Good Morning Everyone‚ My name is Doreen Gonzalez My topic of discussion is on Cecil Rhodes: The Imperialist Cecil Rhodes An English businessman‚ politician of south Africa‚ prime minister of Cape Colony in 1890‚ Made an immense fortune thru mining operations 1902 EARLY YEARS Being a member of a large family‚ instead of attending a university‚ Rhodes went to South Africa in 1870 to be a farmer with his brother due to health reasons and the change in weather was better
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seen as brave and heroic men who fought for their country and this is demonstrated in the poem. This poem has been written to showcase the bravery that a soldier must have to become involved in a war and it is written to people who view war as an honourable sacrifice. The language used in this poem has been specifically chosen to keep the idea of honour and pride for one’s country in the forefront of the reader’s mind. The language used in line 21-22 shows how even though the soldier knew he would
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Poet’s Page Poems Comments Stats Arthur Nortje : Letter from Pretoria Central Prison The bell wakes me at 6 in the pale spring dawn with the familiar rumble of the guts negotiating murky corridors that smell of bodies. My eyes find salutary the insurgent light of distances. Waterdrops rain crystal cold‚ my wet face in ascent from an iron basin greets its rifled shadow in the doorway. They walk us to the workshop. I am eminent‚ the blacksmith of the block: these active hours
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Atticus Finch‚ he always tries to believe the good people. The ignorant farmers Cunningham’s are below the towns’ people‚ which are below Finches. The Ewell’s even lower on the society and the black society comes after them despite all of their honourable and respectable conditions. The place where black society stands on the social hierarchy enables Bob Ewell to cover his obscure presence by putting Tom Robinson down. Jem and Scout are growing in this society and Atticus keeps on trying to teach
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Cawdor this was the first step for Macbeth to be ambition to the idea of becoming a king. Here begins the evil side of Macbeth to show as he changes from being a noble man to evil one‚ he has virtues and morals at the beginning of the play and he was honourable man who was respected and admired by his king and then he became an evil man who want to do anything just to take the crown for himself and be the king instead of Duncan‚ this clarify that he is aware of what he has done and he committed the tragic
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text of the poster. In the first line “Gee!! I wish I were a Man!” implies that women (or at least this woman) want to be men. Yet‚ why would any woman want to be a man‚ or is it really saying women want to be masculine‚ i.e. rational‚ courageous‚ honourable‚ and strong? I think this raises a very good point about men that do not want to be or can not be masculine‚ this essentially devalues their choices and sense of self. If we continue to analyse the text at the bottom the poster says “be a man and
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of the human race‚ the birthplace of human speech‚ the mother of history‚ the grandmother of legend‚ and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” Honourable Chief Guest‚ teachers and all my dear friends. This day 15th August of every year is a golden day engraved in the history of the world. We won our freedom on this date and it is a day of celebration. As we celebrate it hoisting the flag‚ playing
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Cecil Rhodes “Confession of Faith” In "Confession of Faith‚" the great imperialist and wealthy diamond mine owner Cecil Rhodes stresses his opinion of Britain’s right to conquer land in the world‚ and the importance of involvement by the British citizens. His beliefs were that imperialism is the key to political and economic power and shows how British nationalism led to the expansion of its territories. “ It often strikes a man to inquire what is the chief good in life; to one the
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These two text type are both protesting against the Vietnam war‚ however‚ they use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point
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of the lesser Elizabethan dramatists. We have no document of this sort to aid us in the case of the Jacobean and Caroline writers; but we are confronted by a remarkable personality whose relations with the dramatists and poets of his age were as honourable and unselfish as Henslowe’s were mercenary and mean. A young dramatist‚ writing to Henslowe for a loan‚ signs himself‚ in Elizabethan fashion‚ “your loving son.” It was a slight extension of this usage which made Jonson
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