Task IV Please analyze the theme of the poem‚ using the speech act hypotheses we have discussed in class. Please pay attention to the change of syntax in the second half of the poem. As the first part of the poem is imperatives and the theme of the poem is elegy‚ I firstly regard it as an advice or consolation‚ the poet advising others not to be bothered to find the traces of the person who died. A common condolence is generally soothing and pacifying‚ describing how the deceased will rest in
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he decided what to do after Billy Budd killed the Master-at-arms‚ John Claggart. Everyone agrees that Captain Vere sympathized with Billy‚ but some people believe that being an abject slave of one’s emotions and a miserable prisoner of one’s feelings and the so called mistaken impulse of the heart‚ should be considered greater than the sacred call of duty and the honour in keeping an oath to uphold the king’s law. Captain Vere should have sentence foretop man‚ Billy Budd to death for three reasons
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to live lives unrestricted by a deity. Yet there were also others whom had not yet met this God that so many had lost faith in after the war; people around the world and some just down the street. This is when the famed Billy Graham begins to earn the renown he is known for. Billy Graham is the most famous evangelist the twentieth century had ever known and he holds his reputation to this day. William Franklin Graham Jr. was born on November 7‚ 1918 in Charlotte‚ North Carolina. He lived on a small
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resulting in alienation and departing away. In the verse-novel The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick we witness the notions of belonging and not belonging which are acceptance and non acceptance influenced by links to vicinities through the main character Billy. In the picture book The Island by Armin Greder we visualise the negative notions of belonging which is exclusion and non acceptance. Both these authors enhance the perception of belonging and not belonging in the text through strong and powerful language
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Timothy Cho 02/04/13 Professor Close English 102 G2 Elliot Ness: Hero or Great Story Teller? In Elliot Ness’ memoir The Untouchables‚ the author personally narrates the story of how the name “Untouchables” came to be. After being released from prison‚ Al Capone was starting trouble again in the streets of Chicago. Capone tries to bribe the police officers trying to take down his operation but Ness and his team refused the bribes. Being proud of this accomplishment Ness immediately goes
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According to Elliot Aronson in his book The Social Animal we are in a constant tension between our values of individuality and conformity. We want to fit in with the group without losing our unique qualities. However‚ at one point or another we all conform whether it be changing our answer from line B to line A in Solomon Asch’s experiment or changing our positions in an argument in order to be more liked by the group. All of this relates to self-esteem in some way‚ how we perceive our value to
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This poem is really easy to identify with. The first 4 stanzas are clearly relating the reader to the poem. Everyone at some point has to learn these general‚ seemingly useless facts. “A state flower” “The capital of Paraguay” so arbitrary‚ but so true in that this brings back memories of 3rd or 5th grade for almost all of us‚ it is bound to strike a chord with the reader. This is also coupled with a slightly nostalgic loss of these facts in the first stanza‚ as slowly the individual sections of
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Billy Joel is a very well known musician who is respected and acknowledged all around the world. I think he was an appropriate speaker for a college graduation. He used one question at the beginning of the speech that caught the audience’s curiosity‚ "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes?" He then branched out from there to discuss more important issues. This question helped him create an invitational environment. I think asking a question also helped him show a sense of organization
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perseverance was arguably the most important factor in his success. Many during Louie’s time weren’t as courageous‚ and easily gave up through hardship. But Louie‚ astonishingly kept on going‚ and enduring the most of it all‚ reaching to the end. This theme has its show throughout the entire story‚ from surviving crashes‚ living with sharks‚ surviving in POW (prisoner of war) camps‚ and dosed with PTSD. FOr example‚ a major event that leads Louie and some of his friends to being captivated is the Green
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language to convey the idea. In the poem ‘Rising Five’ by Norman Nicholson‚ the main idea is about a boy who want to rush through his childhood “like a boy throwing away his toffee wrappers”. We can link this poem to another poem‚ ‘On Turning Ten’ by Billy Collins‚ which describes a boy who doesn’t want to move on in life. Through Collin’s writing‚ the boy is shown as being also scared about growing up and facing life’s challenges. Both poets use a variety of language features such as similes‚ metaphors
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