Passage 1 "I left in a French steamer: The French Steam Ship and she called in every blamed port they have out there‚ for‚ as far as I could see‚ the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers. I watched the coast. Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. Analogy comparing the coast slipping by the ship to a mystery. There it is before you -- smiling‚ frowning‚ inviting‚ grand‚ mean‚ insipid‚ or savage‚ and always mute with an air of whispering‚
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Most people are familiar with the term "flower power" used by hippies in the 1960’s to peacefully protest the Vietnam War. What many don’t know is that influential poet Allen Ginsberg fabricated this phrase (“Irwin Allen Ginsberg”). In many ways‚ such as this‚ Allen Ginsberg is a forgotten hero. The specifics of what Ginsberg accomplished in his life and nonconformist political poetry are overlooked‚ but the legacy he left behind will last forever. Allen Ginsberg is best known for his riveting long
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Demonism And Innocence: Gothic poetry and the Gothic Female. There is something of deep and unsettling thrill that comes from reading works of gothic literature. The dark and unsettling nature of the gothic provides a strong sense of escapism and an interesting opportunity to explore what is otherwise repressed. These traits of the gothic explain why is proved to be a growing fascination and development in 19th century English writing. The gothic engages in themes of religious‚ social‚ supernatural
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The immortality and blindness to a dark continent Joseph Conrad’s s novel “Heart of Darkness” portrays an image of Africa that is dark and inhuman. Not only does he describe the actual‚ physical continent of Africa as “so hopeless and so dark‚ so impenetrable to human thought‚ so pitiless to human weakness”‚ (Conrad 2180) as though the continent could neither breed nor support any true human life. Conrad lived through a time when European colonies were scattered all over the world. This phenomenon
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To live is to die; this is the message both poems convey‚ a somber reminder that without death there cannot be life‚ and without ignorance there cannot be knowledge. These poems represent a duality of two opposing forces‚ akin to how shadows are born by light‚ and how change will always be a positively and negatively occurring force. A Breakfast for Barbarians by Gwendolyn Macewen concerns itself with the evolution of a culture‚ a company of barbarians ripped of their namesake and turned into scholars
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The drug using‚ alcohol chugging best minds are often labeled as mentally deranged. They “threw potato salad at CCNY lectures on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide”(65) and were sentenced to a bunch of cruel treatments at institutions including “hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational therapy pingpong &amnesia”(66). Ginsberg used the turn line in section one
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"Hang on!" Anjanette Agayari shouted before she turned the police mobile to hard left and into the narrow side alley somewhere in manila. The mobile’s side mirror flew into the canals as the car skidded to one side and spark of metal on metal flew everywhere. She cursed but didn’t lose focus as she wrestled the car for control. Sweat and blood poured down her beautiful face and she wiped the sleeves of her uniform to clear it. Just last night‚ she promised herself that she will keep the crispiness
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REPORT OF MANAGEMENT My Management Guru “SUMANATRA GHOSHAL” Submitted to: Sir Raza Kamal Name: Sobia Khan 6428 Class ID: 14005 My Management Guru “SUMANATRA GHOSHAL” INTRODUCTION: Sumantra Ghoshal was an academic in the field of management. He was the founding Dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad‚ which is jointly sponsored by the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and the London Business School.[1]
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ness/section6 accessed on 7.12.2012 Robert Halliday & Basiro Davey‚ 2010‚ Water and Health in an Overcrowded World‚ The Open University‚ Oxford Ross Clark‚ 2012‚ Class Notes‚ The Manchester College‚ Manchester BBC4 2010‚ Mental: A History of the Madhouse Mental Health Foundation 2012‚ Mental Health Statistics‚ [online] retrieved from http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/help-information/mental-health-statistics/ accessed on 8.12.2012
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The Ephemerality of Love in Charles Bukowski’s Love is a Dog from Hell Charles Bukowski was born in 1920 in Germany. He moved to the states when he was two years old. Bukowski dealt with an abusive father and a distant mother as a child. He was also bullied by others and rejected by girls because of blood poisoning he got as a child that left his face scarred. Bukowski’s father had a large influence on his life and his writing‚ saying that “the disgust he made me feel for life never left” (“Charles
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