Lady Gregory’s‚ The Rising of the Moon The Rising of the Moon was a very interesting play. The setting takes place on a dock at night. There is very little lighting on the dock and the only object on the dock is a barrel. We start with three policeman‚ a Sargent and two regular officers. The two regular officers are posting fliers of an escaped prisoner. There is a reward mentioned on the fliers which is substantial and the officers talk about this and the possibility of a promotion for the one
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the first men to step onto the surface of the moon. Millions watch as Apollo 11 basted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:37 am on July 16. It entered orbit 12 minutes later. After one and a half orbits‚ the third-stage engine pushed the spacecraft onto its trajectory toward the Moon. Aboard were mission commander Neil Armstrong‚ lunar module pilot Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and command module pilot Michael Collins. On July 19 Apollo 11 passed behind the Moon and fired its service propulsion engine to enter
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Going to the Moon 1. Miss Johnson represents the good part of the narrator’s life and the beginning of the adventure. The beauty of her appearance gives the narrator a sense of relieved‚ and he feels protected. The detailed description of Miss Johnson’s appearance and apparel is significant because the narrator must be paying a lot of attention towards her‚ taking in her goddess fully. 2. a) The theme of this story is fulfilment or acceptance of one’s destiny. The series of events change the
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Directed by the experienced and renowned Yoji Yamada‚ Twilight Samurai is a film set in the 19th century‚ towards the end of the Tokugawa or Edo era. It was a time when the samurai system was beginning to wane as Japan started to advocate itself towards modernization. The Meiji reforms had started to begin‚ and the samurai class was gradually being disregarded as of a higher social status. The lifestyle and demand for the samurai was thus in a process of change‚ as the samurai began to take on other
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Maugham agreed and over the next few years acted as a link between MI6 in London and its agents working in Europe. During the war‚ Maugham’s best-known novel‚ Of Human Bondage (1915) was published. This was followed by another successful book‚ The Moon and Sixpence (1919). Maugham also developed a reputation as a fine short-story writer‚ one story‚ Rain‚ which appeared in The Trembling of a Leaf(1921)‚ was also turned into a successful
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A Message to the Moon Millicent L. Pettit wrote the poem “A Message to the Moon” very visually‚ meaning that the reader isn’t left with much to image/create in their brains. Many poetic devices have been used thought this poem to create feelings and depth‚ including symbolism and personification and alliteration. Personification has been used to create the bond between the poet and the moon. The sentence “You’re not as dead as you look‚ they’re after you” is an example of personification as it is
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surface of the moon. It was the first time in the history of mankind that we would step on the surface of another celestial body. John F. Kennedy dared us to dream‚ he inspired the nation to reach for the moon‚ to set ourselves apart from the rest of the world. The Space Race was symbolic of many things. Our future as the technically dominate nation was secured in place; just as secure as Old Glory would be‚ when she was driven down into the soil of the moon. We not only reached the moon‚ we conquered
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(etc.) Make it easy for readers of your text to follow your argumentation! Task 1: The text at hand / the given text is [an extract/excerpt from] … [a short story/speech/newspaper article/novel/poem a.s.o.] written by […] [and published in (the New York Times etc.) on [date] / in [year]. It is about / deals with / treats of / describes / is
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Liberalism Name Institution Mises on private property‚ freedom‚ peace‚ and equality Ludwig von Mises asserts in his book ‘liberalism’ that classical liberal freedoms are essential in promoting peace‚ social harmony‚ and general welfare in society. He argues that these freedoms included the rights to private property‚ equality‚ and peace. According to Mises (1962)‚ private ownership of property is fundamental in a market economy. Private property regards the factors of production
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Europa i is the sixth closest moon of the planet Jupiter‚ and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites‚ but still one of the largest moons in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei[1]and possibly independently by Simon Marius around the same time. Progressively more in-depth observation of Europa has occurred over the centuries by Earth-bound telescopes‚ and by space probe flybys starting in the 1970s. Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon‚ Europa is primarily made of silicate rock
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