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    Not Enough Drinking Water Pop culture has recently become obsessed with trying to provide clean drinking water to those who do not have it. This is a pathetic issue to choose to fix. These poor people are a waste of space and need to learn how to fix their own problems instead of turning to the reach to fix them. Do you think the rich got rich by relying on other people? No. They found easy solutions to their difficult problems. People have wasted tons of money on giving these people clean water

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    11/19/12 English III Homelessness has been an issue of much dispute throughout time‚ regardless of whether it is in present day Portland‚ Maine or in the ancient city of Rome‚ Italy. People have been trying to aid the wanderers for a very long time‚ but clearly‚ have never found a good solution to the problem. People are sick and tired of walking out of their door in the morning and finding a vagrant‚ still reeking of alcohol which they purchased with a good Samaritan’s donation‚ on their

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    High School Education High school education is perfect in many areas to understand its greatness‚ you must understand each of the steps that makes it so great so I am going to describe some of the areas that make it great. The steps are grading system‚ teacher salary‚ and students wanting to really learn. There is a wide area of the high school education system it is well organized‚ for example the education the students receive. Even if teachers don’t like teaching‚ it is a great job because of

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    The Mosquito Satirical Essay Analysis When you think of a mosquito‚ you think of an annoying pest‚ or an insect that ruins picnics. In the short essay “The Mosquito‚” by Stephen Leacock‚ the mosquito is used to satirize someone else’s thoughts/ideas. This satiric essay is an excerpt from the book On the Front Life of Life: Stephen Leacock: Memories and Reflections‚ 1935-1944. Leacock focuses on the mosquito and uses it to mock/criticize Vilhjalmar Stefansson thoughts. This essay contains some humorous

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    An analysis on "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" is composed by Thomas Gray.The main idea of this poem is the contemplation of mortality. Thomas Gray’s life was surrounded by loss and death. In 1750‚ the death of his close friend stimulated him to brood on the philosophy of death. An elegy is a poem which lamets the dead. In this poem‚ the poet concentrated on the death of commen people instead of great and famous one. The biggest achivement of

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    important‚ hyperbole‚ and poisoning the well. By using these rhetorical devices‚ they were able to accomplish satire‚ which was the primary way for getting their message across. By using sarcasm‚ which was a good way to pin point that this was a satirical article‚ they were able to get their point across. They were able to let the reader know exactly what they believed to be false about the soles. Also‚ their use of ‘complicated’ words and ‘scientific’ sounding words that someone who was ignorant

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    Theodore Roethke’s poem “Elegy for Jane” shows the speakers affliction towards the death of his former student Jane. Roethke uses personification‚ imagery and metaphors as well as other devices to show the love and sorrow the speaker feels for Jane. The personification used by the speaker‚ when he says “leaves‚ their whispers turned to kissing” and “mold sang in the beached valley under the rose” is a representation of Jane’s presence‚ for bad and good her presence delighted them. The speaker uses

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    demand. Explore the consequences of having demand for products created by corporations rather than through the choice of sovereign consumers. Perhaps suggest solutions for the problem (if it is a problem!). This is an ideal topic to explore in a satirical manner. Research the nature of satire. Irony Hyperbole Ridiculous Elements of Corporations Positives of Corporations They enable cheaper prices in industrial nations They enable great revenue for the government by taxing the corporations They

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    Abbott and his Asylum seeker policy I have chosen a relevant cartoon by Cathy Wilcox‚ published in the Sydney Morning Herald on the 22nd of December 2013. I’ll firstly outline the cartoon’s contextual information‚ after which I’ll explore the satirical elements used by Wilcox to persuade the readers of her perspective. Finishing with an evaluation of the cartoons effectiveness. Firstly‚ to the context of this cartoon. The cartoon addresses the desperate and dangerous situation of asylum seekers

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    Elegy for my father’s father James K. Baxter Basic – First Impressions: * Different kind of title – very direct * Written in past tense – reflection * Written is second person – author describing the death of someone else * Idea of ‘Death’ – universal idea * Poem is one stanza long (written on two pages but actually one stanza) * Tone is dull and slow * References to nature and water * Free Verse * Ideas of poem (general): * Death – natural process

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