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Browning’s poems present compelling monologues, which not only give us insight into the respective personas, but also make a comment on human nature. Discuss this statement referring to two of the poems. The poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess,’ by Robert Browning both provide an insight into the personalities, vulnerabilities and thought processes of their respective key personas, through the use of dramatic monologue. The explicit exploration of the balance of power between men and

Where Do We Go From Here was created in 2008 by Studio K.O.S. and Lehmann Maupin. The art is hanging in the Portland Museum of Art along with other works of art created by Tim Rollins and Studio K.O.S.. It is based on Martin Luther King Jr.’s book Where do we go from here? In this book Martin Luther King Jr. discusses his thoughts on civil rights and economic justice and also discusses the question of what African Americans should do with their new freedoms. Studio K.O.S. and Lehmann Maupin decided

Belonging is shaped by the experiences he or she encounters with others, and within the two poems ‘Migrant Hostel’ and ’10 Mary Street’ by Peter Skrzynecki, and the film ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ directed by Kate Woods, the characters’ personas are moulded by their endurances of alienation and barriers from mainstream society due to their personal and cultural differences. Through the ostracising journey to integration in the Australian society, ‘Migrant Hostel’ depicts the alienation Skrzynecki,

The My Lai massacre was located in part of the village of Son My. There were a company of American soldiers that had brutally killed practically the whole majority of south vietnamese hamlets population of the My Lai on March in the year 1968. Though we aren't for sure the exact number still it is told that as many as 500 people, this is including women child and some of the elderly, were killed in the My Lai Massacre. The U.S. Army board in the 1970s had charged 14 officers for crimes that were

I know, you are definitely not the biggest fan of reading. You probably don’t remember the last book you read for fun, only if you are required to. Hear me out though, My Sister’s Keeper, a New York Times Bestseller, by Jodi Picoult. A coming of age story, you could say, but only with a dramatic twist. Anna Fitzgerald is a 13 years old girl, who hasn't had what you can say a "normal life" from the very start. Anna, a product of Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) meaning that her embryo was

GOOOOOODDDDD AFFTERRRRNOOOONNNNN ladies and gentlemen of the Byron Bay Poetry Festival Committee. I stand here before you in my corporeal form to inform you of two pieces of prose on the theme of ‘life and death’ that are very dear to my heart, I must convince you to include them in your reading. But, why are we, as mortals, intrigued by life and death? Is it the thought of staring willingly into the unknown, not knowing when it will end? Or is it the fact that we don’t know what comes after? Is

Eternal Love is an intervention based on the poem My last Duchess by Robert Browning. By examining the poem, multiple variations to the ‘what if?” question were explored. (Pope 2002, pp. 2-4) This textual intervention was built on Browning’s original meaning of the poem, that the Duke is very possessive of his wife, and does not like her having relationships outside of their own. Prompting the question, what would happen if the poem was from written from the Dukes point of view? Browning’s original

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) the versatile dramatist used contemporary social, political and religious problems as subjects for his plays. Pygmalion, perhaps the only one of his many plays in which he points out to his audience and his readers that he has used an ancient classical myth to explore a problem that is not merely contemporary but one that has lasted through time. This myth is the story of Pygmalion – Galatea which has been told and retold by several later writers in differing forms

“ [I keep picturing] What I have to do, I have to catch everybody… I’d just be the catcher in the rye…” (page 115), a quote exhibiting the title of the book and a significant symbol. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger expresses his feelings from a tuberculosis rest home through a story of events that happened to him just before the previous Christmas. This book, although created and published in 1951, still relates to teenagers today. One theme that is clearly seen throughout the book is

“My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” are two mind boggling tales that relate in many ways. Two of which, they are both written by Robert Browning and from a male’s point of view. The Duke in “My Last Duchess” gives off a controlling, jealous, and arrogant vibe towards the Duchess which results in her death. The man in “Porphyria’s Lover” is angry and irritated because the woman he loves will not divorce her husband which also ends with her death. The poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s