disappointment. In doing do‚ we reign in our guts‚ confidence and self-belief‚ do the ordinary‚ and follow the flow. Is it any wonder that more than 80% of the world population are common and ordinary? What can I say about daydreams? They are pleasant thoughts or wishes‚ and it is therefore not surprising that we all get lost in our own fantasies once in a while. That is being human. The difference is that some do it more often than others. And extreme cases‚ as psychologists would tell you‚ do
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A; Mount Pleasant Do you remember how it is to be a child? Sometimes it is difficult but it is oftentimes easy and extremely secure. Being a child includes having a different view at the world than from parents or another adult’s point of view. A child is not able to understand everything and is not supposed to do it‚ this I why parents lie for their children. To protect them from the difficult world and from people and situations that is not necessary for a child to observe. In the text Mount
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Mount Pleasant Louise Buxton’s Mount Pleasant is a very uniquely written short story‚ where we experience a normal day from a child perspective. It’s a modern story from 2005. The story is told in first person singular‚ where the narrator is a young girl whose name is Elizabeth. ”(…) like the glue wee peel off our hands after arts and crafts hour at school with Mrs Kelly.” (p.2‚ l.16-17) Based on the information we know that Elizabeth goes to school‚ but also that she cannot be more than 6 to
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Mount Pleasant ”Mount Pleasant” is a short story written by Mary-Louise Buxton. It is written as a first person narrator‚ as a child called Elizabeth. It is written quite unstructured‚ mostly describing the life of Elizabeth and her family in their home in Mount Pleasant‚ not showing the stories twist until the end. The narrator uses a very childish language using expressions like “Mammy”‚ “babby brother” and “Eeny meeny miny mo”. As a short story‚ the plot and character descriptions are quite
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”Mount Pleasant” By Mary-Louise Buxton In this short story called “Mount Pleasant”‚ you see the world through a child’s eyes because the short story is written with a unique narrative technique and language. The reader’s mind is brought back to the time where ghosts and other wicked and impressive creatures filled the darkest corners of the thoughts from one’s young days. This curiously written short story is the product of Mary-Louise Buxton‚ written in 2005‚ and it is about Elizabeth and her
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Mount Pleasant The parents are the most important cornerstone in the rearing of a child. They are the ones who lay the foundation for how the child will behave in the future. All parents wants their child to become a respectable and resourceful adult in society in the future. Therefore‚ the parents must strike a balance between being strict and soft‚ because there may be consequences if you are too much of one than the other. If you are too rigorous‚ the child may in the future be confined‚ or
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“I Am” is a poem that was written by John Clare during the 1840s. Clare’s rustic poetry had brought him considerable fame and wealth‚ which enabled him to escape the meagre life he had experienced up until that time. After some years‚ his rural style of poetry was no longer in fashion‚ and his poetry met with little success. Psychological pressures resulting from the need to make money to feed his family‚ the struggles to adapt his poetry to the changing times and his inability to reconcile his rural
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Maude Clare Maude Clare is ballad written by Christina Rossetti‚ it’s composed of 12 quatrains and 12 stanzas each with alternating iambic tetrameter‚ the rhyme scheme‚ ABCB‚ differs from that of a traditional ballads which are usually ABAB‚ the writer does this deliberately to show the reader through structure the disruption Maude Clare causes at the wedding‚ it also foreshadows how the traditional wedding will change. In addition to this the more spontaneous ABCB rhyme scheme to provide some relief
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Caitlin Lindsey British Romanticism 12/2/15 Final Assignment Shelley v. Clare The one major difference between Percy Shelley and John Clare as people is the fact that Shelly was an educated man and John Clare did not receive an education from anyone save for himself. As a self-taught man from the countryside‚ Clare definitely has a different style in writing than Shelley. Where Percy Shelley’s style is more complex in detail and filled with metaphors‚ Clare’s is full of simple details and straighter
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Money is only a means and not and end in itself. But some people begin to consider it the end of all activities. Then it becomes the master of their thoughts and actions. Such people are very selfish. They never think of the good of others. I had always wished for a large amount of money so that I may used it not only for my own personal good‚ but also for the welfare of the public. I have may own plans for using such a huge amount but I cannot put them into practice as I have no money. Once I
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