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    Joan of Arc

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    Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Only Language “Rather than insisting that it is the immigrant’s duty to learn the language of this country‚ the government has acted as if it has a duty to accommodate an immigrant in his native language. " By S.I. Hayakawa 1 DURING the dark days of World War 11‚ Chinese immigrants in California wore badges proclaiming their original nationality so they would not be mistaken for Japanese. In fact‚ these two immigrant groups long had

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    Joan of Arc in Film

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    2.       Critically analyse the way an historical protagonist (Joan of Arc) has been portrayed in 2 or more films from different time periods. To what extent is the portrayal of the protagonists’ gender similar or different in each case and to what extent has this depiction been influenced by the political/philosophical thinking of the period in which it was made OR by its national origin? Film as a relatively recent medium provides a useful insight into understanding the differing political and

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    written by Katie Alender has rich author’s craft. This book uses descriptive languagefigurative language‚ and symbolism to express a person’s ability to see what others don’t and how it frightens her. In the book‚ Alender uses figurative language to show how frightened she becomes at those overwhelming moments. This connects to the idea that fear could lead to being overwhelmed or the other way around. Figurative language helps the reader visualize what’s going on in an over-exaggerated manner.

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    Accepting one’s past is the most important step in accepting one’s future. In Joan Didion’s “On Going Home‚” the reader can see that Didion is struggling to find her true “home” and the root of her difficulties could stem from her feeling of continual detachment from her childhood home because she moved away and began to reside in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Didion faces problems in trying to understand where her true “home” is‚ which is the result of her husband not being fully incorporated

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    Tyger? by William Blake is about curiosity and asks where we came from and who made us who we are. William Blake was a very serious writer‚ but he still included diction‚ syntax‚ figurative language‚ and imagery. All of these together created the author’s reflective tone. Blake used a lot of figurative language throughout the poem. When he said‚ ?What the hammer?? he was not actually asking what made us the way we are. Another example was when he asked‚ ?On what wings dare he aspire?? he

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    In the stanza from the story of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities in order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration.     Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull

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    Watsky’s song "tiny glowing screens Pt. 2" is a great example of poetry in music. Watsky uses multiple different types of figurative language including speeding up the rhythm when the song gets more passionate. This song also has a lot of meaning‚ Watsky is talking about the scope of our world and how we can make ourselves important. Watsky starts off the song with a statistic‚ "There’s 7 billion 46 million people on this planet and most of us have the audacity to think we matter." There are so

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    In the poem Birches‚ by Robert Frost‚ he uses figurative language throughout his poem. The use of figurative language like personification‚ metaphor‚ and simile makes the reader have a more vivid experience while reading the poem. In the poem Birches‚ the writer uses personification in the next sentence “they click upon themselves as the breeze rises” (line 7 and 8). Mr. Frost explains that when there is a strong breeze the birches click with each other and it moves them up and down and eventually

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    Lincoln expresses a desire to finally end the civil war in order to reunite the country. To accomplish this‚ he uses several unique stylistic elements in his address such as effective use of repetition‚ a religious tone‚ and comprehensible figurative language. Lincoln uses repetition in his inaugural address to notify his countrymen that the Civil War will end soon. He stresses the importance of unity in order to heal the wounds inflicted by the war. “With malice toward none; with charity toward

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    LANGUAGE ESSAY

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    by the language he or she uses. In an essay of not more than 400 words‚ discuss with reference to the characteristics and salient features of DIALECT‚ SOCIOLECT and IDIOLECT. Linguists commonly use language variety as a cover term for any of the overlapping subcategories of a language‚ including dialect‚ idiolect and social dialect. The use of the word variety refer to those different forms that avoid the use of the term language‚ which many people associate only with the standard language‚ and the

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