Simon Armitage’s poem ‘A Vision’ is a contemporary piece based on a balsa-wood model of a new updated Huddersfield town, he had seen as a child in the local Town Hall. The poem is set out in a structured, orderly way like architecture. Five stanzas long, each containing 10 syllables, with a distinct but inconsistent iambic pentameter. The use of enjambment helps keep the poem flowing without breaking up the sentences. When recalling memories the poet writes in present tense and when describing the architect’s plans for the future he writes in the past tense, which keeps the reader guessing as to the poems timeline, past, present or future?
It also has iambic pentameter, its rhymed iambic pentameter lines, like its dramatic setup, remind us of Shakespeare’s plays and other Elizabethan drama. But it is about the inner thoughts of an individual speaker, instead of a dialogue between more than one person. It also shows the idea of a marriage and how there is standard life that people at this time followed, everything was simply laid out in front of them there was one way only for relationships to go. The writer for valentine uses very unusual language to express his ideas. He says “I give you an onion”, this is considered abstract symbolism because he is taking something that is never associated with love and claiming it to be more meaningful than “a cute card or a kissogram”, he sees them as cliché and not real.
The piece of art I chose while at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts was a painting made in the 19th century by an artist named Thomas Moran, who was born in England but was an American citizen. Thomas was born in 1837 and died in 1926 at the age of 89. The painting is called Lower Manhattan from Communipaw, New Jersey, and was painted in 1880 with oil on a canvas. I think the theme of the art is history because everything in the painting shows how Manhattan operated with all of the industries and factories producing items and raw materials for business, and it shows the beginning of the pollution of our ozone layer and waters from the smoke of the factories and the garbage that was washed ashore. It also shows laborers and how they
Sarbanes Oxley The Sarbanes-Oxley act is a United States federal law. This law was created to improve reliability and accuracy of financial documents. The official law is known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Protection Act in the Senate and Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act in the House. It was passed into law on July 30, 2002. The ultimate goal is to protect investors.
He served as Mayor of the City of Ventura, California from 2009 to 2011. The book is composed of a series of essays that map the development of Los Angeles from the 50’s through the early 90’s using intricate details with which he provides to his readers. The positive aspect of this book comes from these essays, which take us through different parts of Los Angeles, from buildings and streets we are familiar with, to background stories, as well as little known facts and historical details that make up a large part of why Los Angeles is the way it is today. The book touches upon the communities that make up Los Angeles, and starts from the first people who moved to Southern California, and their expectations. When they moved here, they assumed they would be coming to a suburban life, with land, farming, and an abundance of resources.
Literary commentary on ‘July Man’ by Margaret Avison The title, “July man” gives us a first impression of the poem being related to seasons, nature, and possibly human nature. Upon visual appearance, the poem has varied sentence lengths and the first stanza is much longer than the second making the caesura and enjambment used to separate the stanzas stand out – the poem seems disjointed. It is in free verse; with no specific rhyme scheme and coupled with the previous points in its structure, the poem emphasizes a theme of disintegration of order. The extremes in the lengths of the first and the second stanzas can be compared to the extremes of how nature was before humanity’s desire for using its resources and how it is now. Therefore to some extent the form plays a part in conveying the meaning of the poem.
Murray crystalizes these concerns within his poems “An absolutely ordinary rainbow”, and “Spring Hail”, where he perceptively expresses notions of the true purity behind the trivial, mundane things in life, whether it be through spiritual or personal enlightenment. The us of hyperboles is seen frequently throughout the poem as a whole, it is done to further emphasize the way that trivial, ordinary things can have an extraordinary impact upon responders, an effectual use of this is seen in the 3rd stanza of the poem, spring hail, in this line Murray turns a typically conventional hail storm, into “beaded violence”, this hyperbole is used to escalate the little boys distress, and how we perceive the common storm, it turns an ordinary cyclical event, into something extraordinary and ferocious, but this technique is not only commonplace in “spring hail”, but also seen quite frequently throughout “An absolutely ordinary rainbow” in the 5th and 6th stanza of this poem, there is a definitive sequence of hyperboles, “fiercest manhood”, “slickest wit among us” the effect almost similar to the last, over exaggerates the truth, but turns ordinary emotions none the less into extraordinary ones, allowing us to respond with greater levels of empathy and awe of the scenario.
Yonge -Dundas Square Yonge -Dundas Square is one of Toronto’s well known public squares located on the intersection between Yonge and Dundas Street. The square was designed by the firm Brown + Storey Architects in 1988. (1) The square was officially opened in 2003. Many critics have praised its architectural design and compared it to many great European public squares. (2 p. 170) Yonge-Dundas square or simply known as Dundas Square was part of downtown redevelopment project that initiated in 1996 (3 p. 22 & 23) Before the development of Dundas Square, the site was a mixture of a great shopping center, the Eaton center, and a mix of various street vendors, digital plasma advertising, street performers and all sorts of crowds.
Interest was so great that steamship lines diverted vessels from other routes to the Caribbean. Advertisement for the Great White Fleet, United Fruit Co. Steam-ship Service, from Country Life in America, December 1914 The Tourist’s Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala Reached by Beautiful Sea Trips from New Orleans, issued by the Passenger Department of the Illinois Central Railroad, 1912-13 At Ancon, a town at the Pacific end of the Canal Zone, the Isthmian Canal Commission created a tourist station with a lecture room, relief maps, and models of the locks. Tourists could also visit the work site by taking a special train whose open sightseeing cars had been converted from Panama Railroad flatcars (see postcard at left). The musicians of Tin Pan Alley played upon public interest in the canal. Cover artwork was often more memorable than the music and lyrics inside.
KEATS ESSAY. JP SALEH John Keats, as well as William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron and others, was a romantic poet; who wrote about the current issues at the time such as the French revolution and the industrial revolution's impact on society and countryside. The period which the term romantic was associated with was from 1789 to 1824, 1789 being the beginning of the French revolution and 1824 being the date of Lord Byron’s death. Some famous quotes by Keats are “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”- “A son of this earth unveiled this lore divine. 
O lover of beauty, thy "Endymion” “Health is my expected heaven.” The quote on his health is referring to Keats breakdown of health after he received a vast amount of criticism, related to his poems and phrases, from critics and even, close friends.