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    Italy Dream Vacation

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    Italy is a land of rich and decadent foods‚ colorful citizens who live and love with passion and my dream vacation destination. I have dreamt of taking my large Italian family to Italy to walk the same roads as our ancestors since I was a young girl. Now is a time when I am able to splurge and bring my dream to fruition. The cost of taking my family to Italy will be quite exorbitant in monetary terms; the airfare alone is enough to make my piggy bank squeal in protest. My family thinks that a

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    Plato's Objection to Poetry

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    Plato’s Objection to Poetry by  dilipbarad ‚ 08-24-2008 at 08:34 AM (8266 Views) He was the first systemic critic who inquired into the nature of imaginative literature and put forward theories which are both illuminating and provocative. He was himself a great poet and his dialogues are full of his gifted dramatic quality. His Dialogues are the classic works of the world literature having dramatic‚ lyrical and fictional elements. According to him all arts are imitative or mimetic in nature

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    Filipino Migrant Woman

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    Migration When the Light of Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family * The article focuses on the Filipino female population migrating to Singapore and the difficulties they face while in their host country. Through interviews and extensive research the authors explore the relationships between Filipino migrant women and their families. The authors state‚ “Specifically‚ we explore how migrant women and their family members define and negotiate family ideals

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    Doesn’t everyone love July Fourth? I know I do but is it really safe for everyone around all of those explosives? Our family tradition was not so traditional this year after a few mishaps. Everything went wrong after‚ the industrial firework show started and wires were not setup right and artillery shells shot everywhere causes multiple fires. It was July fourth and we all met up at the Madrid Ranch and began our annual festivities. We usually start with our afternoon lunch while we catch up with

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    Plato and the censure of Art Plato when imagined his ideal state‚ he asserts that societies have a structure where in everything has its place. To maintain order‚ every factor of life‚ from people to production to ideas must be subordinated to the good of the state. As such‚ if art needs to be censured for the betterment of the State‚ it should be. Plato presents a logical argument of the arts‚ specifically painting and poetry‚ and comes to the conclusion that art should be censored.

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    Tolerance

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    Tolerance is a virtue that is dying down slowly. In earlier days‚ children were part of a large family set up. It was difficult to find out the real parents of a child because the house was filled up with lots of cousins. Every one had the right and responsibility towards all the children. None of the children was given a special treatment. Terms like individuality‚ special place‚ independence‚ were taboo words. The key aspects that governed life were adjustment‚ sacrifice‚ putting others before

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    Chippendale has personified to become a family of ‘Aunts’‚ ‘eccentric‚ unmarried first cousins’ and ‘respected gentlemen’‚ when Ivy‚ Vine‚ Rose‚ Myrtle‚ Abercrombie‚ Hugo‚ Louis and Caroline are streets in the ‘Mount Druitt’ of Sydney’s CBD in the late fifties and sixties that were filled with factories‚ drunks‚ thieves‚ rapists and vandal’s. Pauses have been used throughout the poem to generate a sense of unrest and dread‚ making ‘Chippendale’ sound more unruly and fearful than it actually is

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    Plato

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    Assess the contribution and achievement of Plato as a critic. Plato was the first philosopher-scholar who gave a formal and systematic shape to criticism. It is believed that he started his career as a poet but soon after his meeting with Socrates‚ he destroyed his poems and dramas and began to take active interest in philosophy and politics. But he was not a professed critic of literature and his critical observations are not embodied in any single work. His chief ideas are contained in the Dialogues

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    It was a day that my family‚ my friend and I went to Wildwood for vacation. We were at the rides and all of a sudden my friend and I saw the Slingshot ride. We thought it would be fun to go on. It was about $60 for 2 riders. Later on‚ we found my parents‚ we told them the cost‚ and my mom automatically said no. But then‚ I asked my dad and he said yes. We weren’t able to do it that night because they were doing work on the ride. The next day‚ we went to the waterpark‚ and after the waterpark‚ we

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    Cousin Kate

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    Compare how the two poems ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘The Seduction’ explore the similar theme of how young women are exploited by men‚ paying close attention to the poet’s use of language and imagery The two poems that are being compared are cousin Kate and the seduction. Cousin Kate was written in the 1900 and the seduction was written in 1980. Both of the poems were written by different authors. In both of the poems‚ both women get seduced by men and they just get rejected by both men too. They must

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