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    The Beach

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    Descriptive Essay- Beach‚ Vacation The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever‚ and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload

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    At the Beach

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    AT THE BEACH(another) A draught blew by me taking my spirit with it. The strands of hair crossed my face; the sun peaked its way above the horizon as if it was scared to shed some light. The smell of the salty sea tingled my nose as I breathed in a breath of fresh air. The sand was a mine field of corals‚ with a collection of many different multicolored sea shells; however at the same time‚ the sand was a bed of blankets. The way the sand flowed onto my feet and out to the spaces between my toes

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    The Burial at Thebes

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    Saleem Akbar Prof. Ryna May English 207-C101 10 May 2012 Mo[r]tal Law In Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes‚ the protagonist defies the law of the state to observe what she sees as higher law. In this regard‚ Antigone’s actions were ethical in nature for she pursued what she felt was morally righteous. When mortal laws conflict with what we feel are moral laws‚ we should stand up for the values we believe to be true within ourselves. Sophocles’ play builds a contrast between the ideas of duty and

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    The Beach

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    potentially suffocating warmth. The beach was tiny compared to the resorts further along the coastline‚ sheltered by the surrounding forests of palm trees. It was an almost perfect semi-circle of fine‚ dark volcanic sand‚ with not a trace of the inland civilization in sight – an unspoilt‚ secluded paradise on an island gradually being colonised by armies of skyscrapers‚ strip clubs and tourist traps. There was a humble building near the eastern end of the beach‚ a traditional affair on stilts with

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    Dover Beach

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    EN 115 23 October 2012 Essay Two: The theme of ‘Illusion versus Reality’ in Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ ‘Dover Beach’ is a poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. The locale of the poem is the English ferry port of Dover Kent‚ facing Calais‚ France. This was the place where Matthew Arnold honeymooned in 1851 (Wikipedia Contributors). In Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’‚ the speaker draws visual imagery to show that what is generally perceived is false and hence an illusion

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    Poetic justice

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    Poetic Justice “Poetic Justice” is a short story by Dianna Appleyard. In the short story is there presented a contrast. It is a contrast between a woman‚ who lives an ordinary life with husband and children‚ and then Jed Cunningham who lives on the edge. He take risks‚ is very spontaneous and never looks back on the past‚ he is always “seizing the day”1 as the story puts it. Somehow there is a common in these two persons‚ and it is their dreams. Their dream about doing something they know never

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    Aristotle's Poetics

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    Aristotle’s Poetics is not one of his major works‚ although it has exercised a great deal of influence upon subsequent literary studies and criticism. In this work Aristotle outlines and discusses many basic elements that an author should adhere to in order to write a great tragedies and/or poetry. Two important topics that Aristotle addresses and believes to be crucial to the art work is the mimesis‚ or imitation of life‚ and that the audience has an emotional response from the work of art‚ or

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    Outer Burial Containers

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    OUTER BURIAL CONTAINERS Outer burial container: any container which is designed for placement in the grave around the casket‚ including‚ but not limited to containers commonly known as burial vaults‚ grave boxes and grave liners. Provides ground support and may or may not limit the intrusion of outside elements. o Materials: Metal‚ Concrete‚ Plastic • Burial Vault: an outer enclosure which offers protection from the earth load as well as possessing sealing qualities. o Purposes:  Support

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    Aristotle Poetics

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    Throughout centuries‚ Aristotle’s Poetics has been a widely used criterion for writers‚ filmmakers‚ and play writers. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is among the classic films‚ that successfully applies Aristotle’s six definitions; plot‚ character‚ diction‚ thought‚ spectacle‚ and song. “Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete‚ whole‚ and of a certain magnitude… A whole is that which has a beginning‚ middle‚ and an end.” Aristotle further adds that the plot must follow a change of

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    Bayonet Charge Controlled Assessment notes 1. Hughes uses a metaphor to present the conflict‚ when he describes soldier uniform as “raw seamed hot khaki”. The use of the word “raw” implies pain and suffering as well as being hot and uncomfortable. It shows the reader how badly the soldiers were treated in WW1 as even their uniforms caused discomfort. Every seam of the uniform is painful. 2. The riffle is personify as being “numb as a smashed arm” because it indicates horror of war. The word “smashed”

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