Alexandra Lopez British Literature Annotated Bibliography April 16‚ 2015 My Last Duchess Thesis: Robert Browning’s “ My last Duchess‚” is not a romantic love story about the sudden death of a Duke’s wife. Instead it’s about an insecure and psychotic Duke who feels entitled to everything including his wife and kills her. Browning explores the mind of a lunatic and presenting his audience how men with power can basically get away with almost anything. he analyses issues of feminism‚ domestic violence
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Poems ‘The laboratory‚ the content of the play‚ from my point of view is about a woman whose partner has left her for another woman. The poet has planned to kill the other woman as she is jealous of her and wants revenge from her ex. We can tell she is jealous of this other woman as she says she’s not little‚ no minion like me!’ this shows she is jealous of the woman as she thinks she is of higher status‚ the words ‘she’s not little’ shows this. She thinks the other woman is better than she is.
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My Last Softball game By:Ashlynn Telck Have you ever played fast pitch softball? On June 1‚ I had a softball game that I had to go to. My mom drove me to the softball field we had an hour of practice before the game started. After that‚ the game started and i was batting first I was really nervous. Then‚ I went to the home plate and i hit the ball and i ran as fast as I could to first base all I could here was Mom yelling‚“RUN RUN RUN” in the background . I made it to second without getting tagged
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Compare the ways mood is presented in ‘The Laboratory’‚ ‘My Last Duchess’‚ ‘Hitcher’ and ‘Salome’. Mood is a state of feeling stimulated by a particular apparatus or situation. It can also be a distinct emotional characteristics/ theme of a particular item. Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction‚ language‚ alliteration etc‚ in order to display a certain message to the audience. The poem ‘Hitcher’ refers to the environment
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Compare Last and Lover The story of “My Last Duchess” is a sad story about a man who is about to meet his new wife. He is talking to the man who represents the family he is taking this wife from and he decides to tell the representative about his last duchess which died. The story does not tell how she dies only that she is dead‚ and that her husband believed she smiled too much. The story of “Porphyria’s Lover” is about a woman(Porphyria) who walks in on her lover. She adds wood to the fire‚ puts
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Farewell Party and Me When I arrived to my workplace‚ there was no one in my department. Staring at an automatic-drilling with a blinking yellow light‚ I thought myself that how long had the machine been stopped. I put my lunch bag on a computer desk and sit on a chair to check an email whether there was an important message left for me by my supervisor during daytime. While I was checking email my cell phone rang out suddenly. I was slightly frightened as it rang unexpectedly. Usually
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’Men are presented as monsters in Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess.’ Discuss. A monster is defined as something which inspires horror and disgust and is shockingly hideous or frightful. The characters of both males in ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ definitely give the impression of fitting this description‚ as they both commit‚ or at least command the committing of murders. They are also controlling of the women in their lives and crave power over them – in both cases‚ the woman
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I was running with the ball at my feet‚ my arms and knees where heavy from all the training I had been doing‚ but I felt good. I knew I was going to make a good play. I looked up and saw two defenders but‚ with no hesitation I charged towards them with the ball. I cut left hard and flew past one defender. After him I approached a tall defender and nutmegged him‚ passing the ball in between and through a player’s legs. I then passed the ball up forward to a friend of mine who almost scored an amazing
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finishing my last lap out of the 4 miles. I had called my mom to pick me up and ten minutes ago‚ but she was not here yet‚ I just assumed she was just running a little bit late. I can tell you standing outside in the flaming fiery sun‚ covered in sweat with no water bottle in hand is no fun. As I was waiting beads of sweat‚ thermoregulatory sweating‚ started appearing on my skin. The two types of sweating are eccrine glands‚ armpits‚ and apocrine glands‚ in the palms and soles of my hand. I knew my body
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“Why I Am A Visigoth” In “My Graduation Speech” written by Neil Postman‚ he indicates how there are two types of people in the world: an Athenian or a Visigoth. He explains how both groups flourished more than 1‚500 years ago and gave a general idea of what an Athenian is and how they lived versus what a Visigoth is and how they conducted their life. What I understood from Postman’s speech is Athenians are well rounded‚ overall good people. They cherished life‚ language‚ and knowledge. Postman wrote
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