Brooklyn Cop‚ by Norman MacCaig is a poem about an American policeman and the daily dangers he faces. The cop appears to be a savage yet we are later made aware of his underlying vulnerability. New York’s reputation of violence and crime leads to our awareness of the cop’s fear of not returning home to his wife. ... We are first made aware of the cop’s intimidating appearance in the first line‚ of the first stanza when MacCaig uses the simile "built like gorilla." This gives us a very negative and
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forget about all the great things that were in the Unmentionable Times. The events in anthem establish a slow progress of science and technology in totalitarian societies because everyone was told they must be equal‚ cannot be smart‚ and cannot express themselves. With anthem being technologically primitive it will never be able to improve the nature of science and technology. The technological progress in anthem is moving slowly but surely. It hasn’t moved since before the Unmentionable Times
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What evidence of Enlightenment ideas did you find in the two anthems? Give specific words from the anthems in your answer. Evidence of Enlightenment can be found in both anthems. Both anthems are about freedom ‚ independence‚ and patriotism. In the American anthem‚ the refrain‚ “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”‚ resounds after each chorus to remind us of the battles fought to gain our freedom. In the French anthem‚ the stance‚ “Sacred love of France‚ Lead‚ support our avenging
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Is it right to force someone to stand for National Anthem? I’m 21 year old. I’m proud of my Country and proud of our Constitution. I don’t need the Supreme Court to tell me to stand for National Anthem. I don’t need the Supreme Court to mandate that where the National Anthem should be played‚ where it should be sung‚ how it should be sung. You can’t force people to be patriotic; you can’t force people to respect Flag. Respect is earned it’s never mandated. It is from within and need not be dictated
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Anthem Education Group ___________________________________ Introduction Anthem Education Group (“Anthem”) offers primarily career-focused Certificate and Associate degree programs. Unlike many for-profit education companies examined‚ Anthem has not experienced steady growth in student enrollment and profit realized in recent years. Largely as a result of sanctions from one of its brand’s accreditors in 2007‚ the company was forced to close campuses leading to a decline in enrollment‚ a lack of
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English II February 13‚ 2015 Anthem a dystopian world Why is Anthem a dystopian world? A dystopian world is a world in which an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem demonstrates dystopian novels because the citizens of the society worship a figurehead or concept‚ citizens have fear of the outside world‚ and the natural world is banished and distrusted. Anthem society demonstrates that they
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National Anthem The National Anthem is a familiar tune to everybody. It is known as the Star Spangled Banner. Today‚ the American National anthem is sung before many different events. Some of those events include sporting events and presidential campaigns. The Star Spangled Banner is also notorious for its confusing and almost impossible to sing lyrics. The Star Spangled Banner was written by a second rate lawyer named Francis Scott Key. During the war of 1812 Francis Scott Key was taken hostage
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Ayn Rand’s Anthem discusses many controversial ideas throughout the book. Often times the ideas shown are extreme examples and often polar opposites. Most often the ideas used by Rand can be perceived as one is completely bad and the other good. One of the best examples of this is the extremes of caring only for the whole and the opposite of caring only for the self. Rand has extreme ideas of both of these and expresses them often in Anthem. These two ideas are the backbone for the whole story and
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Anthem is a story about a 21-year old boy named Equality 7-2521 and a 17-year old girl named Liberty 5-3000 who are both different from the others in their secluded society which lacks individualism and self-interest. The movie‚ Divergent‚ also follows a similar story line. Divergent is a story about an 18 year-old boy named Tobias Eaton and a 16-year old girl named Beatrice Prior who are both different from the others in their society which lacks individualism and self-interest. Anthem and Divergent
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English Essay ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’ Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen is a poem which I read recently‚ in which the author conveys horror’s of death in World War 1. The author‘s use of technique’s is quite effective. His use of the sonnet form‚ word choice‚ juxtaposition‚ irony and figurative language creates a strong image of the tragedy lack of respect for the young soldier’s dying at war. Anthem For Doomed Youth is one of best known World War poem’s because of the way in the
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