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    connection to the new world results in a disconnection from a relationship with his father and his Polish heritage in Feliks Skrzynecki. A technique used to show this is irony. Peter struggles to learn Latin but in doing that he forgets his first Polish word‚ a symbolic loss of parent’s heritage‚ this is shown in the last stanza of the poem‚ ‘stumbling over tenses in Caesar’s Gallic War‚ I forgot my first Polish word’. In the first stanza‚ another technique used is simile‚ this is used in ‘Loved his garden

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    developed by Nike to create the perfect shoe‚ just for you. To customize your shoe‚ there is an eight to nine step process that you must follow. This process is basically just choosing the appropriate shoe for its respectable sport‚ and designing that shoe to meet your personal preferences. You must first decide on what you will be using the shoes for. Will you be playing basketball‚ running‚ playing football‚ or any other sport? Choosing the correct shoe will benefit your ability to play any of

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    Law and Order SVU Where’s My Shoe? Bong. Bong. In Barbie Land District of Malibu‚ there’s only one thing that matters in the summer heat. Shoes are status. Shoes are the focal point of an outfit. Shoes are life. Tuesday June 12‚ 2012 Apartment of Teresa Dollface Apt. #126 Louboutin Lane Malibu‚ California Bong. Bong. “Oh my God. Where is my shoe?” Teresa screams panicking. She holds the button down on the remote control that powers her revolving shoe shelf system. Around and around

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    ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ The play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ composed by John Misto‚ is primarily focused on the incarceration of women and children in P.O.W (Prisoner Of War) camps located in the jungles of Japan in World War Two‚ rather than the most common factors of the male soldier wartime stories and other masculine hardships dealt with at the time. As the play unfolds Misto presents the audience with various theatrical components to convey the relationship of two women being interviewed to reminisce

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    variety of different techniques used in the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” that enable the text to be distinctively visual in conveying a point of view. Dramatic effects such as music‚ dialogue and flashbacks create the perspective of two women looking back on their memories and experiences of World War 2. Similarly‚ Kenneth Slessor uses distinctively visual elements to aid the description of mateship and death in the poem “Beach Burial”. The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ written by John Misto‚ recounts the experiences

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    Likewise‚ celebrities currently represent a shoe which many people try to fit into. Unfortunately‚ many find that no matter how hard they squeeze their foot into the shoe‚ it won’t fit. Society is constantly telling us how we should look and act so that we may attain an idealistic image. In the Victorian Era we see the beginnings of this idea manifesting itself particularly with women‚ and continuing in today’s picture of perfection. Failure to fit into the shoe has been detrimental to Christians and

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    Imagine being mentally tortured‚ beaten and starved to death? Imagine you were taken away from your family and raped till death? Shoe Horn Sonata is an impressive story of courage‚ hope‚ horror and friendship. This play is a tribute to commemorate the bravery of the women and to make their story of survival widely known. The historical context that the story has enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events

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    (Introduction - Introduce both texts and composer/director‚ short plot outline and link to question and examples) Photographs are a chilling reminder of the truth behind these women’s recounts‚ and an acknowledgement of their strength. Misto uses photographic images to achieve several things within his play. Firstly the images transport the audience to the world which these women are describing through their dialogue of memories. In Act One‚ whilst Bridie describes the evacuation of Singapore

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    US Green shoe option Wilhelm (1999) lists three existing instruments of price stabilization in IPOs available in the US. The first one is the stabilizing bid: a bid posted by the underwriter at a price close to the offer price and properly identified as a stabilization bid. This mechanism‚ the only one regulated by the SEC‚ makes the action of the underwriter totally transparent to the market. The second mechanism involves penalties to syndicate members whose costumers flip shares in the first days

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    friendship is what gives them purpose‚ comfort and strength to carry on. Though after fifty years of the War and of being separated they have no ill feelings toward the Japs but are emotionally torn by their separation. This is the story of The Shoe Horn Sonata. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is characterised by having a two act structure‚ two main time frames‚ two settings and two main characters. The two sets are: the television studio and the motel room. These are visually presented depersonalised and simple

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