My last duchess The poem “my last duchess” by Robert browning‚ a 19th century English poet‚ is based on historic events in 15th century Ferrara (contemporary Italy). The speaker‚ is actually Alfonso the 2nd‚ who entertains in his house his future wife’s‚ from Tyrol (current Austria)‚ negotiator (the servant). Alfonso married his late wife‚ Lucrezia from the Medici family‚ when she was only 14 years old. Unlike him‚ whose noble family origins dates back a centuries (“as if she ranked my gift of
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Analysis18 STRATEGIC SELECTION19 STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION19 STRATEGIC ISSUES21 REFERENCES25 APPENDIX26 INTRODUCTION Lastminute.com is a Europe’s leading travel and leisure website. Based on the idea of matching supply and demand‚ it offers consumers last minute opportunities to acquire airline tickets‚ hotel rooms‚ package holidays‚ entertainment tickets‚ restaurant reservations and home delivery‚ speciality services‚ gifts and auctions. Due to the diversification of sectors the company is operating
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Paper 1 drama Exploration Ruth Ellis The last woman to hang Task 1-The response phase (A01) An off text improvisation in response to a photograph of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely On our first lesson of unit 1 we used a picture of a man and a woman as our stimulus. They were both close together but did not look happy‚ they looked false. we sat down in groups and talked about the picture and said what came to our heads about it;- - false smiles‚ - fake happiness‚ - celebrity couple
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my Last Farewell” Rizal’s most important poem is “My Last Farewell.” It has 14 5-line rimed stanzas; each stanza has the rime scheme: ABAAB. Charles Derbyshire translated it from the Spanish; the Spanish title is "Mi Ultimo Adios.” Derbyshire kept the original rime scheme when he translated from the original Spanish to English. “Farewell‚ dear Fatherland‚ clime of the sun caress’d” José Rizal was in prison waiting to be executed when he wrote this poem as a final statement to his fellow
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The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is often anthologized as an illustration of dramatic monologue. It initially appeared in the year 1842 in the Dramatic Lyrics of Browning. The verse is written in the 28 rhymed couplets of the iambic pentameter. This verse is loosely supported on historical incidents relating Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who used to live in 16th century. Theme The central themes are influence‚ power‚ marriage‚ egotism and aristocracy. It is likely to utilize blanket
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The Last Storyteller Before the Europeans colonized America different tribes of Native Americas appointed storytellers to keep the tribes history alive. In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie an odd boy named Thomas Builds-the-Fire holds the title of storyteller. This short story is about a journey Thomas takes with his old friend Victor to claim Victor’s father’s ashes from Phoenix‚ Arizona and bring them back to their reservation in Spokane. The story ultimately
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The Last Castle - Write-up The story portrays a picture of the prisoner (army personnel General Irwin who held a very high rank in the US Army) in a jail in USA. The film basically talks about the leadership skills of the protagonist General Irwin‚ who was found guilty of violating the presidential order and sending the troop to Burundi‚ Africa. In the prison‚ the warden‚ Colonel Winter was trying to make General Irwin‚ understand the system‚ making himself perfectly clear what prisoners are supposed
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Canada‚ like most other nations‚ has long stratified its people through the means of social classes. In modern society‚ the lines between upper‚ middle‚ and lower class have become more and more blurred— to digress‚ some might say this is leading to the eradication of the middle class entirely— but before one can delve into the inner workings of such a time-honored convention‚ one must understand the aspects that categorize people into this hierarchical pyramid: family income‚ wealth‚ education‚
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On September 18‚ 2007‚ Dr. Pausch gave his memorable “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a tradition at Carnegie Mellon University that when a professor is retiring‚ they give one last lecture as their final goodbye. The idea of this lecture is to give an hour long speech that covers everything an individual would want to say if you were hypothetically dying. In spite of this‚ in Dr. Pausch’s case‚ he was literally dying with a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer this being the
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My last holiday It still haunts me till this day. It was the most scariest moments I have ever encounter in my life. How wrong was I to make that decision. Why I did not listen to my friend. How I wish I could turn back the time. On my last holiday‚ my friends and I have decided to finish up our homework at Jason’s house. We wanted to go to the nearby shopping mall after completing our homework. That is why we choose Jason’s house which is nearby a shopping mall called “Prangin Mall”. So we were
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