The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's mind in the form of a dream. ... Looking at the poem as a whole we see that it is dedicated to the power of music and how it can transform and bring about changes in everything it touches, "The tuner who is b...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a fictional autobiographical/ murder mystery novel created by Mark Haddon, who crafts the central personality, voice, and protagonist Christopher Boone, as a unique and inimitable character who touches the heart of the reader. ...

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The man crying out the window: "A plague on both your houses." and when Viola and Shakespeare first meet at the palace that night, when William was not supposed to be there and he saw Viola dancing and fell in love with her is exactly the same as Romeo going to the ball the night he met Juliet and fell in love.) ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Leading on from the idea of materialism, Rumbelow enforces her already well-fought argument with the use of statistics, saying they have shown that "by 2004, 80 per cent of the under-12s had a TV in their room"," along with a recent finding in scientific research, claiming "exposure to bright light during the night influences hormone balances in ways that can affect the appetite"" and "scientists have linked low levels of the sleep hormone melatonin with the early onset of puberty", not to mention the effect a lack of a good nights sleep could have on a teenager's mental wellbeing." ...

• Word Count: 694
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The 1st stanza introduces the responder to a "night that covers" the persona, one which is of almost absolute darkness as it is "black as a pit" and covers the personas world from "pole to pole" in reference to the geographic North and South poles. ...

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The renowned philosopher uses the analogue of a Gadfly, he states that the annoyance of a Gadfly waking someone up in their sleep during the middle of the night is a metaphor for his contribution to society. ...

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Subsequent to Russian sound film revolution, Soviet cinema was swept by a vibrant culture called formalism. Formalism proposes that artwork's value and meaning are principally constructed from its form or language rather than from its pure content or subjects. In the light of film theory, formalism...

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Forced to keep her marriage to the Count a secret because of his aversion to her "low degree", and unable to otherwise explain Roderigo's presence in her home every night, Violenta becomes, in the eyes of her neighbors, a rich man's whore, "a prey to shame and dishonesty". ...

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Perhaps one of the most novel charity traditions carried on by the Penguins is the At Your Service Dinner, an event at which the members of the team serve as waiters and bus boys for one night, and collect their wages and tips for the benefit of cystic fibrosis charities. ...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. Can we combat a nationalist terrorism whose structures are founded on national historical and ideological roots, in the same way as international terrorism whose strength lies in the capacity of its perpetrators to have access to modern communication methods to convey their ideas and achieve their goals? And if and when several forms of terrorism emerge in the same ...

• Word Count: 10522
• Approx Pages: 42
• Grade Level: Graduate