After reading The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden I was a little confused about the context of the poem. After rereading it a few times I began to think it was about establishing the American Dream after the War because of the description the speaker gave of the citizen. The speaker says “ But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.”, I knew that this was an allusion to Ford Motors which had been a huge factory job, which had been what most men did. Later when the speaker says, “And had everything
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The Unknown Citizen “He was found by the bureau of statistics to be one against whom there was no official complaint.” In Auden’s poem, “The Unknown Citizen,” he describes an individual who has been found to be without any fault. This persona is described through the perspective of a Statistician from the U.S Government. The unknown citizen served the government perfectly; when there was peace he supported it and when there was war he was ready to fight. He served the Greater Community and paid
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Ever since I was three or four years old I have gone to at least one Phillies game every season with my mom, dad, or brother. I would slowly start to understand more and more of what was going on in the sport as I got older. I had thoroughly enjoyed going to these games for the giveaways they often had. My mother and I would go every season to the game on Phillies Phanatic’s birthday and always get the giveaway they had. I guess by continuously going to the games and watching them on TV, I gained
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Business Etiquette Twan M. Doan University of Phoenix Business Etiquette About Israel Israel is perhaps the most fascinating, intriguing and complex country in the world. Geographically tiny, the country’s social, historical, economic and geographical matrix represents a singular association of contrasting attributes unique among the world’s nations and cultures. Snow covered mountains and tropical sea resorts, technology hotbeds and Byzantine churches, socialist-style settlements and free
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Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: Palestinian- Israeli Peace Process: Was it designed to fail? Abstract It is true to say that there are many contributing factors to the uprising Middle Eastern conflicts. Included is poor leadership, mismanagement of available natural resources and unlawful occupations which is becoming one of the predominant causes of the conflict in this region most especially in respect to that between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Usually, conflict in the said
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The artist Banksy is an anonymous artist known for the severals graffiti he made around the world. He could be from Bristol in England. He mostly uses the stencil technique to achieve his work. His graffitis are sometimes accompagned of text. Thanks to his art, he criticizes the modern society and give strong messages. He started in Street art towards 1992-1994. His age might be around 30 years (he was born in 1974) The context Since Israel creation in 1948, a lot of conflicts took place
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Case Study Analysis: Philadelphia Phillies Question- assessing the competitive environment the Phillies participate in and suggest ways for them to manage their product and highlight their brand accordingly. Philadelphia Phillies are a major league baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one name, one city franchise in all of professional American sports. Philadelphia Phillies had participated in so many activities such as the Phillies baseball academy for boys
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The themes of Second Class Citizen are quest for equal treatment, self-confidence and dignity as a woman. We can realize it from the story, when Adah, who is the protagonist of the novel, was a child, she was not able to go to school because she was a girl and was not as society privileged, but in spite of that she tried to achieve her goal, and eventually she achieved what she wanted. Let me give you an example. When her father died, she inherited from her mother’s brother, fortunately, first
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The Gilded Age The purpose of this essay is to show how the Industrial Revolution of the Gilded Age contributed to increased problems in gender, race and class in the latter half of 19th century America. Mark Twain coined the term "The Gilded Age" between the years 1870 and 1900 America in reference to the gold gilding that became popular in the era, but also masked very serious social conflicts that arose across the country (Twain, 1996). Ultimately, with economic growth came wider income gaps
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inmates back into society. That’s a staggering number, but what’s even more alarming the fact of prisons admitting more than fifty-thousand offenders than they release. Once inmates are released, their new prison term begins; life as a second class citizen with little to no social support or social acceptance. The United States imprison approximately 730 out of every 100,000 people. We are the highest incarcerated population in the world. There are currently around 2.4 million men, women, and children
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