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    Maya Deren‚ an incredibly well-known and well-regarded avant-garde filmmaker‚ entered the scene in 1943‚ with the release of her first film‚ created in collaboration with her husband Hammid: Meshes of the Afternoon. Deren would go on to create a number of other films‚ most notably At Land‚ A Study in Choreography for the Camera‚ and Ritual in Transfigured Time. Deren’s work has been picked at and analyzed by a number of critics over the years‚ looking at the role of the individual‚ the flexibility

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    English II Honors 13 September 2002 A Poor Leader is Better Off as a Follower Persons in positions of power‚ who do not possess the right qualities to become proficient as leaders‚ will never become successful role models. Throughout history‚ leaders are supposed to act as role models for the general population. People without the proper guidance can become poor leaders as a result of the negative influence of others. Certain qualities that define a poor leader are: decisions based on individual

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    Poem Africa

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    women the world would not function. In the poem “Africa”‚ the speaker personifies the country as a woman who has gone through tribulations of getting her country stripped by white men enslaving her sons and daughters. Through it all she regains her strength. What she went through helped her to become a stronger woman‚ and stronger country. The speakers uses vivid imagery‚ metaphors‚ personification and gives human emotions to the continent. The entire poem is a extended metaphor to describe Africa

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    students face a lot of challenges in their lives with socio‚ cultures‚ music and even psychology. Talking about socio depending on where they are born and live. Most of the students who are making mistakes in their lives are those who are living in a poor socio economy family. These children would like to have everything like those rich people and would like to be as one. But when they look upon their background they feel they had to change and when they had set their mind about it problems like stealing

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    An Unknown Girl

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    An  Unknown  Girl          In  the  poem  ‘An  Unknown  Girl’‚  Moniza  Alvi  uses  poetic  techniques  such  as   metaphors‚  personification‚  alliteration‚  repetition  and  similes  in  order  to  depict   her  struggles  in  rediscovering  her  cultural  identity.  Along  with  references  to   India  and  the  scenery  surrounding  the  narrator‚

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    Girl Child Education

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    r GIRLS EDUCATION Education of Girls: Even after fifty-five years of independence of India‚ girls in India do not have the opportunities to educate themselves‚ in spite of education being fundamental rights in the constitution of India. Mann Deshi Mahila Bank (women Bank) and Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha (NGO) consider their primary task to work on education of girls. If women have assets and are educated they would never be vulnerable as they are today. Women’s bank and NGO have annual meeting

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    Nickel Poem

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    first it would involve some sort of worker or child in South America that works by handling Oranges in some sort of way. In my own words and thought‚ I would summarize the poem about a boy nervous about his first time with a girl. So they walk to a drugstore so he can’t treat her with something from there. The boy is very poor so he knows that the nickel may not be enough. So when she took a piece of chocolate that was more than a nickel. He gave the saleslady a nickel and an orange. While this was

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    The title of the poem ‘Whatif’ refers to the fears and paranoia questions we have at night‚ as we are more vulnerable. The poet combines the words ‘what’ and ‘if’ in a childlike manner. The main theme of the poem is ‘fears of a child’. In almost every line the poet adds a new fear. He mentions numerous childish fears like the feel of failing at school‚ being bullied‚ growing green chest hair and teeth not growing straight. He also mentions fears that a human at any age can relate to such as the fear

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    THE GUITAR (Magdalena Jalandoni) Its slender strings that are bright as gold Sing tenderly as a wild dove… In the night hours‚ its elect voice Is like the plaint of a precious feeling‚ Like the slow sigh of a soul in tears… For perhaps in the heart of the strummer Lies a deep sorrow that cannot be undone‚ And as each single string is singing No one can help but listen‚ enchanted‚ No one can help but feel the strong grieving. I WANT YOU TO KNOW (Amado Yuzon) I want

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    The Last Years of the Poor Law During the interwar period the Poor Law served as a residual safety net‚ assisting those who fell through the cracks of the existing social insurance policies. The high unemployment of 1921-38 led to a sharp increase in numbers on relief. The official count of relief recipients rose from 748‚000 in 1914 to 1‚449‚000 in 1922; the number relieved averaged 1‚379‚800 from 1922 to 1938. A large share of those on relief were unemployed workers and their dependents

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