When Violet Mullen was younger‚ she used to watch a black and white show with her dads called the ‘Twilight Zone’. The show revolved itself with an alternate universe: it’s like your own snow globe world tilted upside down while the fallen snow represented heavy spontaneity for your ordinary life. Violet gaped through her bus window‚ she hesitantly settled her hand on the glass‚ almost afraid the window held vigorous static like a television. The cool glass confirmed Violet that she wasn’t watching
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well a text stands up to different readings. * Aspects of the texts support a unifying theme and The Violets: Themes: * Consolation that memory provides * Examination of childhood/The value of a happy childhood/ stable family life * The triggers of memory * The Losses and gains of humanity and how it’s all part of the human experience. Memory: Trigger 1: The Violets * “frail melancholy flowers among ashes and loam” * The sense of death is introduced in the sadness
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The Violets by Gwen Harwood was written during the late 1960s and was published in the anthology Selected Poems in 1975. As we know‚ Harwood’s poems explore philosophical and universal ideas. Harwood herself says “My themes are old ones – of love‚ memory‚ experience etc”‚ all of which are explored in this poem through the use of poetic and language techniques. Literally‚ the persona of the poem is outside when some aspects of the nature around her‚ like violets and a blackbird‚ trigger a memory from
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Violet Skies All I could feel was the most intense pressure I have ever felt. Nothing was helping it go away. There was about ten people surrounding me‚ most were family and friends. All the others were nurses and doctors trying to tell me what to do to help this intense pressure go away. Big lights were pointed on me‚ and all I could hear was‚ "Push!" Not matter how hard I pushed‚ I felt like I was getting nowhere. I was stuck in this never ending moment‚ but still I kept pushing. I could see the
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I believe the primary reason for this growth stems from the media. Everywhere you look‚ you are filled with images of ultra-thin women‚ perfected by personal trainers‚ personal make-up artists‚ designers to dress them daily and the wonders of editing and photoshop. “Standards of beauty have in fact become harder and harder to attain‚ particularly for women. The current
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Purpose: The purpose of this lab is to observe the reaction between sodium hydroxide and crystal violet so that the order of the reaction could be determined along with the rate constant‚ k‚ and the half-life for this reaction. Hypothesis: If the reaction between crystal violet and sodium hydroxide reacts appropriately‚ then the order will be first order. Procedure: Mix 10 mL of sodium hydroxide and crystal violet solution together. After calibrating the colorimeter‚ insert the mixture. Absorbance data
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B.Sc. Engineering / B.Sc. in Transport & Logistics Management‚ University of Moratuwa Semester 7 (’09 Batch) Examination for Academic Year 2012/2013 (09 September 2013- 01 October 2013) 22/8/2013 REVISED Exam Duration (Hrs) Mechanical Electronics Computer 9-Sep-13 CE4022 Monday CS4322 9.00 am CS4742 Hydraulic Design Digital System Design Bioinformatics 125 7 29 1 125 7 30 2 2 2 Hall 2 ER4212 ER4512 EE4032 Contaminated Site Remediation Jewellery Production Technology
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Rivers: A Reflection of History Deep Rivers can be seen as an allegory for historical conflicts in South America. The novel can be seen as a symbolic narrative of not only the problems that Indians faced in Peruvian society‚ but also Jose Argueda’s childhood and his struggle to find his identity. Deep Rivers is beneficial to the reader because it is a first hand account of the problems that Indians faced in Peru‚ thus allowing the reader to make a deeper connection to the novel and understand
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The book Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman follows a paranoid schizophrenic teenager as he struggles through the obstacles of his mental illnesses. For the most part‚ the book is written in the first person perspective‚ although occasionally it strays into second person perspective. In some parts of the book‚ the teenagers real struggle with mental illness is described and illustrated‚ while in other parts of the book‚ an elaborate hallucination from the schizophrenia is played out. Throughout the
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Deep Ecology/Ecosophy The ideas behind deep ecology have major implications today. They allow people to think more profoundly about the environment and possibly come to a better understanding of their own meaning. People are intensely concerned about the world’s technological adolescence‚ massive consumerism‚ and overpopulation. A man named Arne Naess‚ former head of the philosophy department at the University of Oslo founded an idea that can direct people’s anxiety away from
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