OVERALL GRADE: ACHAL SAMY Title Of Text: -His First Ball Author/Director: -Witi Ihimaera Text Type: -Short Story Text Category: QUESTION: 1 - Choose an idea in the text that you have read and evaluate in details how it is presented. Support your evaluation with specific examples (quotation) ANSWER: - The evaluation I choose from the text I read is CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. Tatu Wharepapa receives an invitation from the governor-general to their flash party. The reason behind me choosing
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Wife of His Youth‚" Mr. Ryder is forced to make a decision about two women that he loves. As a member of the Blue Veins Society‚ Mr. Ryder has a very high social status in his community and the people look up to him. Liza Jane‚ an old slave is determined to find her old husband who is Mr. Ryder. Unaware that she has found her husband and that he has found someone else‚ Liza Jane causes Mr. Ryder to loose his pride in order to rekindle the love from his youth. Mr. Ryder’s qualities express his sincere
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Jasper Johns was born during the middle of The Great Depression on May 15‚ 1930 in Augusta‚ Georgia‚ he is currently 87 years old. His education consists of three semesters at the University of South Carolina‚ then moved on to New York‚ where he entered a commercial art school in 1949. Here he stayed until 1951‚ due to the fact he dropped out because his professors didn’t think his artwork met the merit of his scholarship. His mother was Jean Riley Johns and his father was Jasper‚ throughout his childhood
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Love to His Mistress Throughout history the ideas of proper sexuality for men and women have changed very little. Courtship is important today as it was in the 1600 ’s. Andrew Marvel ’s poem‚ "To His Coy Mistress"‚ is a typical carpe diem poem in which the speaker tells his mistress they should "seize the day". It is obvious that he wants her to have sexual relations with her now instead of having to wait until marriage. Marvell is not suggesting for lust to take over his heart although sex is the
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either prevail or fail at being successful. Both Johnson’s” To Sir John Lade‚ on His Coming of Age” and Housman’s “ When I Was One -and - Twenty “ attend to the obstinate yet delicate stage in a young man’s life although they have conflicting arguments. Through the use of imagery‚ irony‚ and repetition both sets of literary work emphasizes on advice for life changing approaches. In “To Sir John Lade‚ on His Coming of Age” the author uses an “jolly” but mellow tone displayed through the insouciant
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Gettysburg Address after reading and analyzing the speech. Though Abraham was not the official and featured orator in that ceremony‚ the 273-word is remembered as one of the most famous speeches in the American History. The speech contained some stylistic devices such as Asyndeton and repetition. The elimination of conjunction made the speech look more effective and dramatic by speeding up its pace and rhythm. The Asyndeton was also used in the speech to emphasize the dram or the gravity of his topic
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John Keats lived his life with influences coming through death and destruction. One of the most powerful influences in his life was his childhood school John Clarks Academy. There he was introduced to literature by Reverend John Clarke. Clarke showed him different things about life and politics. Charles Cowden Clark‚ the reverend’s son‚ was eight years older than Keats. As a mentor to Keats‚ Charles helped Keats develop his own personality. The death of Keats’s mother in 1810 caused a great impact
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The General and His Labyrinth Memorialized as one of South America’s greatest liberators‚ General Simon Bolivar led the wars to independence for Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Panama‚ and Venezuela. With the strength of passion and heartbreak of true love‚ Bolivar succeeded as a liberator‚ but fell short in his ultimate dream to unify his beloved continent. In his fictional novel‚ "The General and His Labyrinth"‚ Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates the General’s two year journey down the Magdalena
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Did Bad King John Deserve his Reputation? In this assessment‚ I will talk about whether King John was really as bad as people say he was by looking carefully at different sources and evidence. To many‚ John was cruel‚ greedy and ultimately a failure as King. John’s reputation as England’s worst monarch is partly due to hostile chroniclers‚ but also to an unfortunate reign.In the beginning of his reign (1202) John’s nephew died and everyone thought John was to blame and so they rebelled
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much in his lifetime. He added many new lands to his vast empire including Asia Minor‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ Sogdiana‚ and part of India. He became the conqueror of the world he knew. Alexander the Great was the son of Princess Olympias of Epirus (Cinderella) and King Philip II of Macedonia (Popovic). His parents hated each other and had an unstable marriage (Cinderella). Philip’s relationship with Alexander was also poor. He once told his son that he should be embarrassed by his high-pitched
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