Figures of Speech Metaphor: A figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas; the analogy is conveyed by the use of a metaphorical word in place of some other word. For example: "Her eyes were glistening jewels". Colonel Kurtz: "Are you an assassin?" Captain Willard: "I'm a soldier." Colonel Kurtz: "You're neither. You're an errand boy...sent by grocery clerks...to collect a bill." (From Apolcalypse Now) Trying to get banks to lend in this economic climate is impossible.
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HUM/186 Jazmen Sears 2/16/2013 Some major developments in the evolution of mass media during the last century were print media which contained newspapers and magazines. Also broadcast media such as radio, video games, computers radios, high definition televisions, and film. Most importantly media convergence which is the merging of content through different media types allowed these sources to be available in many different outlets. Media convergence gave people the option to be more freely
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Instead of taking revenge, or getting angry with someone, we can learn to combat that wrath, or anger, with patience and forgiveness. We can see, even, where anger can be used to glorify God and be used for good. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used his anger of racial injustice for good. Dr. King
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Yiran Cheng Mr. Schaffer ENG4U1 Monday, April 26, 2016 Critique of 1950 America’s Society in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest In Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the author obvious intention can be easily seen in analogies the author draws. For example, he makes an analogy between the mental institution in the story and a small society, which is the very epitome of that period. He makes an analogy between the patients in the mental institution and the common people in 1950s American
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numerous cities. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, an anti-segregationist and leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, protested and held non-violent demonstrations and marches in many cities, such as Birmingham. After his famous march in Birmingham, white police officers arrested him and put him in the Birmingham Jail. While in jail, he read a public statement delivered by eight Alabama clergymen from local churches, claiming that King's demonstrations were unnecessary. King, responding by
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In George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language,”, he argues that the majority of political language and writing lack clarity, precision and purpose. According to him, the inability to write clearly has been a roadblock in the political process. Orwell summarizes that one must think and write clearly in order to communicate; once we communicate clearly, we can create political change. (note: Your interpretation is one way to interpret Orwell’s message. I also think that he is dissecting
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As stated in Bizter The Rhetorical Situation essay the Audience “consists only of those persons who are cap- able of being influenced by discourse and of being mediators of change.” The audience that Malcolm X is addressing in his speech are black people, because he specifically called on them to make changes. “Mr. Moderator, Reverend Cleage, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, and friends and I see some enemies.” Despite acknowledging that some 'enemies' were present, the 'enemies' he referred
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Florida agricultural and mechanical university | Best Marketing Strategy Ever! Steve Jobs Think Different / Crazy Ones Speech | Youtube Analysis Paper | | Aldranon English II | 7/11/2014 | Dr. Yvette Holmes Nelson Principles of Marketing Due Date: 7/16/2014 Aldranon English II Dr. Yvette Holmes Nelson Principles of Marketing 11 July 2014 The “Father of the Digital Revolution” Steve Paul Jobs was a pioneer and a visionary far beyond his time. He was an American entrepreneur, marketer
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Short Dowling College Abstract Dr. Scott Morris is the founder and director of the Church Health Center in Memphis Tennessee; America’s largest faith-based clinic. Dr. Morris is also the associate minister at St. John's United Methodist Church in Memphis. Dr. Morris’s ministries provide health care for the working poor and uninsured in Memphis and promote both a healthy physical body and a healthy spiritual body. Dr. Morris as a pastor and a medical doctor has written a
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English 102 Dr. Wollstadt Explication Paper Identity Revealed In the second scene of the premiere act of Hamlet, Prince Hamlet gives a soliloquy between lines 129-159, as soon as he is left alone by Claudius and Gertrude. As he casts all of his thoughts and complaints about life, Hamlet seems to give out a lot of his own personality and deepest thoughts that he would not reveal to anyone else except for himself (and for the reader/audience is to deliberately know as well). In this speech it is obvious
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