GREEK VOCABULARY USED IN THE PLAY ANTIGONE. 1. grievous causing or marked by grief or anguish EXAMPLE SENTENCE: To me‚ Antigone‚ no word of friends Has come‚ or glad or grievous‚ since we twain Were reft of our two brethren in one day By double fratricide; 2. lament a cry of sorrow and grief EXAMPLE SENTENCE: No man may bury him or make lament— 3. promulgate put a law into effect by formal declaration NOTES: "Mandate" and "edict" are synonyms for a law that King Creon
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A Look at William Blake’s Archetypes Used in His Poems Blake’s Deep Poems William Blake‚ a poet‚ painter‚ and printmaker‚ once stated‚ “To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower‚ hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour” (William Blake). He often opens our minds to deeper thought in his pieces. Blake wrote two pieces called Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Within these two topics‚ Blake wrote many stories/poems that demonstrate the personality
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Humour is a commonly used technique in English literature; it is put into practice by speeches and various pieces of writing‚ from poetry to prose. Humour is used to convey an idea or underlying message or to simply amuse the reader. Mad as Hell is a multi-award winning Australian comedy news television program hosted by Shaun Micallef which has gained traction over the last few years. Mad as Hell is well known for being able to incorporate various humour techniques such as understatement‚ allusion
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Should referendums be more widely used? Referendum can be defined as when the citizens either all or those in specific regions vote on a specific issue of public importance and it is conducted nationally‚ regionally‚ and locally an example of a referendum is the 2011 referendum on changing the current first past the post system to proportional representative. The public have one vote each on a specific issue and the referendum focuses on a single question with a yes/no answer. Many countries such
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13 September 2009 A Spirit in the Mix: An Analysis of “I Used to Live Here Once” For the story‚ “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys‚ we could argue that the story is about a woman who moved away from her homeland to go to a new place and now returns home for a reason not stated. The two children who are playing outside the woman’s old house in the sunshine ignore her. It may be possible that the two children ignore the woman because
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Tommy Campbell Fr. Williams Eng 241 26 February 2011 Symbolism Symbolism is a powerful tool used by people every day to force people to look past the obvious and find the deeper meaning. Symbolism is used by authors‚ musicians‚ priests‚ and many others. James Joyce‚ a well-known Irish author‚ uses symbolism repeatedly throughout his collection of short stories published in 1916. In these stories‚ titled Dubliners‚ Joyce uses symbolism not only to enhance the stories‚ but to also show the hidden
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Narrative Methods used by Tennyson in Mariana “Mariana” is about the stagnation of a woman after she is abandoned by her lover and she continues to wait for his arrival. The epigraph from the start of the poem tells us that the poem is an expansion from “Measure For Measure”. Specifically the scene in the play where Mariana is in her moated grange‚ this gives us the setting of the poem and the character involved. This line describes Mariana desperately waiting for her lover (Angelo)‚ who has abandoned
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connected in real time. With the new advent of cell phone technology there is transition from the new smart phones to aide in the value chain. These will continue to assist with the customer service aspect of the company and allow more real time knowledge of the current running of the company. In looking at cell phone use of the value chain‚ there was a good example on a TV commercial. The commercial was based on AT&T’s use of their smart phone in a pizza shop. This pizza shop‚ called “Jet’s Pizza”
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tablet of aspirin? Who is the first one in using shampoos? Did you know all these things? The one I’m referring to is the animal—cat‚ rabbit‚ rat and so on which are widely and cruelly used in various kinds of scientific researches‚ and millions of them die every year. Every life created by god is equal. Bearing that in mind‚ a huge amount of people have been no-animal-testing users. They strongly propose that animals shall not be used in scientific researches. Experiment animals are protective
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‘Capital punishment should be used in the UK to prevent the most serious of crimes’ Capital punishment offers the ultimate form of deterrence‚ retribution and protection. The death penalty makes the criminal pay for his or her crime with their life even though that may not always be the right thing to do. It is no longer used in the UK but it is still used in many countries and in the USA as a punishment for murder or other serious crimes. Some Christians would agree with the statement and follow
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