Theme for English IB I "The instructor said‚ Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then‚ it will be true." I went home and this is what I wrote: My name is I. I likes to breath. I likes to breathe life; a life in abundance. Is I a real person‚ Or does I exist only in my own imaginary world? Is I the centre of my own universe‚ Or is I a synchronized version of the person sitting next to me‚ Trapped in a body not my own? Is I a dream waiting to be realized
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James Mercer Langston Hughes is an outstanding African-American poet‚ novelist‚ journalist and social activist. He was one of the innovators who first used jazz in the form of great poetry. He was one of the inspirers for the unique American cultural movement known as the “Harlem Renaissance”. Langston was one of the first African-Americans who contributed a tremendous influence to black culture throughout the United States and took an active part in creating and developing Afro-American literature
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thing to do. When reading the poem by Langston Hughes‚ Theme for English B‚ at first it appears to have a pessimistic approach but as it continues it really turns out to have a more optimistic approach. As for the poem by Linda Pastan‚ Ethics‚ and her words started off as being optimistic but had a closer connection‚ however to thinking more positively to the question posed to her. While as the poem m goes on it seems to be more of a pessimistic approach. Hughes words were a bit moving‚ it make a
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Howard Hughes Paul Guerrero Composition 31|05|06 Howard Hughes‚ one of the most mysterious men in America. He achieved the American dream by not only becoming wealthy but he also built an empire. A businessman‚ plane designer‚ movie producer‚ industrialist‚ was great in everything he focused in. Had and enormous wealth and intellect‚ and he also had achievement. He fortune with hard work in any job and with his great influential ideas. Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was born in Houston‚ Texas
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written by Ted Hughes‚ he tries to capture the mood of a post war‚ 1950’s zoo. He depicts the animals as hot‚ lazy and lethargic. This is because they have been captive for a long stretch of time. The animals are not lively but are dull and lifeless. He uses the expression ’stinks of sleepers from the breathing straw’ to show this. He then unveils the jaguar as being live and vivid. ’At a jaguar hurrying enraged.’ ’The Jaguar’ longs for freedom physically but is free mentally. Hughes has a few main
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Hell for Hughes Howard Hughes created a name for himself by becoming a businessman‚ a movie producer‚ an engineer and a great aviator. Through these jobs‚ he created some of the greatest movies of all time such as “Scarface”‚ “Hell’s Angels” and “The Outlaw”. He was also one of the most prominent aviators in history. As an aviator he set multiple world air speed records and created and built the famous Hughes H-1 Racer and the H-4 Hercules aircraft. He also acquired and expanded Trans
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"Pike" by Ted Hughes Envisage the Yin and Yang emblem. The idea behind it is that there is no such thing as purity. You can’t have pure evil – there is an element in all things of some good‚ however small. Similarly‚ you can’t have pure goodness – there is an element in all things good that is itself bad. We see the idea in great poems like Chinua Achebe’s “Vultures” and in our day to day actions as member of a fickle and capricious human race. This is the idea of Pike. It is attempting to
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Wind - Ted Hughes Setting: A house and the surrounding landscape exposed to a violent storm Main Figure: The wind itself which represents the forces of nature Theme: Man’s helplessness as opposed to the power of nature Tone: Potent‚ Vigorous Structure: ’Wind’ is written in six‚ four line stanzas characterised by enjambment. Enjambment is when sentences‚ in poems run over the end of one line and into the next one(s). In ’Wind’ lines spill into each other and the end of one stanza runs
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Trophies Ted Hughes Birthday letters * Trophies was a response to Sylvia Plath’s own poem “pursuit”‚ Hughes used Trophies as a response to the poem. * Hughes starts of the poem with “The panther?” which gives the readers an idea of what the poem will be based on we mentally create an image of a panther in our minds. It is almost like a question that leaves the readers suspicious and wanting to continue to read to answer the question. * Words such as “Jaws” “Fangs” “prey” and “Beast”
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This study seeks to investigate the question ‘How significant was the Japanese intervention in China between 1931 and 1949?’. This question is particularly relevant to the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 because of the political significance of Japanese intervention which enabled the Communist party to rise in popularity during the war period. There was a clear disparity between the Guomindang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party as it became increasingly apparent that the latter
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