LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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In the short story of "The Lady or the Tiger" is about the sacrifice of love people have to suffer when they love another person. One of the examples is the way the princess and her lover try to maintain a relationship knowing that the king could find out and punish the lover. The princess has to sacrifice her lover because the king finally discovers the secret love affair of his daughter. She has already lost her lover and now has to choose who to lose him to. She has found out what is behind each
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As he stood in front of the door‚ the door that either held the Lady or the Tiger‚ his mind was surprisingly calm. He knew the princess would make the right choice. He trusted her; he loved her. His hand felt the cool metal of the doorknob. He heard it click as it was turned as if the silence of the arena wasn’t already enough to make the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He wasn’t nervous‚ no. As he gently pulled on the cloth-silenced door‚ he merely wondered what fate the princess chose
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Why God‚ can I not have my own conscience? Ok‚ get it together Macbeth. I can do this. All I have to do is kill King Duncan. All that is required of me is to sneak into his room and stab him to death. Thinking of this plan reminds me of Lady Macbeth’s cleverness and brilliance. She constantly makes me question my manhood and intellect. But I know she has my best intentions at heart. Don’t lose focus at the goal Macbeth. Just kill Duncan. I deserve to be king. But Duncan does not deserve
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First Entry - After Lady Macbeth receives Macbeth’s letter I just received a letter from Macbeth telling what had happened after the battle‚ “I met weird witches on my way back after the victory and I realized that they tell prophecies. While I stood rapt in the wonder‚ messengers from the King appeared and announced that I had just been named as the thane of Cawdor‚ which was one of the titles that the witches had previously mentioned when they called ‘Hail‚ king that shalt be.’(Act I‚ scene v‚
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Carex wahuensis The Carex wahuensis is a green leaf like plant that grows as its sedges grows sharp on the outsides and turns sharp enough to cut a finger running up against it. It grows about 2.5 feet in height. It lives about for 5 years and is native to Hawaii. It grows fuzzy like flowers that have seeds inside. The Carex wahuensis is a native plant to Hawaii‚ the leaf blades can drop down and reach four feet. It’s okay to touch the plant‚ but be careful‚ it has sharp blades as its leaves‚ the
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“The lady with the little dog “- Analyzing literature questions 1. Gurov’s character represents as a man who dislikes the company of man of his age. He finds their company uninterested and boring. In addition‚ he finds his wife to be unintelligent‚ narrow‚ and inelegant and he did not like to stay home at all and had been unfaithful to his wife as well. He also refers to woman’s race in a “the lower race.” Nevertheless‚ he seems to enjoy the company of women‚ which only associates with women. He
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that it would take 5 weighings as described by the equation for an unknown item value: However‚ this is an overestimate as there is a way to determine the lighter of nine items with only two weighings. This was overlooked in the last POW (Eight Bags of Gold). Nine items can be weighed by dividing into three sets of size three. Comparing two sets together would determine which set contained the lighter item. With the last weighing‚ one can determine the lightest item. This raises the limit of
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you all for coming here today. As I come here today‚ I will explain to you the current state of the United States macro economy. In this press conference‚ we will be discussing some of the questions and concerns. Afterwards‚ if there are any more questions‚ we will answer them then. Macroeconomics can be simply explained as stating it is the way that the economy is examined. It helps us understand how a part of the economy grows and why sometimes it does not. It can
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