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    There are different types of poems that make up the category of poetry. Specific examples of poems are lyric poems‚ sonnets‚ dramatic monologues‚ elegies‚ odes‚ haikus‚ figurative levels‚ and imagist poems.  Each author has their own language of poetry that comes after a lot of thought. Susan Rowland puts it best‚ “poetic language is the native tongue of the soul.” Each author writes their poems with different meanings. The meanings in the poems might be easy to determine‚ extremely hard to

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    Jesus and Mary Magdalene

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    question that many people have after reading The Da Vinci Code‚ by Dan Brown. Mary Magdalene is commonly believed to have traveled the Jesus and the disciples. She is a small character in the bible important only as the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus. In the eyes of the public‚ they feel that Mary Magdalene was more then just a witness‚ that she was his wife. There are passages in the bible supporting Mary Magdalene was not Jesus ’ wife and it conflicts with what Mr. Brown says in The

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    Should we keep animals in captivity? Introduction Do you know that there are approximately a hundred million wild animals‚ and about twenty thousand species that die every year? Wild animals are in great danger from nature‚ diseases and worsening environment. The extinction of animals has become a critical problem leading us to think whether or not we should keep animals in captivity. Body – Danger In recent 50 years‚ nearly two thirds of the world’s forest has been cut down for human industry

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    Virginia Woolf’s essay on Mary Wollstonecraft in the Common Reader is essentially‚ an active continuation of the experimental method on which Mary Wollstonecraft based her life. "The high-handed and hot-blooded manner in which she cut her way through life" is in essence what Woolf is trying to replicate in this essay‚ in particular through her method of writing which is based very much on the stream of consciousness style. Woolf here attempts to vividly reconstruct the thoughts and ideas on which

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    "As a child‚ I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation‚ was to ‘write stories’." I’m Mary Shelley‚ best known for writing the famous book‚ Frankenstein‚ The Modern Prometheus. I was born with the name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30th‚ 1797‚ in London‚ England. My parents were William Godwin‚ a Philosopher and Political writer‚ and Mary Wollstone‚ the author of The Vindication of The Rights of Women. Unfortunately‚ I never quite knew my mother because she

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    up. My name Mary Agnes‚ she say.”-This passage is from Celie’s forty-first letter. Squeak has just returned from an unsuccessful attempt to release Sofia from prison. The prison warden raped Squeak‚ and she returns home battered and torn. However‚ Squeak is not defeated‚ and she makes an important act of resistance when she decides to reject the belittling nickname‚ Squeak‚ that Harpo has given her. She insists on being called by her given name‚ Mary Agnes. By renaming herself‚ Mary Agnes resists

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    On my first day on campus at University of Colorado Boulder‚ my friend described the hike she wanted to take me on. She told me how beautiful the sun setting behind the mountains was‚ how perfectly the leaves seemed to fall off the trees showing the start of fall‚ and how cute the chipmunk was that scampered past her feet. Starting as early as writings from Henry David Thoreau‚ nature is described and viewed in a romantic sense. We seem to ignore the parts about destruction‚ pollution‚ and disturbance

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    Animals should not be kept in any form of captivity. Animals belong in their natural habitat. It is a breach of their natural rights to take them away‚ and put them behind bars. All animals that are kept in captivity should be realised into the wild. Healty News In zoos around the world animals are suffering Weird News. Every day animals are taken out of their natural habitat and put behind bars‚ purely for our benefit. Studies have shown that these animals are suffering form severe cases of depression

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    Mary Wollstonecraft was a fighter for women and their rights in society‚ she has left a legacy for women to follow. She was believed to create the idea of feminism. Her childhood and early life play a big role in why she was a such a strong woman later on in her life. She was raised in Spitalfields‚ London‚ she was born in 1759. Her father was not the male figure anyone wants in their life. He‚ John Edward. acted very poorly with the small amount of money they had and created a drinking habit himself

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    Mary Maloney's behaviour

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    Characterisation – turning point The turning point in the story is when Mary murders Patrick – hitting him on the head with a frozen leg of lamb. This is so particularly shocking because the reader does not expect this from Mary. Clever characterisation by Roald Dahl conveys Mary before this point as kind‚ caring‚ vulnerable‚ lonely and deeply in love with her husband (see ‘Before Turning Point’ quotations above). After this Mary changes drastically and is shown to be callous‚ clever‚ sly and manipulative

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