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    White Oleander‚ a flower‚ a hearty-but-poisonous flower whose beauty makes it appear deceptively fragile. This flower‚ can stand has a metaphor for Ingrid. Ingrid is strong‚ beautiful‚ and self-possessed‚ but she acts as a poison to everyone around her‚ especially her impressionable daughter‚ Astrid‚ who idolizes her mother. An universal theme in this story is the that of a child trying to escape from the pernicious influence of a misguided parent. It continues to develop into a story over dominance

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    in the overall health care model must include a culture. About a specific section related to the concept of cultural concepts depends on the development of the second chapter throughout the text. Such coexistence‚ mosaics‚ such as the salad bowl metaphor was used to describe the cultural diversity that characterizes the United States. According to the US Census Bureau‚ 50 percent close of the US population is composed of people of minority Emerging used to classify the population terms in 2050 diverse

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    Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience‚ and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior‚ we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us‚ which can drive the behavior all together

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    Northrop Frye in ‘The motive for metaphor’ compares science and art. The common element between the two seems to be imagination. In science it becomes the final element and in art the starting point. In Frye view‚ a scientist examines the world which we are given to live‚ scrutinises all the data and attempts at forming certain theories which would underlay the rules governing the world. I doing so‚ he moves from the known realm‚ tangible world towards the concepts in his mind‚ therefore a creation

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    shown a historical distrust of metaphor. English utilitarianist Jeremy Bentham portrayed legal fictions as ‘syphilis’ which runs along the veins of legal arguments‚ arguing that metaphors are not valid as a basis for reasoning in legal arguments. Justice Cardozo warned that while metaphor begins by liberating thoughts‚ they often end up by enslaving thoughts. Often a phobia of indeterminacy led to a confusion of the real with the literal‚ and mistakenly linked metaphor to falsity. Despite the prevalent

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    and political forces that make up history and society‚ but they also contribute remarkably to the social processes that refigure individual identity and the socio-political‚ historical situation (174). Veenstra maintains that Greenblatt’s “economic metaphor” enables texts and their symbolic significance to prevail in society insofar as the texts’ literary devices reflect the social energy circulating in other texts that speak of the same subject matter. He further elaborates that Greenblatt’s ideas

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    Part I-Metaphors Several years ago‚ I took a cruise trip with a close friend to the Bahamas. It was very fascinating and a wonderful experience. During the day‚ the ocean/sea was as blue as the sky on a nice day. As I looked down into the ocean I saw my reflection as if I were looking upon a mirror. I find that when looking upon the ocean and watching the waves interact with one another‚ it’s a reminder of how the human body functions on a daily basis. The ocean is constantly moving and changing

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    thirty million singles and more than fifteen million albums‚ in addition to her extensive collection of awards received. Her most recent chart topping single Two Black Cadillacs is a narrative‚ more on the dark side‚ with a dramatic yet thrilling metaphor. Underwood’s song‚ Two Black Cadillacs‚ exhibits the actions of two women scorned‚ the lengths they will go to acquire personal vengeance‚ and their ability for keeping a secret‚ secret. We are introduced to the song right as important events

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    make their omnipresent looming known. These themes are constantly prevalent in our media‚ including books such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Throughout Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”‚ there is an abundance of symbolic patterns and hidden metaphors. Whether discussing the dark intentions of the drug “soma”‚ or what it truly means to be happy‚ it is impossible to become bored with the web of meaning Huxley has created. In Brave New World‚ we are introduced to the concept of originality‚

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    eaten for days” (136) Boo uses a simile to describe the character’s hard working nature. By using a simile‚ Boo characterizes the person in a more meaningful way. “An urban‚ college-going girl was a firework in the village.” (140) Boo’s use of a metaphor shows how out of place an urban‚ college girl is in a place like that village. It helps the reader compare their normal life to the poverty-stricken lives of the characters in the story. “...constables enlisted other scavengers to load the body into

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