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    Our Casuarina Tree |   | Toru Dutt (1856–77) |   |   | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | |   The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | |   Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | |   No other tree could live. But gallantly |         5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | |   Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the

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    The Jamestown Fiasco Commentary   According to Edmund S. Morgan‚ the majority of problems faced by the first settlers who arrived to Jamestown in the year 1607 were caused by the poor organization within the colony. For example‚ the settlers were unwilling to grow their own food supply and establish a reliable foundation for future settlers. Despite the abundance of game to hunt‚ and perfect weather conditions to harvest crops‚ the settlers would instead dig up corpses‚ and in one case a man

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    Alessandra Kortenhorst March 17‚ 2009 English HL Y1‚ E Block In His Shadow In Jon Stallworthy’s poem “Two Hands‚” the narrator expresses a son’s idolization of his father. This idolization is not based upon an intimate emotional relationship‚ but rather‚ on the son comparing himself to his father. His vocation‚ a writer‚ falls short when held against his father’s‚ a surgeon. In “Two Hands‚” a son narrates‚ through metaphors and mood‚ his frigid and distant relationship with his father.

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    Samples Essays and Commentary CONTACT INFORMATION All correspondence and mailings should be addressed to: CaMLA Argus 1 Building 535 West William St.‚ Suite 310 Ann Arbor‚ Michigan 48103-4978 USA T: +1 866.696.3522 T: +1 734.615.9629 F: +1 734.763.0369 info@cambridgemichigan.org www.CambridgeMichigan.org © 2013 Cambridge Michigan Language Assessments® Contents On the following pages are ten MELAB essays representative of each score on the MELAB Writing Rating Scale. Commentaries follow each sample

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    the way society is today‚ the only well-paying jobs are those that are often undesirable or require a higher education that isn’t affordable for most people. Gray Whisnant‚ an opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily‚ states in his article “Make It Rain” that inducing a UBI (Universal Basic Income) will solve not only poverty dilemmas‚ but also resolve other job-related problems. A universal basic income is a regular salary that comes from either the government or social security that is paid whether

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    The Greatest Season Summer is one of the most anticipated times of the year. It is considered by most as their long holiday or freedom from their jobs or schools. While some people maintain that spring‚ fall‚ or even winter are the best seasons‚ there are many reasons that summer is much better than any of the others. One of the main attractions of summer is its temperature. When one hears the word summer the first thing to pop into his or her mind is either‚ heat‚ holiday‚ or sports. Though some

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    The poem Acceptance Speech by Lynn Powell is about a housewife who feels undervalued by her family and by society. The title of the poem suggests that the character has received an award for achieving something brilliant‚ but in fact she is being sarcastic and conducting an imaginary award ceremony for herself in her kitchen‚ since no one else is willing to appreciate her hard work. The poet uses irony and personification of kitchen utensils and ingredients to add humour to the play. She uses the

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    Samantha Hunt 5/14/2010 Mrs. Arcement 4th Period “There Will Come Soft Rains” In both the story and the poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” they share a common ground. Both focus on world destruction‚ and human extinction. Each author discusses life after humans are gone. Even though humans have vanished‚ life as it is still continues to go on through wildlife and virtual world. In the story‚ Bradbury discusses a very high tech‚ virtual house that continues to do it’s

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    the Mango Rains Monique and the mango rains is a touching story about a peace corps volunteer and a Malian midwife. The story is set in the small village of Namposella and is narrated by the Peace Corps volunteer Kris Holloway. The book gives you an in depth perspective on the life of a woman in Mali and their culture as a whole. In this paper I will be discussing anthropological concepts including rite of passage‚ patriarchy‚ and religion and how they apply to Monique and the mango rains. Religion

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    The poem “Ozymandias King of Egypt”‚ being a very powerful poem‚ is generally a poem about power and is written as a short‚ structured and rhyming story which discusses the meaning of life and the changes going on in the world all the time. “Ozymandias King of Egypt” is actually a sonnet. It has fourteen lines and iambic pentameter and is divided into octet and sestet which makes it a Petrarchian sonnet. The rhyme is present‚ as it should be in a proper sonnet‚ but no clear rhyme scheme is used

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