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    pale face” and “breathing in snowflakes” establishing that she is unwell and doesn’t see the sun much. By including this the audience is able to establish that there is something wrong as this usually symbolises illness. Also the word snowflakes is used as a metaphor for cocaine and allows the audience to understand her drug addiction without it being explicitly said. The 6th Stanza also highlights her means of income‚ “Long nights‚ strange men” which indirectly states that prostitution provides her

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    imprisonment (Mendes‚ 1999). American Beauty explores the breakdown of a suburban family man whose life journeys from self loathing and emptiness to freedom and liberation but at the ultimate cost of his life. Mendes effectively employs a range of techniques to help convey the meaning of this film such as set design‚ camera angles‚ colour and soundtrack. Cinema often uses structured set design and camera angles to convey meaning to an audience. Throughout American Beauty‚ Mendesʼ use of set design

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    The Color Purple is a biased‚ unbalanced view into the life of black women during the early to mid-nineteen hundreds. While it is obvious that a woman who in her own right is racist‚ chauvinist‚ and ignorant to the way that the world really works wrote the novel‚ it has been requested that the class write a paper on the story. Whilst this writer does not agree with this novel or anything that Alice Walker thinks or feels‚ obligingly this paper is been written. The Color Purple and the Joy Luck Club

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    Employee motivation questionnaires or surveys Staff surveys are usually very helpful in establishing whether staffs in your company are motivated and therefore performing to best effect. Aside from the information that questionnaires reveal‚ the process of involving and consulting with staff is hugely beneficial and motivational in its own right‚ (see the ’Hawthorne Effect’). Whilst your survey will be unique to your company‚ your staff issues‚ your industry and culture‚ some useful generic guidelines

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    The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker‚ is a very intense book to read. By intense‚ I mean it is a book touching very difficult and hard aspects of life of a poor‚ black oppressed woman in the early twentieth century. Walker does social criticism in her novel‚ mostly criticizing the way black women were treated in the early twentieth century. Walker uses the life experiences of Celie to illustrate her social criticism. The Color Purple is not written in the style

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    Marketing – Unit 3 Task 1 Describe how marketing techniques are used to market products in these 2 organizations. A definition of marketing : The management process through which services move from concept to the customer. It includes the four elements called the 4 P’s of marketing: 1. Product - identification‚ selection and development. 2. Price - determination of its price. 3. Place - selection of a distribution channel to reach the customer. 4. Promotion - development and implementation of

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    and his everyday battle between himself and who he really wants to be. Regan’s life orbits around Luna. In The Color Purple‚ Nettie motivates Celie to speak up for herself while in The Lost Weekend‚ Wick fails at an attempt to help Don end his alcoholism streak. All three novels displays‚ behind a frail gay character‚ is a strong heterosexual sibling. In The Color Purple‚ Celie were used and abused by her step-children and husband. Celie were ready to give

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    The Color Purple and one other prose text from Literature and Gender‚ with a detailed examination of how the form of each fiction contributes to the impact of the narratives. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple has a rich array of female characters to examine when answering the above question. I feel that Louisa May Alcott’s short story‚ "Behind A Mask" offers an equally rich array of female characters to consider. Through the course of this essay I will show how Walker and Alcott used different

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    The Color Purple I choose to read the book “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker. The book talks about the life of an African-American lady by the name of Celie that lived in the southern United States in the late 1930s. It addresses the numerous issues that included the low ranking of American social culture. In the book it talks about how she wrote books to God because the father she had would beat her and rape her. He also got her pregnant and then she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Her father

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    Life is not always fair‚ and in The Color Purple the main character‚ Celie‚ writes out her brutal life experiences in the form of letters to God and her sister Nettie. Set in the early 1900’s of the deep South‚ Alice Walker details the inspiring redemptions that embody the power‚ for black women especially‚ to be heard and respected during a time period where racial and gender discrimination were at its peak. Cause and effect‚ dialogue‚ and characterization support the underlying theme that Alice

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