calling. Instead of of marriage‚ Nightingale chose to pursue her dreams and learn the nursing profession. Nightingale attended the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserswerth‚ Germany for three months gaining knowledge to become one of the most excellent nurses in history. Nightingale worked at Middlesex hospital‚ there was an outbreak of cholera‚ and Nightingale managed to boost the hygiene at the hospital and rapidly reduce the sickness. Florence Nightingale helped others to understand that
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always making her point. Despite being a master of satire and form‚ rarely does the reader feel as though their intelligence is being challenged or disrespected. Her work is very political but never disrespectful. A brilliant example of this is in her poem that is referred to as “XV”‚
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Skrzynecki explores the relationship between the poet and his‚ father‚ and contrasting experiences of belonging in a new land. The poem opens with a positive description of peter Skrzynecki claiming him as “My gentle father” and “the softness of his blue eyes”‚ indicating his dual nature; tough and uncompromising at work‚ soft and gentle inner nature at home. This is a subdued poem in
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In the poem‚ To This Day‚ by Shane Koyczan‚ 1:28 into the video‚ the author says‚ "I Used to hear that rhyme about sticks and stones. As if broken bones hurt more than the names that we got called." (Shane Koyczan)‚ as the author says this there is a boy standing in a dark hallway alone with these dark‚ creepy‚ vines grabbing him. What the author is trying to say is that he could not escape from the names that he had been called‚ nobody was there to help when he was being called names‚ and
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Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past
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Jacob Trunkhill Miss Haaland Creative Comp. November 10th 2017 Snow Angels Snow a short poem written by David Berman. This poem is about a bigger brother telling his little brother something far fetched tale. This far fetched tale is about snow angels crossing onto a farmer’s property and being shot down and all that is left is their imprints in the snow. The bigger brother is trying to pull something on his brother like all big brothers do. To do so he comes up with a mean farmer that doesn’t
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After Norman gets his job offer letter from the University of Chicago‚ he goes into the house to find his father reading aloud in his study. Norman and Reverend John Maclean recite various excerpts strung together from the poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth: (Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚) Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness‚ And not in utter nakedness‚ But
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Time‚ as exemplified by “Ode on a Grecian Urn‚” by Jon Keats and “The Day Lady Died‚” by Frank O’Hara‚ both explore the value of using time to leave a mark and allow generations to relive it through out‚ however Keats poem represents images of stillness and of silence versus O’Hara’s poem which fixates on the rush of time. It no longer exists in the original circumstance in which it was creating‚ by some artist because it is made of stone‚ the urn is essentially an eternal piece of art‚ exempt from
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Each spring as the weather warms thoughts turns towards airing out the house and beginning the process of spring cleaning after a long winter. Ron Rash’s poem “Water Quilt” illustrates the chore of spring cleaning with a twist. During leaner times the people of Appalachia would use the river as a source for all household water use including cooking and cleaning. The tradition of taking all the bedding to the river to wash would have been a yearly ritual. Rash explains the reason this ritual continues
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Writhing in an electric tune‚ the band begins to play. Walking back and forth across the stage I heard the singer cry. Down at the bar last night‚ By the pale of evening moon light. The band‚ oh‚ they did play! The band‚ oh‚ they did play! To the tune of Rock n’ Roll‚ With fingers blazing across the strings They made the gui-tars scream. A clash of cymbals‚ The pounding of drums Coming from that Rock n’ Roll. And far into the moonlight they played To the roar of the crowd he sang
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