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    domestic life of everyday working class Australians in Australian suburban settings. The poem "Homo Suburbiensis"‚ embodies the idea of an ordinary man all alone in his garden with use of parody and metaphor. In the other poem‚ "Up the Wall"‚ Dawe uses cliché and repetition in the housewife’s dialogue to illustrate a stereotypical housewife suffering from seclusion. Essentially‚ both poems target the idea of isolation‚ ordinary‚ common residents living in a suburban setting. In "Homo Suburbiensis"‚ the

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    Time and movement‚ according to Deleuze‚ are two essential elements of cinema‚ while movement is a measurement of time and indirectly represents time. Cinema before the World War II mainly focused on the movements of characters. Time can be felt only through movement‚ and that is why Deleuze coined the concept “movement-image”. Over centuries time in cinema has gradually broken away from the subordination to movement and begun to stand for itself and provided more possibilities for various movements

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    boundaries. In contemplating whether good fences make good neighbors‚ he is including all barriers and boundaries in that - including walls. He is concerned that the saying may be becoming so popular - and spouted so often - that it is fast becoming trite. He wonders whether properties are always of sufficient threat to each other as to always demand some kind of barrier. Apples are no threat to cattle for example‚ or corn to forestry trees. However‚ others may feel different - it depends on what’s

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    The Influence of American Television on Audiences On April 30‚ 1939‚ the first television broadcast was unveiled to the audiences of North America at the New York World’s Fair opening in Flushing Meadows‚ Queens. Feelings of awe and amazement were shared throughout the crowds. However‚ with the emergence of the Second World War in the very same year‚ real growth for the television was delayed and as a result did not truly begin until the early 1950s. At this point in time‚ the television became

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    exactly shown; Elaboration of the created image: single. d) black specks on a white sheet Semantics: the transference of the name of one object to another; common semantic characteristics – (for houses) color‚ size‚ (for background) color; Originality: trite; Expressiveness: the gap is not wide; the visual likeness is obvious; Syntactic function: subject predicative; Vividness: vivid‚ the reality is almost exactly shown; Elaboration of the created image: sustained. 2. А юбки! Как они выглядели! Представляли

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    Everyone interviewed in his book thought they had a cool job‚ but that doesn’t mean they wanted any of the other 49 jobs he wrote about. “The mediators were fascinated by solving disputes and helping people get along. Designing jewelry would seem trite to them‚” Rosen says. “Physical therapists love that their jobs end and there’s no homework‚ but some of the coolest jobs are jobs you’re never really not doing.” Still‚ some jobs just seem inherently cool -- the kind of jobs you dream about on

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    Part 2) Distinguish between the following pairs and give an example of each SLANG AND CLICHÉ- Cliché is an expression that has been worn out through constant use. Although they are common in speech‚ they make writing seem stale. Slang is an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages‚ arbitrarily changed words‚ and extravagant‚ forced‚ or facetious figures of speech Examples: clichés: last but not least Slang: When Paul tried to put the move on Maria‚ she told him to shove

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    TECHNICAL WRITING DEFINITION: • Technical writing is your act of communicating‚ through writing‚ whatever you think and feel about your job‚ business‚ industry‚ profession‚ and organization. • “On-the-job writing” • Traditionally‚ technical writing is mainly producing written outputs about these fields of knowledge: Science‚ Technology and Engineering. • Etymology: ▪ technikos (Greek)‚ techne (French) – art‚ craft or skill ▪ teks (Indo-European) – to weave or

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    Stylistic 1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics. The subject of stylistics has so far not been definitely outlined. This is due to a number of reasons.First of all there is a confusion between the terms style and stylistics. The first concept is so broad that it is hardly possible to regard it as a term. We speak of style in architecture‚ literature‚ behaviour‚ linguistics‚ dress and other fields of human activity Even in linguistics the word style is used so widely that it needs interpretation

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    To help students thinking both theoretical and clinical perspectives‚ the reflective journal was a crucial tool (Taylor-Haslip‚ 2009). According to Northern Illinois University defined that “reflective journals are personal records of students’ learning experiences” (n.d.‚ p. 1). In nursing education‚ educators used journal writing as a tool that provided nursing students to record‚ to reflect‚ and to integrate their clinical experiences with knowledge (Taylor-Haslip‚ 2009). Using reflective

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