Sestina In ’Sestina’ Elizabeth Bishop tells a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. The story‚ set in a kitchen on a rainy late afternoon in September‚ features two actions: having tea and drawing. Although the woman tries to remain cheerful and thus protect the child‚ her tears give away her sadness. The child‚ meanwhile‚ not only observes these troubling signs but also draws a house that makes her proud. By the final nine lines of the poem‚ a surprising thing
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Sonnet 14: In lines I and 2 of "Sonnet 14"‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning says she wants only to be loved for "love’s sake". The next four lines describe all the things she does not want to be loved for – “Do not say ’I love her for her smile—her look—her way of speaking gently”‚. She tells us in lines 7 through 9‚ that she does not want to be loved for these reasons because they are changeable (with age)‚ unreliable and superficial whereas real love should be everlasting. In lines 10 through 12‚ she
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During her time as a physician and an activist‚ Blackwell explored gender equality and the modernization of medicine through her writings and teachings. In 1852‚ Blackwell published her medical book titled “The Laws of Life: With Special Reference to the Physical Education of Girls.” In this book‚ Blackwell frequently highlights the important roles of Athena‚ the Greek goddess of wisdom‚ and why she is worshipped so devoutly: “She was the protectress of state and of social institutions‚ and of all
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The Last Years of the Poor Law During the interwar period the Poor Law served as a residual safety net‚ assisting those who fell through the cracks of the existing social insurance policies. The high unemployment of 1921-38 led to a sharp increase in numbers on relief. The official count of relief recipients rose from 748‚000 in 1914 to 1‚449‚000 in 1922; the number relieved averaged 1‚379‚800 from 1922 to 1938. A large share of those on relief were unemployed workers and their dependents
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Write a 450 words essay on Holi festival Holi is known as a festival of colours‚ fun and frolic. It is a festival of the Hindus. It usually comes in March. It is celebrated with gaiety in North India. Of late the South is also catching up with the North in celebrating this festival of colours. There are different stories about the importance of the festival. It is said that at one stage a demon by name Tarakasura conquered all ’Lokas or worlds’ including heaven and was teasing the ’Devas’.
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About ICD Dadri • An intermodal terminal directly connected by road and rail to the seaports. • Facilities for storage and consolidation of goods‚ maintenance for cargo carriers and custom clearance services. • Export functions: o Receipt of cargo o In-house customs examination o Cargo aggregation and storage o Cargo stuffing under customs supervision • Import functions: o Movement of containers from the port o De-stuffing of LCL (Less Container Load) and FCL (Full Container Load) containers
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White sand rolls into the bluish green water‚ creating the peaceful and calming atmosphere that this beach is known for. During the day‚ the sky is a beautiful blue‚ the sun shining through‚ it’s rays beaming down on everyone soaking up it’s environment‚ and the sun’s persistence making it impossible to forget it is there. Not a cloud in the sky‚ the light blue illuminates the sun in the most perfect way‚ reflecting it off the water to bring together the best of both worlds. Standing on that beach
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Brittany Hewing Art of the Renaissance 222-01 11/10/2014 In this essay I shall discuss two paintings I observed at the Art Institute of Chicago and compare the two as well. During our field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago even though we did not have enough time to properly view the pieces along with a large portion of the museum with pre-renaissance pieces in them were closed off to the public. Two pieces that really stuck out to me during the trip were: “Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)”
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Late 1800s to 1907 The were many art movements within this time period. I am going to show you some of well known one and unknown artist. Impressionism In 1874‚ a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters‚ Sculptors‚ Printmakers‚ etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism. Its founding members included Claude Monet‚ Edgar Degas‚ and Camille Pissarro‚ among others. Impressionism was a movement that occurred in both art and poetry. It
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It was the summer season. We were free from school. We were a party of four friends. We decided to go to Mussourie— a fine health resort in the Himalayas. We went to Dehradun by train. From there we decided to go to Mussourie on foot. A bus could also take us there‚ but we just wanted to have a novel experience of hiking. We reached Rajpur. It is just at the foot of the hills. It was from here that we set out for Mussourie on foot. We hired two coolies at Rajpur to carry outr luggage. Our route
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