Comparison of two pieces based on Daffodils
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At Home and Abroad
AT HOME AND ABROAD . ¿Qué tipo de vacaciones prefieres? En mi opinión, la Australia es el país más interesante porque la cultura es muy diferente a otros países. Si pudiera visitar Australia, iría a la Sydney Opera House con mis hermanos. Anche, me gustaría ir a un zoo porque me chifla ver un oso koala. 2. ¿Qué haces normalmente durante tus vacaciones? Creo que es muy importante para divertirse durante las vacaciones pero me gusto finir mis deberes y descanso. Después, salgo con mis amigos y vamos al cine o jugamos rugby en un parque. 3. ¿Adónde fuiste de vacaciones el año pasado? Normalmente, visito los países europeos como la Francia o la España con mi familia a veces. Sin embargo el año pasado, visitamos la Nigeria porque el mi tío estaba casado. Tomamos un avión y alojamos en un hotel y había una piscina. ¡Me encanta nadar! Había sol pero a veces era demasiado calor. Me compré regalos por mis amigos y una batería africana por mía sobrina. 4. ¿Adónde vas a ir de vacaciones este año? Este año voy a Brasil con mi escuela por una vista escolar. Pienso que estaba una experiencia genial y estoy muy excitado. Quiero tener un buen tiempo en Brasil y, ¡me chifla ver las cataratas! 5. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy? En el momento está nublado y pienso que lloverá. Normalmente el tiempo es bueno pero el tiempo británico puede ser impredecible. 6.
The image of the narrator character in the novel in "Eugene Onegin"
The image of the narrator character in the novel in "Eugene Onegin" The novel "Eugene Onegin" is the result of creative maturity of Pushkin, and it is the richest content and its most popular product. The text reveals to the reader a broad picture of Russian reality since the beginning of the XIX century, populated by full-blooded human characters.Among them stands a particular presence - a story. Along with the main characters stand out and his personality, hidden behind the image of the hero story. In effect, he said Romanov in confessional self-form, dialogical "you" and "we"-form and tretolichnoto "he" in which we find vsevizhdashtiya storyteller. Thus it makes the image avtoharakteristika their relationship and expressed the attitude towards the characters and events while making an objective look at the work shown in the world. Hero storyteller commented saprezhivyava, deny or approve - he was an active figure in the novel reveals its strengths and weaknesses, has clarified moral values established notions of good and evil in life. Before us stood a sociable interlocutor who is looking for reader confidence and he trusts him. At the beginning of the novel the narrator begins to build its image, conspiracy in the first person singular and addressing the "you" - adersat. This means proximity between the two, and is also referred to their relationship of friendship that
Comparison of Wilfred Owen and Sigfried Sasson
Shiva Baweja The nineteenth century was impossible to revoke because it was swept away in a tide of mud and blood with the coming of World War I. "The Great War" lasted from 1914 through 1918. More than eight million soldiers lost their lives in the struggle between the Central Powers and the Allies. The old ideals of warfare fought by aristocrats and gentlemen vanished beneath gas attacks, trench warfare, and heavy artillery bombardments. Enlisted men would spend weeks in the most unbearable trenches of the front line. These trenches were the most treacherous place to be in the war. Many of the soldiers suffered from trench foot, starvation, dysentery, shell shock, and body lice and if these didn't get to them the mortar and gas attacks were sure to. World War I posters attracted men to enlist pledging honor, duty, and camaraderie, going back to the Latin saying that it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. This encouraged many soldiers to put their emotions and 'the real truth' onto paper. Writing has always been a tool for reflecting and commenting on society. During the 20th century many poets reacted to problems in the world with highly emotionally charged poems. The horror of war and the spiritual degradation it inflicts is evident in the work of the World War I poets. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were both soldiers and poets. Their poems reflect the
IOP - Pride & Prejudice
IOP Good afternoon. My individual oral presentation is based on the book Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen in the year of 1813. Today, I will examine the character of William Collins, by analyzing his marriage proposal to Elizabeth Bennet in Chapter 19. I believe that this passage contains great importance in the understanding of Jane Austen's character, Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins is a clergyman and an extremely comical character because of his mix of adulation and pride. He is fond of making long and silly speeches and stating formalities which have absolutely no meaning in themselves. For Mr. Collins, speech is not a means to communicate truth but a means to say what he thinks the people around him want to hear or what will make the people around him think well of him. He is first in line to inherit Mr. Bennet's estate, and wishes to marry one of the Bennet sisters to lessen the burden of entailment. I have begun my key-passage analysis from the line "The idea of Mr. Collins, with all his solemn composure, being run away with by his feelings, made Elizabeth so near laughing that she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him further, and he continued:"... From this excerpt, we can see that Jane Austen has used the term 'solemn composure' to exhibit Mr. Collins' seriousness and sincere poise. We may also observe the attention that Mr.
Enter without So Much as Knocking Commentary
Bruce Dawe is a contemporary Australian poet who in interviews has stated that he is very interested in placing ordinary things alongside extraordinary things. As an example, in one of his poems he places the word, cornflakes, alongside a serious matter of death. Strategically, Dawe chose the medium of poetry within which to write as it is the best medium through which to convey emotions, feelings, and thoughts. Poetry, by definition, employs many devices such as rhythm and rhymes which apart from diction; give readers a feel for what the poem is all about. This poem "Enter without So Much as Knocking" is structured with 9 stanzas with one epigraph on top. Each stanza consist different number of lines, except for last two stanzas having a single line. There is no rhyming scheme throughout the whole poem. Bruce Dawe structured out this poem with each stanza representing each stages of human life; starting with birth, toddler, young boy, teenager, adult, car accident and death. There are differences between the subject and the theme of the poem. In the poem 'Enter Without So Much as Knocking', Bruce Dawe brings up the subject of life throughout the poem. However, his theme is different to the subject. Throughout this poem, Dawe brings up themes such as; the human condition, no significances of life and death and adult's ignorance and their selfishness. Dawe criticises the
World Assignment 2
WORLD ASSIGNMENT 2 English A1 / Higher Level FATHERS AND SONS By: Ivan Turgenev 0 years have passed... By: Mohammad Asad Date: 01/30/2008 Word Count: 1,537 Candidate Number: 001109-018 Statement of Intent Ten years have passed since the brothers last met. It was then when in the small parish church, two weddings had taken place quietly and almost without witnesses: Arkady's wedding to Katya and that of Nikolai Petrovich to Fenichka; and on that same day, Nikolai Petrovich was giving a farewell dinner for his brother, who was going away to Moscow on some business. I have decided to continue and add to the novel Fathers and Sons ever since I finished reading it. I always wondered where each character would be after a certain period of time. And now I will remind you of the characters, and where we last left them with Turgenev, so we can carry on from there: The Kirsanovs, father and son, had settled at Maryino. Arkady was passionately engrossed in the management of the estate and the farm was yielding a fairly substantial income. Nikolai Petrovich became an arbitrator in the land reforms and was putting all of his energy into the work. Katya had given birth to a son, little Nikolai, while Mitya (Fenichka's son) scampered all over the place. Pavel Petrovich had gone from Moscow abroad for the sake of his health and then stayed in Dresden, where he associated chiefly
How did the pigs abuse language to maintain their position of power in Animal Farm?
How did the pigs abuse language to maintain their position of power? In "Animal Farm", there are 4 pigs, Major, Snowball, Napoleon and Squealer, that are very important to the story, and they use various ways to abuse language, they include rhetorical questions, assertion, lying, songs and slogans, adding condition and smearing the enemy. The pigs abuse language to achieve different goals, yet all of them end up help maintain pigs' position of power. Major through abusing language, started the motion for a revolution. As he sparks this idea in the beginning, he puts the pigs into the leading position of the revolution, which allows the chance for the pigs to gain the position of power which has been held by human if revolution does succeed. Snowball leads the animals into the early stages of revolution. During the first doubt about the new "farm", fundamental question about how the system is going to work, Snowball started the tradition of pigs making the decision to questions like problems with "sugar" and "ribbon". He abused language to encourage animals' enthusiasm towards animalism under the pigs. Napoleon with the help of Squealer also abuse language a lot to maintain pigs' rule. While Napoleon is the one who is making decisions, Squealer is the one who tries to "justify" and "promote" Napoleon's decisions through abuse of language, and to make sure the animals at
Loss of Hope
Loss of Hope By Rushad Heerjee How does it feel to be oppressed and lose all hope? The House of Bernarda Alba written by Federico Lorca is a theatrical tragedy which portrays Bernarda as a harsh and cruel woman who believe in oppressing others as well as upholding ancient family traditions. Her domineering nature keeps her five daughters and three servants in check as she rules the household with an iron fist. Bernarda is an eccentric character as she not only acts rashly but also uses physical and verbal abuse to make herself look better than others. In the play The House of Bernarda Alba, Lorca, using Bernarda's relationship with other characters highlights the central theme of oppression of women in Spanish society during the 1900's. Bernarda has repressed everyone in the household to the point that they are all afraid of her. From the start of the play the audience's image of Bernarda is somewhat similar to that of a totalitarian dictator. Poncia and the maid are discussing her character and Poncia says "She could sit on your heart and watch you die for a whole year without talking that cold smile of her damn face" (1, 194). This line projects an image of relentless cruelty and shows Bernarda's true character. Furthermore when we first see Bernarda, her first words are "Silence" (1, 199). This word shows Bernarda as an authoritarian who has total control of everything
Judith Wright Poems Analysis
English Assignment 1 by Arjun Sharma Analysing Judith Wright Poem's: Turning Fifty Imagery: Sight:- "Sun to rise" "still, as the sun comes up" "to all I've seen and known to this new sun" " outside the green birds come" "Their wings wait for the sun" "dark, clean" " Though we've polluted even this air I breathe" Sound: "the day will quiet" Taste: " I drink my coffee and wait" "I taste my fifty years her in the cup" " for bread and water" " bitter" Touch: " I raise my cup" Sound/Rhyme/Rhythm: * There is no rhyming scheme in the poem. * Alliteration, consistent use of oxymoron's and a lot of nature based imagery add to the flow of the poem Mood/tone: * The tone of the poem is very key, for most of the poem the narrators tone is dark and ironic, however in the later stanzas it switches over to a more happier and hopeful tone. * The mood of the narrator for key stages of the poem is very reminiscent, regretful and nostalgic as the narrator is reminiscing her past experiences and regretting what she has seen. Voice/Persona: * It has been narrated a point of view of a person who is turning fifty. * Talking to the reader a lot throughout the poem, for example in stanza 4 the narrator is telling the reader that he/she has a played major in the pollution of earth. * Negative for a major part of the poem, this is evident through the various dark images