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    people/races. In this short poem of a telephone conversation between a dark skinned West African and a British landlady‚ the writer‚ Wole Soyinka‚ effectively makes others aware of the prejudice and tantrums thrown by the whites to the blacks. This poem emphasises the racism and criticism of Whites against the Blacks. In this poem‚ a West African person is talking to a White British landlady on a phone about house rent. According to him‚ the price seemed reasonable‚ but because of his dark skin‚ he

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    he never showed to the meeting. I really hope that I can find the LandLady to be not guilty and It was all a misunderstanding. Billy’s last whereabouts were in the Bed and Breakfast in Bath. We are hoping that he left for a business trip and forgot to mail his family. If we do find Billy to be dead‚ we will have to take a big step into investigating the LandLady. When I got to the spot where he last was‚ suddenly the LandLady emanated from inside the house. At first she was sweet as pie. She was

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    for the purpose of making profit‚ the landlady doesn’t tell him the truth that his girlfriend kills herself in the same room a week ago. At the end the young man dies in despair. The story is divided into two parts. The first part concerns his failure in search for his sweetheart‚ the odor of mignonette‚ the lie of the landlady ‚and the suicide. The second part reveals the truth and produces the surprise ending through the conversation between the landlady‚ that his sweetheart had‚ a week earlier

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    Mary Maloney is a complex character. Explore the way in which Dahl introduces and develops her. The story is called ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’‚ which is part of a collection of short stories called ‘The Tales of the Unexpected’‚ written by Roald Dahl. These stories are grotesque and show the perverse nature of human beings. These stories all have a twist which is unexpected hence the name ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. The story begins with a tranquil atmosphere creating a very domestic scene. Mrs

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    Dream a little Dream Psychologists believe that dreams allow us to be what we cannot be‚ and to say what we do not say‚ in our daily lives. They say dreams are our own made up thoughts of the experiences we had that previous day; that they show a character’s subconscious desires because of no social rule. All throughout the novel‚ Raskolnikov’s encounters a series of dreams that are heavily demonstrated by this one theory. In similarity‚ the dreams are interpreted by the Id‚ Ego‚ and Superego‚ which

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    In this assignment I will explore the responsibilities‚ roles and the building of relationships as a teacher to adults in a college environment. When thinking about what a teacher’s responsibilities and roles are‚ not only do you have codes of practice and extensive legislative requirements but you also have your own professional duties as a teacher. A legislative requirement is a duty to act according to the law and a code of practice is a set of rules outlining how a person in a particular

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    Africa‚ by David Diop David Mandessi Diop (19271960) was a revolutionary African poet born in France but with parents of West African descent. His poems highlighted problems of Africa brought about by colonialism and gave a message to Africans to bring about change and freedom. He was known for his involvement in the negritude movement in France‚ a movement started by Black writers and artists protesting against French colonialism and its effects of African culture and values. His views and feelings

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    most extreme coincidences in all of O. Henry’s fiction‚ the power of the atmosphere of the story is so strong that readers are willing to accept it. The story ends with two old Dickensian landladies prattling over their beer about the death of a young woman in the room the previous week‚ which the landlady has kept secret because she did not want to lose the young man’s rent. As the young man lies dead upstairs‚ the ending of the story‚ with its focus on the mendacity of the old women‚ reinforces

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    tainted with despair and unable to see the world in a happy way. His upfront writing can be seen in “The Tell Tale Heart.” The story did not hide the fact that the man was plotting‚ and committing a gruesome murder. This is unlike Dahl’s story “The Landlady” because the murders were merely hinted at but not construed out right for the reader to witness. The time periods that they lived in also contributed to the diction they use. When one is reading Poe’s fiction words that are outdated by today’s standards

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    When he says that he is emerging "Slowly‚ as from the dark(26)" he means that he is slowly coming out of a depression and finding himself. The furnished room that is only by darkness(27‚ 28) and the landlady(30) show three different things. The landlady(30) shows the fact that he is not known by other people(30‚ 31) and the only reason they know one another is because he gives her his rent. The darkness(28) represents depression and his room(27) represents how he is all

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