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    searching for confirmation‚ understanding‚ and overall a solution. To make an argument loud and effective add self to the equation practicing the skill of choice and‚ as Wallace reiterates‚ “construct meaning from experience” (Wallace‚ 16). Wallace’s exaggerations and dramatic language emphasizes the stark contrast between the quiet of “over-intellectualizing" and “getting lost in abstract argument‚” verse focusing on the loud concrete thought “what’s going on right in front of me‚ paying attention to what’s

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    Question The Stories ‘The Day the World Almost Came to an End’ and ‘The Man Of The House’ are stories about childhood experiences. With the aid of close reference to the text‚ compare and contrast: (a) The experiences of the major characters; (b) The kinds of persons these characters are; (c) One major social theme that each author appears to react to in the story; ‘The Day the World Almost Came to an End’ is a poem by Pearl Crayton. It’s about a twelve year old girl‚ who thought the world

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    Growth and Development of Paksitani Media  Pak inherited 05 radio channel son its birth. International Trend played important role in development of Mass Media in Pakistan. Initial decades of Pakistani Media’s history have been dominated by PTV. 2. Government was compelled to permit freedom of media (a)Liberalization of airway in India led to mushroom growth of TV channels (b)In Kargil war India was able to sell its viewpoint to the world and cashed on its version while Pak suffered since

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    considered uncalled for and sinful in his early time to those in his religious‚ British society. “And in this flea our two bloods mingled be/ Thou know’st that this cannot be said/ A sin‚ nor shame‚ nor loss of maidenhead” (Arp 812). The speaker uses exaggeration to accomplish an ironic and persuasive tone‚ which is seen through his warning that it is sacrilegious to kill the flea. Establishing a playful‚ light hearted atmosphere from the beginning‚ the audience can clearly see the narrator does not care

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    Literary Devices Used In The Things They Carried By: Tom Vennemann The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien expresses the importance of a story-truth‚ as opposed to a happening-truth by use of literary elements in his writing. The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war. Story-truth is not exactly what happened‚ but uses part of the truth and part made up in order to express the truth of what emotion was felt‚ which an important thematic element in the novel is

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    Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter and printmaker in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Norway on December 12‚ 1863 and died on January 23‚ 1944. From 1892-1895 Munch resided in Berlin‚ and from 1896-1897 he resided in Paris. Over the next few years Munch continued to move around eventually settling in Norway in 1910. In the 1880’s‚ Munch created several pieces of art and continued to actively paint until the early 1920s‚ shortly before he passed away.(why stop) The artwork

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    Time for national debate on drug trade By Bethany Rayner Eddie Maguire’s Opinion piece “Time for national debate on evil drug trade” in the Herald sun on April 1st 2012 is a logical piece which appeals to Australians as a whole and those who are particularly associated with drugs. This article was published after the devastating news on Ben Cousin’s relapse became a public affair and the idealistic view on the AFL became tainted. Throughout the piece Eddie voices his opinion by the use of inclusive

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    of the muggings as would be seen as something which is more common creating a moral panic. Stan Cohen also agrees with this as he believes that the media plays a crucial role in social construction of crime and deviance because distorting and exaggeration by the media create a public reaction‚ thus leading to the public labelling of certain groups. Therefore if a certain group is labelled in a negative way people are more likely to be scared of the group for example black gangs are targeted in the

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    Metaphysical Poetry: Definition‚ Characteristics & Examples: Definition of Metaphysical Poetry You’ve probably heard of haikus‚ lyrical poems and limericks. All of those types of poetry have specific qualities that allow us to group them together. Metaphysical poetry is a little bit different. The poems classified in this group do share common characteristics: they are all highly intellectualized‚ use rather strange imagery‚ use frequent paradox and contain extremely complicated thought.

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    Alek Haugen Advanced Placement English 12 Dr. Werner 05 March 2012 The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden Several conflicts are dramatized in The Unknown Citizen‚ the most prominent being: conformity of the middle class‚ government manipulation‚ and the loss of individualism to the standards of an average citizen. The speaker of this poem is non-traditional as the poem is‚ in fact‚ an inscription on a “marble monument erected by the State.” The inscription is dedicated to a “JS/07 M 378”—presumably

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