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    This poem is written in first person perspective‚ expressing my love for my lover in a long-distance relationship. Being written in the form of Shakespearian sonnet‚ it strictly conforms to the end-rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Composed by three quatrains and one couplet‚ it is basically an iambic pentameter‚ with variations in some lines. The poem depicts the pain of being separated both in time and space respectively in the first two stanzas. The third stanza is where the “turn” appears.

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    Gasping‚ he clutched onto the edge of the pool as he completed his timed freestyle lap. Obscuring his gaze were the black dots of fatigue‚ only allowing him a clouded view of his coach’s face; enough to reveal his displeasure. “17 seconds. Slower than last week and definitely not good enough.” The coach marched out of the pool complex‚ abandoning him to contemplate those words that echoed off the walls of the deserted building. His hands trembled and his eyes glistened as he hauled his gaunt body from

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    Like many of her poems‚ "The Last Night that She Lived" contains poet Emily Dickinson’s exploration of dying and human emotion. Rather than romanticizing death‚ however‚ Dickinson utilizes death as a simple process in human life. She achieves this by creating a tone progression in the speaker‚ beginning with excited hope in disappointed realization‚ through the use of exchange active and passive figurative language and structure patterns. Dickinson basically marks the shift of the speaker’s

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    lineage of the Mammalian family‚ the hedgehog and the armadillo are also separated by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa‚ author of “Night of the Armadillo”‚ both declare society as a negative parasitic being. Both mammalian protagonists bear suits of armor that barely suppress the

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    woman’s death can be divided into two sections in “The Last Night that She Lived” by Emily Dickinson. In the beginning (lines 1-20)‚ the reader sees the speaker feeling pain and being aware of the woman’s death. In lines 21- 28 the speaker shows feelings of guilt but also respect. The use of metaphors‚ similes‚ caesuras‚ oxymoron‚ repetition‚ and syntax all lead to the overall tone for this poem: despair. A prominent topic throughout the poem is the inevitability of the woman’s death. Lines 2-4

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    from our seats and leave popcorn buckets behind‚ leaving her alone. Her role is done‚ she’s left the impression upon young hearts and change will not be standing by. "Old Heroines" by Julia Alvarez is about this. Focusing on the affect a heroine has on other women‚ and what happens to her afterwards. In the first stanza of the poem‚ Alvarez describes our heroine. She has just completed her task‚ her giant push in what she believes is the right direction. She is still young and she too is changing

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    In a poem of reminiscent adolescence‚ Sharon Olds defines a young girl who has the capacity to judge adolescent emotion with the benefit of time‚ for she is now a mother herself. This definitive view of adolescent values and thought is mingled with the mystery of symbolic mathematics‚ which represents a maturity of this thought and a colorful insight into the development of a young girl as she becomes a woman. This poem also accentuates the mystery associated with the minds of the female gender‚

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    AUSTON INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF BUSINESS‚ ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS A141HRM MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK COURSEWORK Individual Assignment STUDENT NAME : AISHATH HUSSAIN STUDENT NUMBER : T11300875 SUPERVISOR : SUBMISSION DATE : 9TH MAY 2013 TABLE OF CONTENT Job description of Human resource manager.....................................................Page 1 Job description of Accountant...

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    smoother the texture. In the poem Old Men Playing Basketball‚ B. H. Fairchild suggests that there is an eventual downfall to all lives; they try to reclaim their competence but doing so only evokes the nostalgia for the lost youth. Through the scene of old men basketball‚ Fairchild captures the details of the old men’s unfitness and laments on the speed that life decays at and the inabilities that comes with aging as memories of their younger self are still fresh. Though the old men can never be young

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    Robert Browning’s poems ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’ are both about psychotic men who kill their lovers. However‚ the men differ in their motives as Porphyria’s murder could be considered to be done out of love whereas the dukes murder is one of jealousy. This heavily influences our feeling towards the two men‚ as the duke is a bitter misogynist compared to Porphyria’s ‘Tender murderer’. Dramatic monologue by definition is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the

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