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    Introduction Sainsbury’s is now the third most important food retailer in the United Kingdom. In 1995‚ Tesco overtook the company to become the market leader after more than 20 years of constant growing. It has recently been pushed back by Asda in 2003. Sainsbury’s Supermarkets employ over 145‚000 people‚ including Sava Centre. A large Sainsbury’s Supermarket offers over 23‚000 products‚ 40% of these are Sainsbury’s own brand. The Sainsbury’s supermarkets serve over 11 million customers a

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    Analysis of Byron’s "She Walks in Beauty" Lord George Gordon Byron was most notorious for his love affairs within his family and with Mediterranean boys. Since he had problems such as incest and homosexuality‚ he did not mind writing about his love for his cousin in "She Walks in Beauty". Byron wrote the poem after he left his wife and England forever. Byron made his own trend of personality‚ the idea of the ‘Byronic Hero’. "Byron’s influence on European poetry‚ music‚ novels‚ operas‚ and paintings

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    Maddy Wilson Mrs. Haines English 10H 25 January 2012 More Than Meets The Eye Love poems are one of the most simple and easy to understand forms of writing. They have a basic formula consisting of an introduction of the subject that is being written about‚ several comparisons‚ and a profession of the author’s love towards the subject. Although this may vary from poem to poem‚ the initial idea remains the same. On the surface of these poems‚ the words seem to be very shallow and are general compliments

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    Week 5 Discussion-Romanticism in Frankenstein Miranda Rodriguez Romanticism was an intellectual movement that took hold in Europe during the late 18th century. Romanticism was born out of a direct opposition to Enlightenment views that emphasized reason‚ science and knowledge. The Enlightenment had evolved as a response to oppression by the church. During the Enlightenment Europeans began to question the laws of the church and state that were deemed biased and unfair. As a result to

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    Rubén del Mazo Villanueva 3 January 2013 CAIN by GEORGE GORDON BYRON (LORD BYRON) In this paper we are going to analyze the work Cain by the British poet Lord Byron‚ published in 1821‚ in which we can appreciate an outstanding influence of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The story of Cain and Abel appears in the book of Genesis in the Bible‚ and the reader must understand that this myth is placed within the Christian doctrine. On the one hand‚ through this kind of fable the exile of man

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    Don Juan

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    Lord Byron’s Don Juan is a satirical poem that offers a seemingly comical and serious outlook of sexuality. In three different sexual relations in three different places‚ the events that surround Don Juan are both laughable and questionable. From an early affair with Donna Julia‚ to an innocently‚ beautiful engagement with Haidee and finally an unfulfilled and avoided relation with the Sultana Gulbeyaz‚ Don Juan escapes through the clutches of love with shattered innocence‚ a broken heart and near

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    ------------------------------------------------- Student`s Individual Work №1 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Stylistic device (see the lecture №3) Simile An explicit comparison between two things which are basically quite different using words such as like or as. She walks like an angel. / I wandered lonely as a cloud. (Wordsworth) Metaphor A comparison between two things which are basically quite different without using

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    Byron's Legacy

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    Honors British Literature Byron’s Legacy Lord Byron was a moody‚ proud‚ cynical and fierce man who frowned upon society and constantly defied it. We see in much of his literature a reflection of himself. The characteristics of Byron are illustrated in works of writing other than his own. His fictitious embodiment appears in the book Frankenstein‚ the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ and the modern book The Hunger Games. The characters with Byron-like qualities are considered Byronic(or

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    Characteristics of the Byronic Hero The Byronic hero--so named because it evolved primarily due to Lord Byron’s writing in the nineteenth century—is‚ according to Peter Thorslev‚ one of the most prominent literary character types of the Romantic period: Romantic heroes represent an important tradition in our literature . . .. In England we have a reinterpreted Paradise Lost‚ a number of Gothic novels and dramas . . . the heroic romances of the younger Scott‚ some of the poetry of Shelley

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    The Multiple Dimensions of Beauty Alcine M. Gross ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor Jaclyn Mallan-King May 28‚ 2012 The Multiple Dimensions of Beauty "She Walks in Beauty‚" is a lyric poem that focuses on the true beauty both described outwardly and inwardly as seen by the narrator. George Gordon Byron (more commonly known as Lord Byron) describes this woman in detail regarding her character and her physical looks in order to emphasize her beauty. The title of this poem gives

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