should do 30-40 hours of community services to graduate .Many people are with it strongly. However‚ in my opinion mandatory volunteering is not a good idea. Making community service compulsory negates the intended purpose. First‚ that would be an oxymoron‚ how would it be volunteering if you were mandated to do it. It is not volunteering if the students are required to do it. Doing volunteer work with force may result incomplete work. As well‚ forcing a teenager to do anything may cause rebellion
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about love‚ romance‚ relationships‚ families and violence. Although mainly about love‚ there are many scenes that contain violence and conflict. This play opens with a fight and ends with reconciliation. The violence in this play occurs from a long standing disagreement between two families (Montague’s + Capulet’s). The events lead to the tragic deaths of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ In this essay I will discuss how Shakespeare uses conflict to create the tragedy in which
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Romanticism‚ history and Yeats personal ageing process and the ageing of the world. “In the first stanza‚ the poet does not address the rebellion as an issue – until the last line‚ “All’s changed‚ changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born”. The oxymoron ” A terrible beauty is born.” is the sense of identity that was born out of the unexpected war towards Irish Independence from England. The adjective "terrible" refers to the violence and
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Stylistic Devices 1 IMAGERY Simile (Vergleich): An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor (Metapher): A comparison between two things which are basically quite differ ent without using like or as. While a simile only says that one thing is like another‚ a metaphor says that one thing is another. (adj. metaphorical) All the
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Wilfred Owen‚ War Poems and Others How does Wilfred Owen explore the horror of war through the power of poetry? Throughout the several poems Wilfred Owen wrote throughout his experience during the First World War‚ he explores many themes in relation to the war and the emotions associated with these. One of the most prevalent ideas Wilfred Owen chooses to emphasise in many of his poems is that of the sense of horror associated with war and all the consequences of it such as those including death
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List of Figurative Language and Rhetorical devices Alliteration‚ assonance and consonance: Alliteration is the repetition of the first sound in nearby words‚ for example: Always avoid alliteration. Assonance is the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds within‚ for example‚ words in the lines of a poem. Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the words. All three techniques can be combined: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
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The use of imagery in Romeo and Juliet The themes of forbidden love‚ tragedy‚ loss and isolation are closely interlinked in “Romeo and Juliet”. Shakespeare uses imagery throughout the play to highlight their importance. The forbidden love of Romeo and Juliet is described using religious language‚ imagery of contrasting light and darkness‚ and nature; tragedy is emphasised by the imagery of death throughout the play; isolation can be seen in the language and actions of both the central characters
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something within her was crying‚ rooms that throbbed‚ dying orchids)‚ hyperbole (a hundred pairs‚ half a dozen dates‚ half a dozen men). There was found a case of simile (fresh faces like rose petals) . The author used such figures of contrast as oxymoron (cheerful snobbery‚ sweet fever)‚ antithesis (there was a certain struggle and a certain relief). The play on the polysemantic words are represented by figure of ambiguity – zeugma ( there was a wholesome bulkiness about his person and his position)
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"Dulce et Decorum Est" Explication Wilfred Owen’s "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a description of a gas attack suffered by a group of soldiers in World War One. By using shifting rhythms‚ dramatic description‚ and imagery‚ the speaker tries to convince readers that the horror of war outweighs the patriotic duty to war. In the first stanza the speaker describes the calm before the gas attack. The speaker uses alliteration‚ "bent beggars‚" and onomatopoeia "cough" to create a sense of despair
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Collaborating in a Competitive World (8th ed.). New York‚ NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Baue‚ B. (2009). The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News: Walmart and Sustainability: Oxymoron or Salvation – or Both? Retrieved from http://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/27370-The-Latest-Corporate-Social-Responsibility-News-Walmart-and-Sustainability-Oxymoron-or-Salvation-or-Both- Ferdinand‚ A. (2007). Wal-Mart Determined to Lead int COrporate Social Responsibility. Retrieved from http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/pressreleases/blackwell07
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