There is a quote by Helen Keller which states: “When one door of happiness closes‚ another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” I feel that this epitomises what Larkin was portraying in the poem ’Dockery and Son’; a feeling of regret and a wondering of what the ’other door’ might hold. It could be seen that the older door of happiness is Larkin’s youth: a time of freedom‚ when they could be ’unbreakfasted’ and live without
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PERSONAL RESPONSE TO LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI The novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (1993)‚ is about a young 16 year old girl named Josephine Alibrandi trying to find herself in her final year of high school. It shows high and lows throughout the novel with Josie finding her father and starting a relationship with him‚ to losing her close friend John Barton from suicide. There are many themes in the novel such as Family‚ Relationships‚ Search for identity and MULTICULTURALISM. The narrative
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he moves up the mafia food chain‚ the film itself takes place in a very claustrophobic environment‚ with the world’s axis consisting of New York City‚ Philadelphia and prison. The world the film presents is a gritty and pessimistic one‚ with this Microcosm reflecting the state of the real world and society at the time. From the derogatory locations seen it is obvious that a Marxist would agree with this being a true reflection of the state of the world‚ as greedy Capitalists control the way the world
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What does the life in heaven or hell look like? The mortal world is in fact a microcosm of different realms‚ where the different circumstances of life of those around us are a real-life reflection of the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Da Zang Jing): some of us are movers and shakers in high positions‚ and some are elated with success and
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oppressive relationship with her to a Nazi’s oppressive relationship to a Jew during the Holocaust‚ which is her feminist attempt to explain how relationships between men and women function. Plath feels like the relationship between and her father is a microcosm of all
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of the western desert‚ 300 km from Mersa Matruh (Abdulaziz and Faid‚ 2015). The depression extends around 50 km in length‚ vary from 2 to 20 km in width and covers about 1000 km2. Siwa Oasis extends from 0 to 18 m below sea level. It presents a microcosm of current economic‚ social‚ and environmental changes (El-Saied et al.‚ 2015). Siwa is the smallest oasis in the Egyptian part of the extensive Libyan Desert and depends exclusively on groundwater resources and drainage water reuse (Abdulaziz and
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represent? Again thinking of the allegory‚ what person does Old Major represent? 3. Beginning on page 6‚ when Old Major addresses the animals‚ what emotions is Orwell trying to arouse in the reader? 4. Why do you suppose Orwell has this microcosm set in England‚ rather than Russia? Why does he name the human farmer Jones? 5. Early in the story what consideration do the animals‚ representing the exploited masses‚ show for one another? 6. The revolutionary rhetoric has stirred them
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Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin: Precambrian to Pleistocene 2011 [Pick the date] Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. History of the Great Lakes Basin 3 III. Precambrian Period 3 IV. Ordovician Period 4 V. Silurian Period 4 VI. Devonian Period 4 VII. Pennsylvanian Period 4 VIII. Mississippian Period 4 IX. Lost Interval 5 X. Ancient Life of the Great Lakes Basin: Precambrian to Pleistocene The purpose of this report is to provide an
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The film ‘Rear Window’‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954‚ enthralled worldwide audiences through its clever and original depiction of a suburban murder. It is a widely renowned crime thriller that employs many conventions of the genre‚ while subverting others‚ in order to portray a realistic environment that collapses into tension and mistrust. The depiction of protagonist L.B Jefferies as the ‘everyman’ is an important subversion of the conventional detective‚ piquing the audiences curiosity
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One Flew Over the Cuco’s Nest Theme Analysis Rebellion Against Authority and Conformism The psychiatric ward where the novel takes place can be seen as a microcosm of society. Society is presented as a ruthlessly efficient machine (the Combine) that makes everyone conform to its narrow rules. All individuality is squeezed out of people‚ and the natural‚ joyful expressions of life are suppressed. In the hospital ward‚ the representative of society is the Big Nurse. She embodies order‚ efficiency
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