American Culture: Money! Money! Money! Fast food is probably the most popular form of diet here in America. Because most of the people are busy trying to make money‚ they do not have enough time to spare to prepare a nutritious home-cooked meal. Since life these days is fast-paced‚ people settle for fast food chains located near their work place and house; fast food for breakfast‚ lunch‚ and dinner most days of the week. While reading Eric Schlosser’s best-selling book‚ the Fast Food Nation‚ it
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Explication: Final Draft The “Ballad of Wordly Wealth” is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into our society. This explication will review the many rhetoric forms and patterns of this such poem. The form of this poem is a ballad. A ballad’s contents include 3 stanzas‚ at least 8 lines in each stanza‚ and a refrain (a repeated phrase at the end point of a poem) a refrain in example of the Ballad of Wordly Wealth is “Youth‚ and health‚ and Paradise” The author used sophisticated
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Ven Additional Step-by-Step Method of Thoroughly Explicating a Poem In addition to the sections‚ which are mentioned in the basic explication de texte‚ please review these divisions to further assist you in the complex work of analysis. Meaning: can you paraphrase in prose the general outline of the poem? Do not simply answer yes or no; attempt a brief paraphrase. Antecedent scenario: What has been happening before the poem begins? What has provoked the speaker? "Poets make certain stanza-forms
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S02d2-Dana Hall Capella University-Dr. Elena Kays October 21‚ 2013 The Dana Hall School was founded in 1881 by Henry Durant‚ with whom he and a friend‚ Charles Dana‚ allocated resources to construct. As an All-Girl’s school‚ they initially began as a boarding only school for girls in grades 10-12. Unfortunately‚ despite a plateau and then decrease in registration‚ the organization now must face a decision based on three options: Continue to operate a failed model until they run
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Stephney Keller S. Baker Eng. 1302.341 09/20/2010 My Window of Sadie and Maud This poem dramatizes the conflict between social acceptance and true happiness‚ specifically with its ironic depiction of the lives of two sisters. The theme of this poem is based on its structure and symbolism. The poet is using this poem to show her feelings regarding the limited opportunities that were available for African American women in this society. The narrative four quatrain
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Hannah Risidore ENG4U June 2‚ 2013 Ms. Martin Poem Analysis Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚Silence the pianos and with muffled drumBring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come.Let aeroplanes circle moaning overheadScribbling on the sky the message ’He is Dead’.Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚My working week and my
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“First Poem for You” is a poem by written by Kim Addonizio‚ an American poet. This poem “First Poem for You” is a closed-form poem but written as an English sonnet. The poem a person who loves the tattoos in his or her lover’s skin. At the same time the tattoos scares him or her by their permanence. The thoughtfulness and the depth of details expressed in this poem makes us conclude that the persona or speaker in this poem is a female. The speaker is certain about the permanence of the tattoos on
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Poetry Explication – “Holy Thursday” (Songs of Experience) by William Blake Khizer (Ali) Syed Nathan Dueck English 200B Feb 7‚ 2014 In William Blake’s poem‚ “Holy Thursday”‚ which is a component of the “Songs of Experience”‚ discusses the treatment of orphans in a vast “fruitful land” that is only motivated by self-interest. Furthermore‚ Blake illustrates the institutions these children reside and continues to discuss their lack of food‚ rain and “warmth”. He believes that society treats
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Poetry Explication Wonderwall Oasis Today is gonna be the day That they’re gonna throw it back to you By now you should’ve somehow Realized what you gotta do I don’t believe that anybody Feels the way I do about you now Backbeat the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out I’m sure you’ve heard it all before But you never really had a doubt I don’t believe that anybody feels The way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding
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Explication of "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy 1. "Had he and I but met 2. By some old ancient inn‚ 3. We should have sat us down to wet 4. Right many a nipperkin! 5. "But ranged as infantry‚ 6. And staring face to face‚ 7. I shot at him as he at me. 8. And killed him in his place. 9. "I shot him dead because- 10. Because he was my foe. Throughout the poem it is easy to tell that the flow of this poem is non-traditional‚ for example‚ Hardy expresses hesitation in lines one and
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