sexual beings. These characteristics of women are evident across the three texts. This could be argued as typical representations of women throughout the time
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Comparing poems: “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin” Conflict is presented in the poems “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin”. In the poems the conflict is based on the relationships between families. However‚ in “Cousin Kate”‚ the conflict is also in the class divide of a powerful lord and a poor maiden who I s controlled and abused by the lord. “Catrin” focuses on the bond between a mother and daughter and the conflict that relationship brings. The imagery in “Cousin Kate” conveys how the love between the lord
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