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    Fight Song Metaphors

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    motion‚" It is a simile because she was trying to explain that she was having a hard time at the time and she needed to remember that she had to believe in herself. it is also a Metaphor because it contains the lyrics " wrecking balls inside my brain‚" she is comparing things she wants to say to wrecking balls. It is a Metaphor because she is showing how she disagrees with people and others who think she can’t make it. This song is also a personification because it contains the lyrics " This is my fight

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    Building Defects

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    BUILDING DEFECTS PART 1 • Identify common building defects • Identify the source • Provide pictures‚ diagrams and sketches • Suggest remedial action • Show details that would have avoided the defect PART 2 Generate a scheme for planned maintenance and provide a building checklist to ensure all necessary maintenance is carried out on a regular basis. INTRODUCTION In this project we will be looking at many different kinds of building defects that would be commonly seen in the construction

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    Miss Gulch Metaphor

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    were obvious points in the storyline of the Wizard of Oz where characters seem to be “blown off course”‚ a reader can understand that her last name was a metaphor. In the story‚ Miss Gulch threatens to put Toto to sleep because Toto chased her cat. Because of this motive‚ Dorothy casts Miss Gulch as the Wicked Witch of the West. The metaphor is used in the movie to show that Miss Gulch had thrown Dorothy onto a different path in the odyssey. Additionally‚ Dorothy achieved a greater will to defeat

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    The Power of Language: An Analysis of Symbols and Metaphors in “Scorched” Language is much more than just a means of communication. It is an important part of our culture‚ and it is necessary for freedom of expression. It is one of the most important parts of our being. “Scorched” is a play by the Lebanese writer Wajdi Mouawad. Upon the death of Nawal‚ her twin children

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    Metaphors are a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. They also can be defined as a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else‚ especially something abstract. The job of the old man was to catch fish‚ where the job for the boy is to go on learning on what life stands for. The man struggled to do the one thing he set out for‚ to catch the marlin. Although he struggled for many days‚ he finally accomplished

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    Green Buildings

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    Green Buildings Can Save Us Green buildings‚ or energy-efficient buildings‚ are perceived to be the kind of modern buildings that can save energy by implementing advanced technologies in these days. Looking at many good examples on the internet or television about these energy-efficient buildings‚ I feel that if we have the technology‚ why wouldn’t we do something to save us from the increasing shortage of energy? It is easy and if we change all our old style utilities‚ we can live more comfortably

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    Sonnet 116 Metaphors

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    According to our literature book‚ a metaphor is “a statement that one thing is something else‚ in which‚ in a literal sense‚ it is not.” When we are dealing with Sonnets‚ it is a poem that consists of fourteen lines that rhyme. There are thousands of poems that is centralized around love and William Shakespeare has a lot to share with the world. Sonnet 116‚ and 18 will be examples. Metaphors are revealed in many sonnets. Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare is about William praising love and how much he idolizes

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    The Flatiron Building

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    Hudson Burnham was the architect responsible for creating the Flatiron Building in New York City‚ which opened in 1902. Born in Henderson‚ New York and raised in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ Burnham first apprenticed as a draftsman under William LaBaron Jenney. At the age of 26 he met future business partner John Wellborn Root‚ and together they were responsible for the design of one of America’s first skyscrapers: the Masonic Temple Building in Chicago. As an internationally prominent figure‚ Daniel Burnham

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    philosophers to realize his theory. Immanuel Kant held that there were certain instances we could have synthetic a priory rather than strictly posteriori. Andreicut offers a nice metaphor that for Kant‚ we perceive the world as if we’re wearing blue-tinted glasses‚ and so perceive the world to be bluish. In Andreicut metaphor for Kant perspective the blue-tinted glasses present one of the categories in our mind that allow us to interpret the sense of data or the phenomena in such constructed way that

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    literary critic and theorist‚ provides a brief summary stating the preference for the metaphor over metonymy by aligning analogy with necessity and contiguity with chance. According to him‚ “’the element of truth’ is the product of a purely rhetorical and ultimately metonymical‚ sleight of hand‚ therefore over turning the traditional hierarchy and deconstructing the very basis for the seductiveness and privilege of metaphor.” Barbara Johnson pays keen and strict attention to a specific passage in her critique

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