...grammar later One of the best written works by Oscar Wilde, an Irish playwright, poet and author of many short stories as well as novels, is The Happy Prince published in 1988 as a series of children story. Although aimed for kids, the story addressed issue concerned in adult society which deems it to be worthy for discussion. This essay shall provide the background summary of the story, literary analysis regarding the symbol of statue of the happy prince, and thematic analysis relating to the contribution the price offered his people and a reflection of lesson learnt from the story. Paragraph 2: Summary (100 words) change grammar later In the story, when the happy prince was alive, he lived in a palace where sorrow was not allowed to enter. However, when he died, he saw all the misery of the city on a tall column as a statue. A swallow who came from afar stays with the statue of the happy prince and helped the poor with the ruby, the sapphires and the gold covering of the happy prince upon the happy prince’s request. At the end, the swallow died frost. The heart that was made of leaden of the happy prince also broke. Paragraph 3: 150 words. Change grammar later The statue of the Happy Prince in the story symbolized that outward beauty was nothing; it was just a show. The real beauty was the love and sacrifice. The Happy Prince had a lead heart, but this heart was full of sympathies for the poor and the needy. He sacrificed his eyes and beauty just to help them. Now without...
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...made of two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glows on his sword-hilt. Everybody likes the happy prince because they are glad that there is someone who is always happy. One time a little Swallow who was on the way to Egypt ,wants a place to sleep comes to the statue. When he wantsto sleep under the statue , he notices that the Happy Prince is crying. When the Swallow asks why he is crying he answers that he is sad because there are so many unhappy people in the country he wanted to help. So the little Swallow stays the night with the happy prince and takes the red ruby from the Prince’s sword shield to the pour people. The next day the Swallow wants to fly to Egypt but the prince asks him to stay and take the sapphires from his eye to the pour. That happens also the next day, but now the Happy Prince is blind and the Swallow wants to stay with him. Finally the winter comes and the little Swallow dies, but he comes in heaven together with the Happy Prince. The Text Oscar Wilde My Opinion: I think the story is worth reading because it’s easy to understand. I really liked the story because the Prince and the Swallow didn’t think of themselves and helped the poor. They show how we should behave when someone is in misery. Please write your opinion here: Elisabeth: I think that the story is very nice to read and easy to understand. I like the way,the happy prince helps and I like the swallow. Sandra: The story is nice to read. I like it. Nice that there...
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...Preparing for the IELTS test with Holmesglen Institute of TAFE The writing component The IELTS writing test takes one hour. In this time you are required to complete two tasks. TASK ONE is a report based on some graphic information provided on the question paper. With few exceptions, the graphic information will come in one of five forms – a line graph, bar graph, pie chart, table or diagram illustrating a process. You are required to describe the information or the process in a report of 150 words. This task should be completed in 20 minutes. It is important that you are familiar with the language appropriate to report writing generally and to each of the five types of report. TASK TWO is an essay based on a topic given on the question paper. You should write at least 250 words in 40 minutes. It is important that you keep within the advised time limits as Task Two carries more weight in your final band score than Task One. Remember that illegible handwriting will reduce your final score. Writing task one: single line graph Task description You will be given a graph with a single line. Your task is to write a 150 word report to describe the information given in the graph. You are not asked to give your opinion. You should spend around twenty minutes on the task. Task one is not worth as many marks as task two and so you should make sure that you keep within the recommended twenty minute time frame. What is being tested is your ability to: ♦ objectively describe the information...
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...TITLE V Major Assignment Major Assignment The Happy Prince The Happy Prince Lecturer: Saint Metrey Student: Yeng Vithavath Class: M2.5 Academic Year: 2014-15 Lecturer: Saint Metrey Student: Yeng Vithavath Class: M2.5 Academic Year: 2014-15 Submission Date: 23/12/2014 Word Count: 575 Submission Date: 23/12/2014 Word Count: 575 The Happy Prince (By Oscar Wilde) The Happy Prince is a story written by author Oscar Wilde and was published in 1888. The story talks about a statue that can talk and then asks a swallow to do tasks for him. It is a simple yet meaningful story; therefore, this essay will first be about the summary of the story then it will discuss the symbolism of the statue of the Happy Prince, next it will show the contribution of the statue in the story, and the last paragraph will be the reflection of the whole story. The story took place in a city where the statue of the happy prince, which was coated in gold, was placed in the middle of the city. One day a little swallow went to the city and then stayed on the statue. Night after night, the statue of the Happy Prince would ask the swallow to take the valuable things on his body and give them to the poor people until the statue had no jewel left. In the end, the swallow died, the statue was removed, and the swallow’s body and the statue’s heart were taken to heaven. When the prince was still alive, he lived a happy life without knowing any misery outside his castle...
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...THE HAPPY PRINCE Literature study is a book consists of many useful short stories. Each of them is very beneficial for the reader. One of the stories in that book that caught my attention was “The Happy Prince”. This short story was written by Oscar Wilde in 1888. In this story, it talks about the generosity of a talking statue. I really love reading this book. In addition, I am going to analyze the whole story: a summary of the story, an analysis of a symbol of happy prince, and my idea toward the contribution of the happy prince toward his people. Happy prince was once a human whose life was full of exhilaration and happiness. He never gets to see what life like beyond that thick wall of his palace. When he died, they built him a status and put him up high in the middle of the town. There, he saw a lot of misery, starvation, and poverty. Next he made a friend with a swallow, whose friends are leaving to Egypt to escape the frozen season, and begged him to be his massager. The swallow continues to help the happy prince doing the charity job by talking the valuable stones and gold from the happy prince status—the happy prince status was made of god and rare sapphires. The little bird continues to take those priceless stuffs from happy prince status to help the poor until there were none left. Next, the winter strive, the swallow died because of the cold. Then, the major of the town order his servants to remove the happy prince status from his place since the status was not...
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...Definición Keynesiano. Teoría económica basada en las ideas. Corriente de pensadores que siguieron el pensamiento de John M. Keynes. El modelo Keynesiano se basó en la consideración de la renta nacional como dependiente de la demanda efectiva. En consecuencia, el ingreso pasaba a depender de los componentes de dicha demanda. A su vez, el primero estaba determinado por la renta personal que se destina al mismo, mientras que la segunda estaba influenciada por la propensión a invertir, el multiplicador de la inversión y la relación entre la eficiencia marginal del capital y el tipo de interés. El tipo de interés toma su valor de equilibrio entre la preferencia por la liquidez y la cantidad de dinero en circulación. Cuanta más alta fuera la diferencia entre la eficiencia marginal del capital y el tipo de interés, mayor será la propensión a invertir. De este modelo se desprendía pues, como medidas para la disminución del paro permanente involuntario, la adopción de una serie de políticas económicas intervencionistas, lo que provocaría un descenso del tipo de interés, aumento en el gasto publico especialmente en inversión en infraestructuras, con el fin de potenciar la demanda efectiva, una activa redistribución de la renta y, por último, una política comercial proteccionista, para defender los empleos de las industrias nacionales. Algunas características de esta corriente pueden resumirse de la siguiente manera. Características. • Es una teoría macroeconómica. • Su teoría es...
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...HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde The prince in the story is no living prince. He is the statue of a dead prince decorated with gold leaves and precious stones. He is known as the Happy Prince because there is a smile on his lips. But the smile gradually gives way to tears. The Happy Prince cannot help crying over the scenes of misery in the houses of the poor. He decides to help them with his gold leaves and costly stones. The little swallow acts as his messenger, and he gives away all his wealth. The Swallow was on his way back to his homeland when the prince had detained him to help the poor. He still wished to go back but now it was too late. The intense cold killed him. Thus the little swallow lost his life in helping the poor. His death broke the prince’s heart. So the swallow and the prince perished for a noble cause. But their death was not the end. It made them immortal. That is why the angel selected the dead swallow and the lifeless heart of the prince as the noblest things on earth. Haircut by Ring Lardner The narrator of the story is the town barber, who talks about a man by the name of Jim Kendall. Jim was a man who played cruel pranks on children and adults. Jim goes hunting with a 10-year old mentally handicapped child. When it is discovered that Jim was shot, many people in the town believed that it was an accident, although the author of the story indicates that the shooting was planned by the child, who had been tormented by Jim and wanted to get revenge...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of the Study In our daily lives, we actually have gone through a lot of incident whether it is good or bad. However, we hardly draw the conclusion of the incident we have been through. We might fail to reach something we have been wanting so long, though the thing we desire is well-planned, yet the result is not like what we expect before. The point is that every time we are facing a problem, we should really pay attention and take the message of it. There will always be sort of a lesson in every single difficulty. Not only shall we find in our daily lives, but we could also find it while reading literary works, watching movies and suchlike. Reading literary works has interesting adventure in which an extra attention is needed to figure it out. For some people, reading novel or short story is more than just about looking for the beautiful story or the greatnesses of the story. Yet, there are some people who only read novel without a deep understanding. Usually the readers will be facing some questions which have something to do with the author’s intention making story. Common question coming out automatically after reading novel or short story is such what is the author trying to tell us in the story or what the moral lessons of the story is. According to Nurgiyantoro (1995:66) to know of what the author feels like to convey in the story is the main task of reading fiction work, it is either Novel or Short story. As a matter...
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...branch, and keeps flying around near the tree. Her sound was sharp, long, and seems like she’s longing for someone. She sounded like she is singing to someone to come to her. The bird seem painfully isolated comparing to the fulfilled moon with it’s company of sparkling stars. Looking at the sparrow, Elizabeth felt the dryness. Then came a male sparrow. It flew up to the tree where the other sparrow was. Elizabeth couldn’t hear anymore frustrating sound from the sparrow. The two sparrows started to fly around together for a while. Then I could see that they are tired as they have been flying around and playing. So they flew on a branch of the tree. They started packing each other’s neck and sat there on the branch. It seems like they are so happy to be together, and then later they started to cuddle to each other. Watching at that scene, just made Elizabeth realize she was just like the sparrow. She saw the happiness in the sparrow...
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...kind of kryptonite like a little pea? Did my prince get turned into a frog and he's now hiding in some creepy bog waiting for me to find him? I don't even know how to swim. What's the use of dreaming anymore. No one is beating down my door. I need to be some kind of damsel in distress to get some attention I guess. Where's my Prince Charming? Is there something about me that's alarming? All I get is Prince Pampered who spends his whole life hampered by being royally stuck up. Or there's Prince Never Grow Up who is way too pretty in his curls. All these boys make me want to hurl. Why can't I find a man sized prince who will sweep me off my feet and take me to far away lands. He will hold me with his strong hands and devote his life to me. Is that what I want? Is that what I dream about? If I don't get it, will I forever pout and cry because I didn't get my way? I just want to feel special. I want to feel like they care. I want them to bravely face any challenge for me. Enter my heart if you dare. Lock me in a tower. Make me your precious flower. I want you to battle your way against dragons to win my love today. Quit playing with your toys and prove your worth to me, boys. I promise I will be the perfect princess for you to please. I will be good to you and I won't be a tease... much. Who am I kidding? I'm chasing a dream. They say I got everything in life but it is nothing it seems. Where is my happy...
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...Sleeping Beauty Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a beautiful baby daughter. She asked all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening, but unfortunately forgot to invite one of them, who was a bit of a witch as well. She came anyway, but as she passed the baby's cradle, she said: "When you are sixteen, you will injure yourself with a spindle and die!" "Oh, no!" screamed the Queen in horror. A good fairy quickly chanted a magic spell to change the curse. When she hurt herself, the girl would fall into a very deep sleep instead of dying. The years went by, the little Princess grew and became the most beautiful girl in the whole kingdom. Her mother was always very careful to keep her away from spindles, but the Princess, on her sixteenth birthday, as she wandered through the castle, came into a room where an old servant was spinning. "What are you doing?" she asked the servant. "I'm spinning. Haven't you seen a spindle before?" "No. Let me see it!" The servant handed the girl the spindle ... and she pricked herself with it and. with a sigh, dropped to the floor. The terrified old woman hurried to tell the Queen. Beside herself with anguish, the Queen did her best to awaken her daughter but in vain. The court doctors and wizards were called, but there was nothing they could do. The girl could not be wakened from her deep sleep. The good fairy who managed to avoid the worst of the curse came too, and the Queen said to her, "When will my daughter waken?" "I don't...
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...Major themes in the Prince Statesmanship & Warcraft Machiavelli believes that good laws follow naturally from a good military. His famous statement that “the presence of sound military forces indicates the presence of sound laws” describes the relationship between developing states and war in The Prince. Machiavelli reverses the conventional understanding of war as a necessary, but not definitive, element of the development of states, and instead asserts that successful war is the very foundation upon which all states are built. Much of The Prince is devoted to describing exactly what it means to conduct a good war: how to effectively fortify a city, how to treat subjects in newly acquired territories, and how to prevent domestic insurrection that would distract from a successful war. But Machiavelli’s description of war encompasses more than just the direct use of military force—it comprises international diplomacy, domestic politics, tactical strategy, geographic mastery, and historical analysis. Within the context of Machiavelli’s Italy—when cities were constantly threatened by neighboring principalities and the area had suffered through power struggles for many years—his method of viewing almost all affairs of state through a military lens was a timely innovation in political thinking. Goodwill & Hatred To remain in power, a prince must avoid the hatred of his people. It is not necessary for him to be loved; in fact, it is often better for him to be feared. Being...
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...been viewed as evil throughout the centuries , but as most business leaders and politicians agree Machiavelli has only defined the physics of power (“Great Book” t.v) The Prince is an extremely practical book because it does not tell about the ideal leader for an ideal society but it explains the readers what actions and qualities have enabled the prince to best rule a certain principality no matter what the circumstances are. He recommends the characteristics of a prince that he must posses is that it is better to be stingy than generous .Many people might disagree with this because a leader is expected by many to be helpful to everyone , the one who is approachable and the one who is not feared but loved. But in Machiavellian’s view he states that “it is better to be feared than to be loved because according to him love is something that is deceitful and inconsistent” because feelings change .. Being feared on the other hand is consistent and person who is intended to follow the rules of the land will not only be expected to be obliged to follow the rules but give their hearts devoted wholly on submitting the higher authority because a person is naturally afraid of punishments. It suggests that a leader must be assertive in manner because it bring people to have fear in you Still , even if a prince is feared and not loved he must be at any rate avoid hatred, he must also abstain dishonesty and taking the property of others and of his...
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...Love is when you see the values in someone not the aspects and how much money their earning. We see that in frozen “Kristoff is the main love interest of Princess Anna. Kristoff isn't a real prince.”(http://disneyprincess.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Disney_Princes) Also Mr. Froggy “is an annoyance to Tiana until they spend more time together as frogs, and he becomes her love interest and later husband.” ”(http:/disneyprincess.wikia.com/wiki List_of_Disney_Princes)We see that this princes did not see how money this men had or didn't care if they were princes. This focus on getting to know them like Anna she got to spent time with him getting know better and see the way he is with his friend meanwhile try to rescue her sister and Tiana same meanwhile she was frog she fell in love with the way he...
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...Middlesbrough Castle Once upon a time there was a prince who lived in Middlesbrough Castle with his father who was the king. The prince really wanted a princess he could marry, but he just couldn’t find the right one. The king was very unhappy, that his only son who had to perpetuate his line couldn’t find a proper princess. The prince was about to give up until his father told him to throw a great party for all princesses in the whole world. The prince did what his father demanded and even though there were hundreds of beautiful princesses he still couldn’t find a princess. He thought that there was something wrong with all of them. They were either too tall, too thin, too thick or too ugly. The prince thought that he had done everything he could now. His father was about to give up when the prince suddenly received a letter. The letter was from a princess called Viola who lived far away on a small island. In the letter she wrote that she was trapped in an old castle on the small island, because she had been cursed. The prince was the only one who could save the princess. The prince left the castle and his father immediately, because this could be his only chance to meet the love his life. The prince went for 3 days and 3 nights in the forest until he suddenly met a little fairy. She asked him where he was going and he answered that he was going to an island to rescue a princess. The fairy told him that he had to sail in a boat on the ocean to get to the island, but he had...
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