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    Carol Ann Duffy

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    contrasting. Salome is aware of her loneliness and the fact that she was involved in many one night stands: "I’d done it before (and doubtless I’ll do it sooner or later)" The reason of Havisham’s spinster state is that she was deserted by her fiancé - she is not wanted anymore. Both ladies are exposing in the poem their feelings towards men. Havisham‚ has assorted emotions concerning her ex-fiancé‚ which she expresses in an oxymoron; "Beloved sweetheart bastard" In my opinion‚ Salome doesn’t really

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     (1877-78)- Rizal finishing the first year of a course in Philosophy and Letters. - He transferred to the medical course.  MOTHER’S OPPOSITION TO HIGHER EDUCATION - Rizal had to go the University of Santo Tomas for higher studies. - The Bachelor of Arts course. Don Francisco and Paciano – who wanted Jose pursue higher learning in the university  RIZAL ENTERS THE UNIVERSITY April 1877- Rizal who was then nearly 16 years old‚ matriculated in the University of Santo Tomas‚

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    Love is presented as a troubling and destructive emotion in both ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Duffy’s poem ‘Miss Havisham’. Shakespeare frequently uses oxymorons to convey Romeo’s extreme and conflicting emotions to the audience‚ ‘feather of lead‚ bright smoke‚ cold fire‚ sick health’. These oxymorons imply that everything that Romeo thought he once understood has been reversed due to his love for Rosaline‚ leaving him confused and isolated. ‘Sick health’ in particular highlights the contrast between

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    (“Statistics”). The biggest problem that these people faced in these tenements was poor living conditions. The rooms in the tenements were divided to numerous small rooms without any light‚ ventilation or water. All these rooms were filled with poor people who didn’t have money for a better place and better life. “While reckless slovenliness‚ discontent

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    illustrate what was in happening among the tenements where these diverse immigrants lived and the different ways they thrived. In this book by Jacob A. Riis‚ the author provides the readers with an insight of what the tenement life was like. Riis describes in detail what he saw in the tenements such as extreme poverty‚ gangs‚ diseases‚ and crime. He explains to the readers how it is that the wealthy became wealthy through the poor by creating these tenements. Riis also provided the readers with

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    two men who are trying to repossess his car‚ hides in a garage on her dilapidated estate‚ Norma mistakes him for an undertaker who is to bury her dead pet chimpanzee. Norma finds that he is a writer‚ and she insists he help her with her script for Salome‚ a film in which she plans to make her triumphant "return." Her writing is pathetic‚ but because he thinks he will be safe there he agrees. The haughty‚ grasping Norma is cared for by her butler Max‚ her former director and ex-husband‚ who forges

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    Gilded problems Living conditions during the gilded age were not healthy. Many people lived in tenements. Life in the tenements was trashy‚ and the space between each tenement was about one foot. They also did not have any type of plumbing‚ so all the waste would wash down to the street. Also many people would live in one small tenement. Between 1812 and 1840 the American political landscape underwent significant changes. The most important of these changes was the rise of the formal political

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    The Mystical Politics of Jesus: An Ode to Kristofferson’s Song‚ “Jesus Was a Capricorn” By Ricky Vinson Addressing the provocative Kris Kristofferson song “Jesus Was a Capricorn‚” I will mention the mere title of another like-themed song‚ “I Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’ To Die Rag‚” performed by folk-rock-political musician Country Joe McDonald at the historically pivotal Woodstock Festival‚ August 1969—simply to serve as food thought‚ no distraction intended. Still‚ from my perspective‚ to dissect

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    n 1890‚ Jacob Riis published a groundbreaking booked titled “How the Other Half Lives.” Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ spent the majority of the 1880s collecting the information that would later go into his bestselling book. “How the Other Half Lives” provides a written and visual portrayal of the horrendous living conditions in many New York City slums. While the middle and upper classes lived considerably more comfortable lives‚ the people suffering through the horrid conditions in the aforementioned

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    through the clearing out of the lower classes in New York City’s Five Points Tenements during the late 19th century. The 19th century “slum” was a negative social and economic development that was based on locating immigrant workers in New York City into low-income tenement projects‚ which was an attempt to accommodate the massive influx of low-cost labor from Europe. The Five Points is an important example of over-crowded tenement housing that was unsustainable due to disease‚ poor sanitary conditions

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