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    BE BOLD WHEN YOU LOSE AND BE CALM WHEN YOU WIN ‘Successful people believe that failure is nothing but a feedback mechanism.’ MASTER OF CEREMONIES‚ FELLOW YOUTHLEADERS‚ ESTEEMED TOASTMASTERS ‚LADIES AND GENTLEMEN A VERY WARM GOOD EVENING TO ONE AND ALL. LIFE IS FULL OF CHALLENGES WHICH INCLUDE SUCCESS AS WELL AS FAILURES‚BUT VERY FEWW PEOPLE ARE SUCCESSFUL IN EVERYTHING THEY ATTEMPT. BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE‚ MOST OF THE PEOPLE HAVE TO FACE FAILURES IN THEIR LIFE’S BEFORE THEY REALLY ACHIEVE

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    makes the reader‚ think about a person that has positively changed their life. The writer should add more description about the senses is highlighted in the essay. The writer should describe what the chocolate dipped pretzels taste like‚ smell‚ and feel like. Describe Alice’s appearance‚ and describe what she sounds like. The irrelevant details is highlighted in the essay. The writer should describe Alice’s way of reading‚ and how she treated people like adults. During our lessons‚ she made me

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    Hersh Patel AP English 14 September 2003 Commentary on Stanley Fish Article "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One" Stanley Fish‚ in his inductive essay "How to Recognize a Poem When You See One"‚ argues that the process of "distinguishing" certain "features" of an object follows "the act of recognition". Fish offers such conclusions from a short anecdote‚ which illustrates an analytical response of a group of students to five names he writes on a board. The students‚ who focus on Christian

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    telephone" is a poem about an individual’s interpretation of a telephone conversation with another. The speaker in the poem talks about a meeting with the same person that had happened in the past showing that there is some history and that this is a sequel to another conversation. We see constant misconceptions between both people‚ and in this respect it is a sort of rebirth and a sort of familiarity between the speaker and the person on the corresponding end. Through the poem we see Frost relating

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    into the desert used for films. The Beverly Hills Hotel‚ in which they were staying‚ had become literally and symbolically important point of their lives. The lyrics state “her mind is tiffany twisted‚ she’s got the mercedes bends. She got a lot of pretty‚ pretty boys that she calls friends” Henley formed those lyrics based off of a breakup with his ex-girlfriend‚ Loree Rodkin. The very first lines of the song sets the whole setting by using imagery. It not only uses visual imagery when it says “On

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    "YEATS CAN CERTAINLY BE CALLED A GREAT IRISH POET." DISCUSS. Introduction I certainly agree with this statement. (Tip: state broadly your attitude to the subject of the question).The work of W.B. Yeats is saturated with evocative‚ descriptive imagery‚ deeply explored personal feelings‚ universal‚ but profound‚ subject matter and strong political opinions. He isn’t just a great figure in world literature but he is a very patriotic poet who truly loved Ireland. I would like to further explore this

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    Analyze: The Girl The poem that I will analyze is from Sharon Olds‚ The Girl. This poem is quite graphic but it describes a life lesson that two girls had to endure. This poem describes a graphic preplanned rape event. The girls were 12 years old‚ it seems that they were at the wrong place and living a wild life‚ and getting involved with the erroneous people. They partied with their supposed best friend‚ this is what I am getting from the poem‚ they were being chased and after being caught they

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    When exploring the word of God in the Old Testament (OT)‚ it is important to locate the texts into a social and historical context. It is in this context that the word of God is mediated by human expression. To deny the human expression is effectively to place a barrier between the word of God and it’s invitation to revelation. The OT can be seen as a “record of people’s experience of God’s self-revelation” (Rohr & Martos‚ 2011‚ p. 22). Thus the theology underpinning the OT meaning and understanding

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    ‘If I Could Tell You’ by W. H. Auden. Within each text the poet or author uses structural and linguistic devices to tell the story and also outline the importance of the message given in a key event. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ an effective event to portray structural and linguistic devices is that of Chapter 2. Within this chapter Fitzgerald demonstrates the difference of worlds‚ superficiality and description of characterisation and setting. Fitzgerald uses setting as a device to show the destruction

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    familiar. In the poem‚ "Ithaca"‚ the author refers to Lestrygonians‚ Cyclopes‚ and the Poseidon. Lestrygonians are cannibals who destroy all of Odysseus’ ships except his own and kill the crews. A Cyclops is a ficticious creature with one eye. A Poseidon is a fierce monster. "Ithaca" By: Constantine Cavafy When you start on your journey to Ithaca‚ Then pray that the road is long‚ full of knowledge. Do not fear the Lestrygonians and the Cyclopes and the angry Poseidon. You will never meet such

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