By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) 'Mont Blanc' is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's most famous poems. 'Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni', to give the poem its full title, is an ode to the mountain, the highest mountain in the Alps, and compares the mountain's mightiness with the power of the human imagination. Molly Worthen captures well the unexpected benefits of an imposed silence in the cases she describes at universities. Although it felt strange living that "vow of silence" as a teenager The Sound of Silence is a song released in 1965 by Simon and Garfunkel that became a smash hit worldwide, making it to the top 10 list in the U.S., the UK, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan. In 2012, the song was added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally important. Created by Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, the song has an interesting communicating via sound and visual symbols, few of us are fully sensitive to the reality that absence of sound - that is, silence - can also perform a number of highly significant communicative functions. Helping silence to function, of course, there are usually many reinforcing nonverbal cues, such as a shrug of the shoulders, Tekst kompozycji opowiada o niezdolności ludzi do wzajemnej komunikacji, przekazywania sobie uczuć oraz zrozumienia, co zastępuje ignorancja, egoizm i zaślepienie na potrzeby bliźnich. Podmiot liryczny opisuje sen, w którym błądził ciemnymi, wąskimi uliczkami, aż dotarł do miejsca rozświetlonego przez blask neonu. Steps for Identifying the Main Idea. Step 1. Pre-read to Determine the Overall Topic. Examine the title and then skim the text to determine who or what the reading is about. If you see the same word repeated you know that it is likely the topic or at least an important element of the topic. The topic should be a noun or a noun phrase such as .

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