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    Fleurs Tracks

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    Fleur’s Tracks In Louise Erdrich’s “Tracks”‚ the readers discovers by the second chapter that there are two narrators‚ Nanapush and Pauline Puyat. This method of having two narrators telling their stories alternately could be at first confusing‚ especially if the readers hasn’t been briefed about it or hasn’t read a synopsis of it. Traditionally‚ there is one narrator in the story‚ but Erdrich does an effective and spectacular job in combining Nanapush

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    My Like of Stare

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    Nowadays‚ the Internet technology is closely related to people daily living‚ which brings many convenience and benefit to people. However‚ with Internet technology is booming in last decade that also exposes many problems‚ such as Internet privacy and cyber crime. Therefore‚ Internet censorship is in order to make safety and healthy online environment‚ which is widely used by many organizations and groups. In the strict word to explain what Internet censorship is suppression the information to access

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    All We Know - Chainsmokers The song ‘All We Know’ by the Chainsmokers is a song‚ (assisted by a music video) showing the idea of sorrow and anger after losing someone important in your life. It follows an unknown character in the video‚ a young man. It begins with him receiving a phone call then proceeds to follow him through pain and anger‚ the phone call is in darkness‚ the person on the other end of the line is muffled and is unable to be interpreted. The key idea expressed in this text is that

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    We All Fall Down

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    the house immediately grabs the reader’s attention. The matter-of-fact‚ objective tone lists through the use of accumulation the extent of the destruction the vandals create. ’’ They over-turned furniture‚ smashed the picture tubes... tore two VCRs from their sockets’’. The repetition of the personal pronoun ’’they’’ highlights the fact that these vandals are anonymous. The use of strong verbs ’’broke‚ yanked‚ smashed’’ conveys the degree/extent/enormity of their violence. Cormier’s choice

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    We come across the different types of advertisements in our day-to-day life. They have invaded every aspect of our day to day dealings‚ our conversations‚ our thoughts and to a certain extent control our behavior as customers and consumers of goods and services. Advertisements stare and scream at us from every street corner‚ every newspaper‚ every magazine‚ every hoarding‚ every stall or shop or showroom to walls of every public building‚ vehicle‚ radio and television. They don’t even spare our computer

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    The Vietnam War was one of the most deadly wars in United States history. The amount of people that died is insurmountable‚ and we will never forget those who gave there lives during combat. Many films were made to show the American public how gruesome and bloody the Vietnam War was. I believe one of the best films that portray this is We Were Soldiers. The film We Were Soldiers is based on a true story of the combat that occurred in the Vietnam War. The battle takes place at the La Drang Valley

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    support that is essential to human nature. Romulus‚ My Father‚ a biographical memoir written by Raimond Gaita‚ explores these concepts of how connections to people and place‚ or lack thereof‚ can have dramatic and detrimental consequences on our wellbeing. This is particularly explored in the characters Christine and Romulus‚ who each experience an absence of belonging in their relationships with people and place. As well as this‚ Romulus‚ My Father demonstrates how belonging to place can be affected

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    Remember

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    Remember By Christina Rossetti On the surface‚ ‘Remember’ is all about death. The poem is written in the second person‚ suggesting a relationship of some kind - of ‘you’ and ‘me’. At the time of writing‚ Rossetti was only nineteen‚ but had lived many years with a dying father so this may be understood as either a dramatic imagining of her father’s impending death‚ or a wide-ranging poem regarding death. In the first line‚ which is the theme of the whole poem the narrator asks to be remembered

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    ’There’s no place like home’ Each one of us has a place which brings back memories‚ a place where we create new memories‚ a place which is a symbol of comfort and wellness. This place is what we call home. Home: it’s not just a place to lay your head; no it’s more than that. It is also a place that you are always welcomed‚ a place where you know you are safe‚ and can hide from the outside world. Home is a place where you can always turn to and there will be open doors awaiting you. It is a place

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    The poets of both ‘Vultures’ and ‘What were they Like?’ present people in a very interesting way. ‘Vultures’ is a poem not just about vultures and the commandant‚ but rather explores whether there is hope because there is love everywhere‚ or whether there is despair‚ because even though love is there‚ evil is still always present. However‚ in WWTL‚ Levertov is obviously focusing on the effects of the evil of people rather than questioning the nature of evil itself in people. To begin with‚ Achebe

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