achieving what she desires. At first‚ her fear is making a decision. She realizes that if she does what she has on mind‚ there are two possible scenarios: she could win or she could lose. “If I should fail‚ what poverty!” – “And if I gain‚—oh‚ gun at sea‚” The poem gives the impression of a speaker who thought in everything before jumping into a choice. “To know the worst is sweet”. She predicted her worst case scenario and decided that she could live with it. And if‚ indeed‚ I fail‚ At least to know
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In “Convergence of the Twain‚” Thomas Hardy describes the greatness of the Titanic and the vanity that embodied its doom‚ radiating an admiring‚ yet regretful tone towards the events of April 14‚ 1912. During the first stanza‚ Hardy talks about the Titanic’s “solitude in the sea.” “Deep from human vanity‚” implying that the reason the Titanic is so deep‚ sunk under water is due to the vanity that created her‚ and ultimately sank her. The headline of the Titanic was “unsinkable‚” typifying
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John Dickinson “Penman of the Revolution” 1732-1808 1768- Excerpt from Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer defending rights of free-born Englishmen There is [a] late act of Parliament‚ which seems to me to be . . . destructive to the liberty of these colonies‚ . . . that is the act for granting duties on paper‚ glass‚ etc. It appears to me to be unconstitutional. The Parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain and all its colonies. Such an authority
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THE LOADED DOG – HENRY LAWSON The short story “The Loaded Dog”‚ written by Henry Lawson in 1901 displays a significant aspect of distinctively visual through Lawson’s effective and apparent use of imagery. Lawson’s effective use of imagery stimulates the reader’s five senses in order for the audience to visualize what is actually happening. Such a notion of distinctively visual is evident in Lawson’s childhood where he contracted a condition that affected his eyesight negatively‚ thus he relied
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Introduction Emily Dickinson’s poetry is classified by editors as poems about nature‚ love‚ death‚ religion and others. Though some critics suggest that Dickinson’s poetry should be read chronologically‚ her poems can be read according to their themes. Since she was the daughter of a preacher her poems are often about God and Christianity‚ and in some of her love poems it is not certain if she is expressing her love for an actual lover or her spirituality. However‚ at one point of her life the
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Poem Analysis Digging Digging is a poem written by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. It’s about a person looking back into the past and thinking about his father and his grandfather. The memories in the poem are about his father and his grandfather’s occupation. The sentences: ‘Stooping in rhythm through potato drills.’ shows that his father was a potato farmer and ‘My grandfather cut more turf in a day’ shows that his grandfather was a turf harvester. The title of this poem also has a meaning
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choose to talk about “712” and “465” of Emily Dickinson’s poems for contrasting Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. Whitman and Dickinson have three differences of characteristics in their poems. First‚ they have a different way to structure poems. Whitman’s poetic form is free verse. Whitman’s poems are narrative and expansive style. His voice is expansive and talk about A to Z. On the other hand‚ Dickinson is definite structure. Dickinson’ poem style is like distillation. There is a lack of rhetorical
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Ringkasan Kasus Becton Dickinson‚ merupakan salah satu manufaktur terbesar supplies medis‚ yang mendominasi pasar suntikan dan jarum suntuikan. Pada tahun 1986‚ Becton Dickinson memperoleh hak khusus untuk mempatenkan suntikan yang baru di temukan oleh Charles B. Mitchell. Tahun 1988‚ dengan melakukan beberapa penelitian‚ Becton Dickinson akhirnya memutuskan agar suntikan tersebut dipasarkan untuk melindungi lengan. Suntikan itu sebenarnya dapat digunakan untuk semua ukuran suntikan 1cc‚ 3
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There are three major issues that Bill Kozy‚ president of Becton Dickinson faces as he modifies the company to perform under transnational norms. The structure of the Worldwide Blood Collection business and the allocation of its resources and assets was mainly the first issue for Bill Kozy. This issue dealt with complex discussions among top managers of BD to decide where R&D resources and capabilities should be developed. Because BD’s founding was in the US‚ it had problems in letting the research
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of Australian bush life‚ and good humour is necessary to maintain sanity in the isolated‚ dry environment. These qualities are greatly significant to the people living within it. Henry Lawson communicates this idea in this humorous bush tale “The Loaded Dog” through humour and personification of the lanky protagonist dog. For bushmen‚ having a good sense of humour helps with the monotony of bush life and is essentially a way of survival. Without a sense of humour‚ the shortcomings of the unstable
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