...The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem. The Mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south off course by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctica. An albatross (symbolizing the Christian soul) appears and leads them out of the Antarctic but, even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird ("with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross"). The crew is angry with the Mariner, believing the albatross...
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...Writing Assignment I NOW EACH OF US FROM TIME TO TIME, HAS GAZED UPON THE SEA, AND WATCHED THE WARSHIPS PULLING OUT, TO KEEP THEIR COUNTRY FREE. AND MOST OF US HAVE READ A BOOK; OR HEARD A LUSTY TALE, ABOUT THE MEN WHO SAIL THESE SHIPS; THROUGH LIGHTING, WIND AND HAIL. BUT THERE'S A PLACE WITHIN EACH SHIP, THAT LEGEND FAILS TO TELL IT'S DOWN BELOW THE WATERLINE, IT TAKES A LIVING TOLL A HEATED METAL LIVING HELL THAT SAILORS CALL "THE HOLE". IT HOUSES ENGINES RUN BY STEAM, THAT MAKES THE SHAFTS GO ROUND. A PLACE OF FIRE AND NOISE AND HEAT, THAT BEATS YOUR SPIRITS DOWN. WHERE BOILERS ARE THE HELLISH HEART, WITH BLOOD OF ANGRY STEAM; THESE MOLDED GODS WITHOUT REMORSE, LIKE NIGHTMARES IN A DREAM. THE ROARING FIRES POSE A THREAT LIKE LIVING LIFE IN DOUBT, FOR AT ANY MINUTE WITHOUT SCORN, COULD ESCAPE AND CRUSH YOU OUT. WHERE TURBINES SCREAM LIKE TORTURED SOULS, ALONE AND LOST IN HELL, WITH ORDERS FROM SOMEWHERE ABOVE, THEY ANSWER EVERY BELL. THE MEN WHO KEEP THE FIRES LIT, AND MAKE THE ENGINES RUN, ARE STRANGERS TO THE WORLD OF LIGHT, AND RARELY SEE THE SUN. THEY HAVE NO TIME FOR MAN OR GOD, NO TOLERANCE FOR FEAR, THEIR ASPECT PAYS NO LIVING THING THE TRIBUTE OF A TEAR. THERE'S LITTLE THAT MEN CAN DO, THAT THESE MEN HAVE NOT DONE, BENEATH THE DECKS, DEEP IN THE HOLE, TO MAKE THE ENGINES RUN. AND EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY, THEY KEEP THEIR WATCH IN HELL, FOR IF THE FIRES EVER FAIL, THEIR SHIPS A USELESS SHELL. WHEN SHIPS CONVERGE TO HAVE A WAR UPON...
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...music. It’s also examines perception of performance criticism. Red Bull Music Academy is a two weeks music workshop. In past years it has taken up residence in places like London, Barcelona, Berlin, Sao Paolo, Cape Town, Rome, and Melbourne. Last year it has taken in New York City. There were two groups of selected participants -60 uniquely talented DJs, producers, musicians and vocalists from all over the world. For two weeks, each group attend lectures by musical legends, work together on tracks, and perform in the city’s best clubs and music halls. For the public, it’s got a impressive program of film screenings, parties, lectures from musical legends like Brian Eno and Erykah Badu, and concerts that range from hip-hop and improvisational jazz to traditional house and experimental drone music. In Red Bull Music Academy, in addition to the sounds filling the recording studios and lecture halls, there were installations by lots of local artists. Wednesday 01 May – A Night of Improvised Round Rubin Dueds: Red Bull Music Academy Special Night of Improvised Round Robin was at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. There were serious of improvisations. Red Bull Music Academy site explains the concept; Format was simple. One musician starts a solo improvisation lasting five minutes. Another musician then joins for five minutes of duo improvisation. After those five minutes, musician #1 leaves the stage and musician #3 joins musician #2 for another five minutes, and so on...
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...Anchor Books ed. p. cm. 1. Nigeria—Race relations—Fiction, 1. Igbo (African people)— Fiction. 3. Men—Nigeria—Fiction. I. Title. PR9387.9.A3T5 1994 823—dc20 94-13429 CIP ISBN 0-385-47454-7 ' Book design by Susan Yuran www.anchorbooks.com Printed in the United States of America… Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things Fall Apart ; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. —W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" CHAPTER ONE Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. He was called the Cat because his back would never touch the earth. It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights. The drums beat and the flutes...
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...filled with stories from survivors who retell their story, and survival of the genocide. All stories were told by adults who went through the regime as children. All were survivors in a part of history. Now the children’s voices of Cambodia’s killing fields can be heard. The book was written to retell a piece of history, and to make sure the history is never lost. The survivors wanted people to be aware of what they had gone through. Sarom Prak wanted people notified what happened to the people of Cambodia (71). They wanted their stories to be heard throughout the world. They don’t want another genocide to happen again in Cambodia, or anywhere around the world. The children are making their stories examples of the pain that can be caused by genocide. They want make sure nobody ever has to go through the pain they had gone through. These children were survivors during a dark time in history in Cambodia. But their stories were not solely to retell their own, but also the ones who couldn’t. The people who died during the regime were never able to let their stories be heard. These stories were also made to honor everyone who died during the Khmer Rouges ruling whether from malnutrition, malaria, getting beat or getting shot. Three different survivors added at the end of their story that they dedicated it to family and others who died in Cambodia (65,91,81). The spirit of the people killed lives on through these stories. They deserve to be recognized, and although they...
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...Hostility towards antisemitism rules the novel and aides in recognizing certain thoughts identified with the Jewish people group specifically and the world when all is said and done. The effect a solitary individual can have on this world is best portrayed through the lines: “Whoever spares one life spares the world whole.”(Stern) At a point when Schindler arranged to escape from the Allies, the Schindlerjuden gave Schindler a gold ring produced using gold fillings, engraved with the above citation from the Talmud, the book of Jewish law. After the Allied triumphed, Schindler was a chased war criminal. At the point when the specialists heard he should escape, they made him the ring as a little token of their thankfulness, realizing that there was no real way to reimburse the endowment of life. Stern exhibited the ring to Schindler, revealing to him the citation was from the Talmud. The Jews needed Schindler to realize that by...
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...The Lake Poets The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge hone his craft. Troubled by debt, though, he left Cambridge in 1793 and enlisted in the 15th Dragoons, a British army regiment, under the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache. After being rescued by his brothers, Coleridge returned to Cambridge, but he left again, in 1794, without having earned a degree. That year, Coleridge met the author Robert Southey, and together they dreamed about establishing a utopian community in the Pennsylvania wilderness of America. Southey, however, backed out of the project, and their dream was never realized. notable quote “No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.” fyi Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . • developed a fascination with the supernatural at age five? • was known as a brilliant and captivating conversationalist? • was the most influential literary critic of his day? • liked to write poetry while walking? Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is famous for composing “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” considered two of the greatest English poems. As a critic and philosopher, he may have done more than any other writer to spread the ideas of the English romantic movement. Precocious Reader The youngest of ten For more on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, visit the Literature Center at ClassZone.com. children, Coleridge grew up feeling rejected by his...
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...------------------Remembering the Champ---------------------- "What a great par this is gonna be". Those of you that have had the pleasure of playing golf with Brian might recall hearing him call that one out. If you haven't heard it, then I'll give you his explanation for it. My name is Matt Lynch. As one of Brian's golfing buddies from Overbrook Golf Club I've been asked to make a few comments about the golf and Overbrook portion of his life. It is an honor to do so. Regarding his phrase "what a great par this is gonna be".....Brian was a very good golfer and part of that included being an accurate driver off of the tee. Occasionally though, even Superman would hit an errant tee shot...one destined for the trees or thick rough or some other obstacle. It's at that moment, when he knew that he'd hit a bad one, that he'd say "what a great par this is gonna be". He'd explain it like this. He saw no sense in cursing about the bad shot; no sense in slamming your club, much less ever tossing your club. That was all just wasting energy on something that was over. The shot was history and there's nothing you could do about it so why waste the energy crying about it? Instead, it would be so much smarter, so much more productive to channel all of that energy into the next shot. Look forward. Figure out what you can do to salvage the situation and turn a rough start into a great par. I KNOW that's how he conducted himself on the golf course and I believe that's how he...
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...PROLOGUE GILGAMESH KING IN URUK I WILL proclaim to the world the deeds of Gilgamesh. This was the man to whom all things were known; this was the king who knew the countries of the world. He was wise, he saw mysteries and knew secret things, he brought us a tale of the days before the flood. He went on a long journey, was weary, worn-out with labour, returning he rested, he engraved on a stone the whole story. When the gods created Gilgamesh they gave him a perfect body. Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty, Adad the god of the storm endowed him with courage, the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull. Two thirds they made him god and one third man. In Uruk he built walls, a great rampart, and the temple of blessed Eanna for the god of the firmament Anu, and for Ishtar the goddess of love. Look at it still today: the outer wall where the cornice runs, it shines with the brilliance of copper; and the inner wall, it has no equal. Touch the threshold, it is ancient. Approach Eanna the dwelling of Ishtar, our lady of love and war, the like of which no latter-day king, no man alive can equal. Climb upon the wall of Uruk; walk along it, I say; regard the foundation terrace and examine the. masonry: is it not burnt brick and good? The seven sages laid the foundations THE COMING OF ENKIDU GILGAMESH went abroad in the world, but he met with none who could withstand his arms till be came to Uruk. But the men...
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...I never thought that a single moment could change not only the trajectory of my life, but also, the way I see, feel, and hear everything. The moments leading up to the birth of my daughter, I would not have believed it to be possible. However, the second I saw Nova’s dirty blonde hair make its entrance into this world I knew my thinking was flawed. All the trees in town were barren, their leaves long since made their ways to obscenely large black trash bags and compost piles. November had just said goodbye, while me and my wife we’re anxiously awaiting our chance to say hello to our first-born daughter for the first time. Having been carrying the burden of two for every bit of two hundred and eighty days, my wife was exhausted. We spent hours on every mommy blog we could find -- filtering through all the myths on how to naturally induce labor in hopes of finding something that actually worked. We tried them all; Spicy foods and certain teas, but, as one would expect, none of them worked. That is until we read about how walking could help encourage labor. While it might have been coincidence, during a short walk around the block my wife’s contractions started screaming it was time....
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...Zodiac didn't know what to say, he thought Diamond didn't want anything to do with him. When Zodiac was about to say something, Vanilla came out of the bedroom, naked. "Hey baby, I was hoping we can go another round." Said Vanilla, with a grin on her face. Diamond looked at Zodiac and said, angry," so all this time you been chasing me, you had a woman at home ..... oh ..... so you a pimp now ..... you know what ..... you can remain a pimp, but I'll never be your hoe, so screw you." As Diamond walked away, Zodiac tried to stop her, he held, "Diamond, it's not like that." He was about to run after her, when Vanilla said, with an attitude, "fuck that bitch, you don't need her." Then Vanilla got on her knees, pulled out Zodiac dick and sucked...
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...C) Analysis: Gatsby reveals to Nick what actually occurred in the accident of Myrtle’s death, Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy so she won’t be accused of manslaughter. Thread 14: Corruption is a common element in the novel and during the 1920’s in the United States. A) Example 1: Chapter 3, page 57 B) Significant quote: “At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers-a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round” (Fitzgerald 57). C) Analysis: Jordan Baker displays corruption through her sportsmanship in her first big golf tournament. Nick describes the story about Jordan nearly reaching the newspapers that stated she had moved her ball. This showcases how she is willing to cheat to contain her status as a great golfer showing her dishonesty. A) Example 2: Chapter 4, page...
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...independence. A chance to form a completely new society. However, this wouldn’t be easy. Many important events, people, battles, and stories came to pass during this time. From 1775 to 1783, various major events took place that would shape our country and ultimately grant the early Americans independence from Britain. 1775: a revolution has begun. The first major event was the Battle of Lexington. This was the first battle in the Revolutionary War; the first shot; the “shot heard round the world”. Next was the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. This battle was a build up from Lexington. The victory the Americans attained gave them hope and confidence. The next major event was the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 1775. This was a very important battle in the Revolutionary War. Though the British came out victorious, both sides had suffered and committed many mistakes. Soon after this war, the Second...
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...Complete Assessment of Mr. Smith Jackie McManus University of Missouri Saint Louis Biographical Data Thomas Smith is a 95-year-old Caucasian male who resides in Saint Charles Missouri. He was born in Saint Louis on June 29, 1917. He is currently married to his wife of 71 years. He is retired from appliance sales and general maintenance. He has lived in Saint Charles, Missouri his entire life except for four years when he served in the United States Army during World War II. While he was in the Army he served in Germany, this was the only time Mr. Smith has been outside the United States. Source and Reliability Mr. Smith and his daughter Lynn are my source of information to complete my assessment. Lynn has been a nurse for 40 years and is his durable power of attorney, making any medical decisions. She cares for her parents daily by planning their evening meals and setting out their daily meds. Reason for Seeking Health Care Mr. Smith is seeking healthcare for follow up due to recent falls at home and increased weakness. He complained of weakness in his legs and states that his legs “give out”. He states that his weakness started a couple days prior to going to the hospital and gradually got worse. He was admitted for observation and test where run to determine a mild stroke. History Mr. Smith is in generally good health. He is 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 175 pounds. He is getting stronger and is feeling better after his stroke. He states that he has an allergy to...
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...Search Enoch Arden by Lord Alfred Tennyson Published 1864 Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder'd church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower'd mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish barrows; and a hazelwood, By autumn nutters haunted, flourishes Green in a cuplike hollow of the down. Here on this beach a hundred years ago, Three children of three houses, Annie Lee, The prettiest little damsel in the port, And Philip Ray the miller's only son, And Enoch Arden, a rough sailor's lad Made orphan by a winter shipwreck, play'd Among the waste and lumber of the shore, Hard coils of cordage, swarthy fishing-nets, Anchors of rusty fluke, and boats updrawn, And built their castles of dissolving sand To watch them overflow'd, or following up And flying the white breaker, daily left The little footprint daily wash'd away. A narrow cave ran in beneath the cliff: In this the children play'd at keeping house. Enoch was host one day, Philip the next, While Annie still was mistress; but at times Enoch would hold possession for a week: `This is my house and this my little wife.' `Mine too' said Philip `turn and turn about:' When, if they quarrell'd, Enoch stronger-made Was master: then would Philip, his blue eyes All flooded with the helpless wrath of tears, Shriek out `I hate you...
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