Giovanni Da Verrazzano was an Italian explorer who charted the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland‚ including New York Harbor in 1524. Giovanni was born around the year of 1485 in Val di Greve‚ 30 miles south of Florence‚ Italy. He began to pursue his maritime career in about 1506 or 1507 and in the 1520’s he was sent by King Francis I of France to explore the East Coast of North America for a route to the Pacific. After returning to Europe from discovered New
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Culture-Relationship Paper Having outlined the nature of leisure in general‚ the more specific definition of leisure can be described with some exactitude how the concept may and may not be applied. In the first place‚ leisure should be distinguished from free time‚ that is‚ time left free not only from regular employment but also from overtime and from time spent in travel to and from the work place. Free time includes leisure‚ as well as all the other activities that take place outside
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Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into
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Margaret Atwood : (1983) “Happy Endings” is six different story lines and alternate endings‚ with only four characters. All of the stories have different plots and motifs‚ they all have the same ending and that is with death‚ throughout the stories she is never shy to use death. Atwood uses satire through diction‚ she also uses flat characters‚ and she tricks with the different gender roles in a relationship‚ based on commitment‚ and adultery. She uses the gothic concept of inapt ability to escape
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BAHASA SEBAGAI ALAT KOMUNIKASI Menurut Felicia (2001 : 1)‚ dalam berkomunikasi sehari-hari‚ salah satu alat yang paling sering digunakan adalah bahasa‚ baik bahasa lisan maupun bahasa tulis. Begitu dekatnya kita kepada bahasa‚ terutama bahasa Indonesia‚ sehingga tidak dirasa perlu untuk mendalami dan mempelajari bahasa Indonesia secara lebih jauh. Akibatnya‚ sebagai pemakai bahasa‚ orang Indonesia tidak terampil menggunakan bahasa. Suatu kelemahan yang tidak disadari. Bahasa adalah produk masa
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The poem “Mothers” by Nikki Giovanni is about two states of mind. An adult dealing with the ups and downs of everyday life and a concerned child. This is shown by the use of opposite words. “Dark-light” and “pleasantries and unpleasantries.” Being a child‚ Nikki was trying to make sense of what was happening around her. She sees her mother sitting in a chair in a dark room upset her. Nikki is apparently a frightened child. The wetting of the bed confirms her fear. She wrote about and absent father
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One of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s most famous pieces from the Renaissance was Sicut Cervus‚ a motet that bases itself off the first two phrases from Psalm 42 (41). The piece was scored for four voices‚ presumably for a soprano‚ alto‚ base‚ and tenor‚ and all four voices seemed to act almost independent of each other. Obviously the existence of various voices means the piece has a polyphonic texture‚ but interestingly it is actually imitative polyphony‚ meaning that all voices have are reading
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In society‚ there is and always has been complications between Caucasians and African-Americans. In this poem‚ Sharon Olds explores this relationship using imagery‚ repetition‚ and multiple tone shifts. In the beginning of the poem‚ the author introduces a situation that contrasts a white person with a black. Correspondingly‚ she applies imagery to emphasize this difference greatly. For example‚ the shoes he is wearing at the time are black “laced with white” and compares them to “intentional scars
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Poem Analysis Digging Digging is a poem written by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. It’s about a person looking back into the past and thinking about his father and his grandfather. The memories in the poem are about his father and his grandfather’s occupation. The sentences: ‘Stooping in rhythm through potato drills.’ shows that his father was a potato farmer and ‘My grandfather cut more turf in a day’ shows that his grandfather was a turf harvester. The title of this poem also has a meaning
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Name: Sajid Aziz‚ Roll no: AU515926 MA TEFL‚ Course Code: 5666 Assignment no: 2‚ Spring‚ 2013 Research Project A Stylistic Analysis of the Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” By: William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow Glazed with rain Water Beside the white Chickens Introduction Oppose practicing the learned rhetoric in poetry writing‚ Williams finds his subjects in such homely items as wheelbarrows. He believes that
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