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    Charlotte Dymond was reported missing on 14 April 1844. Her body was found on Bodmin Moor 9 days later. On 2 August 1844 Matthew Weeks was found guilty of her murder. He was hanged on 12 August 1844. The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond by Charles Causley It was a Sunday evening
 And in the April rain
 That Charlotte went from our house‚ And never came home again. And is that why your eye won’t dry And blinds your bleaching face? “Take me home!” cried Charlotte‚ “I lie here in the pit!


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    Birmingham Campaign

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    Birmingham Campaign – Essay notes Cause • Underlying cause of history of slavery‚ emancipation‚ segregation/ Jim Crow laws. • Long term cause of growing Black Civil Rights movement building momentum and raising awareness of issue. Previous Black Civil rights campaigns that inspired and sparked e.g. Events such as Montgomery Bus Boycott which gave MLKing his first big leadership role. Also Freedom Riders‚ Brown VS board of Ed. • Birmingham was one of the worst segregated big cities in the

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    The Ballad of the Salad

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    1. Lennie held his closed hand away from George’s direction. “It’s on’y a mouse‚ George.”“A mouse? A live mouse?”“Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse‚ George. I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead.” (pg. 5)2. George said “Ya know‚ Lennie‚ I’m scared I’m gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. They won’t be a damn thing to eat.” (pg. 37)3. “Gotta bad gut ache‚” said Candy. “Them God damn turnips give it to me. I knowed they was going to before I ever eat

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    The Ballad of Father Gilligan - W.B. Yeats The poem takes the form of a ballad which was traditionally sung with  short and regular stanzas telling a short but profoundly meaningful  story. Yeats’s poems are not usually overtly religious‚ but this poem  is one. Though Yeats was a protestant who later turned to theosophy  and mysticism‚ this poem is Catholic in tone. Also contrary to his  practice‚ Yeats uses an Irish word in the poem – ‘mavrone’ which in  Irish is ‘mobhron’‚ a cry of grief

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    Birmingham Jail

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    Letter From Birmingham Jail By: Brendan Southern Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)‚ was one of the most influential and memorable of that of the civil rights movement. Being a well-educated black christian he appealed to many people of many demographics throughout America. Aside from this‚ he was highly persuasive‚ and properly motivated to lead the movement that helped form this country into what it is today. In his letter From a Birmingham jail to his fellow clergymen‚ he answers questions to clergymen

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    The theme of “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple” is immigration and migration. The main focus of the book is the Whipple family moving to California during the gold rush in 1849. The Whipples along with many other people migrated during the book. In the beginning of the book‚ the main reason that the story happened is because of dreams to go west. “ Mama and Pa had long dreamed of going west…”(3) Lucy’s parents wanted to move west with their family. Without their dreams‚ The story would not have happened

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    A Relativistic View of The Ballad of Narayama (1) First Position Utilitarianism‚ a branch of moral realism‚ is a doctrine that attempts to explain the abstract idea of morality. Consequentialism‚ a broader basis of utilitarianism‚ defines an action as being right or wrong by saying that the right act in any moral dilemma is that which leads to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. It focuses in on the consequence of an action and declares that this result is the true basis for

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    The first song is Masters of War‚ it was written during the Vietnam war (Wib Team‚ 2015). it is a fierce and angry song. There is curse that writer wants a commander of war dies in line 57-64. The lyrics are against the government and the military because this song demonstrated that young men were deceived to go to die in the war. In line 17‚ “Like Judas of old” it refers to Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus by telling the soldiers who Jesus was and resulted in Jesus being arrested. It like the commander

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    “The Ballad of the Sad Café‚” written by Carson McCullers‚ takes place in a small‚ rural town in Georgia. This novella focuses around the life of a store clerk‚ Ms. Amelia‚ who was married to a man named Marvin Macy and after ten days of a bitter relationship between the two they got divorced. Several years after this event‚ a stranger named Cousin Lymon came to town claiming to be Ms. Amelia’s relative. She took a fondness to him and soon Ms. Amelia’s store was turned into a café because the whole

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    Laura Dickens A Critical Analysis of Sir Patrick Spens ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ is‚ for the most part‚ an archetypal early ballad being composed in quatrains‚ with the typical alternating four-stress and three-stress lines and the second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming. The poem is set in medias res‚ telling certainly of a tragedy‚ possibly based on two voyages in the thirteenth-century on which Scottish noblemen transported princesses to royal marriages‚ with many members of Alexander III’s

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