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    matter of protection of the harbors‚ provision of shipping facilities‚ and adjudication of claims may have fallen on local rulers or perhaps simply not handled at all. Protection is given when merchants pay their taxes and dues. As we continue through this essay‚ we can infer on the diversity of the alliances‚ the Hansa and Swahili. In documents 3 (Joao de Barros‚ Portuguese merchant and soldier from his book‚ Decadas da Asia completed in 1520s about his travels along east Africa’s coast)‚ 5 (Abdul

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    In the poem To This DAy by Shane Koyczan‚ he talks about three different stories and all of them have a different type of bullying and how they have all faced it‚ and tells you that you can stand up against them but it could haunt you for the rest of your life. In the poem Shane Koyczan shows that bullying will never go away like from the poem‚ it says “to this day despite a loving husband‚ she doesn’t think she’s beautiful because of a birthmark that takes up a little less than half of her face”

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    Poetry- a narrative poem is one that tells a story.Types of narrative poetry include ballads and epics. *Lyric Poetry- a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker. Common types are sonnets‚odes‚free verse‚and elegies. *Dramatic Poetry- a dramatic poem is a verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue. Two types of dramatic poetry are dramatic monologue and soliloquy. *Epic Poetry- this is often defined as lengthy poems concerning events of

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    Hannah Risidore ENG4U June 2‚ 2013 Ms. Martin Poem Analysis Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling 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 my

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    In the poem‚ To This Day‚ by Shane Koyczan‚ 1:28 into the video‚ the author says‚ "I Used to hear that rhyme about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names that we got called." (Shane Koyczan)‚ as the author says this there is a boy standing in a dark hallway alone with these dark‚ creepy‚ vines grabbing him. What the author is trying to say is that he could not escape from the names that he had been called‚ nobody was there to help when he was being called names‚ and

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    would end‚ what would you choose? Would your choice to be go painfully but fast? Perhaps you would rather it be so slow and painless you do not even realize it is happening? That’s what I believe Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice is meant to express. Although the poem is short‚ it holds a very interesting question to think about. The question is which way would you rather the world come to an end. There are two choices. The first two lines in Fire and Ice express the choices‚ “Some

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    Explication of "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy 1. "Had he and I but met 2. By some old ancient inn‚ 3. We should have sat us down to wet 4. Right many a nipperkin! 5. "But ranged as infantry‚ 6. And staring face to face‚ 7. I shot at him as he at me. 8. And killed him in his place. 9. "I shot him dead because- 10. Because he was my foe. Throughout the poem it is easy to tell that the flow of this poem is non-traditional‚ for example‚ Hardy expresses hesitation in lines one and

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    BASIC OUTLINE FOR AN EXPLICATION DE TEXTE I. INTRODUCTION A. Reading the text 1. Read the text out loud several times‚ paying attention to its difficulties (words‚ expressions‚ grammar). 2. Ask yourself at this point some general questions about the text. Is it is comic‚ serious; a monologue‚ dialog (slow or rapid); is it a description‚ reflection‚ confession‚ etc? 3. Try to find the rhythm of the text: slow‚ rapid‚ even‚ uneven. 4. The purpose of this reading is to make your

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    Poetry Explication Wonderwall Oasis Today is gonna be the day That they’re gonna throw it back to you By now you should’ve somehow Realized what you gotta do I don’t believe that anybody Feels the way I do about you now Backbeat the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out I’m sure you’ve heard it all before But you never really had a doubt I don’t believe that anybody feels The way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding

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    18th Century Verse Satire

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    ENGLISH VERSE SATIRE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY   I. Satyasree   While most of the literary labels – drama‚ epic‚ lyric‚ ode—are Greek‚ the term Satire is a Latin word.  Satire may be defined as an attempt to show disgust by exposing the ridiculous and the contemptible.   Though its flicker is seen even at the beginning of literature‚ Satire has become an effective weapon only in the later stages of civilisation‚ with the over-abundance of injuries.  In his preface to “Absalom and Achitophel”

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