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    war most men at the time imagined of‚ where dying for a friend would be the most honorable action any man could receive is tossed aside as Owen shows the true terrifying nature of war in Dulce et Decorum Est. Owen expresses his anti-war view and tone throughout this poem. Beginning with the title “Dulce et Decorum Est” where Owen criticising those who were

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    is an unfair system to trick young men into going to war. A major way Owen gets his point across is through irony. The title Dulce Et Decorum Est is ironic because it means It is sweet and noble to die for your country in Latin. Then the poem talks about the flawed idealism and horror of war so the title contradicts the poem. Another example of irony used in Dulce Et Decorum Est is a simile he uses “Like a devil’s sick of sin”. This is describing how a soldier looks whilst he is suffocating from

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    experiment performed by the males and females in the Tuesday 4pm psychology lab‚ was done as a replication of the Halari et al experiment in London in 2005. The hypothesis in the original experiment was that women will‚ on average‚ gain a higher verbal fluency score than men and men will‚ on average‚ perform more accurately than women on mental rotation. The results obtained from Halari et al’s (2005) clearly prove this hypothesis correct. The results also rejected the null hypothesis which says that men

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    it is up to the reader to decide which line is fitted to convey the writer’s message. However‚ this line differs according to the reader’s understanding of the passage. In “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” the lines “His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin; If you could hear‚ at every jolt‚ the blood...The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est‚” embody the entire text. These lines embody one different theme and two technical aspects of Owen’s poem: (1) the versions of reality that distinguish between men who

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    Many say that when comparing movies and books they differ a lot. Books provide a more detailed viewing of characters and the events that occur‚ whereas the movies leave out information and sometimes deter the moral of the story. In the movie and book; Elle S’appleait Sarah‚ it can be seen that movies based on books do not portray the same events and themes occurred. Ultimately this takes away from emotions one feels towards certain situations. Differences can be seen in the relationships between

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    SPACES AND EXCHANGES : Global cities. A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains‚ mainly economic‚ political and cultural at the world level and establishing a nodes of communications. Global cities as London‚ the second world city after New York‚ is the leaders in the world as well as on the international market. That is why‚ a global city is a city who influences global affairs in terms of politics‚ culture‚ and various socio-economic means. We studied the notions spaces

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    In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” the author focuses on the hardships encountered on the battlefield. Owen goes on to make these points through figurative language and vivid descriptions of events in the poem. The author forces the reader to question the phrase Dulce et decorum est Pro partria mori though his use of similes to express the idea that honorable deaths are not beautiful‚ but tragic and brutal. This poem immediately sets up a negative perspective of what it is like on a battlefield

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    In their 2012 report‚ Ding and his colleagues demonstrate that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in a perivascular niche‚ where Scf plays an indispensible role in the maintenance of its niche. Although it has been known that Scf and other factors promote HSC maintenance‚ there has not been enough evidence to definitively state the cellular sources of these factors. Ding and his colleagues are able to indicate for the first time that Scf from both endothelial and perivascular cells are crucial

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    METHODOLOGY I. Setting and Participant The research is conducted in National University – Manila. There will be thirty (30) BSBA (2nd year – 4th year) students in National University who will take the survey provided by the researchers; fifteen (15) will be female respondents and fifteen (15) will be male respondents. These students should be shifters from BSA to BSBA. In the pilot testing of the adapted questionnaire‚ all the respondents included their name. II. Materials This is a descriptive-quantitative

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    Describe at least ONE memorable use of language in the text(s) Explain how this use of language helped you understand one or more key ideas in the text(s). In the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ and ‘The Send-Off’ by Wilfred Owen‚ he uses a variety of language techniques including metaphor‚ personification and emotive expressive language to create a huge impact on readers evoking feelings such as horror and pity of the soldiers and of war. Owen’s intention of using these effective language techniques

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