Extemporaneous Speech Topic: Filipino : An Exported Worker Before anything‚ I would like to greet my fellow students and teacher a warm‚ good afternoon. I am here standing before you now to state my opinions regarding the topic: "Filipino : An Exported Worker". If you ask a normal person what comes to their mind whenever they hear the word "OFWs"‚ they would usually come up with a common answer‚ That is‚ an OFW is person who’s working or studying in another country. Well‚ it is no doubt that
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Victor‚ and Robert Walton do or feel directly relates to their poignant seclusion. The effects of this terrible burden have progressively damaging results upon the three. The first glimpse of isolation we see comes from Robert Walton. The Arctic seafarer whose letters open and close Frankenstein. Walton picks the bedraggled Victor Frankenstein up off the ice‚ helps nurse him back to health‚ and hears Victor’s story. Within his second letter to his sister he confides to her “But I have one want which
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battery For tradition’s sake I have lost a wife And the children‚ their mother Sometimes I lie in bed awake Staring at the moon And I wonder what my life would’ve been like If she hadn’t picked that paper‚ on the 27th of June. Mr Hutchinson Elegy for the Victims of the Lottery Tradition is important‚ they say Even when lives are lost And the innocent are slain But yet I continue to host Once a long year On the 27th of June Everybody trembles with fear For the lottery is not a boon
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There are different types of poems that make up the category of poetry. Specific examples of poems are lyric poems‚ sonnets‚ dramatic monologues‚ elegies‚ odes‚ haikus‚ figurative levels‚ and imagist poems. Each author has their own language of poetry that comes after a lot of thought. Susan Rowland puts it best‚ “poetic language is the native tongue of the soul.” Each author writes their poems with different meanings. The meanings in the poems might be easy to determine‚ extremely hard to
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sometime in the late 800’s. They were nomadic people that attacked from the east from what is now Hungary. They were excellent horsemen and attacked isolated villages and monasteries. The Muslims struck from North Africa. Since they were superb seafarers they were able to attack settlements on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. In the 600’s and 700’s there goal was to strictly conquer and settle. By the 800’s and 900’s they added plunder to their goals. Kings couldn’t effectively defend all the
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Indian Ocean Trade around the first century CE. Established by multilingual‚ multiethnic seafarers. Between Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Didn’t play a part in the rise or fall of kingdoms. They are able to figure out the wind and monsoon patterns. Mediterranean sailors use square sails‚ long banks of oars‚ ships are nailed together. Indian Ocean sailors use triangular sails‚ no oars‚ and tied ships. Impact: Africa provides exotic animals‚ wood‚ and ivory. Somalia and Southern Arabia provide
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imported diseases such as tuberculosis‚ smallpox‚ measles‚ chickenpox‚ cholera‚ whooping cough and influenza‚ among others. On 9 May 1803 Governor King‚ whom was troubled with the possibility of a smallpox epidemic in the colony being transferred by seafarers visiting the ports‚ indicted to Lord Hobart in London requesting that a vaccine be developed and dispatched. At the time smallpox was the only disease for which there was a vaccine and a modicum of the vaccine had been brought to the colony by surgeons
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height of sexiness. Revival of literary styles? The dominant forms of English literature during the Renaissance were the poem and the drama. Among the many varieties of poetry one might have found in sixteenth century England were the lyric‚ the elegy‚ the tragedy‚ and the pastoral. Near
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Italian‚ and English‚ and prepared to enter the clergy. Milton was probably suspended for quarrelling in his first year with his tutor‚ William Chappell. He was certainly at home in the Lent term 1626; there he wrote his Elegia Prima‚ a first Latin elegy‚ to Charles Diodati‚ a friend from St Paul ’s. At Cambridge Milton was on good terms with Edward King‚ for whom he later wrote Lycidas. At Cambridge he developed a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition‚ but experienced alienation from
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Phillis Wheatley‚ one of America’s most profound writers‚ has contributed greatly to American literature‚ not only as a writer‚ but as an African American woman‚ who has influenced many African Americans by enriching their knowledge of and exposure to their Negro heritage and Negro literature. As one of America’s most renown writers‚ Wheatley‚ said to be the mother of African American Literature‚ is best known for her sympathetic portrayals of African American thought. Wheatley’s literary contributions
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