Flecknoe‚” the mock epic genre “treats the low‚ mean‚ or absurd in the grand language‚ lofty style‚ and solemn tone of epic poetry. The obvious disparity between subject and style makes the satiric point” (Greenblatt et al. 2237). Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a much more extended example of this genre. For this exercise‚ focus on one of the following passages from the poem to answer the three questions below: Canto 1‚ lines 121-144 (2690); Canto 3‚ lines 37-100 (2694-6); or Canto 5‚ lines 75-104 (2703)
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A RESEARCH PAPER PORK BARREL: TO BE ABOLISHED OR NOT OUTLINE Thesis : The recent scandal of government officials allegedly channelling their pork barrel funds to fake non-governmental organizations with nothing but ghost projects to show for has yet again raised the issue of abolishing the pork barrel. I. Introduction to Pork Barrel A. Definition of Terms B. PDAF in the Philippines C. Importance of PDAF II. PDAF scam A. People involved B. Reactions
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On its face‚ the pork barrel system appears to be a democratic way of apportioning government resources. Inherited from the United States‚ this scheme is supposed to allocate funds equally to every congressional district to be used for the residents’ most urgent needs. And who know the needs of these congressional communities better than the people they elected to represent them? Legislators’ job. True‚ the main job of legislators is to enact laws for the common good‚ not to build roads‚ school
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PORK BARREL A blessed afternoon to everyone. So at this point‚ the topic that has given to me is about the pork barrel scam. This is an issue that is widely talked about nowadays. And now let me give you a brief information about pork barrel. What is pork barrel? Do we really need it? Pork barrel is a bill or policy that supplies funds for local projects or improvements of the country. Yes‚ we as a taxpayers really need it for the development of our country but now the misuse of the pork barrel
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Queen Victoria’s Empire Lesson Plans by Lisa Prososki Plan 1: Inventions that Changed the World Subject Areas: Middle School Social Studies Objective: Students will create small group projects that illustrate the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution‚ the ways this revolution shaped Victoria’s reign as Queen of England‚ and the ways this invention contributed to the idea of a world economy. Materials: Students should
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JOHN LOCKE An English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists‚ following the tradition of Francis Bacon‚ he is equally important to social contract theory. His work had a great impact upon the development of epistemology and political philosophy. His writings influenced Voltaire and Rousseau‚ many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers‚ as well as the American revolutionaries. His contributions to
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Essay Three: The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope wrote this humorous poem as a way to mend a broken family relationship. He originally wrote this poem in two cantos‚ which some considered to be perfect. However‚ Pope felt like there should be more to the story‚ therefore he added the “machinery” and expanded the poem to five cantos. The Rape of the Lock contains literary elements of satire‚ epic poetry‚ juxtaposition‚ and chiasmus in order to formulate a mock epic. In the beginning of canto one
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poem) had precipitated a rift between their two families by snipping off a lock of her hair. The Baron - This is the pseudonym for the historical Robert‚ Lord Petre‚ the young gentleman in Pope’s social circle who offended Arabella Fermor and her family by cutting off a lock of her hair. In the poem’s version of events‚ Arabella is known as Belinda. Caryl - The historical basis for the Caryl character is John Caryll‚ a friend of Pope and of the two families that had become estranged over the
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Rakesh Ramanjulu Professor Sarah Rice ENGL 216-B05 13 July 2011 Mock Epic of “The Rape of the Lock” “The Rape of the Lock” written by Alexander Pope is an intriguing poem in its whole. He makes this poem into an epic mock. Where he writes about how ridiculous the group he associates with have an “epic” card match over a lock of hair. “The Rape of the Lock” overall shows us how high society quarrels can resemble a great epic. Pope use of the mock epic was well written where a reader cannot
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Rape of the LOcke Rape of the lock : At the beginning of "The Rape of the Lock‚" Pope identifies the work as a “heroi-comical poem.” Today‚ the poem—and others like it—is referred to as a mock-epic and sometimes as a mock-heroic. Such a work parodies the serious‚ elevated style of the classical epic poem—such as The Iliad or The Odyssey‚ by Homer—to poke fun at human follies. Thus‚ a mock-epic is a type of satire; it treats petty humans or insignificant occurrences as if they were extraordinary
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