The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe: summary part II
Further, Achebe begins to narrate his mother’s story. His father was an evangelist (religious preacher), after their marriage she was sent to the newly founded St. Monica’s Girls’ school in his district, the first of its kind in Igbo land. As a special favour, she went to live with the principal, Miss. Edith Ashley Warner and other small band of English tea…
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The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe: summary part I
"The Education of a British Protected Child" is a lecture delivered by Chinua Achebe in the Cambridge University on 22 nd January 1993. The central concern of the lecture was human values. He discusses how he grew up to be a writer. Achebe begins the essay by telling about the title. "The title I have chosen for these reflections …
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Dreams by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
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shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? (Sonnet 18):summary and analysis
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; But thy…
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