ENG1511/501/3/2013 Tutorial letter 501/3/2013 English Proficiency for University Studies ENG1511 Semesters 1 & 2 Department of English Studies IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about your module. ENG1511/501 CONTENTS Page 1 2 3 4 5 Preface .......................................................................................................................................... iii UNIT 1: Critical thinking .............................................
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stay home and fulfill domestic duties. Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in society. Henrik Ibsen uses Nora Helmer in A Doll House to portray the negative treatment of all women throughout society during the nineteenth century. Many women characters throughout American literature reflect the same conflicts and attitudes of Nora in Ibsen ’s play A Doll House. <br> <br>The role of a woman was inferior to that of a man‚ especially in marriages. The main duties of a
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That every poem relates implicitly to a particular dramatic situation is a comment able to be accurately applied to the poetry of well-known Australian poet‚ Judith Wright. Whilst Wright’s poetry covers many different themes relating to Australian society‚ it is clear that Wright‚ in many of her poems‚ makes clear reference to certain events. These are often‚ however‚ explored in different forms‚ be it a stage of life‚ an intense experience or a critical event. This is certainly true for two of Wright’s
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Doll’s House‚ the personality of the protagonist Nora Helmer is developed and revealed through her interactions and conversations with the other characters in the play‚ including Mrs. Linde‚ Nils Krogstad‚ Dr. Rank and Ann-Marie. Ibsen also uses certain dramatic and literary techniques and styles‚ such as irony‚ juxtaposition and parallelism to further reveal interesting aspects of Nora’s personality. Mrs. Linde provides and interesting juxtaposition to Nora‚ while Krogstad initially provides the plot
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Wright’s ‘Legend’ responds to various aspects of the human condition present in our society today. The poem is focused primarily on the actions of a Blacksmith’s boy‚ a vassal for humanity’s growth in response to age and change. In stanza one‚ Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy‚ if the poem is to be deemed
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Orville Wright were the sons of Milton Wright‚ a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ. Wilbur was born on April 16‚ 1867‚ in Millville‚ Indiana. Orville was born on August 19‚ 1871‚ in Dayton‚ Ohio. Both brothers attended high school‚ but did not receive diplomas. Wilbur and Orville were the only members of the Wright family who did not attend college or marry. Wilbur’s plans to enter college came to an end when he was injured in a hockey accident Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright built
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In the poem “A Blessing‚” James Wright analyzes the relationship between human beings and nature through the descriptive explanation of an encounter between his friend and himself and two Indian horses. He shows that although we are able to relate and interact with the animals we don’t have the ability to join them or as Wright puts it: “break into blossom” (26-27). Wright uses imagery and personification to describe the nature he witnesses as he escapes from the stress of human life. The ponies
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structure in which the author chooses to write their ideas in and simply the love an author conveys through their work. Judith Wright‚ an Australian poet and environmentalist expresses these thoughts with her 1950’s poems ’Sanctuary’ and ’South of My Days‚’ which both tell of the Australian landscape and Wright’s thoughts and feelings on the country she grew up in. Judith Wright presents vivid and forward-thinking imagery in her poems‚ using light and dark tones (both figuratively and literally) to
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Adolf Loos had their own views on ornamentation‚ which could be quite similar and different in some ways. In Adolf Loos’ essay on “Ornament and Crime”‚ he had a strong and critical stand against ornamentation. He argued that ornamentation was redundant and useless‚ as it no longer expressed our culture. It became “a phenomenon either of backwardness or degeneration”. Wright also related ornamentation to our culture and appreciation. He thought that ornament “is primarily
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Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was a very successful architect‚ writer‚ interior designer and educator born on the 8th of June 1867 and died on the 9th of April 1959. He designed more than 1000 structures and completed 500 works. Style Wright’s creations took his concern with organic architecture down to the smallest details. To all his work‚ he included so much detail‚ same on the external and interior design. He was one of the first architects to design and supply custom-made‚ purpose-built
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