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    Claire Smith P6590497 Assignment 03 Part 1 THE DALAI LAMA Identify two of the reputations of the Dalai Lama revealed in this newspaper extract and discuss them in relation to Book 1‚ Chapter 7. This essay will discuss and consider two of the several reputations that surround the 14th Dalai Lama‚ as found in the newspaper extract and other sources. well done for giving your reader an idea of the discussion that will follow‚ however‚ try to avoid single-sentence paragraphs. Also‚ it would be

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    investigate whether it relates to abnormal mental functions (Kaye par. 3). Using these three ways of psychoanalysis‚ I analyzed the poems “Digging” by Seamus Heaney‚ “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke‚ and “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath and discovered how the mental state of the author affects the characters and tone of their writing. Seamus Heaney ’s "Digging” opens with the author at his desk‚ pen in hand‚ and beginning to write. The first person to investigate would be the speaker‚ who is distracted

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    ideal example of what courage entails. Beowulf initially appeared as a boy who has encountered the ocean‚ “to be a match for Grendel and settle the outcome in single combat” (Heaney 29). Moreover‚ Beowulf points out that he is undertaking this to “perform to the uttermost what the Danes want or perish in the attempt” (Heaney 43). In fighting with

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    increases Heaney’s measured emotional response; like the Moirai of the Greeks‚ Fates who impersonally cut life short‚ Heaney’s triads keep his emotions in check. This poem is powerfully moving because of its emotional restraint and control of tone. Heaney concentrates on observed details and it is the accumulation of these details that helps to make

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    Achilles were invincible against their enemies until their death turned into fate. Beowulf had to fight off three evils and in the end it took a powerful beast like a dragon to kill him. “A warrior will sooner die than live a life of shame.” (line 2890 Heaney) After all of the fighting that Achilles went through it was a mere arrow through the foot from Paris that took his life away. It was almost as if Achilles’s greedy ways gave him a death that was not fit for his story. Beowulf stood strong with dignity

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    Beowulf: A True Hero

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    the sake of saving others. "I hereby renounce sword and the shelter of the broad shield‚ the heave war-board: hand-to-hand is how it will be‚ a life-and-death fight with the fiend. Whichever one death fells must deem it a just judgment by God." (Heaney lines 436-441). Grendel had obfuscated Heorot for twelve years and had killed many with his mighty strength. Beowulf knows that by going into a melee with the evil monster Grendel‚ he is endangering his own life. He also knows‚ however‚ that

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    Gulliver’s Travels Unpopular Essays Only the introduction to the book entitled “Culture and Imperialism” Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry” from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry 2. 3. 4. 5. Jonathan Swift Bertrand Russell Edward Said Seamus Heaney Paper V: (American Literature) Poetry 1. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck

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    night-dangers and hard ordeals I have never heard of nor of a man more desolate in surging waves. But worn out as I was‚ I survived‚ came through with my life. The ocean lifted and laid me ashore‚ I landed safe on the coast of Finland.” * Seamus Heaney‚ Beowulf: A new Translation‚ Lines 559-581 The epic poem‚ Beowulf‚ is an old classic hero tale. The author tells throughout the poem how Beowulf is an archetypal hero through different characteristics‚ good and bad combined. He usually portrays

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    prophecy spoken by God through the Hebrew prophet Isaiah. This is the standard to which Beowulf must be compared to determination the nature of the poem. Many scholars such as Harold Bloom (quoting E. Talbot Donaldson)‚ Roberta Frank‚ Rich Lawson‚ Seamus Heaney‚ and J. R. R. Tolkien (quoting R. W. Chambers) have critically viewed Beowulf to determine the nature of the epic‚ resulting in a diverse range of conclusions. In establishing a standard of messianic narrative for Beowulf to reach‚ God’s metanarrative

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