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    The first song is Masters of War‚ it was written during the Vietnam war (Wib Team‚ 2015). it is a fierce and angry song. There is curse that writer wants a commander of war dies in line 57-64. The lyrics are against the government and the military because this song demonstrated that young men were deceived to go to die in the war. In line 17‚ “Like Judas of old” it refers to Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus by telling the soldiers who Jesus was and resulted in Jesus being arrested. It like the commander

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    An Overview of Sonnet 130

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    Title: An overview of “Sonnet 130” Author(s): Joanne Woolway Source: Poetry for Students. Detroit: Gale. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay [Joanne Woolway is a freelance writer who recently earned her Ph.D. from Oriel College‚ Oxford‚ England. In the following essay‚ Woolway analyzes how‚ in “Sonnet 130‚” Shakespeare “succeeds...in turning traditional poetic conventions around.” She also takes a close look at the ways Shakespeare’s versification—his skill patterning

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    hern.- The brook starts from a place the coots (a kind of duck) & herns (commonly known as herons) spend most of their times.  I make a sudden sally‚-The brook suddenly rushes down.  And sparkle out among the fern‚-As the brook flows it sparkles because of sun rays‚ and it flows through a ground which mostly have grasses and flowerless plants (ferns).  To bicker down a valley.-The brook flows down a valley making noisy sounds.  By thirty hills I hurry down‚-Here the brook swiftly flows

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    “The Ballad of the Sad Café‚” written by Carson McCullers‚ takes place in a small‚ rural town in Georgia. This novella focuses around the life of a store clerk‚ Ms. Amelia‚ who was married to a man named Marvin Macy and after ten days of a bitter relationship between the two they got divorced. Several years after this event‚ a stranger named Cousin Lymon came to town claiming to be Ms. Amelia’s relative. She took a fondness to him and soon Ms. Amelia’s store was turned into a café because the whole

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    Diary Of Nancy Brooks

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    people who think that AIDS and rape can’t ever happen to them can have a different perspective. The times in which this diary takes place is from April 14‚ 1991 to April 12‚1993. the book starts out when Nancy is getting ready to go to a Garth Brooks concert with her friends El and Red‚ "Imagine me going to a concert! A Garth

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    Brook Trout Essay

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    There are many things that Brook Trout need so that they can survive in their environment. One element they need is fresh water. Brook Trout can have zero pollution in their aquarium. To make that happen we have something called a water filter‚ it cleans and it makes sure that there is no pollution in the water. Another element that the Brook Trout need is oxygen. All trout need 7-10 ppm of oxygen. If oxygen is too low in the water the trout would become slow and would maybe even die. They

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    Dudley Randall’s “Ballad of Birmingham” is a look into the effects of racism on a personal level. The poem is set in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The tone of the title alludes to the city of Birmingham as a whole. The poem gives the reader‚ instead‚ a personal look into a tragic incident in the lives of a mother and her daughter. The denotation of the poem seems to simply tell of the sadness of a mother losing her child. The poem’s theme is one of guilt‚ irony‚ and the grief

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    Laura Dickens A Critical Analysis of Sir Patrick Spens ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ is‚ for the most part‚ an archetypal early ballad being composed in quatrains‚ with the typical alternating four-stress and three-stress lines and the second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming. The poem is set in medias res‚ telling certainly of a tragedy‚ possibly based on two voyages in the thirteenth-century on which Scottish noblemen transported princesses to royal marriages‚ with many members of Alexander III’s

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    Sonnet 116 “Let me not to marriage” This Poem by William Shakespeare talks about the immortal beauty of his beloved against the destruction caused by time. In the first line of the poem he propagates the union between two minds which is another different representation of love. In this poem Shakespeare talks about true love which in the poem is treated as a centre which the poet and his poetry orbit. “ It is an ever fixed mark” ‚ He refers to the solidity and steadfastness and the permanent centre

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    "There You’ll Be" by Faith Hill is a wonderful ballad as well as one of my favorite songs. This is one of the many every-day songs that we listen to‚ but we never really look into it and compare and contrast it will ballads from the past. For example‚ "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" by S. Foster is a ballad that was written in 1853 and people still know it to this day. "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is different from "There You’ll Be" because it rhymes. Where-as Faith Hill’s song doesn’t

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