Gobbet Commentary: Great Famine Undoubtedly known as the largest catastrophe in Irish History‚ The Great Famine has consequently become one of the most written about periods in Irish History. Much of the debate focuses on the lack of support from British Parliament to fund and implement government emergency programs to save Ireland from starvation and from the exodus of its citizens. Cormac Ó Gradá’s Statistical Tables From the Great Irish Famines provides empirical evidence that not only illustrates
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Commentary Passage: Page 248: "-You made me confess the fears that I have " Page 249: "Cranly did not answer." In this passage‚ Stephen is saying how Cranly has made him confess all of his fears to him‚ but then he tells Cranly what he does not fear. Stephen tells Cranly that he does not "fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever" he has to leave. Stephen has gone through several stages in his life‚ and now that he has gone
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“Anthem for Doomed Youth"‚ a wartime Sonnet by Wilfred Owen The poem uses many techniques to convey its meaning. By our understanding of the use of these techniques‚ the poem becomes easier to understand and at the same time‚ more is revealed to us. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore gives us a firsthand experience of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. By using a sonnet for the structure of his poem‚ Wilfred Owen introduces
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A bora ring is a sacred site for indigenous Australians where initiation ceremonies for indigenous males were held. In her poem "Bora Ring"‚ Judith Wright mourns the loss in contemporary Australian society of the culture and traditions of indigenous Australians. She begins with descriptions of Aboriginal culture that has vanished as a result of European settlement. At the end of the poem‚ Wright recognizes the destruction wreaked upon indigenous Australians by their white brothers and shows remorse
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The poem‚ A Far Cry From Africa‚ by Derek Walcott‚ is that of the poet’s indecisive feelings towards his motherland of Africa compared to the English in him. Derek Walcott is a poet who is mixed race; both sets of his grandparents were mixed color marriages. This background on Walcott is what gives the poem depth‚ as it is in the first person from the point of view of Walcott being the narrator‚ and it deals the Walcott’s duel identity and the proceedings of being two races. From research on Walcott
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The nature of the relationships throughout the poem seems to change from a seemingly equal sense of love from both goldfish‚ to a more one-sided relationship in the last stanza of the poem. In the first stanza the male character is said to be a “drifter”‚ this foreshadows the later stages of the poem as he slowly becomes ambitionless. He is bounded by his own infatuations so much so that he fails to realize what is happening in the present; this is signified in the second stanza where the idea of
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‘A Doll’s House’‚ by Henrik Ibsen‚ is a play that was considered so controversial when it was first published‚ in 1879‚ that the playwright was forced to create a second ending to be used when necessary. This was because of Ibsen’s unorthodox stance on the idea of the role of women in society at the time‚ and this concept became one of the main themes of his play. Although this was one of the prevalent notions‚ other significant themes include the unreliability of appearance and the notion of heredity
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This article covers the first increase in housing prices in Australia in 2011‚ raising hopes that Australian housing prices may recover in 2012. Housing prices have also dropped‚ but recently‚ the average cost for a house has also risen. The article states that this is mainly because of low interest rates and shortage of supply. Low interest rates (charges that borrowers pay to lenders for using the borrowed money)‚ would cause a shift in demand (the capability and willingness to consume a commodity
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#1- The author Bryan Stevenson writes Just Mercy which is about a mix of a bunch of wrongly convicted people who are put on death row. Bryan Stevenson being an attorney had faced an enormous amount of cases with wrongly convicted people. Stevenson writes the book in a very serious tone and to the point. This is because he wants the reader to really feel the frustration and anger that him and the convicted person felt during the trials. Stevenson states in the book “We have a system of justice in
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On 28th August 2013 the Indian Rupee plunged to an all time low of 68.85 to the US Dollar – a depreciation of nearly 25% since January 2013. Let’s examine some of the issues that brought the rupee to such a state. We’ll start by going back in time when after independence in 1947‚ India adhered to socialist policies. Attempts were made to liberalise the economy in 1966 which was reversed a year later in 1967. Another attempt was made in 1985 by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi which came to
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