From the first person perspective of a young school boy as the protagonist‚ Seamus Heaney reflects on his own childhood memory in the poem “Mid-term Break”. The reader discovers through reading the poem that Heaney returns home for the funeral of his younger brother’s car accident. The author illustrates the theme grief through diction‚ puns‚ and structure. The diction chosen in this poem are not only for the readers to understand the situation but are also very powerful and meaningful. In the beginning
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The poem Acceptance Speech by Lynn Powell is about a housewife who feels undervalued by her family and by society. The title of the poem suggests that the character has received an award for achieving something brilliant‚ but in fact she is being sarcastic and conducting an imaginary award ceremony for herself in her kitchen‚ since no one else is willing to appreciate her hard work. The poet uses irony and personification of kitchen utensils and ingredients to add humour to the play. She uses the
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Nick-O-Las Reading this article‚ I was at first confused as to what the author was complaining about. As I kept reading I began to understand that the author was angry with the people who opposed the governments healthcare plan or as he called it‚ “Obamacare”. The author kept on giving examples of opponents who would just twist the information about the healthcare reform to make it seem like it was a bad thing and one that would scare Americans from wanting the government to provide healthcare.
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The poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge takes its reader on a journey of unexpected rhyme schemes and odd syllabic patterns which add to the abstract and unfocused story line throughout this entire poem. This poem is made up of several two-syllable units‚ in which the stress is placed on the second syllable: “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph‚ the sacred river‚ ran”. In the short lines at the beginning of the poem‚ the line length is
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There are many alarming issues in the world‚ and each day there are more problems and complaints and less solutions and good actions. Many of these issues are based on the environmental problems. This concerns everybody‚ but almost nobody tries to do something about it. As regards this‚ many organizations have been starting to do campaigns against pollution‚ and trying to encourage people to care about the Earth. Both text 2A “Both Text 2A “Terrified” and Text 2B “Friends of the earth‚ what your
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‘Doing It For The Girls’ is a multi-modal‚ promotional article from a women’s magazine‚ and is mainly aimed at working-class women or women looking for a career path. It features the young engineer Katie Fish and informs the reader of the increasing number of young women working in the engineering sector‚ specifically in nuclear power. As shown by the bold “Promotion” in the picture‚ the purpose of this article is to promote nuclear energy and challenge the stereotype of women taking up engineering
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Feet September 1948 “Feet” is an extract from a novel by Seamus Dean‚ Reading in the Dark‚ set in the year 1948. The event is narrated in a first person perspective‚ from the point of view of a young boy‚ who is hidden under a table‚ such that all he can see are the feet of the people in the room. In this extract‚ the author conveys the observations through the innocent perspective of a boy who might only be around eight to ten years of age. The first scene that we are introduced to seems
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Cultural commentary on the film "the Holiday". The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written‚produced and directed by Nancy Meyers‚ it stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic ocean‚ who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the Holiday season. (trailer) The film is a bright example of an American and English lifestyle‚ main characters of the comedy represent typical women of both countries The UsA and UK with
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The Big Short - Analytical Commentary The Big Short‚ a film centering around the 2007-08 financial crisis and its causes‚ does an effective job of depicting corporate greed in capitalist society. Through a clever stylistic choice of having well-known celebrities explain complex wall-street jargon through intelligible metaphors - the film succeeds in explaining the build up towards the financial crash. It also shows that not everyone was blindsided by the housing bubble‚ and that a handful of economists
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He compares it the experience of seeing “Elysium to a new-come soul” (Marlowe 1.1.11). Elysium is the ancient Greek perception of an afterlife paradise. Gaveston is comparing the euphoria he will feel to that of entering Elysium or paradise. Commentary: Gaveston is over enthused to be returning to the king after being exiled for so long. Gaveston says‚ “My knee shall bow to none but to the king‚” which emphasizes his love for Edward II. Gaveston: Ay‚ ay. These words of his move me as much
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