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    Kang Kyong-Ae Sparknotes

    Kang Kyong-ae, author of “Salt” and “Darkness” is known for her melodramatic realism within her testimonial stories about Korean peasant life, violation of women’s rights, advocating for social realism and detailing the psychological aftereffects from incidents Koreans faced by both Japanese imperialists and Chinese Imperial Communist Army. Despite the oppression and censoring of political propaganda from Japanese and Chinese governments, she was still able to get her stories out through undertones

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    Service has always been an important part of my life ever since I could remember. I started out helping my community through Boy Scouts and have been living the in same stylistic mindset to this day. Regardless of what I am doing, whether it be as small as picking up a piece of trash, or as large as repairing a retreat center for recovering addicts and emotional victims, as long as I am providing a service for someone else to benefit that may not have been able to do so for themselves, I feel a great

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    Comparison of Head of Alexander and Head of a Bodhisattva

    1st-3rd century, Pakistan, phyllite Head of Alexander and Statue of Tiberius, 2nd C BC, marble These two are similar in more ways than just being two sculptures of heads from a long time ago. One must think much more critically and then the subtle stylistic differences or similarities will be much

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    Rudyard Kipling, "The Pit That They Digged", December 1889.

    This is a short story, by Rudyard Kipling, about a man and his fight against the administration. The author deals with the topic in an ironic manner. We will try and show the irony in the short story, and find out why the author chose to tell us this story using that particular literary device. Irony is connected to double meaning: the narrator states something while actually meaning something else, which the reader has to figure out*. In “The Pit that They Digged”, irony is found in several instances

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    Brokeback Mountain

    Charlotte O’Halloran October 12, 2014 Rhetoric- Great Divide RD Killer Optimism The Great Depression greatly affected most Americans leaving many jobless and desperate. Wyoming suffered less than other states. However, crop prices still dropped, banks failed, and mines were shut down; all of which the main character, Hi Alcorn experiences first hand as he struggles to raise a family in Wyoming during the Great Depression in “The Great Divide” by Annie Proulx. This short story follows the

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    Analysis The text I am going to comment on is a story by William Somerset Maugham. He was a prominent English writer, and he is best known by his short stories. When Maugham described people and places in his stories, he did it mostly from his personal experience. The text under consideration is an individual story «A friend in need». The plot of the story is concerned with situation when Burton the Young was down and out, and he asked Burton the Elder to give him a job. The action takes place

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    Syllabus

    Course Syllabus ------------------------------------------------- CM 107:College Composition I TABLE OF CONTENTS Ctrl & Click on a link below to view that section in the Syllabus. Course Calendar | Grading Criteria/Course Evaluation | Policies | Course Description | Instructor’s Grading Criteria/Timetable | Projects | Course Information | Instructor and Seminar Information | Rubrics | Course Materials | Kaplan University Grading Scale | Seminars | Course Outcomes |

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    Syllabus

    Course Syllabus ------------------------------------------------- CM 107:College Composition I TABLE OF CONTENTS Ctrl & Click on a link below to view that section in the Syllabus. Course Calendar | Grading Criteria/Course Evaluation | Policies | Course Description | Instructor’s Grading Criteria/Timetable | Projects | Course Information | Instructor and Seminar Information | Rubrics | Course Materials | Kaplan University Grading Scale | Seminars | Course Outcomes |

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    Ielts: a Semantics Introduction

    IELTS (International English Language Testing System) is now one of the most popular exams all over the world. According to the data released by the British Council, there are about 200,000 Chinese took the exam in 2012. However, average Chinese did not perform well in this exam. Personally, my performance improved a lot after I learned linguistic course. In my point of view, this exam is closed related to the Semantics study. Therefore, in this paper, I will present the exam in a semantics way.

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    Everyone Worth Knowing

    Stylistic Analysis of ‘Everyone Worth Knowing’ NAME: April King STU ID: 1200015542 PHONE: 13******* EMAIL: 18********@QQ.COM Contents 1. Plot summary 3 2. book review 3 3. stylistic analysis 5 3.1 narrative technique 5 3.2 lexical level analysis 5 3.2.1 Extreme words and exaggerating words 3

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