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    With A View” by E. M. Forster‚ there are two places that differ completely with the connotations directly applied with them. One place being Bertolini Pension in Florence‚ Italy and the other being Summer Street in the Surrey Hills of England. Summer Street brings a negative connotation with it and Florence carries a joyful connotation. In Florence‚ a connotation arises that is joyful at the end. The connotation of joy comes with the fact that it was the place that George and Lucy have their kiss

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    it is kind of creepy. The fact that she had to live with her grandpa because her mom died and her dad could not take of her made me sad and sympathetic for her. She also got split up from her siblings‚ which made it even more depressing. 2. The connotations of the term home-house is a place where everyone is comfortable

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    When striving for success‚ extraordinary actions coined by the term “risk” are required to achieve a desired standard. When perceiving the term‚ “risk”‚ words like danger‚ disaster‚ uncertainty‚ and impossibility come to mind. What if positive connotations are associated with risk‚ such as wisdom‚ hope‚ motivation‚ and courage? While many consider careful planning as an alternative for short and long term goals‚ risks are a pathway towards efficiently succeeding highly set goals with confidence.

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    In the movie Maleficent the main character makes decisions that have a large negative connotation in the plot. She also made other decisions that contradicted her actions. People argue that she was a villain but other says she was a great hero. The viewer might think she was a great hero but also an evil ruler. The decisions she made as a person doesn’t make the viewer think she is bad but she did horrible things and she can’t change that. The viewer could say she is a hero because she killed king

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    Our Filipino Values: A Connotation to the World What are Filipino values? What is distinctly Filipino in our value system? The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life‚ our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time. We speak of Filipino values in a fourfold sense. First‚ although mankind shares universal human values‚ it is obvious that certain values take on for us a distinctively Filipino flavor. The Greek ideal of moderation or meden agan‚ the

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    the way we think‚ to they way we feel or even the way we behave. According to Spark Notes online‚ “Machiavelli asserts that a number of traits are inherent in human nature” (Spark Notes). Overall Machiavelli presents human nature in a negative connotation. In the book‚ “The Qualities of the Prince‚” Machiavelli states that the Prince should be the sole ruler of authority. He should also be willing to be dishonest to his citizens‚ tell them what they want

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    Heroism has pretty distinct connotation in our culture; we either think of running into a burning building to save someone or superman. But in philosophy there is very different kind of heroism‚ ethical heroism. Kierkegaard discussed ethical heroism mostly in reference Socrates‚ but insists that every human being has the ability to become a hero. Under the definition Kierkegaard gives‚ ethical heroism is becoming universally human. Essentially‚ this means that to be an ethical hero you just have

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    by the speaker based on the poem’s use of denotation and connotation. Denotation can be defined as “the dictionary meaning of a word” (Johnson‚ Arp 763) while connotation is described as “what the word suggests beyond what it expresses”(Johnson‚ Arp 763). The poem is about a child who dies suddenly at a young age. The speaker‚ the child’s sibling‚ talks about how the unexpected tragedy damaged those in their family. Denotation and connotation are both visible in the lines‚ “In between‚/Not one alert

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    * What connotations does the word "science" have for you? Are they positive‚ negative or mixed? * * The words‚ to me‚ have a lot of positive connotations‚ such as clever‚ knowledgeable‚ innovative‚ inventive‚ proofing‚ influential etc. Science brings positive imagery to my mind‚ it is a very helpful way of knowing‚ it enables individuals to settle complications very thoroughly in terms of experimental conduction as well as a mathematical calculations. * How are scientists viewed

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    father being an alcoholic and later him understanding everything. Looking at the poem through a formalist approach help show how the positive and negative connotations reflect the young boys torn feeling towards his father. When first reading the poem‚ I thought that the son loved his father no matter what. My eyes were drawn to the positive connotations such as “but he hung on like death”‚ which explained how even through the father smelled of whiskey the son

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