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    seek.” A few minutes later I realized why she had me hide‚ there was a group of mean soldiers chasing her on massive‚ muscular horses‚ but I knew most of the horses the soldiers were riding‚ they used to be in my herd but they went missing‚ they used to be so beautiful and free now they are machines used to catch more wild horses. I ran and hid by a big pile of dead‚ soggy leaves. Eventually‚ I came out from hiding a few hours later‚ now I was all alone in a big gloomy forest. I was cold‚ damp and

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    Baby Blue”‚ Bob Dylan uses the literary technique of repetition to make the point that nothing will ever be the same again. He repeats‚ “And it’s all over now‚ Baby Blue”‚ at the end of every stanza and uses it to embed in the readers’ minds that changes must occur and there must be a new way to live. For example‚ Dylan states‚ “Look out the saints are comin’ through And it’s all over now‚ Baby Blue” (lines 5-6). This marks the beginning of change and the establishment of the end for Baby Blue. Also

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    The “Happiest Refugee” is the official autobiography of the Australian comedian Anh Do. The book is based around his life story starting in Vietnam and then becoming a fascinating story about his triumphs and darkest hours. Anh and his family went through many challenges as depicted in his text and these included the struggles Ahn faced at St Aloysius School‚ thereby depicting his social context. Ahn Do’s journey over to Australia was also conveyed through the use of descriptive and emotive language

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    imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says‚ "... in the form of a small but glossy birthday cake with one pink candle burning in the center." "The pink" and "glossy" creates the picture of a happy dinner. The atmosphere used in "The Birthday Party" helps the reader understand how . It says "... I saw him say something to her under his breath_ some punishing thing quick and cut and unkind." The atmosphere after the cake becomes tense and angry towards the wife causing her

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    uses are very specific details to what is happening. This quotes applies to this short story because the author takes a normal or common couple fighting and turns it into something powerful. There are certain things throughout the story that can be used as symbolism. Carver quotes “In the scuffle they knocked down a flower pot that hung behind the stove”.

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    GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps

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    Background of Refugee Rights Political Movement Since 2000‚ both the refugee rights political movement in Australia as a whole as well as the Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW) have primarily been focused on key issues such as the differential treatment of asylum seekers based on how they arrived in Australia or apply for protection‚ the Pacific and Malaysian solution‚ the detention of asylum seekers and combating the view that boat arrivals are not ‘genuine refugees’

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    Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion 1 Minnesota Department of Education English Language Learner Programs 2010 Working with Refugee Students in Secondary Schools A Counselor’s Companion Today’s challenge is to find ways to nourish the spirit of the “world’s children” in our lives and teach them skills for dealing with the ever-increasing demands of a stressful and complicated world‚ and life itself. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings:

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    How do Owen and Auden convey the negative effects of war in their poems ‘Disabled’ and ‘Refugee Blues’’? In the poems Disabled and Refugee Blues‚ the writers‚ Owen and Auden respectively‚ convey the negative effects of war in a variety of ways. Through the use structuring‚ literary and figurative devices‚ Auden subtly shows the negative effects of war‚ whereas Owen does this it more explicitly‚ showing the de-humanizing‚ gruesome effects of war. In the poem Disabled‚ Owen displays the more

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    EVS PROJECT ON THE TOPIC IRONY OF AN INTRODUCTION Climate change is today the cause of movements of people and in future is expected up to 200 million people getting affected unless drastic changes will happen‚ for instance by introducing significantly more renewable energy. Climate change does not only force people to flee‚ it can also cause wars. The war in Sudan between north and south has several causes‚ but one of them is climate change

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