History 137 Abilities Based Assignment: Think Piece Taken Hostage On David Farber’s book Taken Hostage‚ Farber informs us about the Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam. This book tells us how the United States and Iran got into conflict‚ leading to the Iranians holding American Embassy members hostage as revenge for them feeling betrayed by the United States. It also informs us about other events that occurred in a decade that caused the United States many
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Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” People always want to know if they can really make a difference in their lives. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” consider this problem thoroughly. They both portray a person at a crucial moment of his life. Frost’s poem describes the tough choice a traveler has to make about which of two presumably identical roads to pick‚ while Tennyson’s poem focuses on the acceptance
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Emily Dickinson’s poetry can be seen as a study of deep fears and emotions‚ specifically in her exploration of death. In her famous poem #465 Dickinson explores the possibility of a life without the elaborate‚ finished ending that her religious upbringing promised her. She forces herself to question whether there is a possibility of death being a mundane nothingness. In this last moment of doubt in the appearance of the divine‚ the speaker in the poem find an independent and personal acceptance of
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locutionary‚ illocutionary‚ and perlocutionary acts. Speech acts are commonly taken to include such acts as promising‚ ordering‚ greeting‚ warning‚ inviting and congratulating. Contents * 1 Locutionary‚ illocutionary and perlocutionary acts * 2 Illocutionary acts * 2.1 Classifying illocutionary speech acts * 3 Indirect speech acts * 3.1 John Searle ’s theory of "indirect speech acts" * 3.2 Analysis using Searle ’s theory * 4 History * 5 In language development * 6 In
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Experiencing Through a Story Living in a post-apocalyptic world would leave one feeling terrified‚ alone‚ and on the brink of going mad‚ but it is hard to imagine these feelings to the actual extent. In the book The Road‚ McCarthy is able to draw the readers in for them to experience the real emotions of living in a post-apocalyptic world. The readers are able to feel this fear and realness because McCarthy impersonalizes the two main characters and clearly depicts the differences of life before
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all of the other sonnets‚ and like Shakespeare’s plays‚ is written in iambic pentameter. Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b‚ c-d-c-d‚ e-f-e-f‚ g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. Meaning: Overall Meaning: Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. The poet praises the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship
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The Road by: Cormac McCarthy Described the novel as a “gripping‚ heart-rending story‚ which explores the depths of despair and savagery beside the heights of love‚ tenderness and self-sacrifice.” Destruction‚ survival‚ isolation‚ and death are prominent themes in The Road. Most life has been wiped out by some unnamed catastrophic event. Cities are destroyed; plant life is gone; animals have disappeared. Civilization has broken down‚ and chaos reigns in its place. No matter where the man and the
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questions about their past and they will gladly answer. It’s almost as if it is kind of testing the speaker‚ like will or she actually answer the question? And the answer is most definitely yes. As for the meaning‚ I am not too sure. I guess some poetry cannot always be explained so well but that’s okay because I still enjoy reading it and trying to figure out what it is about. But I can pretty much understand the gist of the poem. It is just the last line that gets me‚ "What the river says‚ that
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Taking for Granted One’s life may seem dull when favored by many but not by one’s family. A lazy man‚ not devoted to his family‚ who neglects his obligations‚ is selfish and cowardly. Life is short‚ even shorter and less rewarding when taken for granted. Living life as a pessimist leads one to such displeasure but living optimistically will guide one to happiness. “Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by Washington Irving regarding a gentleman’s displeasure with his marriage
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‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti This Victorian poem is about the narrator (a fallen woman)‚ the Lord and Kate. It is a ballad which tells the story from the narrator’s perspective about being shunned by society after her ‘experiences’ with the lord. The poem’s female speaker recalls her contentment in her humble surroundings until the local ‘Lord of the Manor’ took her to be his lover. He discarded her when she became pregnant and his affections turned to another village girl‚ Kate‚ whom he
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