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    Elizabeth Bishop is a very influential poet of our time. Her poem‚ ‘One Art‚’ is a good model for chapter five’s topics. It contains excellent examples of sound units‚ words‚ ordering of language‚ and implication. Bishop based this poem off villanelle written in iambic pentameter‚ which has an ABA rhyme scheme that forms a couplet rhyme in the end quatrain. This poem is exemplary for expressing the sound units of words‚ and sentences. The sound units of the words are phonetically connected

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    Comparison of Two Poems Why is it that people write poems? Sometimes‚ it seems that authors write poems to confuse or to mislead. As most would know‚ poems aren’t actually written for that purpose. They are written to amuse and enlighten in a critical thinking way. Poems are like secret passages with deep meanings within the lines and rhythms; after being pulled apart and analyzed‚ they can leave your mind blown. I will be comparing “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke with another poem titled “Those

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    One is One and All Alone” by Nicholas Fisk is a science fiction story‚ set in 2045. The main character is Trish‚ an 11-year old girl who is the only child on a spaceship to Trion. Her father is the Executive Officer of the spaceship and her mother is in Trion helping to set up a space station. She will only meet her mother in mid January 2047. After three months‚ she feels lonely and bored as she does not have any real friends to talk to except her private‚ multi-functional diary: the Voice

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    Chapter 1 Richard was sleeping and he was dreaming about a terror situation‚ he listened whipers from shadows. In the morning‚ the radio alarm turned on at 7 o’clock‚ Richard switched off it and continued sleeping but her mother came into his bedroom to wake him up‚ and she did it to Richard’s sister as well. Richard gave the oportunity to her sister Judy to use bathroom first‚ because he wanted to write about his particular dreamm but no words came to his mind. After he showered‚ he came downstairs

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    One-on-one tutoring or private tutoring is a method of tutoring in which the tutor visits the student’s home to provide assistance in his or her studies. One-on-one tutoring has several advantages over tutoring in groups. Let’s discuss a few of them. Individual Attention One-on-one tutoring provides a lot of scope for individual attention to be paid to a student. In group tutoring‚ the large number of students makes it extremely difficult for a tutor to pay heed to the individual requirements of

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    Most critics agree that children’s literature is a diverse paradoxical area of study combining different literary genres. Like the concept of childhood‚ children’s literature is a social and cultural concept that evolves over time. Since the fourteenth century‚ children’s literature has gone through different literary periods each defined by its own divisions and genres. Many children’s novels‚ such as J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy‚ and C.S. Lewis’s The Lion‚ the Witch‚ and the Wardrobe were published

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    Tagalog Literature: History and Tradition DOMINGO GOAN LANDICHO Share this article Post a comment | Back to article list GEOGRAPHICAL AREA Tagalog literature has been born‚ cradled‚ nourished and peaked into fruition in the provinces of Southern Luzon‚ Central Luzon and the present Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region. Among the Southern Tagalog provinces are Cavite‚ Batangas‚ Laguna‚ Quezon‚ Aurora‚ Oriental Mindoro‚ Occidental Mindoro‚ Marinduque‚ Palawan and

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    In addition to that‚ technology is also used to perform a specific function. The use of technology by human beings can be dated back when they began creating simple tools from natural resources. From using fire to prepare their food which led to the increase of food production to the use of the wheel which aided in moving from one place to another and environmental controlling‚ human beings are known to use technology to their advantage. Recent technology for instance the internet‚ the printing press

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    evaluated is coherence. A worldview is not genuine unless it has clarity. Any worldview needs to be clear on what it is representing. For instance‚ a Christian worldview has solid lucidity. We believe in One Lord‚ One Faith and One Baptism‚ this is crystal clear. To be far lucidity is not just coined to one worldview simply because some can claim that Christianity is the best worldview. Another can determine that postmodernism is a better worldview because it rejects absolute truth. Lastly‚ some could

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    Grief & Loss in Elizabeth Bishop’s "One Art" Many things in life will be lost; however‚ some losses are more significant than others. The way that Elizabeth Bishop chose to interpret the intertwined themes of grief and loss in her poem "One Art" illustrates the build-up of emotion as each successive loss grew in importance. By increasing the significance of each loss‚ Ms. Bishop seems to indicate that one must first become accustomed to accepting life’s little losses before trying to conquer

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