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    Appreciation of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” In a Station of the Metro is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris’s subway station in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. The poet‚ Ezra Pound‚ was famous for advocating free meter and a more economical use of words and images in poetic expression. He is also one of the leaders of the Imagist Movement of poetry. He advocated to use sharp‚ accurate‚ implicative and concise images to express concrete

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    Place Sony has an online presence in several formats‚ for example http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/home.do provides information on products and their prices. The site also has information on corporate applications for its offerings. Sony Product distributors that sell selling to VARs + System Integrators include: ASI Corp‚ Avnet Inc. and Bell Microproducts‚ Microland Electronics Corp. Wholesale distributors of Sony Products include but are not limited to : Best wholesale co. Ltd‚ Dongsheng

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    Everyone in this room has an identity. But it’s not something that we were born with. Throughout our lives our identities have changed and developed as we experienced new things. Writer Parker J Palmer sees identity as when our past experiences of people and places come together to form who we are at this moment. From this we can draw that identity is a product of our external environment and is strongly influenced by the people & places we are constantly exposed to. This concept of identity is explored

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    Lord of the Flies: Man Is Savage at Heart Copyright (C) 1996 By Kevin McKillop A running theme in Lord of the Flies is that man is savage at heart‚ always ultimately reverting back to an evil and primitive nature. The cycle of man’s rise to power‚ or righteousness‚ and his inevitable fall from grace is an important point that book proves again and again‚ often comparing man with characters from the Bible to give a more vivid picture of his descent. Lord Of The Flies symbolizes this fall in

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    what it appears to be. Placing particular emphasis on the social classes‚ Nelson uses his play as a tool in highlighting the difference in attitudes between the North and South of England. I also suspect that Nelson is using the production as a microcosm for our modern society today. One of the ways that the director’s main message was successfully communicated was through the design of the production‚ in particular the costuming selection. The designer‚ Jessica Worrall‚ creates a very striking contrast

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    When Lord of the Flies was first released‚ William Golding described the novel’s theme in a publicity questionnaire as "an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." (Kennard) Since the island is a microcosm‚ Golding uses it to reflect our world and give comments on it and his view of human nature. In the novel a group of children are stranded on an island when their plane crashes. The freedom of having no parents while living in a society that does not enforce

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    cannot say her name to Lancey when he demands it. The play concludes with Hugh‚ the connoisseur of Ancient Greek mythology‚ unable to remember to events of Trojan history. Friel’s use of cultural‚ linguistical‚ and historical examples serves as a microcosm to his views on the dying of Ireland. The other’s inability to recount the story behind Tobair Vree is symbolic of the falling out of Ireland. Owen‚ tasked with being the translator and relator of Ireland‚ re-tells Yolland the story of how Tobair

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    toward the end‚ as if Mussorgsky was suggesting that after all the craziness that has occurred so far there can still be a peaceful solution. I may have looked too much into this‚ but I believe that aspect of the piece‚ the peaceful ending‚ is a microcosm of not just music but life in general. No matter how crazy or dissonant something may seem‚ peace can always come to you. I respect Mussorgsky for providing me with

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    Ordinary Men Christopher Browning describes how the Reserve Police Battalion 101‚ like the rest of German society‚ was immersed in a flood of racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. Browning describes how the Order Police provided indoctrination both in basic training and as an ongoing practice within each unit. Many of the members were not prepared for the killing of Jews. The author examines the reasons some of the police members did not shoot. The physiological effect of isolation‚ rejection‚ and

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    takes place in a grocery store in little town America where the main character Sammy is faced with a moral and complex situation when the store manager Mr Lengel throws out 3 young women who are wearing only bathing suites. This story is in fact a microcosm of growing up for Sammy. All decision making has consequences many of which can have a negative impact on our lives‚ it is these choices however that shape us as individuals. The story really made Sammy reflect on his life and represented a transformation

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