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    IQE Charts for Module A – Tim Winton’s Short Stories and The Poetry of Zohra Saed. Theme/Value: Identity Context and text (Tim Winton) Technique & Quote Explanation Technique & Quote Context and text (Zohra Saed) “Big World” is a story of two boys’ lives as they finish school and assert their independence in the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Context: Grew up in small towns in WA. Working class background. Father was a police officer and great story teller. Educated at university. Christian

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    tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines’ The poetry of Yeats gives a deep‚ profound and though-provoking experience. His sweepingly broad thematic focus deals with issues that are timeless and universal. We realise Yeats both is a very public and a very private poet‚ his work ranging from the personal and political‚ to Irish history and his own life experiences and emotions. He grew up in a very transitional time‚ where a world war and a civil war

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    In The Days When The World Was Wide The world is narrow and ways are short‚ and our lives are dull and slow‚ For little is new where the crowds resort‚ and less where the wanderers go; Greater‚ or smaller‚ the same old things we see by the dull road-side — And tired of all is the spirit that sings of the days when the world was wide. When the North was hale in the march of Time‚ and the South and the West were new‚ And the gorgeous East was a pantomime‚ as it seemed in our boyhood’s view; When Spain

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    How Has Photography Changed the World? ‘A picture can say a thousand words’ might seem a bit of a cliché‚ but it shouldn’t. Photography has truly revolutionised our world and it continues to do so. We’ve not only changed our own behaviours and thoughts as a result but also witnessed technological revolution with the help of photography. Let’s examine how the change has occurred. It has changer our understanding of the past Photography has provided humans with another form of recording past events

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    Maria Lugones in her article "Playfulness‚ “World”-Traveling‚ & Loving Perception" argues‚ it is until one designates the time to learn more information about others‚ they will not have a true understanding of that individual. She argues this by saying‚ it is a frequent practice of categorizing individuals with similar characteristics (i.e. race) in the same “world”. I will begin this precis by discussing Lugones’ idea of arrogant perception‚ and how she believes women are taught this practice

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    The Bible vs. The World on a Turtle’s Back The coming of man has always been ambiguous. Religion‚ ethnicity‚ and culture all participate in the coming of man. How mankind came into existence has many different versions‚ many of which lie in the Torah‚ Koran‚ and Bible. “The World on a Turtle’s Back” is the Iroquois belief of creation‚ divergent to “The Creation Story” from the Bible. Though these versions are about the same topic‚ they both differ on several accounts. “And God said‚ let there

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    day and age that we live in‚ technology is becoming an essential part of our daily lives. The twenty-first century‚ largely dubbed as the “Age of Technology” and also the “Era of Globalization‚” has brought on the feasibility of an interconnected world. Globalization is considered to be the unavoidable wave of the future. A few texts from Kwame Anthony Appiah‚ Marshall Poe‚ and Thomas L. Friedman further elaborate on a few important aspects of globalization. Technology‚ a major part of globalization

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    new world. The world was not a heaven‚ for not a single jaw crusher angel me hello. Visible to me were several indescribable‚ unnamable creatures. Their utterly weird shape and color took me by surprise‚ having no eyes‚ no nose‚ no hands or legs‚ sometimes their bulk being no larger than a puppy‚ another time their existence occupying everywhere. Taking a closer look‚ a few of them were engaged in something surely capturing my curiosity. Under what we might as well call "hands" lay a world where

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    John Mayer’s song “Waiting on the World to Change” best represents me as a person because of the fact that I want to change things and be the bigger person‚ but I can’t because I am not in power. The power lies in the older generations hands and it is held with a tight grip. My generation is more contained than recent generations because of the way the world has changed. Children now have to stay even closer to their parents than before because it is more “dangerous”. This doesn’t give children enough

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    English 120 11/28/2012 How could people ’s selfishness towards each other lead to world hunger? Human beings are naturally evil‚ in a sense that humans care only for themselves and when it comes to the rest of the human population all over the world‚ this human would rather have them starve to death then see himself struggle. World hunger affects millions of people worldwide. It is hard to believe why world hunger still exists even when we are able to feed every single human being based on the

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