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    In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays”, Robert Hayden plays on various denotations of the word “office” to make clear that love often means taking on duties and responsibilities. The word appears in the last sentence of the poem and it’s ambiguous definition leaves the reader with room to interpret the word with various denotations: “What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices?” (13-14). This ambiguity therefore holds a great deal of influence over the reading of the…

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    Kylin Munger Intro to Literature Poetry Analysis Due: 2-23-18 Poetry Analysis: “Daddy” and “How Do I Love Thee” Sylvia Plath was an author in the Modern Era in which she wrote her poem entitled “Daddy” (Plath). In her poem, Plath reflects the Modern Era in which her attitude and words convey the relationship she had with her father. The second author, Elizabeth Barrett Browning with her poem, “How Do I Love Thee” (Barrett Browning) was a poet in the Victorian Era. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s…

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    Charjully Goff Ms. Lippay English 9th September 23rd, 2014 Banned Books “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame”- Oscar Wilde, an Irish writer and poet. Banned books are books that people can’t have access to. This is considered also as book censorship, sometimes due to religious, political and moral purposes. The main books that have been banned are usually because they contain religion purposes that might offend, sex scenes, drugs, prostitution,…

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    Alternative Fuels Argumentative Essay — Hydrogen Power If one lived in a house and did nothing but throw trash everywhere, it would be no surprise that the house is a mess. In a way, people around the world do similar actions yet deny the effects of pollution, such as global warming, more intense natural disasters and climate change. The analogy referent is people using and acquiring fossil fuels continuously and polluting the atmosphere while some people deny this act and others live in…

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    Righteousness and Responsibility What does being a father really mean? The complex role of fatherhood is explored in “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa's Waltz.” The two fathers in the poems have extremely different ideas about what being a father truly entails. The distinct differences in the father’s level of responsibility is evident in the time of day in which the poem occurs, the atmosphere they create within their home, their morals, and the appearance of their hands and tasks they…

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    sufficient (192); Michael Milton “uses [his horse] like a motorbike” (67); and Sam’s father relinquishes care of his police horse to Sam because he does not understand how to take care of a horse (12). Even in instances where male characters do display acts of care, it is often placed in the context of their employment as a form of justification. For example, in the first book, The Shadow Brumby, Sam’s father saves a toddler, playing on the train track, from coming to further harm because it is…

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    1. In the case of Century Insurance Ltd v Northern Ireland Road Transport Board the vicarious liability applied, where the lighting of a match to light a cigarette and throwing it on the floor while transferring petrol from a lorry to a tank was held to be in the scope of employment. It is observed that, where an employee is acting in a manner which is expressly prohibited by the employer, but acting in his everyday tasks and duties then the employer is vicariously liable. 2. In the case of…

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    Community Patient Resource Group Interview Lab Assignment I interviewed a patient using a template by Fruth (2014), who was a 65 years old male Mike Hughes a Christian Baptist by religion who used English as his first language. He is a retired veteran by profession who worked for every 6 months while at military. On observation, the patient entered the room with a standard cane. The speech was not affected but there was evident drooping of lips on the left side.…

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    Jefferson comes of age after he “ Becomes a man”, being taught how to by Grant. In the beginning, Jefferson is falsely accused of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to death for being at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Jefferson calls himself a hog, because that is what the public defender had called him. Grant is then chosen to transform Jeffreson into a man before he dies. Jefferson struggles, but in the end, Jefferson sees himself as a man, not a Hog, nor a child.…

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    F451 Essay Government control is what holds a people together. Without it there would be so much crime and violence it would be crippling. On the other hand if there is too much control people get oppressed, like what happened in North Korea. Strict government control is basically a dictatorship – a government with no input from the population. In this novel this outcome is one that has evolved from the outlaw of books. Books are freedom, if they are outlawed that freedom is taken away.…

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