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    System By: Bianca Siregar Grade: 11 Title of Article: Good-bye Jakarta Source of Article: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/01/26/editorial-goodbye jakarta.html Date of access: Feb 1st‚ 2013 Date of article published: Jan 26‚ 2013 Date commentary was written: Jan 31st‚ 2013 Word Count: 726 Section of syllabus related: Market Failure Article Highlights Editorial: Good-bye Jakarta The Jakarta Post | Editorial | Sat‚ January 26 2013‚ 7:27 AM A- A A+ Paper Edition | Page: 5

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    Commentary: Moral Responsibility Jonathan Swift cleverly illustrates a very “humble” solution to the crisis in Ireland in his personal essay‚ “A Modest Proposal.” His voice urges annoyance and frustration‚ evoking a tone of sarcasm. Through the use of cynical language‚ he creates an intense and informative response. He uses language to create imagery which he intends to elicit a response of shock and moral responsibility. His intention is to mock Ireland and the economic crisis they have got

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    Bamdad Attarn IB HL English The Things They Carried Commentary: How to Tell a True War Story Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a work of metafiction that manages to test fiction in its very nature through the chapter‚ “How to Tell a True War Story.” The blurred line between reality and the imagination is explored by the given account—the reader is alienated and forced to think‚ does the truth matter in a war story? This chapter alternates in narration between O’Brien as a soldier

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    Cultural Commentary Coco Fusco’s book “English is Broken Here” grants the reader admission into the work of Latino/a performance artists born in the U.S. She gives insight into the viewpoint of the other versus that of the privileged making her book a refreshing outlook on the difficulties of assimilation and transcendence as a Cuban-American in the U.S. Her book sheds light on themes of “otherness” and that of “culture clash” through one of her better known performance pieces Two Undiscovered

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    Commentary on the Poem “I‚ too‚ sing America” Hello‚ my name is ..... from the ......‚ and I am in English A standard level class. I will be analyzing the Poem “I‚ too‚ sing America” by Langston Hughes written in 1945‚ famous in the Harlem Renaissance as an effective author in the Black society. In Hughes contemporary society black Americans were discriminated against‚ killed violently‚ and banned from many primitive rights and services. The main purpose of this text is to impart equity between

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    1. What basic assumptions lead to the development of the biological assumption? 2. Identify the research methods employed in the study of the biological perspective? The biological perspective is the approach in which links how we think and what we do‚ to our physical being as a biological organism. There are two basic assumptions which direct us to this perspective; a) the relationship between the mind and body and b) the influence of heredity on behaviour. These two ideas come from two different

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    “Then from the moor‚ in a blanket of mist‚ Grendel came stalking” (ln. 710). So begins what I consider to be the most powerful passage in Beowulf: the first appearance of Grendel. Even from this first line‚ readers are getting a sense of the foreboding that follows where he walks. The description that follows as Grendel reaches the mead hall to kill the human men he finds there is full of powerful language‚ subtle alliteration and vivid imagery that make this important passage even more alive on

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    The poem "Rising Five" is written by Norman Nicholson. It is about the human tendency to look forward to the future‚ wondering what will happen‚ hoping for the best and anticipating anything positive (at the expense of living for the present)‚ and how people keep wanting to rush through certain stages of life‚ finally rushing to death itself. The poem begins with the description of a little boy soon turning five‚ and his excitement about his impending birthday. The poet‚ Norman Nicholson‚ stresses

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    Death Of A Naturalist By Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’ mainly focuses on Seamus’ experience of collecting and watching frogspawn as a child followed by his reaction on metamorphosis of the frogs from ‘jellies specks’ He loses his innocence. This poem’s title is an extended metaphor. The naturalist in Seamus dies as he experiences the transformation from a child to a man. It’s a comparison between the metamorphosis and the transformation of the tadpoles and the child

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    Love can be a great emotion full of joy though it is not the case in ’Otherwise’‚ Cilla McQueen seems to cut into one of the rather disheartening issues‚ a long distant relationship. The free verse structured poem written in first person tells the story of two lovers living on ’opposite’ sides of the world. The title indicates that otherwise expresses contrast between what is reality and what is hoped for. McQueen divided her poem to reflect this contrast‚ and uses it to symbolize an essential difference

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