India’s contribu*on to the rest of the world “India is the cradle of the human race‚ the birthplace of human speech‚ the mother of history‚ the grandmother of legend‚ and the great grand mother of tradi*on. Our most valuable and most construc*ve materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only” Mark Twain "India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. India was the mother of our philosophy‚ of much of our
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The most beautiful man in the world is not a movie that would raise profound questions about the meaning of life or the lack of it. What it does is however to recreate an ordinary day of a little girl’s life into a lyrical tale about her awakening‚ both metaphorically and objectively‚ for the world around her. In less than six minutes‚ this movie reveals with beauty and pure understanding the intimate world of children in which every little detail of living is experienced with sincerity‚ depth and
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Henderson ENG1_APHUG 17 May 2014 After I read “Sophie’s World” by Jostein Gaarder‚ I was opened up to the different ways of thinking by many well-known philosophers. Each philosopher had their own point of view and ways of thinking. Ranging from religious perspectives to over the top ideas that were unaccepted by the people of their time‚ these men tried to answer philosophical questions such as “What is our purpose in life?” and “Where did the world come from?”. During their times‚ such thinking was
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Aesop‚ Duffy‟s speaker does more than regret a loss; this time‚ her tone is resentful that the man she married has turned out to be an „Asshole‟. Mrs Aesop relies on the reader‟s foreground knowledge that Aesop (a Greek slave) was a literary genius responsible for inventing the allegorical mode; this is the world’s preconceived view of him. By contrast‚ his wife’s starting-point is that‚ no matter how entertaining and instructive Aesop‟s fables are‚ the man himself is a bore - and‚ what‟s more‚ boring
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Conclusion of Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy Duffy uses an onion in her poem as she shows how this object can represent the positive aspect of love. In this poem she is saying that her love is different and unique. The first stanza tells us she is not giving what would be typically labelled as love like ’a red rose’. Instead‚ she gives an onion. An onion is very unusual gift to give to someone you care about. Although onions are acidic‚ smelly and not very appealing‚ she makes connection by comparing
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help put the themes in this poem into context. It was published in the 1980’s during Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership‚ it is essentially a political poem in response to a new culture of greed and selfishness that ignored the working-class. There were constant poll tax riots‚ miner’s strikes‚ homelessness‚ and unemployment. My thesis for this poem is: the harshness of the society in Britain during the 1980’s is reflected through one single speaker through the use of syntax and structure
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This not 100 % perfect it’s just a draft / practise for exam Consider the ways Duffy explores the beauty of relationships in “hour” Hour written by Carol Anne Duffy explores the never ending emotional highs and lows of a shown in a relationship and but also shown is how just spending time with a love one is precious even if it’s just for a little while. A way in which Duffy shows the beauty if relationships in hour is through love and time by creating a strong theme connection between
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ways Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in their poems? Plan Intro: Duffy and Pugh present social attitudes in different ways... Duffy empowers women‚ Pugh has negative views on aging. Core Poem 1: standing female nude is about a woman who works for a poor wage for something which is out of her comfort zone… hello is about aging and how you get forgotten about. Isolation‚ powerless. Core Poem 2: Mrs midas is about the consequences of midas’s actions and how they have affected his wife. An
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Buckling your airplane seatbelt and weight-loss personality Richard Simmons aren’t things you’d necessarily think go together. But if you flew on Air New Zealand in the recent past‚ it’s Simmons who may have video-instructed you how to buckle up. Great companies always think outside the box‚ and Air New Zealand is no exception. In the most recent Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards survey‚ the Kiwi airline came in No. 2. And while readers didn’t specifically rank in-flight entertainment‚ ANZ’s
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the whistle blows is potentially ambiguous. In one level it simply refers to the controlling device used by the keeper but on another the poet might be reminding us that this sort of cruelty will continue until somebody exposes it for what it is. Duffy does effectively ’blow the whistle’ on such practices. The final line‚ with its reference to ’our mind’‚ neatly links the plural possessive pronoun with the singular noun ’mind’ indicating a collective voice for a species. The tense change to ’we will’
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