...We think that there should be a minimum education requirement for the meter reader job, at least a high school diploma holder, as it is for the purpose of the company to have good communication skills and well-educated meter reader workers. On the other hand, for meter reader workers with high school diploma holder allows themselves to have opportunity to be promoted or benefit on further education in the future. Also, with high school diploma certificate increase the employment possibilities where minimum education provided to fill in their job with specific skills that enables them to start as soon as possible on their job whereas its helps employer to reduce the cost on training and development. 2. Basically, Sam’s effort to upgrade the people in the organization is really good changes for the company in the future. On the contrary, Judy already had difficulties in keeping the 37 meter reader position filled as the pay $8.00/hr was high for an unskilled worker in the area, in addition there isn’t have the job required the employees to work on weekends too and she is thinking ways maintain the job applicants with high school diploma certificate for the company. If Sam insisted that Judy take on the changes would cause those current meter reader workers with high school diploma holder facing unemployment. Furthermore, it makes Judy re-changes hers idea on how to attract and employ those meter reader workers with college degree and also the salaries for the new workers....
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...order to learn proper social graces, composition, singing, and poetry. Some say that she was ranked as one of the best and most prestigious in that part of Greece, while others disagree (Gregory, 525-52). Some say that she lived an old age, while other say that she leaped from a cliff because of a failed love affair. Many legends and stories have their take on how Sappho lived in her early life, but what we do know is that she became a great poet. She continues to inspire many people today from her works in poetry. All of Sappho’s poetry was written in the Lesbian-Aeolic dialect, which was her native Greek vernacular. Her poetry mimics a distinctive verbal elegance that mirrors the rhymes of natural speech. Her metric from is called Sapphic meter in which there are four lines: three with eleven syllables and the fourth with five syllables. The verses written by Sappho often display her directness, whether she’s writing about nature, the physique of her pupils, or the gods. Most of her poems consist of monodies, which is an ode sung by a single person in a Greek tragedy. Besides this she also composed narrative poetry and religious songs as well (Gregory, 525-52). The lyrics in her love poems often conveyed deeply felt emotion, and were very personal. The speaker in her poems, most likely being herself, conveyed an array of emotional responses. Some of these responses included erotic longing, jealousy, friendship, and protectiveness. One of her most famous pieces, “Hymn to Aphrodite”...
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...history. Your Name is Rachel Corrie The poem is and autobiographical account of an American girl who left her comfortable life to go to Palestine. She got crushed by an Israeli tank at the tender age of 23 after she stands in front of it in a bid to stop its advance. The poem was originally written in Arabic. The poem uses the first the omniscient narrator to inform the reader on the life of the Subject, Rachel Corrie. One can also say that the poem is a lament. Although most possibly the poet and the subject and they are not related and might not have met, the poet uses language full of melancholy to express her sadness at the death of subject describing in details the dreams of Rachel Corrie and how she will not be able to achieve them now. This is apparent in the first two lines of stanza 6. Like every other girl you dreamed Of your tomorrow, that would never come One can also say the poem is an ode. Although it is not formal, it addresses and celebrates the life of Rachel Corrie. However, the poem does not use meter since it a translated poem and is impossible to maintain feature like meter across language (Alabbas et al). The title of the poet uses the time of the poem “Your name is Rachel Corrie” to bring the subject of the poem from the abstract to the forefront of the reader’s mind....
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...There’s much to say about Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. In what seems like a simplistic array of symbolisms, the metaphor of the poem takes us much deeper. It instantly creates an intimate bond to the familiar theme: Decisions. It was said that Frost referred the speaker of the poem to be his friend and colleague Edward Thomas. He would describe Thomas, as “a person, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn’t go the other.” (cite) With that knowledge, it gives validity to the poems multiple layers of decision-making, regret and curiosity. The speaker begins with the vivid description in the first stanza of where he is and the significance of his dilemma. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” (1), is where the poet drops us right in the thick of it. The two roads are a metaphor to the important and crucial choices we must decide in our lives. Frost vividly and simply painted a picture with only his first line. He gave us a time, place, color, and a dilemma. The yellow wood is a description of the season, giving a visual of a forest with yellow leaves which concludes that its autumn. That indication also serves as a time limit to the decision, implying that the speaker is running out of time. The speaker must make their decision before winter comes, which is a cold and dead season of progressiveness. The yellow also serves as a cautionary color, giving warning to the speaker that the decision must be made with careful and astute consideration. There is also...
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...take every word from his mouth. They are eager to know everything about him because, to them, he is extraordinary. This relates to real life where humans do not see or care for the average people around them. The peasant, like everyone else, is extraordinary even though they are not usually seen as anything but normal. The poem shows the flaw in humans, where it takes a work for people to see someone in a different light. The rhythm of the poem is also important. When reading the poem, the poem first seems to starts off steady and slow. Then, near line eight, the rhythm of the poem picks up and seems more demanding. The words feel sharp and the come out very fast and emotionally. It feels as if though the poem is taking the words out the reader mouth and is forcing them to understand. Then, as quick as it came, the emotional feeling fades away in the last two lines and instead it all feels calm again. This is important to the theme of the poem in many ways. The way that the rhythm suddenly picks up near the middle of the poem and then suddenly dies out again is very significant. This sudden...
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...on the prelude, interlude, and postlude • Linear texture with contrapuntal texture on certain areas Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song was written for his wife during their separation and then was published when they got back together Composer: Stephen Foster Date: 1826 – 1864 Song: “Beautiful Dreamer” Melody: • Phrases are fairly short • Range: D4 – F5 Tessitura: Eb4 – Eb5 • Melody is tonal minus the use of the E natural in the melody • Lyric recitative and strophic Harmony: • Song is in the key of Eb major • Primarily tonal and voice hangs with the accompaniment Rhythm: • Tempo is Moderato • In triple compound meter 9/8 • Uses dotted rhythms but not as a stutter rhythm, just as extended notes Accompaniment: • 4 measure prelude, no interlude, and 3 measure postlude • Linear texture • Broken chord accompaniment Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song is about a beautiful woman and her waking up from sorrow and pain to the peace of the words from the poet Composer: Charles Griffes Date:...
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...example for their children she is seen by "the boy next door, who'd seem my mother drunk." But then the poet is talking how she is confused, and it seems like they went to another country where "It couldn't speak the language," she is even more confused. At the end of the poem she is lacking meaning or sense to the new language and ideas that aren't hers but the new county is lifeless and artificial. The tone of the poem is sarcasrtic. There is a social message promoted where it talks about the mother who is drunk, but it could also be a personal message. The poem "Nineteen" by Elizabeth Alexander has four stanzas, and even though she did not end each line with punctuation, each stanza ended in periods. I think this was done to let the reader know she was completing her thought. The speaker of the poem is the poet. In this poem she is speaking of an experience she had when she was nineteen years old.She talked about the things she did and described in detail some of the things that went on while she was in Culpepper. I think she is regretful of those things by the way she described them. In the second stanza she says, “like a fool I’d smile.” I think she chose the word “fool” because she felt as if it was a bad decision on her behalf. Overall as the author goes from the first stanza to the last stanza she is a little more mature because her stanzas flow better together. In the first stanza she was...
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...Literary Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” 1920 by Robert Frost COURSE NUMBER: ENGL-102 COURSE TITLE: Composition and Literature SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT: Summer 2011 NAME: Kevin G. Blascoe ADDRESS: 1031 Bradford Park Road Mount Juliet, TN 37122 Blascoe 2 Kevin G. Blascoe ENGL102 Professor Terri Washer 11 June, 2011 As the world gets older and people reflect the decisions of their lives, there is one thing perfectly clear in each individual: there is no correct interpretation in regard to the choices that each person has thought and acted upon as it relates to their own live’s and circumstances. Outline of Literary Analysis I. Introduction A. General theme and background B. Introduce “The Road Not Taken” C. Re-address thesis statement II. Description of the literal scene and situation 1. Mood 2. Metaphorical or symbolic implications 3. Analysis of title 4. Rhythm patterns 5. Scansion and technical methods 6. Theme and methods used to communicate theme III. Conclusion A. Summary of poet’s existentialistic philosophy Blascoe 3 Life constantly...
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...Ted Hughes poem Hawk Roosting can be interpreted in two very different ways. Firstly, it explores -on a literal level- the hawk celebrating itself and its power and control over nature. Hughes begins the poem by writing ‘I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed’ which comments on where the hawk sits in the food chain; at the top, and also suggests that as well as being the ruler of nature he rules blind. Further down in stanza 3 and 4 Hughes portrays the Hawk as almost godlike as he includes a link with the idea that god creates and is in control of life and death. ‘I kill where I please because it is all mine’ reveals how the Hawk believes he owns and holds everything, including life and death, in his claws. The Hawk sees himself as omniscient and everything else as its prey. Similarly, the lines ‘It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my feather; now I hold creation in my foot’ (line12) demonstrate how he was created by nature and now he is in control of it. Again in stanza 4, we were told that the Hawk has ‘no sophistry in his body’ meaning that all his actions are justified. How it is his nature to be violent and aggressive (portrayed in the line ‘my manners are tearing of heads’) and that there is no animal above him who could challenge him (portrayed in the line ‘no arguments assert my right’), therefore he has the control to do whatever he likes with out any competition. Finally, the Hawks arrogance is demonstrated mainly in the last stanzas where...
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...Throughout the short 1980 poem “One Art,” writer Elizabeth Bishop approaches the topic of loss with a whimsical, almost satirical mood. She speaks of lost car keys in stanza two, then we see a rapid decline in the “funniness” of the lost items. In stanza three Bishop speaks of losing names, homes, and dreams, all things that people consider dear and try hard to hold onto. In stanza four Bishop talks of losing a precious heirloom, and property that she owned. This stanza suggests that the speaker is in some sort of financial down spiral, but is still speaking with the same light intonation. Stanza six goes yet a step further, and the speaker writes that she has lost whole countries, whole realms that once belonged to her, most likely in a metaphorical...
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...In the poem “Singapore” by Mary Oliver, there is a very important lesson of social acceptance. The poet speaks of encountering a woman in an airport bathroom stall, cleaning an ashtray in the toilet, and the disgust that she first feels towards this woman and her job. The speaker does however, express that she moves past the judgment that she first feels towards the woman in the stall. She imagines parts of nature and wishes to put the woman in a beautiful place in life. In this poem, the poet uses imagery, connotation, metaphor and symbolism to describe what she is really seeing compared to what she is imagining and would like to see. Significantly, the speaker begins the poem by saying, “A darkness was ripped from my eyes” (line 2). The darkness that she is speaking of is the judgment that she places upon this woman in the stall. She first has a closed mind, a disturbed perception if you will, towards the cleaning lady. To say that it “was ripped from my eyes” (line 2) implies that she did attain a better perception of her. The speaker knew that she should not be so judgmental towards this woman and the job she is performing. It is obvious that she understands she should not feel this way when in the second stanza she states, “Disgust argued in my stomach” (line 6). For that feeling to argue, it exhibits her capability to understand. Bewilderment and dismay overcame the speaker. She feels disgusted by what most people consider such a degrading job, yet so displeased with herself...
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...The growing idleness of summer grass With its frail kites of furious butterflies Requests the lemonade of simple praise In scansion gentler than my hammock swings And rituals no more upsetting than a Black maid shaking linen as she sings The plain notes of some Protestant hosanna-- Since I lie idling from the thought in things-- Or so they should, until I hear the cries Of two small children hunting yellow wings, Who break my Sabbath with the thought of sin. Brother and sister, with a common pin, Frowning like serious lepidopterists. The little surgeon pierces the thin eyes. Crouched on plump haunches, as a mantis prays She shrieks to eviscerate its abdomen. The lesson is the same. The maid removes Both prodigies from their interest in science. The girl, in lemon frock, begins to scream As the maimed, teetering thing attempts its flight. She is herself a thing of summery light, Frail as a flower in this blue August air, Not marked for some late grief that cannot speak. The mind swings inward on itself in fear Swayed towards nausea from each normal sign. Heredity of cruelty everywhere, And everywhere the frocks of summer torn, The long look back to see where choice is born, As summer grass sways to the scythe’s design. “A Lesson for This Sunday” from Collected Poems: 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott The title...
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...bera Gabriel English 103 Tech ID 11952210 Michael Dusek Beats by Dre: The Game before the Game The Beat is the name of a popular headphone franchise owned by Apple. The advert was produced during the World Cup to boost the popularity and sales of their products worldwide. The advert started with Neymar Jr., a young Brazilian football star talking to his father as he gave him advice before he commenced playing. The advert also featured ordinary people including celebrities getting ready to watch the game around the world. Famous footballers like Luis Suarez, Robin Van Persie and many more were shown preparing for the game as each performed his startup ritual to play in the biggest football tournament in the world. It's basically showing how everyone was preparing for the game - praying, setting their TVs, wearing costumes and makeup of their national flag, and concentrating on the game. Also the footballers could be seen in the advert wearing the Beats by Dre listening to interesting and inspirational music in preparation for the biggest game of their career. The main focus of the commercial was on Neymar, and as he stepped out of the bus with his Beat, he was greeted by a huge crowd of paparazzi and the News media. He headed straight to the locker room and talked with his father who gave him inspiration and prayed with him to excel in the game. He later walked through the tunnel and emerged in the stadium for the game. No doubt, the...
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...Poetic Merit is how songs could be identified as a poem without the music. A song can have poetic merit if it has end rhymes, allusions, figurative language, and many other elements. With the song that I picked, The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, I believe it has the poetic elements of ending rhymes, personification, and how I think they wrote the song about a man accepting his depression. First off, the reason I chose to talk about end rhymes is because when people started to write poetry, it was common end the lines to rhyme with another in a stanza. In The Sound of Silence, each stanza follows a pattern of “AABBCCD.” For instance, the first stanza of the song follows the pattern by ending the lines with “friend...again...creeping...sleeping...brain...remain...silence.”...
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...along with the destructiveness that is breaking down nature. The poem is revered as sympathetic to the audience and evokes a sense of compassion and longing for change. It is devastating to hear all the ways people have polluted our once luxurious planet. This poem allows the readers to think more clearly about how to treat our environment. If the people continue this road of self destruction there may not be to much of earth left to cherish. By becoming more aware of the environment and the everlasting consequences of our actions we can begin to take the necessary steps to preserve the wilderness, protect wildlife, and create a better future....
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