“We should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign […] otherwise what awaits us is a “state of nature” that closely resembles civil war- a situation of universal insecurity” (iep.utm.edu). These words express Thomas Hobbes’ version of philosophical absolutism. He believes that a world without a government yields disorder and lunacy. Hobbes‚ in his book The Leviathan (1651)‚ communicates a crucial need: a ruler who can keep the world in order‚ a feared‚ all-powerful ruler. He concludes in
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Visualize running miles and miles on end in the cold‚ only getting a ration of soup and a ration of bread once a day‚ and getting forced to see people dying left and right. The main character in the book Night by Elie Wiesel had to go through these exact circumstances. The book Night shows Ellie loses hope throughout the book because of these circumstances‚ in the beginning‚ he has not much to worry about‚ and then when he does‚ he stays hopeful for a while‚ and then in the middle he starts to question
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A Film Unfinished‚ The Last Stage‚ and Diamonds of the Night are all films that deal in some way with the Holocaust. However‚ the perspective and director’s intentions are so unique for each. A Film Unfinished was able to pick apart the lies of a Nazi propaganda film by including Holocaust survivors’ reaction to the film‚ as well as journals and interviews of people directly involved with the propaganda footage. The Last Stage is authentic because real Holocaust survivors were recruited to act in
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The poem ‘The Jaguar’ written by Ted Hughes describes the lifestyles of animals at a zoo and their different attitudes to entrapment in their cage. It compares the bored‚ lazy moods of the animals to the lively‚ adventurous mood of the jaguar‚ which does not see this confinement as a way of stopping him behaving as if it were in its natural environment. The poet’s clever use of techniques such as similes and metaphors clearly puts an image in our minds of the animal’s ways of life and gives an accurate
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Reflecting on the Past and Future Poetry is a way to express a deeper truth and to move people or make them feel emotion. This is true in “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Combing” by Gladys Cardiff. In “The Road Not Taken” the speaker is at a fork in the road and must choose a path. They are both worn down about the same and he tells himself he could always come back for the other. The deeper meaning is the speaker has a dilemma and must make a decision. In “Combing” a mother is
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LITERARY DEVICES AND THEIR USE IN POETRY The task set out in this essay is to examine the listed devices (accentuation‚ creation of hierarchies‚ shifts of accent‚ ambiguity‚ semanticisation and creation of relationship) of syntactic foregrounding‚ using examples from poems as illustration. The word ‘foregrounding’ when used in a literary context means to ‘make strange’. In other words poets use various literary and poetic devices in order to highlight a particular unit within a poem‚ in order
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Brayden Lantz February 1‚ 2015 Mrs. Blackey--Period 7 Poetry Analysis Revision: "Buffet Etiquette" The speaker of "Buffet Etiquette" by Hieu Minh Nguyen is troubled because of his lack of his Vietnamese ethnicity due to the "melting pot" of American culture. As a child‚ the speaker was heavily influenced by his native culture‚ but‚ over the years the he has become more integrated with U.S. culture‚ which has thus caused him to lose identity of himself‚ and even become a stereotype for Asian Americans
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(stop) and looked at the judge and the dog. 2. (a) What do you understand by sentences and how many kinds of sentences. (b) Change the voices: 1. Ram has finished his work. 2 .I am playing cricket. 3.Who taught you English? 4.She was writing her letters. 5.They will read their lesson. 4. Write a short essay (about 200 words) on one of the following:
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festivities of the early night‚ the guests anticipate greater opportunities for fun and fame‚ disregarding their possible consequences. In reaching for their goals‚ they change the feelings at the very core of the event. Unfortunately‚ their sacrifices amount to nothing‚ and seeing their failure to satisfy themselves makes the party torture. Finally‚ the promise of new chances and satisfaction manifests in the form of the end of the party and a new day. Shakespeare uses the night in Macbeth to reveal
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|SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. | |In the first
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