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    Hamlet Personal Response

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    English 30-1 Hamlet Personal Response March 21 2013 Final Draft Interior Monologue My uncle is dead. Along with everyone else I love and the people they care about. My mother Gertrude‚ Ophelia‚ Laertes‚ and their father Polonius. Dead and gone to heaven forever. I finally killed Claudius! He has died the same way he killed the queen. With the poisoned drink and sword that was meant for me. I’ve been cut by Laertes poisoned covered sword‚ and will probably follow them to heaven any minute now

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    Personal Response Creation Lenses by Leah Silverman The main theme is humans can find it emotionally difficult to conform to society‚ but usually end up doing so. The meaning of this theme is that we all want to do things that are practical to society even if it feels wrong in our hearts.The main driving component which draws people too conformity are the desire to be accepted in certain status groups. People fear that if they do not conform to society‚ they will be

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    Bridesmaids – Personal Response. ’Bridesmaids’ directed by Paul Feig‚ is my all time favourite comedy. It’s the type of funny that makes your muscles ache from laughing so hard. I found the characters and the lines to be totally hilarious. The protagonist is Annie‚ a middle aged women who’s cake business failed‚ and currently works at a jewelers thanks to her mother. Annie’s best friend is engaged to be married and she wants Annie to be her maid of honour. The bridal party consists of 4 others:

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    Night Personal Response

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    “Night” by Elie Wiesel – Personal Responses Chapter 1 • Moché the Beadle’s story is very disturbing. He had experienced horrible atrocities and risked his life to warn his fellow townspeople. However‚ the latter did not believe him yet alone listen to him. They called him the madman. This passage is hard for the reader‚ who knows what is going to happen to the Jews later on (situational irony). Moché was also foreshadowing what was going to happen to the Jews. This warning also brings about the

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    bridges.” This quote proves that building a relationship is very important to a relationship; however it is not the only one. Seamus Heaney’s "Scaffolding" displays romantic relations‚ by describing the building of relationships‚ the stages of a relationship‚ and love. "When they start upon a building / Are careful to test out the scaffolding" Heaney is trying to. When Heaney uses the words "careful" and "test" he is explaining the cautiousness you should take when starting a relationship. The process

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    Heaney and Montague both write about fear in childhood. Compare and contrast two poems‚ one by each poet‚ taking account of the methods which each poet uses to write about fear in childhood. ‘The Barn’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Like Dolmens Round my Childhood‚ the Old People’ by John Montague are two poems that explore the theme of fear in childhood. The fears of each poet are very different in that Heaney’s fear of the barn is triggered by his vivid imagination whereas Montague’s fear of becoming

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    Response to ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ by William Wordsworth The speaker in this poem talks about a time when he meandered through the valleys and hills and stumbled across a crowd of daffodils in a field. He describes in detail the seemingly never-ending sight of the daffodils throughout the poem‚ and compares their beauty to that of the glistening lake‚ ultimately deciding that the daffodils win because they are more gleeful in appearance. The poem finishes with the poet describing what he

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    heaney answer interview

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    2010 Text 1 QA – Interview with Heaney Answer I agree that a strong sense of place and community in which Heaney grew up emerges from the interview. The first question in the interview refers to Heaney’s father as a farmer and cattle dealer. As a result‚ it is very clear from the beginning that Heaney was brought up in a rural home.            Heaney himself gives us a profound insight into the place and community in which he grew up. He describes how his decision to reject farming and be ‘educated’

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    Seamus Heaney employs a great number of poetic devices in order to explore the theme of women in his poem “The Wife’s Tale”. The free-verse piece features in Heaney’s 1969 collection “A Door into the Dark”‚ is non-rhyming‚ and is divided into four stanzas of seven‚ twelve‚ seven and nine lines respectively. The varying length of verse adds a quirky‚ idiosyncratic feel and helps to create different levels of focus on the contents of each section. Dealing with Heaney’s perspective on the role of a

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    anyone. Mid-term Break by Seamus Heaney uses transitions of grief and growing up as its main theme‚ using elements such as tone‚ imagery‚ and symbolism as its gravitational pull. Seamus Heaney was a renowned Irish poet whom was born April 13‚ 1939 in County Londonderry‚ North Ireland (Biography.com). Heaney was the first born of nine children raised in a Catholic family‚ he later on received a scholarship to attend

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