Outline Template Writing Prompt: What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text‚ providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text? I. Hook: “Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved
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1. INTRODUCTION “ While parents are alive‚ one must not travel afar. If one must‚ one’s whereabouts should always be made known” - Analects‚ Book II: Li Ren 19 The idea of filial piety has always remained as a significant part of Chinese tradition from ancient China and even till today’s times. It stands not only as a mere concept but more so‚ something that was an “absolute‚ metaphysical entity‚ something so exalted in (ancient Chinese’s) minds” (Holzman‚ 1998). Perhaps the idea of filial piety
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The concept of Identity is complex through the exploration of relationships and a sense of belonging. This is explored within Tim Winton’s short stories‚ ‘ Neighbours’ and ‘Big World’‚ and in Robert Walker’s poem ‘Okay‚ Let’s be Honest’. Identity can change and evolve depending on belief‚ change‚ language and shifting influences. Tim Winton‚ the composer of ‘Neighbours’ has a perplexed and distressing tone as he suggests to the reader‚ the significance of multiculturalism and diversity within Australia
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itself to them is not really what it seems to be. This world does not contain any basic human values. These have disappeared‚ along with the light and religion and left humanity in darkness. “Dover Beach” is a poem with the melancholy tone of an elegy and the personal intensity of a dramatic monologue. The poem consists of four stanzas‚ each containing a number of verses. The
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A Concise Commentary on Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is an elegy in which Wilfred Owen conveys his heart felt sadness and disgust for the loss of life in World War I. This poem shatters the fantasized images of war by juxtaposing the opposite worlds of reality and the romanticized rhetoric that distorts it. He writes about the true experience of military death‚ and effectively expresses these powerful sentiments in only fourteen lines by use of a somewhat violent imagery that
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human achievement‚ but can also be very dangerous if not handled correctly. In Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein‚” Shelley portrays these two aspects of accomplishment as dangerous‚ destructive‚ and even fateful. Shelley begins her novel with an ambitious seafarer named Robert Walton. Walton is determined to reach the North Pole‚ where he may “tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man” (6). During his journey‚ he writes constantly to his sister‚ Margaret Saville. Unfortunately‚ due to the laws
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Pacific islands including the Philippines. In its midst‚ other ancient civilizations were also evolving. The Proto-Malays‚ a Mongol Asiatic race‚ arrived around 2500 B.C. Unlike the Negritos‚ who were hunters and gatherers‚ the Proto-Malays were seafarers and farmers. They built their houses in trees and created fire for cooking. More advanced‚ they drove the Negritos into the mountains. The next to arrive were the Duetero-Malays‚ of India-Asiatic race (Indian‚ Chinese‚ Siamese‚ Arabic)‚ that prevailed
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more unknown and untold about his story. Little is actually known about Columbus. Most of what is found in history books or other reliable sources is often wrong or unverifiable. Books tell “Christopher Columbus grew up to become an experience seafarer. He sailed the Atlantic as far
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Who‚ if I cried out‚ would hear me among the Angelic Orders? And even if one were to suddenly take me to its heart‚ I would vanish into its stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror‚ that we are still able to bear‚ and we revere it so‚ because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel is terror. And so I hold myself back and swallow the cry of a darkened sobbing. Ah‚ who then can we make use of? Not Angels: not men‚ and the resourceful creatures see clearly
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Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms‚ she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness‚ and a smile And eloquence of beauty‚ and she glides Into his darker musings‚ with a mild And gentle sympathy‚ that steals away Their sharpness‚ ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit‚ and sad images Of the stern agony‚ and shroud‚ and pall
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