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Lowest Common Denominator Literary Technique
1,452 words... s? Explore your own world, the streams where you live, your own intellect, and mind the seas and inlets of the moral mind. He writes: It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. If you want to travel, explore yourself. Thoreau left the woods because he learned all he could there; his feet had worn a pa...
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The Boston Tea Party And America Independence
1,344 wordsThroughout the course of history there have been many events leading up to the independence of America. Some of them were small, whereas others were much more significant. One of the more important events was the Boston Tea Party. This was when the colonists, in anger, boarded a ship carrying many chests of fine teas, and hurled them overboard. The Boston Tea Party marked the first act of open resistance to British rule. The Boston Tea Party alone was not the main event that brought America her ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac Hundred Men
840 wordsIn the play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, the conflict is Man vs. himself, Cyrano vs. his internal conflicts. Cyrano de Bergerac, a poet, a swordsman, a philosopher, a musician, and a member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, is deeply in love with his beautiful cousin, Roxane. Despite all of Cyrano's skills and brilliance, he has an unusually large nose that he finds too grotesque to risk confronting Roxane with his feelings. Cyrano later discovers that Roxane is in love with Christian, a youn...
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Captain John Smith Colonial Period
1,865 wordsEarly Colonial Period Introduction to Early Colonial Period The early colonial period can be framed from 1000 AD onwards as at that period of time, Leif Ericson, a Viking Seaman arrived on the east coast of North American and founded a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland. The end years of the Colonial period can be considered up to 1787, when the Black American poet Jupiter Hammon (1720 - 1800), who as a slave on Long Island, New York, is still remembered for his address to the Negroes of the...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First World War
3,375 wordsThe attitudes of poets towards war have always been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each poet either condoning or condemning war, and justifying their attitudes in whatever way possible. I aim to explore the change in the portrayal of war before and during the twentieth century, and also the structures and devices poets use to convey their views persuasively, and justify them. These two poems describe war, and scenes from war, with varying levels of intensity and reality and also from diff...
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