The poem that I chose for my Performance Task is Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare. This sonnet shares deep emotions as the speaker reflects upon the past. It expresses in writing the process of being reminded of former times and individuals who were once very close to the heart. This feeling is something that we all have experienced at one time in their lives. Symbolism is the practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea. In this poem symbolism is a key figurative
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September 11 On Tuesday‚ September 11‚2001 the unthinkable happened in America. The World Trade Centers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C were struck by airplanes that were hijacked by terrorists. This terrible tragedy killing many people had deep impact on the whole American citizens are grief stricken‚ left in fear‚ and full of revenge to the people who committed such an awful thing. September 11‚2001 is the most tragic hour in the history of the United Sets‚ this terror
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Sonnet 130 Shakespeare put a twist on how similes and metaphors are used to compare the girl the narrator loves to other girls and/or things that represent beauty. Instead of using similes and metaphors to compare things that are alike‚ Shakespeare used them to contrast the girl with different things that she is not. In other words‚ he used them to show everything that the girl is different in‚ doesn’t have‚ and is flawed in. Shakespeare does this to show that the narrator truly loves the girl
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“SONNET 34” by Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34‚ which is included in a collection of poems known as “Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser‚ was published in 1595. Throughout this poem the speaker expresses feelings of depression and anguish because of the loss of his beloved. However‚ he is not pessimistic at all since he knows that his love for her will bring him joy once more. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme pattern is abab bcbc cdcd ee written
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Appreciation of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 William Shakespeare (1564～1616) born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works‚ including some collaboration‚ consist of about 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ and several other poems. Shakespeare produced most of his known
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Chromosome 11 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 11 spans about 134 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells. Identifying genes on each chromosome is an active area of genetic research. Chromosome 11 likely contains between 1‚300 and 1‚700 genes. Genes on chromosome 11 are among the estimated 25‚000 total genes in the human genome. There are many
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the speaker says that the birds may sing when the beloved is gone‚ but it is with “so dull a cheer” that the leaves‚ listening‚ become fearful that winter is upon them. The seasons‚ so often invoked as a metaphor for the passage of time in the sonnets‚ are here metaphorized‚ and function as a kind of delusional indication of how deeply the speaker misses the company of the beloved. As the second quatrain reveals‚ the speaker spends some time apart from the beloved in “summer’s time‚” in late summer
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for about half of the company‚s salespeo- ple. Jason double-checked his program code but could not locate any errors. He 322 I selected a salesperson with a discrepancy and calculated the commission by hand. The result agreed-with his program. He reviewed the new commission policy with the sales mana8et line by line‚ and concluded that he understood the new policy completely. Jason is now convinced that his program is correct and that the error lies with SPP ’s new program. He is now asking
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Stand Although people say‚ “every picture tells a story‚” a picture cannot exemplify every detail about the event involved in that event. The attack on September‚ 11 2001 was a turning point in American history. There are many visual representations and written testimonies that lead us to have different feelings about the attack on September 11‚ 2001; more specifically‚ the reason behind these different emotions is because there is a vast difference in a testimony of the event‚ and simply a photo of the
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Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore Time is a common theme throughout Shakespeare’s Sonnets‚ this is most apparent in Sonnet 60. This sonnet is about the ravages of time. How time never stops and is constantly changing. Also how time is aging us‚ and eventually takes what is has given us. But Shakespeare poetry will stand the test of time: Like as the waues make towards the pibled shore‚ So do our minuites hasten to their end‚ Each changing place with that which goes before‚
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