On the Town – the American Musical On the Town is a musical movie which midpoints the lives of three sailors who were on a 24-hour shore break. The movie situates around New York City during the period of war in 1944. Correspondingly‚ On the Town portrays the insufficiency of time during the World War II. Within the 24-hour leave‚ the three comrades named Chip‚ Ozzie‚ and Gabey were looking for their dream girls after they had visited the city’s best sights including the Brooklyn Bridge‚ the American
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Commentary on the poem- ‘My Grandmother’ by Elizabeth Jennings The poem ‘My Grandmother‚’ is a recount of a childhood memory of the poets’ grandmother who “kept an antique shop”‚ and there are many underlying meaning and thoughts in the poem‚ which illustrate the strong attachment of the grandmother towards her shop and the relationship between her and the poet. The poet uses her grandmothers’ life to portray themes such as loneliness‚ guilt and the passing of time. The first and third verse are
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Commentary: An Advancement of Learning by Seamus Heaney In An Advancement from Learning by Seamus Heaney‚ he describes a retrospective childhood experience. The narrator compels himself to face a deep-seated and preposterous fear which he consequently conquers. He shares his terror and revulsion by implementing vivid and vibrant imagery presented in nine quatrains. The conquest of an irrational fear depicted in this poem is perhaps a metaphor for overcoming greater fears in life. As the title
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A social issue (also called a social problem or a social situation) is an issue that relates to society’s perception of a person’s personal life. Different cultures have different perceptions and what may be "normal" behavior in one society may be a significant social issue in another society. Social issues are distinguished from economic issues. Some issues have both social and economic aspects‚ such as immigration. There are also issues that don’t fall into either category‚ such as wars. Thomas
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In the two poems‚ “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning”‚ Robert Browning tells about the meeting of two lovers at night who are in love with each other. In order to meet the woman‚ the man undergoes a long journey through the sea and land. However‚ even after all this trouble‚ he must be secretive because they are not allowed to see each other. The second poem‚ however‚ tells of the very next day‚ when the man leaves the woman and seems to move on. Browning structures these two poems in order
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In their 1953 Nature publication‚ Watson and Crick announced their landmark discovery: DNA exists in the form of a right handed‚ three-dimensional double helix. They described their DNA model as two DNA strands connected by hydrogen bonds between complementary bases. Adenine bases are always paired with thymines‚ and cytosines are always paired with guanines. Watson and Crick identified the anti-parallel configuration of DNA strands; each 5’ end of one strand is paired with the 3’ end of its complementary
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Three Lunulae Truro Museum – Penelope Shuttle Three Lunulae‚ Truro Museum is a poem written by Penelope Shuttle and it is written with the perspective of a person who visits a museum and views the Lunulae. The visitor‚ upon first seeing the Lunulae begins to imagine their history. The gender of the viewer is unknown but it seems to be a woman‚ given the gentle and delicate way of writing‚ shown through the first stanza “gold so thin‚ only an old woman would notice its weight”. The poem consists
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Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson The poem ‘Break Break Break’ by Alfred lord Tennyson was written in 1834‚ the year after the death of one of his closest friends; Arthur Henry Hallam. Hallam and Tennyson had been very close for almost six years‚ and Hallam had been engaged to Tennyson’s sister‚ so his fatal brain hemorrhage in 1833 came as a great shock to Lord Tennyson. Hallam’s death affected him so much that nineteen years later he named his son Hallam.The literate subject of the poem
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The Misleading Ideas of War During the times of war‚ young men were taught into believing that one must sacrifice his own life in order to demonstrate worshipped patriotism. Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” is an eye-opening poem that illustrates powerful imagery and diction. He creates the theme of false idealism being that the deceiving ideas of war as a glorious act of loyalty to one’s country in reality causes traumatizing experiences and memories that can scar individuals for
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I found my favorite quote after I read the book SOLD in class. The book was about a young girl who got sold into the sex slave trade and it illustrated her realization of how horrible the world can be. Even the people who should depend on can cross you and become untrustworthy. My quote is by Patricia McCormick who writes a main character named Lakshmi. The main character snuck down after a customer and saw the woman who owned her paying off a police officer to look the other way. She began to realize
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