Bethany Nordberg Period 4 Another winter has come‚ I’m ready for my game But since it’s put on hold‚ my evenings will be lame Can’t they just agree? So that they can play Where is my super negotiator to save the day? My life will be over if I can’t go cup crazy Get it done you lazy sloths and stop being so crazy! From Boston all the way to Vancouver‚ the hockey season may already be over Right about now‚ there is quite a bit of doubt The team owners have locked the players out
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In the opening paragraphs‚ the author defines humour as a disjunction between the way things are and the way they are represented in a joke. Critchley believes humour defeats our expectations by changing the situation in which we find ourselves. Based on my understanding of the reading‚ expectation has a lot to do with jokes in the sense that it keeps us‚ the audience at the edge of our seats thinking or assuming one way and then suddenly turning that thinking or assumption around. As a result‚
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With the poems of Siegfried Sassoon we are moving from the conventional way of writing in the approach of the issue of war‚ in what sense??? First of all his approach is an anti- war approach ‚ he is not encouraging young people to join the war ‚ he speaking of war as being a cause of death. Because he is less conventional; he is less traditional ‚ he is writing poems labeled until now as anti war poems ‚ we find the division of his sentences‚ rhyme in words‚ the division of the poem into 2 stanzas
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number eleven‚ the Great War‚ as it was then called‚ came to an end on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The conclusion of World War One marks‚ quite logically‚ one ’bookend’ for both Canadian and world history. Two very different decades would follow. "The Roaring Twenties" were marked by unprecedented but unequally distributed prosperity. "The Dirty Thirties" witnessed untold suffering and hardship as the Great Depression left millions unemployed‚ destitute‚ and
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The poem describes life like a rollercoaster. Life is full of ups and downs‚ an emotional roller coaster ride that you can’t quite imagine. The image that came up in my mind as i was reading the poem are two rollercoasters. One has ups‚ downs and loops‚ but the other is leveled and stable. The loops‚ ups and downs add thrill and color to the ride. It may be breath-taking but riders were obviously satisfied and happy overcoming and experiencing such ride. On the other hand‚ the other which was leveled
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In Edgar Alan Poe’s poem titled‚ “Alone”‚ he conveys a sense of loneliness at a young age. Poe contains a pessimistic outlook on life stemming from the fact he never had an actual childhood‚ he was always alone and this made him categorize himself as “different from the others”. He uses several different examples of figurative language to exhibit his tone and implicitly portray his inner thoughts. Poe initiates the poem with a lonely‚ somber tone and as the story escalates he shifts to a more dark
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belong To Mr. Nobody. SYNOPSIS: The poem is about a person‚Mr. Nobody‚ who does notexist‚ but who is created bythe persona to take theblame for all kinds of mistakes and irresponsiblebehaviour that happens inthe persona’s house. The persona is probably introuble for doing thingswrong and is blaming Mr.Nobody so that he or she willnot be scolded or punished. MEANING OF THE POEM STANZA 1 :- The funny little man mentioned in the poem is a little boy‚ perhaps three to five years old
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How is Conflict Portrayed in the Poems in the Conflict Section? The nature of conflict is a clash or coming together. There are many different types of conflict; it can come in varying scales of size and intensity. For example something which starts off as a family feud may end up as a World War. We can look at the causes of conflict‚ what actually happens or the effects. Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ paints a picture of the glory and honour of soldiers in battle as it happens. It describes
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“The Road not Taken” is an analogy discussing about a person who made an important‚ but irreversible decision of life in the past. The poem symbolizes how that person (the speaker) chose the risky decision that has a large impact in that person’s life. In fact‚ later the person feel uncertain if the decision was right. The “yellow wood” depicts the condition of carefulness and privacy. The decision that the speaker made particularly talks about a long-term private life decision. The speaker uses
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It All Adds Up Question 1 Response: The decade of the 1950s might be considered to be a tale of two Americas or even a paradox for various reasons. Even though this time period can been seen as a decade of prosperity with the freedom of consumer choice‚ ethnic minorities were excluded. This decade was a time of confidence and a time of fear. The United State believed that they could do whatever; for example end poverty and prevent the revolution on communism in other countries. Even though Americans
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