Duffy and S. K. Kelen‚ have all used various brief moments of human experience to explore emotions and ideas. Refugee Blues‚ Homecoming‚ The Gods Ash Their Cigarettes‚ Funeral Blues‚ Daddy and Little Red-Cap‚ have through tone‚ stylistic features‚ language devices and personas‚ expressed the idea they centre around. W. H. Auden in Refugee Blues and Bruce Dawe in Homecoming explore the idea that war has negative effects on all. Auden in Refugee Blues explores the emotions a homeless Jew faces and
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One thing that Texas State University sure does have is talent. In the spirit of homecoming the Student Association for Campus Activities (SACA) put on its annual talent show were the students came out and showed their talent. With its witty hosts to the talented acts it was an evening of great fun and laughter. With the knowledge of the great turnout of students in previous years‚ SACA knew they were going to need a large enough area to fit the amount of students. Evans auditorium which is one
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Richmond High is hard to fathom. October 31‚ 2009|SANDY BANKS The sense of horror seems to be fading at Richmond High -- the Northern California school that made news around the world this week after a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped outside a campus homecoming dance while a crowd of students watched but did nothing to intervene. Local school board members in this East Bay city near Oakland want to promote safety measures -- fences‚ lights‚ security cameras -- on the drawing board for years‚ now about
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head of his household and kingdom. Laertes’ “mental anguish has rendered him immobile and ineffective” in comparison to Penelope During Odysseus’s absence‚ both Laertes and Penelope have suffered‚ physically and mentally. Considering in both homecoming scenes‚ in particular of his fathers’ in which Laertes in described to be “worn out by age and with deep sorrow in his heart”(24.) Whereas Penelope‚ in rather in extended scene is both are noted to have suffered‚ though are In her returned
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For the last 4 years of high school I have been my school’s mascot. It has shaped me in many different ways. Our mascot is Seymour Mule and his partner Annie Mule. We are Woodrow Wilson Senior High "Home of the Mighty Mules." Being a school mascot isn’t something you exactly plan to do during your high school years. But somehow I managed to do it and love it more than anything. I didn’t exactly choose to be our mascot‚ it happened due to luck. One day during my freshman year we had a practice fire
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Animals are controlled by other animals. The wolf pack follows the leader. The worker ants work at the cost of their lives to feed the queen ant. Though we believe we are higher than animals‚ humans are still animals. Every individual human does not always crave every answer to every question in the universe. Humans follow other humans for answers and directions. Traditions are beliefs that humans pass down to younger humans. The next generations are meant to follow these traditions‚ and it
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This idea reminded me of last week’s discussion on the controversy over Westerns homecoming. Majority of individuals who par take in the festivities believe since it is a large community student tradition that the likely hood of getting a ticket will be minimized because “ I didn’t get a ticket last year” or “ its homecoming‚ it happens every year”. As a result‚ the idea that shared value systems bond communities together could explain the differing
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The module comparative study of texts should remain in the Board of Studies syllabus as it can provide a powerful insight into the human condition and social values of an era. The play “Away” by Michael Gow and poems published in “Sometimes Gladness” written by Bruce Dawe are both texts which reflect similar conditions that the typical person living in suburban Australia between the 1950’s and 1960’s experienced. There were many significant events that took place during these two decades such as
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TECHNIQUES USED IN BRUCE DAWES POEMS Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other. Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like their meanings. Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect. Rhyme: Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike‚ including the final vowel sound and everything following it‚ are said to rhyme. Analogy: A comparison‚ usually something unfamiliar with something familiar
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for life. For example‚ if a parent constantly yells at their child for no reasons and shows no signs of love‚ the little one’s childhood would consist of nothing but bad memories. This is exactly what happened to Shelly‚ the Indian girl from the “Homecoming”. The female protagonist definitely suffered immensely due to the lack of parental love and the constant battles in the house. Her careless parents would never stop blaming her for every little thing causing her to run away from home at a young
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