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    Angry Birds

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    The Angry Birds characters have been referenced in television programs throughout the world. The Israeli comedy show Eretz Nehederet (in English: a Wonderful Country)‚ one of the nation’s most popular TV programs‚ satirized recent failed Israeli-Palestinian peace attempts by featuring the Angry Birds in peace negotiations with the pigs. Clips of the segment went viral‚ getting viewers from all around the world. The sketch received favorable coverage from a variety of independent blogs such as digitaltrends

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    Two or Three Things I Know For Sure Allison illuminates the fact that we as women must appreciate each other and our beauty before we can truly cherish other forms of beauty around us. "Two or three things I know for sure‚ and one of them is that of we are not beautiful to each other‚ we cannot know beauty in any form"(86). We are so conditioned to see female beauty as what men see as beautiful‚ that we don ’t even know what it means to us. If we can get to the point where women feel

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    1. Describe how Hughes’s poem builds on Whitman’s poem. [A] I believe that Hughes’s poem builds on Whitman’s poem because it shows that as people they were forbidden to sing their own carols. [C] In stanza 1 and 2 lines 1 through 9 of “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” it states “(1) I‚ too‚ sing America. (2) I am the darker brother. (3) They send me to eat in the kitchen (4) When company comes. (5) But I laugh‚ (6) And eat well‚ (7) And grow strong. (8) Tomorrow‚ (9) I’ll be at the table.” This states

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    Why I Cannot Write

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    Why I Cannot Write? Why do I question myself with this – why I cannot write? Where in fact‚ writing is taught since kindergarten and even before I was sent in formal schooling. I have complete fingers; my hands aren’t paralyzed or disjointed; I don’t even have muscle spasms. And I’m not sightless‚ deaf‚ dumb‚ one armed or a person with disabilities. So of course I know how to write! I can write the ABC’s or the alphabet‚ words‚ numbers and yes‚ my name‚ I bet I could even write yours too. But

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    Birds of a Feather

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    “If birds of a feather flock together‚ they don’t learn enough” ~Robert Half~ The first thing that comes to mind when reading this quote is a flock of geese. They all stick together. They learn from one another and what they learn they pass on to future generations. While this is how they learn to stay safe‚ they are “stuck” doing the same thing every day. After reading the quote a few more times and looking at it from “outside the box” I realized that the birds represent people. Throughout

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    birds in Macbeth

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    Shakespeare there is many mentions of birds in the dialogue. As well it is one of the themes in this play‚ used as a metaphor to different examples‚ such as when the characters use the word fly as an expression of escaping or leaving. Furthermore the theme of birds is also used when speaking of specific birds having meanings‚ or birds in this play used to show pathetic fallacy. Specifically in act IV sense ii and iii there are various uses of the imagery of birds‚ such as Lady Macduff in her shock at

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    Lady Sings the Blues

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    LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times

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    Fitcher's Bird

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    In the fairytale Fitcher’s Bird‚ a sorcerer disguises himself as an old beggar and kidnaps beautiful girls. One day‚ the sorcerer discovers a house with a man who has three beautiful daughters. After kidnapping the eldest daughter‚ the sorcerer tests her fidelity and obedience by handing her an egg and a set of keys. The daughter is allowed to explore the house‚ but she is forbidden to enter one room of the house or lose the egg. The eldest daughter succumbs to her curiosity and enters the room that

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    and harmonious perspectives on the expanse to which America brings about the ideas inferred in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and Hughes’s Poem “I‚ Too‚ Sing America”. This is exampled through the use of .... as both key characters are oppressed and driven‚ although are placed in contrasting circumstances‚ with opposing outcomes. “I‚ too‚ Sing America” and The Great Gatsby by authors Hughes and Fitzgerald‚ describe being victims of societal rejection and judgement though the use of metaphors

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    Why I Learn English

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    Why I learn English Learning English is necessary for my future career. Nowadays‚ practically every prestigious and well-plaid job‚ not only working as an English teacher‚ requires proficiency in this language. Those who know English‚ have a big advantage on the labour-market over those who don’t. But it certainly isn’t the only reason why I learn English. I have been interested in studying foreign languages since I went to school‚ and I always knew that my future profession would be

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