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09/01/2014 13:45
TONE IN POETRY
DESCRIPTION OF THIS ARTIFACT:
Tone encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. In this video, the narrator reads Robert Frost's poems aloud to express the real meaning behind his words. Poem's are written...
08/01/2014 13:21
Only God Can Judge Me Now
Tupac Shakur
Tupac lived a tough life and faced many hardships growing up as a brave young black adult with a powerful message to send. Once analyzed, Tupac's lyrics were extremely influential to me as I could relate to his struggles. Not in the...
27/11/2013 13:13
In the not-so-distant future, reproduction is no longer a complete natural process, but instead children are engineered and born in to genetically enhanced humans. In this Dystopian world of Gattaca, people are discriminated not because of their race or gender, but simply because of...
19/11/2013 08:29
Elements of Dystopian Literature
1984
1984 is a Dystopian novel in which George Orwell portrays a futuristic universe in which the illusion of a perfect society is maintained through totalitarian control. The protagonist, Winston Smith, often feels trapped and struggles to...
18/11/2013 19:31
Tessie Hutchinson
I felt a pleasant ray of the sun warming my right cheek as I rose from my bed like a zombie rising from its grave. It took all the strength in me to pry my eyes open and lug my torso to the left side of my bed. The blood rushed up my arm...
13/11/2013 13:14
HAMLET GRAVEDIGGER SCENE
DESCRIPTION OF ARTIFACT:
I have selected a video from Youtube which displays the humouruos scene set in Hamlet created by the notorious Shakespeare. In this scene one of the gravediggers challenges the other to a riddle about grave digging,...
06/11/2013 10:12
Gertrude
Tricked, decieved, and used. I have no regrets screaming to Hamlet with my last breathe that Claudius poisned the cup before I died. The force of having to choose between the two was the first step to the implosion of my relationships. Constantly being torn between the two loves of my life...
05/11/2013 12:09
Only God Can Judge Me
Look to my future cause my past, is all behind me
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Everybody's dyin tell me what's the use of tryin
I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, cause I'm cursed
And fantasies of my family, in a hearse
And they say it's the white man...
02/10/2013 13:49
My Diary
My head is pounding, I'm on edge and I can't even drink a cup of coffee without getting lost in the mesmerizing blue sky. He's gone. He's gone and it's all because of my superstitions! I knew I would never come to love him but I didn't mean...
25/09/2013 13:35
Should murder/violence be justified in times of war?
People pry their eyes open, get out of bed, and drag themselves to work, school, or whatever they do daily all because each and every person is driven by their own set of morals and beliefs. A person’s morals heavily influence how they...
References
06/11/2013 13:54
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh9S4vLDDOI
15/11/2013 09:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXixlEy5Gfc