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    symbol of hope for Tsotsi and becomes his path to redemption by causing the feeling guilt for his actions. He also begins to learn to feel love for another human being‚ something he had forgotten how to do as a result of a traumatic childhood. The use of lighting is another important symbol used in the film as it is used to show hope and goodness. The clothing that Tsotsi wears is a black jacket ans his appearance is shown as dark and aggressive. Also all his criminal activities that are shown crimes

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    The Great Irish Famine

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    . Potato crops were the best option for Irish people because potatoes provide lots of nutrients and the crops were easy to grow in Irish lands due to their adaptability in almost any surface. However‚ the dependency on potatoes started to be dangerous when a new potato disease commonly known as potato blight affected the crops year after year in the 1840’s. This disease caused the loss of great part of the crops until the end of the decade‚ but especially in the year 1847‚ called the black forty-seven

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    Irish Whisky

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    What is a Single Malt Scotch Whisky ? | | A Single Malt Scotch Whisky is the product of one specific distillery and has not been mixed with whisky from any other distilleries. The greatest concentration of malt whisky distilleries can be found in the Speyside region of north-east Scotland‚ with Highland‚ Lowland and Islay being the other main malt whisky producing zones. Each of these regions has its own particular distinctive style of malt whisky and although it is not possible for two malts

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    Irish Financial Crisis

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    Name: Zhang Le “Irish Financial Crisis was both predictable and preventable.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use some financial indicators where appropriate to support your answer. Irish Financial Crisis has drawn much attention recently. Driven by booms in property and lending‚ it left the society with massive issues such as high unemployment and large government deficit (Kelly‚ 2010‚ p.1). There is some debate on whether the crisis could be predicted and prevented. This essay

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    SEAMUS HEANEY AS A IRISH NATIONALIST Heaney is widely considered Ireland’s most accomplished contemporary poet and has often been called the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. In his works‚ Heaney often focuses on the proper roles and responsibilities of a poet in society‚ exploring themes of self-discovery and spiritual growth as well as addressing political and cultural issues related to Irish history. His poetry is characterized by sensuous language‚ sexual metaphors‚ and nature

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    .2. The Revival of the Irish Language The Gaelic League was founded in the year 1893‚ a cultural movement whose aim was to promote and maintain the Irish language. By that time‚ Irish had become a minority language‚ spoken by no more than 15.2 per cent of the population of the whole of Ireland‚ or 19.2 per cent of the population of the area which was later to secede from the United Kingdom to become the Irish Free State. In 1911‚ those figures had declined to 13.3 per cent and 17.6 per cent respectively

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    Irish Prison System

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    Introduction This Irish prison system consists of 15 different institutions. This is made up of eleven traditional ‘closed’ prisons‚ two ‘open’ prisons‚ a training prison and a prison for young offenders. All of our prisons are termed medium-low security‚ apart from Portlaoise prison; a male only prison and our countries only high security prison. The purpose of a prison is to retain those legally committed of a crime as punishment or whilst they await trial. ‘The mission of the Irish prison service

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    The Style and Content of William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was a man who is known for his extraordinary writings of the nineteenth century‚ and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the English language. Yeats was a poet with extensive knowledge and was thought to have been born ahead of his time. Throughout his poetry and literary works he uses a combination of technique and style to express his meaningful ideas. Yeats became a pioneering poet who had a revolutionary type of

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    The Irish War of Independence Not all revolutions are won all of the time. Most would say that freedom is something worth fighting for. Thomas Jefferson once said “Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants”. Freedom is an inalienable right all people are born with. Some who have had their freedom snatched away by the hands of some foreign country‚ try to fight to get it back. That is exactly what Ireland did in the early 1900s. For both the Irish and

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    D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930) Hardy and Yeats belong to the upper classes; however‚ D.H. Lawrence is a working class poet and novelist. Both Hardy and D.H. Lawrence write outstanding novels and they are famous in both of the literary forms. Hardy depicts nature in terms of pessimism like William Butler Yeats and D.H. Lawrence portrays pessimism through the sexuality that stands for the blood for himself. In Freudian psychology‚ the snake symbolizes the male sexual power. However‚ in D.H. Lawrence’s

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