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    Mother Thonge

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    transcribe write out from speech‚ notes‚ etc. . 6. belie represent falsely 7. wince make a face indicating disgust or dislike Notes: "Wince" also means "draw back‚ as with fear or pain"--this also fits because Tan does not want others to see her mother as "broken" because that‚ especially when she was younger‚ made her feel broken and ashamed. 8. empirical derived from experiment and observation rather than theory 9. guise an artful or simulated semblance 10. impeccable without fault

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    Mother and Sol

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    getting on reasonably well‚ but with his dads drinking problem things soon got worse. By reading the text‚ we find out that Sol’s mother and father have split up‚ and Sol sometimes wishes he went with his mum. We know this because Sol says ‘maybe I should of gone with her. I wouldn’t be having so many days with bad colours now’. It suggests in the rest of the book that his mother left because of his dads drinking problem. I think Sol was very happy with his dad when they were watching a film together

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    hour‚ and I just went into nothingness and got so relaxed.

After a little while I began to practice chanting too both using OAM and chanting the heart sutra. I did not get good enough to get the full effect from the heart sutra but the OAM is one of my favourites. I learned to do the OAM the traditional way‚ where you do it in your own pace‚ and you deliberate start the sound in the lower belly and then move it up all the way to the head and using the belly muscles to create the sound which gives

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    Teds Hughes and mark doty poems are written in animals point of view ‚ Showing each unique animal character and their point of view about this world from their perspective. The poet uses literary devices in their poems using tones‚ personification ‚ and visual imagery to evoke the reader’s emotions and to make the poems more comprehensible. In this two poems the poets made a unique quality of personifying the hawk and the dog because they cannot articulate their thoughts and emotions into

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    Eulogy For Mother

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    In Marion‚ at my parents house‚ they gave me a place to stay with a roof over my head‚ they back me on what I do everyday. They do things around the house to let me have time for my schooling‚ doing homework‚ and studies. It happened in August‚ of 2012‚ when I was staying with friends and they got evicted‚ and I had no other place to live. I was talking to Judy and she said I was not sleeping under a bridge‚ for me to come and stay with her and my father and help them out since they have had heart

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    Select Poems

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    independent of your own reading and study of the poems. (NATE & W.B.S) NOTES ON PRESCRIBED POEMS FOR CSEC LITERATURE Preamble: Please be mindful of the fact that poetry makes up a third of this syllabus and that for the Paper II (the essay-writing paper) students are required to demonstrate their understanding of how the poets’ techniques are used to convey and shape meaning (including the tone and mood) in the respective poems. For every poem on the list you should be able to describe the

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    more disturbing poems‚ ‘My last duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. Browning reveals the blurred lines between control‚ love and mental instability by using subtle techniques such as his choice in the form of poem and satire. Browning is able explore these controversial ideas in a conservative age‚ by using the form of dramatic monologue which is “regarded as the most significant poetic innovation of the Victorian age” (Allison Chapman). Dramatic monologues also known as a persona poem

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    Nature: Second Mother

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    Kevin Thomas Poetry 4‚ March‚ 2013 Nature: Our Second Mother The poetry of the English Romantic period often contained many descriptions and ideas of nature‚ not found in most writing. The Romantic poets shared several characteristics in common‚ certainly one of the most significant of these is their respective views on nature‚ which seems to range from a more spiritual‚ if not pantheistic view‚ as seen in the works of William Wordsworth as well as Emily Dickinson. The two

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    Mother and Micheal

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    education and most importantly let Michael become part of their family. Unknowingly Michael in return transforms the lives of the Touhys by bringing the family together. The Touhy family have changed Michael’s life in many ways. Leigh Ann Touhy the mother of the family was the main contributor from the Touhy family in transforming Michael’s life. Her contributions started from helping Micheal who was walking in the rain just wearing a shirt and short at night as she said to her husband “turn around”

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    H English 10A 19 August 2013 Warrior Prince Beowulf: An Epic Hero Epic hero - Noun A brave and noble character in an epic poem admired for great achievements or affected by grand events. In the epic poem Beowulf‚ translated by Burton Raffel‚ the warrior-prince Beowulf portrays each quality required to be an Epic Hero. When Beowulf is challenged‚ he stands his ground‚ with his head held high and his mind suffused with pride. He fears nothing and no one. Beowulf’s

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