chosen six poems‚ three by Wilfred Owen and three by Australian poets. Anthem for Doomed Youth ’‚ The Send Off ’ and Insensibility (1) ’ were written by Owen during the first world war to express his anti-war attitude. Beach Burial ’ by Kenneth Slessor‚ Homecoming ’ by Bruce Dawe and Letter XV ’ by Bruce Beaver are famous Australian poems about war. The poems have many similarities‚ especially in content‚ but also have their differences. The subject matter of the poems is obviously generally
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Bloody‚ blanketed battlefields. Twisted corpses‚ rotting in the scorching day’s sun. War brings out the horrifying and gratuitous violence in humanity. For centuries we have been fighting against our own kind and for what purpose? War. What is it good for? ‘Absolutely nothing’ according to soul singer Edwin Starr. Even today‚ turn on the TV any day of the week and we will be confronted by horrifying images straight out of a horror movie. Severed heads being carried by children. Innocent people slaughtered
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effects on the body and its senses. The focus of the human body‚ its sensuality and also the harm that is inflicted upon it‚ is one of Marguerite Duras’ themes throughout her work The Lover. The paradoxical representation of sensuality and harm occurring to the human body simultaneously in Duras’ The Lover is depicted through the clothing of the main character. The first marker of this simultaneous mixture of sensuality and harm to the body is evident in the narrator’s preferred self-image:
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Victorian Certificate of Education 2011 ENGLISH (ESL) Written examination Thursday 3 November 2011 Reading time: 9.00 am to 9.15 am (15 minutes) Writing time: 9.15 am to 12.15 pm (3 hours) TASK BOOK Section Number of questions A – Text response (Reading and responding) B – Writing in Context (Creating and presenting) C – nalysis of language use (Using language to A persuade) 20 4 2 Number of questions to be answered 1 1 2 Marks 40 30 30 Total
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experience that he remembered clearly‚ although it wasn’t until 15 that he began to enjoy and write poetry. His teacher‚ Hugh McRae‚ who was himself a poet‚ and the well-known poets D. H. Lawrence‚ T. S. Elliot‚ Patrick White‚ Les Murray and Kenneth Slessor were the main influences towards Gray’s poetry‚ and inspired him greatly. At home‚ his father was often asking Gray to repeat quotations from authors‚ such as Kipling‚ Longfellow and Browning‚ once he realised his son had a great ability in English
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Bible……………………………………………………………...4 Old Testament and missions……………………………………………………………..5 New Testament and missions …………………………………………………………..8 The First Missionary…………………………………………………………………….9 The Command…………………………………………………………………………..10 The Story of Mary Slessor………………………………………………………………11 Practical Steps…………………………………………………………………….……. 11 When does God call people to long-term missionary service?.........................................13 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………14
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evolved his personal work to become one of England’s leading landscape photographers. He worked in diverse areas of photography from documentary‚ through portraiture to still life‚ with a particular focus in more recent years on tulips as symbols of sensuality and elegance. Blakemore is celebrated for the detail‚ texture and tonal richness of his work Sandra blazell- graphite and acrylics Matisse started to create large scale cut paper collages. He called the technique ‘painting with scissors’.
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compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs (Summary from Brutland‚ 1987 in World Commission on Environment and Development cited in Abasiekong 2010) Just as it was the desire‚ the quest‚ the will and the passion of Mary Slessor in 1848‚ turned the barbaric part of our culture into a universal morality‚ we also need that passion‚ a strong emotion that motivates us to move beyond our comfort zone and to achieve the potential that reside within us (Hagel 2009). As much as we
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infused with these three intangible‚ yet very real‚ ingredients: Mystery‚ Sensuality and Intimacy. Mystery draws together stories‚ metaphors‚ dreams and symbols. It is where past‚ present and future become one. Mystery adds to the complexity of relationships and experiences because people are drawn to what they don’t know. After all‚ if we knew everything‚ there would be nothing left to learn or to wonder at. Sensuality keeps the five senses on constant alert for new textures‚ intriguing scents
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asserts that human nature is complex‚ as it is comprised of two contradictory forces- rationality and irrationality. He acknowledges that while order and logic are crucial in a functioning society‚ they can also be stifling. Likewise‚ while embracing sensuality‚ which can offer release and freedom‚ it too can be destructive. Euripides’ tragic play thus explores whether there is space for this irrationality in a well structured and ordered society. While the playwright does not come to a conclusion‚ he
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