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    Refugee Blues

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    Auden’s ‘Refugee Blues’ laments the plight of the Jews who were forced to flee Europe when the Holocaust started and they were rounded up and killed or imprisoned under the cruel regime of Hitler. The poem starts with a narrator‚ who is later revealed to be a German Jew‚ describing a large city which is home to ten million people some of whom are well off and live in luxurious large houses while others make do in slums and shabby houses. Yet‚ the narrator tells the person with him‚ presumably a

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    stranger that I’ve become. When I opened them I was laid on the bathroom floor‚ my head was kept elevated by the school nurse‚ I saw a young girl with a frighten confused face‚ and I saw men walking around talking into walkie-talkies screaming “Code Blue! Code Blue!” Once they noticed I was awake I was bombarded with questions back to back. My mind was blank‚ nothing

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    Varsity Blues

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    many other people‚ they have found football to be a hobby‚ something to do in there past time. They have formed habits around watching the game. In the movie "Varsity Blues‚" football isn’t just a past time for the town‚ but it is a way of life‚ the whole town is involved in the high school football team. "Varsity Blues" takes place in a small town in Texas called West Canyon‚ in this town if you are a healthy boy‚ then you are a football player. Young males have tons of pressure from their

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    Perfect Blue

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    Title: Perfect blue Page 1-48 Author: Laura Langston Setting: Grandma’s house‚ School and home. Main Characters: Description: Erin  Dog lover‚ really tall‚ Dark hair and responsible. Cassie Prankster‚ loves horses and has light hair. Steve (dad) Joker‚ young and careless

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    blue bouquet

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    The Blue Bouquet Have you even been in a situation when you have gone from total innocence to experience in a short period of time? In the short story “The Blue Bouquet” written by Octavio Paz‚ the main character starts off by waking up from a nap and going on a walk even after being warned not to by the owner of the boardinghouse. Whilst out the protagonist gets stopped in the middle of the night by another man with a knife who wanted something very unusual. It wasn’t money or jewelry; it was

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    out of the blue

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    ’Out of the Blue’ is a dramatic monologue spoken by one of the people inside the twin towers on 9/11‚ from inside the burning building. The effect is of extreme close up on a tiny point in space in time‚ almost in a 1to1 narrative time. The event is narrated as it happens an appeal to a second person who could not be listening. This creates an weird effect‚ of an event we cannot touch‚ of lost people who could not speak to us‚ even though we watched at the time or later: the flames‚ the people who

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    Refugee Blues

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    Language about war | Ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro. Looking for you and me‚ my dear‚ looking for you and me | Ten thousand soldiers are looking for two people- All the soldiers are looking for the Jews | | | | | | | Refugee blues- blues music Ten million souls (religious‚ holy‚ implies we are all the same) Society is unfair on the way it treats people (some are living in mansions‚ some are living in holes) Atlas – there not anywhere close to there home‚

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    Tania Amjad 3-3-14 Oedipus the King 2) By the end of the play‚ Oedipus and Jocasta suffer extreme punishments. Write an essay that evaluates the punishments and how the punishments contribute to the tragedy of the play. Justice was served to Oedipus and Jocasta at the end of the play when they both suffered extreme punishments. By the end of the play Oedipus the King written by Sophocles‚ Oedipus and Jocasta suffer extreme punishments. Jocasta is the Queen of Thebes and Oedipus is Jocasta’s husband

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    Funeral Blues

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    Funeral Blues Summary Stanza 1 Lines 1-2 Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ The song begins with a series of harsh commands : stop the clocks! Cut off the telephones! The speaker sounds forceful and even angry. These seem like physical representations of time and communication to us. He wants everything to just stop. In the next line‚ he ask for silence. He wants dogs to stop barking too. On the other hand‚ the speaker is addressing an audience

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    The Blue Marble

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    Personal Response The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth that was taken December 7th‚ 1972 when the Apollo 17 crew were travelling toward the moon. The title of the beautiful photograph could symbolize many things but what I understood from it is that we see ourselves living on a small planet with many different aspects but in the end were always together if we put the effort in staying together. When observing The Blue Marble‚ I have realized many things such as the photograph gives me a better

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