Figure of Speech Examples A figure of speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning. It can be ametaphor or simile that is designed to further explain a concept. Or‚ it can be a different way of pronouncing a word or phrase such as with alliteration to give further meaning or a different sound. Examples of Figures of Speech Using Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds. Examples are: Sally sells seashells. Walter wondered where
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A few examples exist of the usefulness of using intersectionality can be found in the novel Lucky. Some may argue that these examples are non-existent but they are possibly just hard to interpret. Since this piece is a memoir‚ it illustrates real life encounters of intersectional analyses. The first example of using an intersectional perspective in this work is in the first chapter. The author describes her rape and assault‚ but without describing the assailant himself. I believe this was a very
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Conglomeration‚ Vertical Merger‚ Product-Extension Merger and Market-Extension Merger. 1) Horizontal Merger refers to the merger of two companies who are direct competitors of one another. They serve the same market and sell the same product. Examples: Staples‚ Inc.‚ a superstore retailer of office supplies‚ wanted to acquire Office Depot‚ another giant retailer of office supplies. This action would have left the newly merged Staples in the position as the only large office supply superstore
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the number of Euros you would get for your US dollars. This is a "real world application" of a linear function. Cell Phones Just about everyone has a cell phone‚ and most rate plans are a linear function of some kind. Let’s take a look at a basic example that is a real-life application of a linear equation. If you pay 20 dollars a month for your cell phone and 5 cents per minute of usage the monthly cost of using your cell phone would be a linear equation of a function‚ C‚ the monthly cost based on
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another and maintain peace. Although most of the people living among societies‚ DO in fact live in a positive form‚ its not that rare to find that some things do go wrong. For example‚ when a people who live within that society have problems within one another‚ they tend to turn their backs on each other. That’s an example of when the people within a society can make the positivity turn into a negativity. From the experiences that I have witnessed‚ it is easy to tell when a society is going well
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stay in motion unless acted upon by a force. The last part of that is crucial; only by applying a force will the motion of an object change. In a similar vein‚ it is through disobedience and rebellion that social progress can be made. The earliest example of American disobedience is the Stamp Act Congress. The American people were furious with the British for enacting the Stamp Act. This was the first direct tax on the colonies after a period of salvatory neglect. The tax itself was not that big of
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and toxic waste sites tend to be located in black and hispanic areas like clewiston. Environmental racism doesn’t just impact anyone mainly certain areas such as poor neighborhoods. For example the article states “government needs what no one wants maybe a landfill or a refinery that causes pollution”. This example explains because of your race 80 percent of the time landfill is going to be in your neighborhood because your not rich and they don’t care about that part of town. The article also says
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relation of numerous morals to everyday life experiences such as identity and boasting‚ surrogates‚ and enjoying life as a whole. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ Odysseus models how identity can be related to modern day life through his experiences. For example‚ after the Cyclops had been blinded‚ Odysseus states‚ “Cyclops‚ if ever mortal man asks you the story... say that Odysseus made you blind‚ the spoiler of cities...”(Homer 115) This shows that the implications that nothing good comes out of boasting
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jointly constructed understanding in the world that forms the stepping stones of the shared conclusion about realty. Deconstructionism on the other hand means something cannot just have one meaning because the meaning depends on the individual. For example‚ looking at sex‚gender and sexuality through the social constructionism. We can see these terms in way only exist because we give them meaning as humans we make these terms real because we all agree as a society its important to give meaning to these
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By definition an iron triangle is a unique relationship between the bureaucracy‚ congressmen‚ and lobbyists that results in the mutual benefit of all three of them. They work together to generate policy. Health care is an example of an iron triangle. A form of health care is the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act includes doctors’ services‚ inpatient and outpatient hospital care‚ prescription drug coverage‚ pregnancy and childbirth‚ and mental health services. My iron triangle that I choosed
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