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    The Metaphor-Miss Hancock

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    Dionne Mok “The Metaphor” character sketch paragraph In the story “The Metaphor” By Budge Wilson‚ Miss Hancock can be described as overenthusiastic‚ eccentricity‚ liveliness and wacky. Miss Hancock is unmarried and a very beautiful women that is a wacky but a fun teacher. From the story when Miss Hancock hears Charlotte’s very descriptive and interesting metaphor about her mother and notice that she might have a problem with her mom. She asks Charlotte whether there

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    Old Buildings

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    Many old buildings are protected by law because they are part of a nation’s history. However‚ some people think they should be knocked down to make way for new ones because people need houses and offices. How important is it to maintain old buildings? Should history stand in the way of progress? In the contemporary age‚ the contradiction between preserving history and progress becomes increasingly serious‚ which has disturbed and alarmed many people. In terms of the old buildings‚ many people

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    Road Not Taken Metaphors

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    poetic devices within this piece but theme and metaphor help give the story a better image for the reader. The major theme in Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken‚" is about making choices. The speaker in the poem in traveling and comes upon a cross roads or a fork-in-the-road. Here he or she much decide which way to continue traveling. One way looks as if it has been traveled many times before and is the safer‚ easier route to continue

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    Dance Discourse Community

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    that means that you have been apart of the dance discourse community for a long time and it is ever near and dear to your heart. However‚ I think you need to make what your discourse community is more known because from your story I can not tell what it is. I am confused on which one is your discourse community. Is it just being a dancer your discourse community or is the App state dance team your discourse community Or is Amber’s Studies your discourse community? You spoke about Senior Spotlight a

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    Eternal Sunshine Metaphors

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    The metaphor of the storage and subsequent retrieval of memory is also sustained in Eternal Sunshine. Once again‚ the inscribed objects‚ which Joel brings to Lacuna to help create a virtual map of Clementine in his brain‚ are represented as housing the memories inscribed to them. Van Dijck writes: “Memory objects […] robust materiality seems to guarantee a stable anchor of memory retrieval—an index to lived experience.” Therefore‚ these objects also need to be erased in the process of forgetting

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    DESIGN OF TALL AND SPECIAL BUILDINGS Struct. Design Tall Spec. Build. 18‚ 279–290 (2009) Published online 25 September 2007 in Wiley Interscience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/tal.409 AN APPROXIMATE METHOD FOR STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSES OF SYMMETRIC WALL-FRAME BUILDINGS KANAT BURAK BOZDOGAN* SUMMARY In this study an approximate method based on the continuum approach and transfer matrix method for static and dynamic analyses of symmetric wall-frame buildings is presented. The whole

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    Edward Taylor and The Metaphor The master of the metaphor‚ Edward Taylor‚ has captured the sense of the metaphor in such a way as too communicate his personal/ religious thoughts of God within his poems. Choosing his metaphors to enlighten the reader‚ Taylor has become an inspiration and a substance of resource to helping us understand God and his connection with our soul. Within Taylor’s poem “Huswifery”‚ he uses a spinning wheel and thread to create a metaphor between the relationship

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    Metaphor by George Lakoff

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    English 100 08/08/13 In “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ague about how we use metaphor on a day-to-day basis. A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is in some point of comparison. It is not something that we think about often‚ but metaphors are part of our everyday lives. What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate   metaphors used in everyday language.   Lakoff

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    For this task‚ I worked with Sophie Davidson to create a digital story for the poem Primary Education By Yvette Holt. The poem was quite literal and did not make use any metaphors in the written work. However‚ after further analysis and use of creative thinking‚ we conjured many metaphors to add a deeper meaning to the words in the poem. I drew on my knowledge of the Aboriginal culture that I have encountered on my travels‚ both the beautiful culture and the modern corruption of the culture in rural

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    work‚ school‚ or music group. Researchers have deemed these groups as discourse communities. Ann Johns explains discourse communities as‚ “a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations‚ shared participation‚ commonly held ways of expressing” (320). Discourse communities hold certain standards and actions that lead to the functioning of the group. The Bartlett City Court Clerk’s Office is a stand out discourse community that has certain vocabulary‚ genres‚ and tasks that allow them

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