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    THE PUB Goddamn it’s bright out here‚ all the phonies going to the lousy lake that depresses me. It really does. Everyone and they’re phony smiles just trying to get on a boat. It’ll make you puke just seeing these goddamn girls with their tits all in their face‚ make you want to puke. It really will. The only girl worth looking at was old Jane Gallagher; you could stare at that ass of hers all day long. You really could. She looked like one of those playboy models. Those girls sure are nice to

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    Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children’s stories and plays‚ poetry‚ biography‚ history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published. She won many literary awards and the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award for children’s literature is presented annually in her memory by the Children’s Book Circle‚ a society of publishers. The daughter of a British novelist and granddaughter

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    Gettysburg Address after reading and analyzing the speech. Though Abraham was not the official and featured orator in that ceremony‚ the 273-word is remembered as one of the most famous speeches in the American History. The speech contained some stylistic devices such as Asyndeton and repetition. The elimination of conjunction made the speech look more effective and dramatic by speeding up its pace and rhythm. The Asyndeton was also used in the speech to emphasize the dram or the gravity of his topic

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    punishment and a sudden trip to Jagborough sands; an unknown land; an accident with the aunt; evening in full silent. The text is written in the rather expressive tone which creates comic‚ satiric and ironical. And the author uses a large variety of stylistic devices‚ such as epithets: “grim chuckle‚ alleged frog‚ unknown land‚ stale delight‚ mere material pleasure‚ bare and cheerless‚ thickly growing vegetation; frivolous ground‚ considerable obstinacy”. They help the author to emphasize a deep dissension

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    “Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?” (221) In Anne Rice’s novel Interview With a Vampire‚ Rice speculates and draws on some of the most asked and wondered about questions of humankind: What is the purpose of our existence? What truly makes one good or evil? Is mankind doomed from birth to be evil? In her novel‚ Rice shows the theme of loss of innocence and good versus evil through the parallelism of evil vampirism and immoral

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    Parenting Styles and The Glass Castle The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir about her life‚ throughout the memoir you get to meet her parents which can be judged as a parent in many different ways. The parenting style that is most exemplified by Rex and Rosemary’s walls is an uninvolved parent. Rex and Rosemary are uninvolved parents because when certain situations occur they failed to communicate correctly“ I asked Mom and Dad if we should close the doors and windows when we went to sleep

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    RFK Speech Analysis Discuss RFK’s use of positive and negative and his response to the occasion/What makes it effective? Kennedy’s speech is very effective in calming a volatile America‚ and is so primarily due to his ability to establish credibility and common ground with his audience. He balances the amount of negative and positive segments of his speech in a manner that allows the speech to be ultimately hopeful for the future‚ yet aware of the challenges that they all must overcome. That he

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    In Suárez’s poem‚ "Isla" uses imagery and descriptive phrases elicit sympathy to me as a reader.  In the poem the speaker uses the character of Godzilla to describe the immigrant experience and make parallels between himself (as an immigrant) and the unwanted monster‚ Godzilla.  According to Brophy (2000)‚ Godzilla movie cycle are perfectly captured in all their opposing aspirations‚ and constitute the basis for many postnuclear‚ post-human and post-robotic Žgures and themes which deŽne the uniqueness

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    Good morning Mrs. Tattio‚ Mr. Ellis and students i will be speaking to you about a new hsc prescribd text Amanda lohrey’s vertigo‚ the ideas conveyed in the text are the connection to place and coping with grief and loss. Similarly‚ in my related text stolen by jane Harrison‚ I will be focusing on the protagonist‚ Ruby who was forced to work as a domestic from a young age‚ whose mental health was adversely affected by the sexual abuse of her white ‘carers’. The themes I will be discussing in this

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    A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ’S POEM "WINTER" Linguistic studies have taken such rapid strides in recent years that the range is baffling to the innocent and amazingly delightful to the linguistics-oriented. Applied linguistics is concerned with many fields and subjects on Planet Earth and possibly beyond that. A piece of literature largely depends on thought and style. The concept of style in literature is the product of abstraction in the sense that style is based on a special

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