Willa Cather‚ an American author‚ achieved much recognition on her frontier works. She earned much acknowledgement in her work of My Antonia. Raised on a primitive farm in Nebraska‚ Cather uses her experiences of the landscape to transform the senses of her readers. Cather demonstrates her ability to capture the feeling of the prairie at the end of the “Hired Girls.” (“Presently we saw… somewhere on the prairie.” Page 146-147) Not only is this scene an important image of the moment‚ but the representation
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Robert Brownings poem My Last Duchess‚ is a great poem about a very colorful character and his trials with jealously‚ control‚ and marriage. Throughout the poem the reader is able to gather that it is about a Duke who is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Dukes next marriage. As the Duke is entertaining the emissary‚ the he takes the opportunity to show a portrait of his late wife‚ or as the poem titles says his last duchess. The Duke upon showing the portrait‚ almost immediately
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to make my typical outline to begin to write it‚ I realized that it would actually be more so reflective than demanding. Initially‚ the most challenging part was remembering my process‚ until I began to start the actual process. Strangely‚ I had to takes notes on how I was preparing to write a paper about a process in which I was actively living out at the moment. This paper is designed to reflect my composing process from start to finish‚ from preparatory activities to actual writing. My process
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13‚ 2012 Fairy Tales or Reality “And they lived happily ever after....”. All of us have either had fairy tales read to us as child or have either watched movies that have the same affect on our thought process. In the story‚ “The Love of My Life”‚ it is obvious that the two teenagers ’ love for each other colors everything around them. It also colors how they view life. You will see how their misconceptions of life have come about. The story tells of two teenagers ’ concept of a perfect
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In our culture there are various festivals‚ events and ceremonies to celebrate. In them the biggest and most beautiful event is marriage which leaves the best memorable things in our mind for our life. I have attended many marriages‚ the actual wedding process is for long time say for few days‚ where in the participation of relatives and friends in the event is most required and appreciated as well. The first part before to the marriage is the “Engagement” which is pre-event where the families of
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another‚ none is single and pure‚ all are hybrid‚ heterogeneous‚ extraordinarily differentiated‚ and unmonolithic’ (Said‚ 1993‚ p.xxiv) To what extent does thois quote apply to identity as it is presented in My Beautiful Laundrette and/or This Is England? The oscar winning film My Beautiful Laundrette was made in 1985 and directed by Stephen Frears. Hanif Kureishi was also nominated for best sreenplay‚ and it was heralded as one of Britain’s most comercial and critically successful films
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-How does the author describe the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the boy? My Greatest Ambition is a story written by Morris Lurie in 1984 about a thirteen-year-old boy whose greatest ambition was being a comic-strip artist although at the end he grows out of it. In this text the author can easily transmit the feelings of anxiety and excitement of the main character in different ways. One of the ways Morris Lurie describes them is through the boy’s incapacity of controlling his own body
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time. He was a great example‚ not only for the slaves but for all men. We all know him as a fugitive slave‚ who has come to occupy so conspicuous a position‚ both as a writer and a speaker. His most famous work was probably his autobiography‚" My Bondage and My Freedom." Some critics attacked the book for being unauthentic‚ not believing that a black man could have produced such articulate piece of literature. It details the incidents of his experience on the slave plantation of Maryland‚ where he was
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Early as the 3000 B.C. there was a cylindrical cane tube that looked similar to the clarinet used in Egypt. It was used mostly in the eastern world‚ there was a prototype that was made out of bone called the hompipe ir pibgorn‚ very similar to Egypt’s cane tube. The first clarinet ever made was around the 1700’s in Nuremberg‚ Germany by Johann Cristoph Denne. Of course it wasn’t as prestigious as now‚ but it still had a big impact on music. The very first clarinet invented looked similar to a recorder
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Poets often use literary techniques to clearly convey the personalities of their speakers. In "My Last Duchess"‚ Robert Browning uses point of view‚ diction‚ and imagery to achieve a powerful effect‚ underlining the attitude and personality of the Duke. In a dramatic monologue‚ character development is based on what the speaker says‚ and how he says it. In "My Last Duchess"‚ the speaker of the monologue addresses a fictional audience‚ and the reader is seen as an unnoticed third party
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