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    Speech: the Gray Wolf

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    Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the gray wolf physical description‚ behavior and relationship with humans. Central idea: The gray wolf is an endangered species considered as a natural villain who has an essential predator role in the forest ecosystem. Introduction * “Grandma‚ why do you have such a big eyes?” Little Red Riding Hood asked. “So that I can see you better.” The wolf answered. * “Grandma‚ why do you have such a big mouth?” she asked. “So that I can eat

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    Dorian Gray Narcissism

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    told by Ovid in The Metamorphoses. Narcissus fell in love with his reflection in a pool of water and eventually this lead to his demise‚ along with his patrons. Similarly The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ by Oscar Wilde is a story about physical beauty and the power that it can have with its protagonist‚ Dorian Gray being a narcissistic. The novel is an adaptation of the myth of Narcissus as they have similar plots‚ both including extreme accounts of vanity‚ love‚ death‚

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    Robert Gray Poetry

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    Born in 1945‚ Robert Gray is an Australian poet renowned for his imagistic style‚ drawing strength from his fastidious concern for the precision of language and a meticulous contemplation of physical existence. Gray’s works are unconventional in structure‚ and prevalent throughout his poems are the recurring themes of humanism‚ consumerism and naturalism‚ peppered with allusions to personal experiences. Gray’s thematic concerns arise from his personal context‚ alongside his love of the Australian

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    Robert Gray Diptych

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    that one speaker purposely remembers the past‚ as opposed to the other persona that only thinks of the past because they are looking with fear into the future‚ both poems still illustrate that discoveries can be made through retrospect. In Diptych‚ Gray (the speaker) is reminiscing about his childhood and his parents‚ and by doing this he begins to have a better understanding of them. Whereas‚ in Late Ferry the speaker is watching the demise of warmth associated with earlier times‚ by looking at a

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    Annawadi Gray Zones

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    Worldwide Proliferation of Gray Zones Annawadi is a perfect example that symbolizes what Boo considers to be the Zero Sum Game as the amount of economic prosperity that is occurring in India is offset by the many costs. Specifically in gray areas such as Annawadi‚ what it represents is how an area can effectively become a “gray area” where the economic prosperities of the country are not fully reflected equally nor in a way that benefit all. Rather‚ the example of Annawadi and its area shows how

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    Robert Gray - Speech

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    Robert Gray most definitely provokes thought and stirs emotion through an effective use of language and techniques used in his poems. One of his major messages are those connected with mans effect on the environment and our constant need to create something new and yet‚ forget about what we already have and where that ends up. Also the sense of our society almost becoming‚ un-Australian and very international. In his poem‚ Flames and Dangling Wire‚ the first line immediately sets the scene allowing

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    Dorian Gray Persuasion

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    over his friends‚ with the single exception of myself” (Basil). Unfortunately‚ Dorian Gray does not keep this advice in the back of his mind; Dorian Gray is a man open to principles‚ ethical or not. Dorian Gray is easily influenced by others. For example‚ Henry tells him that a man should live out his life while he is young. “If it were I who was always to be

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    1 Homoerotic codes in The Picture of Dorian Gray Luljeta Muriqi A60 Literary Seminar Spring 2007 Department of English Lund University Supervisor: C. Wadsjö Lecaros 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................1 AESTHETICISM .................................................................2 HELLENISM .......................................................................4 Art .................................................................

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    Dorian Gray Manipulation

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    Oscar Wilde’s‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray and director Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things there was a consistent theme of change. The change developed through manipulation and hypocrisy. In the film The Shape of Things‚ a young artist unethically changes a museum worker in search of the ideal work of art. Whereas in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ a well-known man finds himself changing based on the sins in his own portrait. In The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Shape of Things people who consider

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    fictional characters to reflect the man’s worst side. Similarly‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray define monsters as disturbing creatures that provoke terror when misbehaving in a iniquitous form. As a result‚ humans are classified monstrous

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