Hello‚ my name is Zoe. I am here to tell you about the most memorable moment of my high school career… so far. For me‚ as with many of you in this room‚ high school is approximately half over. Four of the most important years in one’s personal character developments‚ some would say. We meet friends that we will never forget; make enemies that we will seemingly never forgive‚ memories that we will take with us to the end of our days. Good memories and bad memories‚ high school memories tend to
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degenerating them‚ or positively by assisting them in finding their place in the world. Challenging authority itself is filled with decision making and significant changes. The concept of challenging authority is explored in the two texts: Dead Poets Society (1898) a film directed by Peter Weir and Raw (1998)‚ a novel written by Scott Monk. Both texts involve an individual or group who challenge the authority of a certain power. The composers of these texts utilise film and literary techniques
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film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ Welton Academy is founded on tradition and excellence and is set on providing strict structured lessons by realist‚ close-minded‚ and anti-youth administration. When Mr. John Keating‚ a former student returns to Welton Academy and teaches English‚ he inspires a class of teenage boys to pursue their desires and live life to the fullest through his Poetry unit which included a former secret society that Mr. Keating used to be a party of and run called The Dead Poets Society.
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Homer the Greek Poet “The Greeks recognized Homer as the educator of all Greece”. Two long epic poems‚ the Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer. The Iliad and the Odyssey set the start of all Greek literature. The setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey is in ancient Greece in the time frame at around 1200 B.C‚ up to 500 years after the Trojan War took place. In Homer’s poem he sometimes mentioned the name of some Greek gods. “The Olympian gods as Homer represented them became accepted all over
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Tennyson as a Victorian Poet Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) achieved‚ what so many poets and writers throughout the centuries were unable to achieve‚ fame and success during his lifetime. Indeed‚ in 1850‚ after the publication of “In Memoriam”‚ he was installed to the position of poet laureate. Tennyson not only distinguished himself by his work to date‚ but also honored with the responsibility of representing the state during its most solemn and celebratory occasions. As Poet Laureate‚ he represented
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An individual’s interaction can indeed enrich or limit one’s experience of belonging‚ as belonging is one of the essential needs of any human being. Belonging can be seen in the prescribed text of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society & Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ where the central characters are driven by their need to belong or not belong which is ultimately stimulated by the world & people around them. The Crucible is based on the Salem community found
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Dear students in South Korea‚ My name is in Fifth Grade. I am looking for a pen pal! I love Art and sports. I have many friends in fifth grade. I am a B+ and A- student. I am on select soccer in Whitefish Bay. I love drawing flowers‚ dragons‚ and animals. I have a cat and dog. My cat’s name is Ginger and my dog’s name Brownie. Ginger is 6 and Brownie is 1 and 6 months old. My birthday is in May and my favorite food is pizza and nyonki. My favorite animals are kangaroos‚ dogs‚ cats‚ beavers‚
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Do you have a favorite place to go? Many people have a favorite place to visit daily‚ weekly‚ or even yearly. My favorite place to go is New Jersey. This is a state located on the eastern side of the United States right below New York. As a result‚ there are a lot of things that you can do and enjoy in and around New Jersey. However‚ New Jersey is my favorite place to visit for three reasons—my family lives there‚ the weather are good‚ and I enjoy going crabbing at the local beaches. The first
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William Wordsworth: As the Poet of Man “There have been greater poets than Wordsworth but none more original”‚ says A. C. Bradley. Wordsworth’s chief originality is‚ of course‚ to be sought in his poetry of Nature. It must not be supposed‚ however‚ that Wordsworth was interested only in Nature and not in man at all. Man‚ in Wordsworth’s conception‚ is not to be seen apart from Nature‚ but is the very “life of her life”. Indeed‚ Wordsworth’s love of Nature led him to the love of man. Scarcely a
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connected to each other. A metaphysical conceit is an extended metaphor or simile in which the poet draws an ingenious comparison between two very unlike objects. "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" ends with one of Donne’s most famous metaphysical conceits‚ in which he argues for the lovers’ closeness by comparing their two souls to the feet of a drawing compass—a simile that would not typically occur to a poet writing about his lov This is a "classic" Donne poem. In it‚ he shows off his vast knowledge
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