“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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Kayla Meadows Instructor Rita Rogers ENG 131-IT3 10 May 2014 Literary Elements Used in “[Stop All the Clocks‚ Cut Off the Telephone]” In the poem “[Stop All the Clocks‚ Cut off the Telephone]”‚ W.H. Auden is able to incorporate the usage of personification‚ metaphors‚ and imagery effectively to help the reader feel the overwhelming grief the speaker is experiencing over the loss of his or her loved one. Auden is able to draw a vivid picture of the grief felt after the loss of a loved one. The speaker
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The organisational procedures when making and receiving telephone calls can vary from business to business‚ but there are some similarities. There is usually a general guidance and training for staff and especially for the reception staff. Many customer service jobs involve contacting customers by telephone. Making an effective telephone call involves some very specific actions and should not be seen as a casual activity. By making a call to a customer you have the opportunity to prepare and are
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Introduction The 19th century developments of firstly the telegraph‚ and later the telephone‚ opened a gateway to a new‚ closer‚ more interdependent world. For a country as large as the United States‚ with a population now scattered from east to west‚ the implications were tremendous. The infamous tyranny of time and distance had been conquered. Widespread acceptance and appreciation‚ however‚ were not immediate. Both inventions met with initial scepticism‚ ridicule‚ and even elements of fear.
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What did Spot Hide?: A Question-Answering Game for Preschool Children The purpose of this article is to investigate whether question-answering games can improve children’s early literacy using ASR/dialogue systems. The article also determines the factors which lead to the "literacy gap" and the reasons that are needed for an "expert interactive system". In this paper is described a two-phase study‚ one using a human researcher and one using a system named Spot. The study involved 12 children (6 boys
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How do deaf people use telephones? What about doorbells and alarm clocks? There are many everyday devises that we hearing people take for granted‚ among these are telephones‚ smoke alarms‚ doorbells‚ and alarm clocks. When we look at how members of the deaf community use these everyday items we must consider that members within the community have very different communication needs‚ abilities‚ and preferences. Hard-of-hearing people for example can use a standard telephone with the addition of a
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We receive knowledge through 4 ways which are emotion‚ reason‚ language and perception. Yet these ways of knowing are highly effected by the knowledge which is gotten through them since personal attributes which have been gained prior to now filter out the knowledge which is fed to us now. I personally am a Ukrainian who has been living and studying in an International school‚ in China for my whole life as well as a strong patriot of Communism and an atheist! These personal attributes makes it hard
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How do the writers Benjamin Zephaniah and Wole Soyinka challenge racism in their poems ‘Neighbours’ and ‘ Telephone Conversation’? In times of great stress or trauma‚ poetry has always proved as a perfect medium for people to voice their views and opinions‚ and to get them heard. Two prime examples of this are Benjamin Zephaniah and Wole Soyinka’s respective ‘Neighbours’ and ‘Telephone Conversation’. Both poems address the subject of racism and attempt to tackle racial stereotypes and prejudices
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First‚ computers contain office software as well as recreational functions. If one is not self-disciplined‚ it is easy for them to lose track of time when they use the internet at home. The home environment is greatly conducive to lounging on a sofa watching T.V or cooking or calling friends over to play video games. You don’t feel important and co-inhabitants do not take you seriously. How do you work and not go-to work? Take my friend Emily as an example‚ she is a columnist. Once she worked at
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