Analysis W. H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen” is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. The poem was also titled after “tombs of the unknown soldiers”‚ tombs that were used to represent soldiers who were impossible to identify since the end of World War I. Auden wrote the poem shortly after becoming a citizen of the United States. He came to the U. S. to escape what
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Analysis (from “W. S.”) The text under analysis is an extract from the story W. S. by the well-known English novelist Leslie Poles Hartley. He wrote a number of novels and made a weighty contribution to English fiction. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1947) and The Go-Between (1953). In the very beginning of the given extract‚ Walter Streeter‚ the main character‚ gets the postcard from Forfar. The sender‚ W.S.‚ asks whether he really thinks that he is really gets to grips
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Auden was born 21 February 1907‚ in York‚ the son of a physician. At first interested in science‚ he soon turned to poetry. In 1925 he entered Christ Church College‚ University of Oxford‚ where he became the centre of a group of literary intellectuals that included Stephen Spender‚ Christopher Isherwood‚ C. Day Lewis‚ And Louis MacNeice. After graduation he was schoolmaster in Scotland and England for five years. In London‚ in the early 1930s‚ Auden belonged to a circle of promising young poets
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AS GCE Health and Social Care Revision Schedule [v3] [F910] Unit 1: Promoting Quality Care |Topic |Details |Completed | |Attitudes and |Definition of attitude‚ stereotype‚ prejudice‚ social exclusion and discrimination. | | |Prejudices |
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transformed cell will divide many‚ many times to form a colony of millions of cells‚ each of which carries the recombinant DNA molecule (DNA clone) (From: AN INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ANALYSIS 6/E BY Griffiths‚ Miller‚ Suzuki‚ Leontin‚ Gelbart © 1996 by W. H. Freeman and Company. Used with permission.) A. Isolating DNA 1. Crude isolation of donor (foreign) DNA is accomplished by isolating cells à disrupting lipid membranes with detergents à destroying proteins with phenol or proteases à degrading
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George. H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush was born on July 6th 1946‚ in Milton‚ Massachusetts. He was born into a wealthy family. Bush’s family was politically active. As a student‚ Bush went to a boarding school in Andover‚ Massachusetts‚ called Phillips Academy. This school is where he met his wife Barbara Pierce. He was 17 and Barbara was 16. When he turned 18 he enlisted in the Navy. Bush fought in WWII and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He had a near death experience when his
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A Made World: Anthropocentricity in the Works of Auden and MacNeice In his 1941 poem “London Rain‚” Louis MacNeice writes “The world is what was given / The world is what we make.” In “London Rain” itself‚ MacNeice does not emphasize the latter sentiment‚ ultimately hinting at the difficulty of trying to “make” anything in his concluding description of his “wishes…come[ing] homeward / their gallopings in vain.” Yet for all the suggestions of impotence in “London Rain’s” final stanza‚ in MacNeice’s
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Craig Cramer 8 September 2014 Eulogy of Wystan Hugh Auden Unique Achievements We have gathered here to eulogize Wystan Hugh Auden‚ a man and poet of great and beautiful works of art. While I will not be able to recite and commemorate all of his works and their deeper meanings I hope to at least give a small insight on this great mans’ life through what could be considered only small sliver of his overall works. W. H. Auden was not only a great poet during his life but an author as
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Individual vs. Social Consciousness in Hobbes‚ Madison‚ Hegel‚ and Marx Hobbes and Madison derive their concept of politics in the liberal tradition of individualism‚ sketching out an ahistorical notion of human nature. By contrast‚ Hegel and Marx view the political as a social construction understood as dialectic. From this dialectic arises a progressive self consciousness. This is a historical process. Hobbes approach towards the nature of man is viewed from a mechanistic and ontological perspective:
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Douglas W. Shrader defines the seven characteristics of mystical experiences as ineffability‚ noetic quality‚ transiency‚ passivity‚ unity of opposites‚ timelessness‚ and a feeling that one has somehow encountered “the true self.” The best way I can explain the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” is that it’s the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious. I do believe that consciousness is created by the brain due to a childhood experience. When I was in high
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