...What is Poetry? Poetry can be defined as 'literature in a metrical form' or 'a composition forming rhythmic lines'. In short, a poem is something that follows a particular flow of rhythm and meter. Compared to prose, where there is no such restriction, and the content of the piece flows according to story, a poem may or may not have a story, but definitely has a structured method of writing. Elements of Poetry There are several elements which make up a good poem. Although it is not mandatory for a poet to use all these elements or devices, they form an important aspect of poetry. So what are the elements of a poem? In brief, they are described below. Rhythm: This is the music made by the statements of the poem, which includes the syllables in the lines. The best method of understanding this is to read the poem aloud, and understand the stressed and unstressed syllables. Listen for the sounds and the music made when we hear the lines spoken aloud. How do the words resonate with each other? How do the words flow when they are linked with one another? Does sound right? Do the words fit with each other? These are the things you consider while studying the rhythm of the poem. Meter: This is the basic structural make-up of the poem. Do the syllables match with each other? Every line in the poem must adhere to this structure. A poem is made up of blocks of lines, which convey a single strand of thought. Within those blocks, a structure of syllables which follow the rhythm...
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...He explained himself in the following sentence, “That was my place in the world, my story, the story of myself, the story of my people. I was already familiar with stories of different people.” The use of present tense by the author is not only evident in the book but also in real life, “I think what it is -- I suspect, from some of the things readers from abroad say to me.” British speakers would say “readers from abroad have said to me”. It is also exceptionally noticeable how often he uses synonyms and repetition to give a better perception and power to his words; “I wanted that moment of change, in which one culture was in contact, in conflict, in conversation with another culture, and something was going to happen.”, “I knew that I wanted the story to be true, true in the way fiction can be true.” The pauses which author take while structuring his sentences catch the eye; it is evident that his way of thinking differs from talking. Again, his English is extremely accurate not only in the book, but also in daily life. The use of short, but at the same time descriptive sentences gives a stronger influence on a reader or listener; this is probably the most distinctive feature of Achebe as a writer, “At last the hen was plucked clean. Ekwefi tried to pull out the horny beak but it was too hard. She...
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...Grove 1. Write a summary of Grove in about 150 words. Grove is a short story written by Erin Brooks Worley. The story is about an alcoholic woman that is visiting her boyfriend’s parents. The second day of their visit the boyfriend crashes on his father’s motorbike. After everyone falls asleep that night the woman sneaks out into the bathroom were her shampoo bottle, with her whiskey, stands. She takes a couple shots thinking her boyfriend won’t smell it and goes back to bed. The next morning her boyfriend tells her he can smell it. Later that day they take to boat and sails out at the lake, where he turns off the motor and they start talking about kids and how they can’t have any because of her drinking. At night, after they got back, the narrator is talking to her boyfriend’s mother, while the boyfriend and his father goes to the shop, who tells her she need to stop drinking. By the time the boys got back the boyfriend’s mother talked the narrator into going home. On the way home the narrator’s boyfriend turns off the light on the car and drives in complete darkness for a while. 2. Characterize the two main characters and their relationship. The narrator is an alcoholic woman, who is trying to find out what to do in her life. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone with her problem, but she does because she won’t be able to have children. The boyfriend is a bit quiet, he tries to overlook her problem but it’s hard when she smells of alcohol. He wants children, but can’t have...
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...But regardless of our careers and graduate school fate, what really matters at the end of the day are our “eulogy values” — traits that will be remembered far past our time on this earth (Brooks). Indeed, no one will remember us as competent professionals or as wealthy entrepreneurs, but rather as kind, caring children, siblings, parents and friends. Graduate school admissions and hiring processes should value these attributes over mere numerics, and recognize eulogy values for their true worth. Doing so will yield more inclusive campuses and more collaborative workplace — collective goods which are critical — yet often lacking — in the world. And those attributes are far more important than the standardized metrics and expectations we will all be subject to at some point or another. After all, when we depart this world, what do we want to be remembered...
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...Attends Public School #24 in Harlem. 1923 Sees first play--a melodrama at the Schubert Theater. 1928 Bar-mitzvah at the Avenue M temple. Father's business struggling and family move to Brooklyn. Attends James Madison HIgh School. 1930 Reassigned to the newly built Abraham Lincoln High School. Plays on football team. 1931 Delivery boy for local bakery before school, and works for father's business over summer vacation. 1933 Graduates from Abraham Lincoln High School. Registers for night school at City College, but quits after two weeks. 1933-34 Clerked in an auto-parts warehouse, where he was the only Jew employed and had his first real, personal experiences of American anti-semitism. 1934 Enters University of Michigan in the Fall to study journalism. Reporter and night editor on student paper, The Michigan Daily. 1936 Writes No Villain in six days and receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Transfers to an English major. 1937 Takes playwrighting class with Professor Kenneth T. Rowe. Rewrite of No Villain, titled, They Too Arise, receives a major award from the Bureau of New Plays and is produced in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Honors at Dawn receives Hopwood Award in Drama. Drives Ralph Neaphus East to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during their Civil War, and decides not to go with him. 1938 The Great Disobedience receives second place in the Hopwood contest. They Too Arise is revised and titled The Grass...
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...the average person is more or less confused, angry, stressed and unhappy which is what the poem reflects. I myself cannot wait till adulthood lingers around the corner. I find that certain problems arise during this time that keep you from doing the things you love and that this is absolutely the uttermost worst time to express yourself in many different ways. Some of things are not being strong enough for certain sports and so on. Even though this poem is gloomy it has a contented and joyful background since she/he has finally gotten over the period of distress and is now ready to go back to a normal life where every aspect in the body does not fluctuate every minute, “ It has rained drops big as silver coins, gold in the sun”. In this short quote the drops refer to the past tears that person has shed during that time, but is now covered up in a color of gold which is a newborn and happy time period known as adulthood. On the other hand there may still be some memories or physical aspects on her body that remind her of this time, “The good rain batters me with crazy thoughts”. The good...
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...MONSTER Growth in 2016." InvestorPlace RSS. 05 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://investorplace.com/2016/02/fb-avgo-rgr/3/#.Vt-QivkrLIV>. "AT&T Company Information." AT&T Company Information. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.att.com/gen/investor-relations?pid=5711>. "AT&T Inc. (T)." NASDAQ.com. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/t>. "AT&T Revenue Worldwide 2006-2014 | Statistic." Statista. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.statista.com/statistics/272308/atundts-operating-revenue-since-2006/>. "AT&T vs. Verizon in 7 Charts: Sales, Dividends & More." Dividend.com. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.dividend.com/how-to-invest/7-charts-that-compare-att-and-verizon-t-vz/>. Barnes, Brooks. "‘Star Wars’ Sales Propel Disney Earnings, but ESPN Slips." The New York Times. The New York Times, 09 Feb. 2016. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/business/media/disney-earnings-rise-28-but-cable-unit-slips.html?_r=0>. "Blue Chip Definition | Investopedia." Investopedia. 23 Nov. 2003. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bluechip.asp>. "Business Cycle - Video | Investopedia." Investopedia. 09 May 2014. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/business-cycle/>. "Cyclical Stock Definition | Investopedia." Investopedia. 19 Nov. 2003. Web. 08 Mar. 2016. <http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cyclicalstock.asp>. "Facebook, Inc. Class A Common Stock (FB)." NASDAQ...
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...and renewed in 1979. This book kept me hooked in through all 234 pages. The story begins with Holden Caulfield explaining how Pencey Prep is the fourth school he has been kicked out of. He describes that he failed every class except for English. While everybody else in the boarding school is watching the football game, Holden decides to go see his former history teacher Mr. Spencer to say goodbye and also because Mr. Spencer sent Holden a note to see him before he left town. The visit starts out nice, but Holden cuts the meeting short when the conversation gets too serious. Mr. Spencer starts to lecture Holden about...
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...O Book of Poetry Nursery Rhymes “Rock-a-Bye Baby” b Rock-a-bye baby, in the treetop[pic] When the wind blows, the cradle will rock When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall And down will come baby, cradle and all [pic] Three Blind Mice Three blind mice, three blind mice, See how they run, see how they run, They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a thing in your life, As three blind mice? [pic] “I’m A Little Teapot” [pic] I'm a little teapot Short and stout Here is my handle Here is my spout When I get all steamed up Hear me shout "Tip me over and pour me out!" Lyrics Go To Sleep My Baby Lyrics Go to sleep my baby [pic] Close your pretty eyes Angels up above you Look down on you from the sky. The great big moon is shining Stars begin to glow It's time for all the picaninis To go to sleep | | |b[pic] | | | |I've got the blue-bus, blue-bus, ...
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...Symbolism of the Journey ENG 125 September 11, 2011 Symbolism of the Journey, a comparison of two stories The short stories “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost are both stories that involve using the journey as a symbol. The symbol that the journey portrays in both of these pieces of literature is that of life. Life as a human being involves the right of choice in one of the literary works, and a lack of choice in the second. This paper will compare and contrast these two literary works which share the same theme. The comparison of the two stories will involve a comparison of the content, form, and style in an effort to provide deep insight into the theme of the stories; as well as insight into the hidden meanings poetry offers its readers to touch us on a deeper level. Content In the story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, content is developed through a complex series of descriptions. The story begins with a description of the setting which is a cold December morning in a far off path through a pinewood forest. The character is an old Negro woman who is described as being very old and small and wearing a head tied red rag. The woman is further described as wearing a dark red stripped dress and apron and carrying a cane and an umbrella. These descriptions of the setting give the reader a clear picture of the setting and character in the story as well as how the character moves when the author describes her as moving slowly through the pine...
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...become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage angst and alienation. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Around 250,000 copies are sold each year with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel's protagonist Holden Caulfield has become an icon for teenage rebellion. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The novel also deals with complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Plot summary Holden begins his story at Pencey Prep, an exclusive private school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, on the Saturday afternoon of the traditional football game with rival school Saxon Hall. Holden misses the game. As manager of the fencing team, he loses their equipment on a New York City subway train that morning, resulting in the cancellation of a match. He goes to the home of his History teacher named Mr. Spencer. Holden has been expelled and is not to return after Christmas break, which begins the following Wednesday. Spencer is a well-meaning but long-winded middle-aged man. To Holden's annoyance, Spencer reads aloud Holden's History paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Spencer so that his teacher would not feel bad about failing him in the subject. Holden returns...
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...The Ambiguity of Weeping. Baroque and Mannerist Discourses in Haynes’ Far from Heaven and Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Jack Post Abstract Although Douglas Sirk’ All That Heaven Allows (1954) and Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven (2002) are both characterized as melodramas, they address their spectators differently. The divergent (emotional) reactions towards both films are the effect of different rhetorical strategies: the first can be seen a typical example of baroque discourse and the latter as a specimen of mannerist discourse. The reference to the terms melodrama, mannerism and baroque does not imply that these films are just formal repetitions of historical periods or that they thematically and structurally refer to historical styles, but that they are characterized by opposing discursive strategies which came to the foreground in a specific historical time and constellation. Because these discursive strategies return in other historical periods and socialpolitical circumstances in different guises and with different aims, they can be compared to what Aby Warburg calls Pathosformeln (pathos formula). The expressive forms, gestures and discursive modes of melodrama, baroque and mannerism can thus be understood as transhistorical (gestural) languages of pathos that recur in history. Résumé Bien que All that heaven allows (1954) par Douglas Sirk et Far from heaven (2002) par Todd Haynes se caractérisent nettement comme un mélodrame, les deux films adressent...
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...encourages you to think about how and why a poem, short story, novel, or play was written. To successfully analyze literature, you’ll need to remember that authors make specific choices for particular reasons. Your essay should point out the author’s choices and attempt to explain their significance. Another way to look at a literary analysis is to consider a piece of literature from your own perspective. Rather than thinking about the author’s intentions, you can develop an argument based on any single term (or combination of terms) listed below. You’ll just need to use the original text to defend and explain your argument to the reader. Allegory - narrative form in which the characters are representative of some larger humanistic trait (i.e. greed, vanity, or bravery) and attempt to convey some larger lesson or meaning to life. Although allegory was originally and traditionally character based, modern allegories tend to parallel story and theme. William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily- the decline of the Old South Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- man’s struggle to contain his inner primal instincts District 9- South African Apartheid X Men- the evils of prejudice Harry Potter- the dangers of seeking “racial purity” Character - representation of a person, place, or thing performing traditionally human activities or functions in a work of fiction Protagonist - The character the story revolves around. Antagonist - A character or force...
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...Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during five incredibly tense weeks, that one of those magical windows in history opened, when there occurred a nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit that led so many contenders (from different parts of the world) to all suddenly be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time. Atlantic Fever is about the race; it is a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Richard Byrd, Noel Davis, Stanton Wooster, Clarence Chamberlin, Charles Levine, Rene; Fonck, Charles Nungesser, and François Coli--all had equal weight in the race with Charles Lindbergh. Although the story starts in September 1926 with the crash of the first competitor, or even further back with the 1919 establishment of the prize, its heart is found in a short period, those five weeks from April 14 to May 21, 1927, when the world held its breath and the aviators met their separate fates in the air. *525 pages *Adult/Young Adult *5 copies available The Diviners by Libba Bray Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. *578 pages *Teen *16 copies available ...
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...and Returns by Vishal Pahuja 7 Hedge Fund Structure by Vishal Pahuja 8 A Success Story by Vishal Pahuja 9 Peer Evaluation 9 Pay for Hedge Fund Managers 9 A Failure Story by Angel Cardoz 10 Long-Term Capital Management 10 The Rise 10 The fall 10 The future of hedge funds by Angel Cardoz 11 Regulation 11 Markets 11 Bibliography by Vishal Pahuja 11 Quote Basically, I look at the trading screens all day and go with my gut. Hedge Funds Introduction S ince the early 1990s, hedge funds have become an increasingly popular asset class. The amount invested globally in hedge funds rose from approximately $50 billion in 1990 to approximately $1 trillion by the end of 2004 And because these funds characteristically use substantial leverage, they play a far more important role in the global securities markets than the size of their net assets indicates. Market makers on the floor of the NYSE have estimated that during 2004, trades by hedge funds often accounted for more than half of the total daily number of shares changing hands. Moreover, investments in hedge funds have become an important part of the asset mix of institutions and even wealthy individual investors.” (Saha, November/December 2005, Vol. 61, No.) Hedge Fund as defined by the Investopedia is “An aggressively managed portfolio of investments that uses advanced investment strategies such as leveraged, long, short and derivative positions in both domestic and international markets with the goal of...
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