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The author behind "Victoria's Ugly Stain" uses three techniques to persuade the reader. Three out of the few techniques the author used are tone, choice of words, and selected facts to show readers that the problems of Victoria and its sewage are not a joke. While reading, it is easy to notice that the tone of the article is a serious tone, as the subject is about sewage - an important thing to manage in communities or else toilets would be backed up and drinking water would be undrinkable, and as stated, people "fail to consider the serious environmental and human health costs of not treating Victoria's sewage." The author persuades with powerful word choices, describing how bad the sewage management is in Victoria and the effects it takes

When Saul was killed during a struggle against British soldiers all hope was lost. Ruth was shown once again that hoping leads only to being disappointing. However, Rivka, another Jewish prisoner lets Ruth know that there is a way for them to escape. Ruth hesitates at first but then complies, so that she will not prevent Zvi from being free. Once Ruth, Zvi, and Rivka have fled the prison an extremely important realization is made. While Ruth is sharing an intimate moment with Zvi, he tells her that he loves her and she is terrified to match his words. From her experience, love leads to pain. Zvi shows Ruth that it is better to live fearlessly and in the moment than to always be afraid to get hurt. Once and for all Ruth is no longer terrified of her future. She has rediscovered all the hope and joy that was lost along the

“The Violets” by Gwen Harwood is a lyrical poem that deals with a woman who is going through a dark period in her life and she looks to her childhood memories, in particular, her parents for sustenance and support. The poem consists of many themes one of which include memory of childhood, the persona of the poem is going through a rough patch in her life and uses her childhood memories The persona concludes, in the present, that neither time nor death can take away our precious memories or those people or places that belong in those memories. Throughout the poem, the tense shifts between past and present as the speaker reaches back in time to a childhood memory, in order to make sense of the present. Another theme that was highlighted was the importance of memories, this is an important theme because due to the retained power of rejuvenation and reflection that memories hold. The violets is a lyrical poem and it

Throughout watching the play These Shinning Lives I gathered information about the radium poisoning happening in the 1920s. When Catherine Donahue says her first line that this play is neither a comedy or a tragedy; I was somewhat taken back by this because the play describes four women who get extremely sick from radium poisoning. Each of the girls experience different side effects from the radium, but the play further explains Catherine’s side effect which was ultimately death. Therefore, I believe this play is a tragedy.

The Violets by Gwen Harwood was written during the late 1960s and was published in the anthology Selected Poems in 1975. As we know, Harwood’s poems explore philosophical and universal ideas. Harwood herself says “My themes are old ones – of love, memory, experience etc”, all of which are explored in this poem through the use of poetic and language techniques.

Trudi is the town’s librarian and informant. She knew everything that happened in the small town and takes it upon herself to remind others of the truths they would rather forget, “She knew everything. As soon as it happened. Before it happened” (20). Trudi fell from her mother’s arms as a child and most people in the small town believed that the fall caused her “stunted growth”. The accident ruined her mother’s saneness and was eventually admitted into an asylum and thus Trudi was raised by her father. Trudi is a representation of a simple person who refuses to set back by what people think about her or her physical appearance. Her appearance has been used to give numerous warnings to children against doing things considered wrong, “… fragments of warnings, they had come together to form the essence of one woman” (27). Maybe her appearance led her to leave a lonely life. Trudi did not have a wedding, husband or children which translate to a lonely personal life. This could be the reason why she was occupied in the town’s gossip to fill the void that lack of love and affection left. However, the major highlight was the encounter by the river. Hegi used this scene to show how Trudi’s life was in general, in that; one episode of “love” could make her feel different about herself.

When I asked from my classmate more about the Mexican education system , I found out not only both of systems have been similarly syllabus in academic subjects, but also in the items like Average age of teachers, teaching style, number of students in a class, and class atmosphere they are same. Although in non academic subjects, vacation, exam, and physical punishment they are totally different. In the other word, physical punishment is illegal. We don’t have music and dance in our activates, and in Iran education system before university you cannot find test

Whether you realise it or not, the act of representation is a constant and significant aspect of our lives. It defines and influences our perceptions of things in either a positive or negative way. One poem that I particularly admire from Harwood’s collection is ‘The violets’ , as it recognises the inevitable act of evolving without our childhood memories. The art of growing up and moving forward is only fully accomplished when we recognise and accept the experiences and explorations of our childhood. Harwood’s poetic style reflects her conservative, traditional and religious upbringing, as well as her interests in literature, philosophy and music. As one of Australia’s finest poets, and it is an honour to introduce Harwood’s latest poem anthology.

Paul Newman once said, “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked” (74). There is no such thing as the perfect relationship, however, being involved in a healthy relationship is essential for a person to feel valued, safe, and happy. Unfortunately, in the situation of Kelly Sundberg’s personal essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” and Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of An Hour,” include extreme examples of unhealthy relationships. The essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” shares painful experiences of Sundberg’s physical and emotional abusive relationship with her husband Caleb, while “The Story of an Hour,” shares a rare reaction of a married woman, Louise Mallard, who explores her emotions cautiously when hearing about the death of her husband. Each woman faces their own prison created by their husbands. The two marriages represent the figurative meaning of doors being locked in a marriage. Both pieces of literature convey the theme of confinement by using the literary devices of foreshadowing, imagery, and conflict.

In The Bad Seed, by William March, Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old girl, who is charming, polite, and intelligent beyond her years. Yet, by the way she portrays herself, making her come a crossed as a sociopath who harms anyone that disturbs her the wrong way. On the other hand, Christine Penmark is quite the opposite she is a beautiful, young, empathetic, well-groomed mother of Rhoda. Throughout William March’s book the relationship between Rhoda Penmark and her mother Christine Penmark is a complicated one. At the beginning, Christine loved her daughter unconditionally as any mother would love their own. Rhoda is seen to be from outsiders looking in, every mother’s dream daughter. She was well-groomed, obedient, compliant, and did well in school. Even her own mother feels this way at first, in this section of the book Christine states “I never deserved

Mia Brooks, Mary Kate Taylor, Addison Pantaleo, Ava Cammarata, Mrs. DeFulvio Adv. Eng. II 14 May 2024 People’s Destructive Vices People's voices often lead them to make destructive choices that steer them to unfortunate consequences. In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” the prisoners are trapped and oblivious to the lies before them. The cave symbolizes ignorance and deception, in the same way, that a blindfold shields people from light and the facts in front of them.

But where the story began to take a turn was when Marla, the woman that he met in the support groups, called and stated she was in the process of committing suicide. He pretty much blew her off when Tyler took the initiative to go to her apartment where he becomes her coping mechanism by using sex. But while the narrator (Edward) thinks that he is having some sort of nightmare not understanding it is actual reality. Then noticing the tension between the two the narrator states that they Marla and Tyler remind him of his parent because he never sees them in the same place at once. The only time that they spent in the same room was during sexual intercourse. He narrator was jealous because of the way he felt for Marla, but just too afraid to express it because she was already sleeping with Tyler. This is why the tension was so high.

The people in the UK who use CAM (Complementary Alternative Medicine), are usually satisfied with their mainstream health care. The usage of CAM correlates with their philosophy; self-healing and self-care. Individuals who choose to use an alternative way, do so because they usually want to expand their options. CAM has come to identify as self-care, which plays a big role in the UK health care system, it focuses on prevention rather than curing[1]. Due to insurance coverage, preventive care is presumed to-be much cheaper than paying out-of-pocket for services that are not covered, such as, medications and GP visits. Conversely, due to long wait times with GP's and emergency rooms, the most efficient way to avoid the agonizing wait is to,

Another feature that is presented in the novel is the atmosphere of fear in which people live. In his thesis, "Bulgakov's Novel The Master and Margarita and The Subversion of Socialist Realism", Anastasia Yurchenko explores how Bulgakov's novel subverts the main ideas of Socialist Realism. The thesis is divided into four chapters. In the fourth chapter, Yurchenko analyzes to what extent The Master and Margarita overturns the conventions of Socials Realism, and he argues that "in the novel, people's feeling of horror leads many of them to a disease or persecution mania, since anyone can be arrested" (41). The sense of fear of the secret police is shown by the Master, when he says "fifteen minutes after she left, someone knocked at my window" ( Bulgakov 166). Bulgakov writes "the sick man was evidently greatly agitated by the things he was relating to Ivan in whispers. Fear and rage swam and tossed in his eyes"(166). From the Master's face and his reaction, we are aware of how people live in the atmosphere of fear.

“Story of an Hour” uses Louise Mallard’s repressed life as a wife to elucidate how repression can lead to bottled up depression. Louise Mallard understands the “right” way for women to behave, but her internal thoughts and feelings are anything but correct. This is first illustrated by the initial reaction to her husband’s death, where she cries instead of feeling numb, as she suspects other women would do. The death of her husband acts as a catalyst to alleviate her depression that rooted in her marriage. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Louise’s heart problem, which shows the extent to which she believes her marriage has trapped her. The author of the story gives a vague description of Mallard’s heart condition just simply calling it a “heart problem” (Choplin 452). This vague description shows how her “heart problem” is both physical and