Shire Essays

  • Comparing The Poetry Of Dawe And Shire

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    confronting too, but instead of showing the horrors of being forced to leave your country (as Shire conveys), Dawe presents a monologue of threatening and berating soldiers preparing for war. The juxtaposition of these two poems is that one uses confrontation to show extreme emotion, whilst the other uses confrontation in an attempt to suppress emotion. Imagery is also used in both to further emphasise this. Shire uses phrases such as "home is the mouth of a shark," "prison is safer than a city of fire

  • Scouring Of The Shire, Tolkien: Chapter Analysis

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    of colonization against the environment is found toward the end of the series. In the Scouring Of The Shire, Tolkien “... presents a powerful pro-environmentalist argument...” (Birns 84). In this chapter, the four protagonist Hobbits, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, return to their homeland of the Shire to find it completely taken over by the forces of Saruman. Saruman takes over the Shire due to the need of a new home after his is destroyed in Isengard and for the purpose of revenge against

  • A Rhetorical Analysis Of Feminism By Emily Shire

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    Anderson). Emily Shire attempts to convince the audience that feminism is a misunderstood topic by using a concerned and determined tone, by appealing to the reader’s sense of logos, and by using rhetorical explanation. In the editorial she talked about topics like women making up their own definition of feminism, people “hating feminism” because of the definitions given, and about how some women belittle men because of misunderstanding feminism. In the editorial Emily Shire uses rhetorical explanation

  • Who Is Bilbo Baggins A Hero

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    characters, however he is only a short, weak, cowardly hobbit who is afraid to leave the Shire, yet by the end, Bilbo Baggins defeats the five armies and spares all of Smaug. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is written by J. R. R. Tolkien. When Bilbo Baggins gets an unexpected knock on his door, he is called to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor, he refuses, unwilling to escape the comfort of his hometown: the Shire. Bilbo joins the excursion with Gandalf and the elves and soon they are met by numerous

  • Comparing Warsan Shire's Poems 'Home And Ugly'

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    Warsan Shire’s poetry undertakes exploring the values and attitudes of their time, through her exploration of values and attitudes; she challenges social discourse around controversial themes. Warsan Shire is a Somalia born British poet, due to being the daughter of refugees she reflects her poetry on trauma and the consequences if discrimination and equality that most refugees have endured through their experiences. The poems “Home” and “Ugly” are remarkably effective in exploring perspectives that

  • Home By Warsan Island Poem Analysis

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    family. While the poem “Home” by Warsan Shire presents how the character is

  • Identity In Shout Short Story

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    injury causing financial issues at home. Creating frustration that he releases on his family. While the poem “Home” by Warsan Shire presents how the character is

  • Middle Earth: The Lord Of The Rings

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    Earth, specifically the Shire, would be an ideal place to live. The Shire is where the small, hairy men and women called hobbits mostly reside. The Shire is farmland that is full of cozy holes in which the hobbits live. It is generally safe and carefree there and for the most part, the hobbits all get along with each other. The main hobbit

  • Relationships In The Great Gatsby, By J. R.

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    you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” (Tolkien pg 82). Frodo takes stock in this information because of his close bond with Bilbo, who is his cousin, and uses the information as an excuse to never leave the Shire. Despite this warning, however, Frodo “sometimes thought of going away, but I...as a kind of holiday, a series of adventures like Bilbo’s or better, ending in peace” (pg 69) illuminating the fact that Frodo's positive relationship with Bilbo as a role

  • Selection Criteri Displays Resilience And Intelligence

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    Resilience and courage Working for the Greater Hume Shire, I displayed resilience and courage on a daily basis. I undertook two roles, customer service officer and Engineering Administrative Support. This required me to be adaptable and multi-skilled with the ability to change priorities at a moment’s notice. I worked through challenging issues, coming up with an appropriate solution. An example is when I found a major client had not made any payment to the shire. After extensive investigation, I found that

  • Bilbo's Journey In The Hobbit

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    the land of Middle Earth with 13 dwarves by a wizard named Gandalf. The purpose of this journey is to reclaim the treasure that was taken from the dwarves by an evil dragon named Smaug. Smaug lives in the Lonely Mountain, which is far away from the Shire, where Bilbo lives. Over the course of their journey, Bilbo encounters many interesting characters

  • Determination In Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

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    He knows that the ring is going to bring great danger to Shire since his Uncle, Bilbo Baggins had put on the ring. Frodo knows this because Gandalf the Grey told him that whenever someone puts on the ring, the Ringwraiths from Sauron are drawn to the rings power. Frodo shows great determination when he is put in charge of bringing the ring out of Shire and to Bree where Gandalf would take care of it from there. Frodo knows he is not exactly qualified for

  • When Does Bilbo Show Courage In The Hobbit

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    those around him despite his initial reluctance to embark on a dangerous journey. According to the lore of Middle-Earth, the Hobbits are a race that loves to live a quiet and peaceful life. They live in the Shire, the homeland and safe heaven of Hobbitkind. Most of the Hobbits will not go out of Shire. Hobbits that love to travel or adventure look like black sheep among the other Hobbits. And Bilbo, too. He displays the stereotypical traits assigned to hobbits, such as a love of food, smoking from

  • The Hobbit Theme Essay

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    start to take place very early on in the story and only becomes evident in particular events and towards the end of the story. The first place in the book where this theme is present is within the first few chapters when Bilbo breaks away from the Shire accepted way of life and takes upon an adventure with an old wizard and a company of dwarves; which even if bilbo does not realise, going on this expedition will in return supply him with the want and desire to take part in more adventures, and enough

  • Stereotypes In A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    they? Yes, our world has created new technologies, but we still have one thing in common; negative stereotypes.In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare,the video “Slap Her”, and the poem “For women who are ‘difficult’ to love” By Warsan Shire all three texts use negative stereotypes in a negative way because they all describe women negatively. In A Midsummer Night's Dream the negative stereotype men have authority and women are powerless is used in a negative way. In the book Egeus

  • J. R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings

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    Many years ago, an author, J.R.R Tolkien created the best fantasy books ever made. The book trilogy, The Lord of the Rings (containing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), is set in a world created by Tolkien, called Middle Earth. The books are about a small hobbit on a big quest. The main character, Frodo, inherits a magical ring that could cause the end of the world. With a fellowship of man, hobbit, elf, and dwarf alike, Frodo goes on a quest to Mt. Doom to

  • Imperialism In Lord Of The Rings

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    J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) is a difficult (often cumbersome) read and a problematic text to criticize. The novel1 has elicited contradictory responses, from ecstatic admirations for its broad, epical sweep to supercilious dismissals for its jejune simplifications. A sequel to the more enjoyable The Hobbit: There and Back Again (1937), The Lord of the Rings invites us to dive deeper to appreciate the multiple meanings hidden underneath. The most popular, among these multiple

  • Bilbo Baggins In 'The Hobbit, Or There And Back Again'

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    Cover page Abstract Introduction "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" is a fantasy novel written by English author J.R.R. Tolkien. It tells about adventures of a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins, who was introduced by wizard Gandalf to thirteen dwarves that will accompany him in the journey. The goal of their quest is to reclaim the Lonely Mountain - home of the dwarves - with its treasures in it, which is now guarded by a dragon Smaug. The book's success encouraged the authour to write a sequel which

  • Essay On The Grey Havens

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    diversely different drafts, before neglecting to include either of them ( Tolkien 121). The more recent of the two epilogues reads as a definitive wrap up of both the bulk of the quest narrative, and the final portion of the novel that takes place in the Shire. This epilogue takes place nearly 20 years after Sam’s trip to Mordor and consists of him talking to his eldest daughter about an upcoming visit from King Aragorn. A large portion of this narrative is set up as a series of questions and answers, through

  • Office Of Sheriff Essay

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    into existence around the 9th century. This makes the sheriff the oldest continuing, non-military, law enforcement entity in history. Early in England the land was divided into geographic areas between a few individual kings, they were called shires. Each shire there was an individual called a reeve, meaning