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    The artist name is Judith Goldstein‚ a child Holocaust survivor‚ and she was born in Vilna‚ Poland. The name of her work of art is Joys and Sorrow. In 1941‚ the Nazis sent most of Vilna’s Jews to the Ghetto where Judith and her family spent the next two years. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto in 1943‚ Judith and her mother spent the next two years in concentration camps in Latvia and Poland. Somehow‚ Judith‚ her mother‚ and her brother survived and were sent to a banished person’s camp in

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    The Symbol of the Wilderness in Heart of Darkness by David Dunson The wilderness is a very significant symbol in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It is not only the backdrop against which the action of the story takes place‚ but also a character of the story in and of itself. The vastness and savagery of the wilderness contrast with the pettiness and foolishness of the pilgrims‚ and the wilderness also shows the greed and brutality that lie under the noblest of ideals. The wilderness is

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    With reference to at least four poems‚ explain how poets present both the joys and sorrows of life. Poets such as W.H. Auden‚ Bruce Dawe‚ Roger Mcgough and Elaine Savory clearly present the joys and sorrows of life in their truthful and realistic poems‚ using a range of techniques. These negative and positive aspects of life are shown by the poets‚ by using everyday occurrances like death‚ loss and love to involve the reader. All four poems‚ ‘Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone’‚ ‘Going’

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    When I discovered the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows” by John Koenig I came across a term that struck me and changed my outlook on the world. The word is sonder. Sonder is the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. This means that there are 7 billion stories passing by everyday and the only story I used to focus on was my own. It made me curious about the inner thoughts‚ struggles‚ and ambitions of all the strangers around me. As an introvert‚ I

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    Another poem by an abolitionist poet that focuses on sentimentalism and generating emotional responses from their readers is Hannah More’s The Sorrows of Yamba‚ or‚ the Negro Woman’s Lamentation. This‚ in a similar strategy to Opie’s poem focuses and develops a narrative around a slave named Yamba. Sentimentalism is largely important in telling Yamba’s story through the graphic and horrific description of the horrors she experiences as a slave. One of the most significant descriptions is how families

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    British professor and historian Robert Conquest also brings his view on the topic in his book The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-famine published in 1986. Conquest has written many books on the Soviet Union and was in fact an open communist in England up until the Second World War started. His thesis is that the famine was purposeful and thus constitutes genocide. He says that Stalin wanted to subdue Ukrainian nationalism‚ and the way Stalin believed to do that was to kill

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    Nicholas Allen History 122-005 March 30‚ 2016 Paper 3 In the book The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh‚ he tells the reader about his experiences in the Vietnam War. First‚ Ninh shows how the Vietnam War impacted the Vietnamese soldiers and the traumatic experiences and emotion hardships they had to go through. Secondly‚ the Americans also had traumatic experiences like the Vietnamese soldiers but the American soldiers had different traumatic events that messed with there emotions. Finally‚ the Vietnamese

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    Q1 The profile said that hes one of a new breed of young sportsman who are a breath of fresh air‚ and hes hugely exciting. He is a calm person. Q2 Paul Scott shows Hamilton his reactions to his success by saying First Black Man to win to win a Formula 1grand prix. Hamilton is a marketing dream and rags to riches story. Q3 I think that Lewis Hamilton is a great formula one driver because he exploits on every opportunity he is a really good formula racer. He gets payed £285‚00 a week this means

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    “intrusiveness” nature that it carries. Two mentionable films that try to address the suppression of the true portrayal of the impact of memory on the people who have suffered through tragic events‚ are Los Rubios (2003) by Albertina Carri and Milk of Sorrow (2009) by Claudia Llosa. The two movies have a very different approach to the notion of memory and the mental pain that it brings with it. In Los Rubios the director‚ Carri‚ tries to film a documentary about her parents’ past as subversive

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    The excerpt A Sorrowful Woman can be regarded as a sequel to A Secret Sorrow. Both stories have a lot of similarities than they do differences‚ it’s as if the author of A Sorrowful Woman intended for her short story to be the twisted sequel of A Secret Sorrow. In the story a secret sorrow the woman loved her husband so much that she was trying to leave him because she couldn’t have children and she didn’t want him to feel trapped in a marriage with her and she couldn’t give him what he wants. In

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