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    Macbeth doesn’t kill Duncan as he looks like her father. This means that she hasn’t received what she had asked for with the prayer to the witches‚ which was to ‘unsex’ her so she hasn’t got rid of her feminine qualities. Lady Macbeth also uses Euphemism as she has difficulty coping and facing reality for example she calls the murder of Duncan ‘the deed’. Lady Macbeth in the first Act is immediately connected to the witches as the scenes alternates‚ Witches‚ Battlefield‚ Witches‚ Battlefield and

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    How does Fitzgerald tell the story in Chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby? In Chapter 6 we find out about Gatsby’s past from Nick‚ Tom and Daisy attend Gatsby’s party for the first time and the chapter ends with Nick’s description of Gatsby and Daisy’s first kiss. Gatsby’s true life story is revealed as is his real identity‚ “It was James Gatz”. This shows Gatsby’s more vulnerable side rather than the glamorous‚ public façade. The name “Gatz” is monosyllabic and unglamorous which is representative of Gatsby’s

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    such as the people in the story "A Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Marmon Silko. American culture not only takes death extremely serious‚ but fears it in many ways. Our society treats death in such a personal way that we have created several euphemisms to exemplify that people have died like passed away or passed on. When someone passes away they are usually taken away from their family and into a funeral home where they can be properly prepared for what comes next. One can be cremated‚ buried

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    A comparison between the three parodies in the poetry anthology ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ and ‘Come live with me and be my love’ are poems that show what the poets are willing to offer to their loves if they are to come to live with them. ‘The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’ is an answer to the shepherd’s request. In all these poems‚ the first and last two lines of the stanzas rhyme. For example in “The Passionate Shepherd” the rhyming words are ‘love’ and ‘prove’; ‘fields’

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    take an extremely harsh stance if their children do not meet their expectations. Once I got a B on my English midterm. When I handed the score report to my mother‚ she gasped in horror and anxiously asked what was wrong with me. Well‚ I am using euphemism here because in fact‚ she angrily called me “trash” in Chinese. Later‚ that day turned out to be a nightmare filled with hundreds of “cloze practices” (a type of test in which you put suitable words in spaces in a text where the

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    The Hijras of India

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    The hijras of India are unlike any you might see in any other part of the world. You might have occasionally come across men dressed as women‚ wearing garishly bright makeup. They immediately attract attention to themselves for all the wrong reasons and most often win ridicule. We are really not sure if eunuch‚ transvestite‚ gay or transgender is actually the right term for a hijra as their social mores are very unique and are almost above classification by western terms. One can attempt to

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    Malcolm Little

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    Malcolm X born Malcolm Little‚ the man the world knows as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. His journey into literacy was not one that is common to most individuals. Learning to read while incarcerated is not an experience most are subjected to. Nevertheless Malcolm X made the most of his circumstances and with the assistance of his mentor Honorable Elijah Muhammad‚ he was able to educate himself albeit through the teachings of the Nation Of Islam. The basis for Malcolm wishing to be educated was in his

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    When writing for academic purposes‚ there are a number of conventions that you should follow. A key difference to most other forms of writing is that we give references to the sources of our argument. Ambiguity is something most academics dislike‚ and you’re more credible‚ too‚ if you avoid it. Academic writing tends to be rather formal‚ and many will advise you to avoid writing in the first person (that is‚ not write using I). This makes academic writing both formal and impersonal. The reason

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    Philippines there is no strong evidence that shows the exact birth of sex workers but as the definition of the sex workers it began from the comfort women of World War II‚ the name “comfort women” is a translation of a Japanese name IANFU it is a euphemism for shofu meaning prostitute(s) wherein sex-starved Japanese soldiers forced Filipino “comfort women” to spread their legs for the glory of the nation of the rising sun. Another picture that paved way to the dawn of sex tourism in the country was

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    Criticism of Benchmarking

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    Criticisms of Benchmarking Despite all of the positive recommendations for benchmarking cited‚ there are critics of the benchmarking proces. Wolverton (1994) states that benchmarking‚ as a cornerstone of CQI‚ is based only on current information‚ and may not give us the freedom and flexibility to see the future. In addition‚ Wolverton adds that this focus may relegate us to the role of follower‚ instead of leader. In writing about a related quality improvement technique‚ Business Process Reengineering

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