instinct‚ as a parent‚ what is the first thing you grab? Not your son’s baseball bat or your golf club‚ what if the intruder is a burly‚ six foot tall man? Anything aside from your dependable gun‚ you feel‚ would be ineffective to the safekeeping of your precious family and security of your loving home. You grab your gun and stand in front of your family. Your spouse begins to cry and holds your children tightly within their arms. Suddenly you hear a pound‚ a crisp crackle‚ and a shout from behind you.
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Ways of Knowing: Language “Words are Loaded Pistols” – Jean-Paul Sartre This essay is written‚ to show the power of words‚ and to explain the quote above by Jean-Paul Sartre. I will relate this topic to ways and areas of knowing. Some examples might be given throughout the explanation of the quote and how it can be seen. Words are loaded pistols means to me‚ that thoughts are pistols‚ and words are loaded pistols‚ when you speak‚ you shoot the words out. The difference between thoughts and
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Jacob Stoutt Speech 103\UO7 April 6‚ 2016 Guns In Schools Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to support teachers with proper training being allowed to carry guns in school. Thesis: Teachers carrying guns in schools could greatly improve the safety in our schools. Introduction: (Attention Getter) How many of you have heard of or seen a school shooting on the news? (Thesis) Teachers carrying guns in schools could greatly improve the safety in our schools. (Relevance) This is important for you
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Figures of Speech in "The Tiger" by William Blake In the poem "The Tiger"‚ the author‚ William Blake‚ is describing one of the most powerful and beautiful creatures and praising God’s work in the process by using symbols and different figures of speech. The figures of speech that are used are alliteration‚ metaphor‚ and anaphora. By using these certain figures of speech‚ Blake brings the focus to those things that he is so in awe of. Now‚ Just to give a quick background to the author‚ we go
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The effect My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has had on my life Now‚ I know what you’re thinking‚ “You’re 17. How could you like a show for little girls?” Well‚ I’ll tell you right now; this show this show is not just for little girls anymore. And there is a lot of people‚ men even‚ who feel the exact same way. This whole thing started a very long time ago. I was five years old; quiet and innocent. It was one of those few times that there wasn’t a lot of people in the house. (I had six siblings
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Examples of figures of speech in romantic poems In the poem “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth ‚ “ the anchor of my purest thought” in line 109‚ the author uses a metaphor comparing the idea that nature makes the speaker feels safe and the role of memory and imagination as something pure. In the poem “Ozymandias” by Pershy Bissy Shelley‚ The hand that mock ’d them and the heart that fed in line 8‚ it is an instance of Synecdoche and Alliteration. The hand that mock ’d them makes reference
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problem of so many people being killed due to gun violence. There shouldn’t be as much access to the various amounts of weapons that there are. Publicly selling these weapons‚ cause people to want more. “The more you get‚ the more you want‚” is something I’ve heard many times in my life. Hearing that over and over I started to see it in action in things like this. Although gun stores require background checks‚ they don’t have crazy checks. Saying guns are not needed is kind of a stretch; judging from
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thinking about gun control lately? Have you been thinking about how safe you really are in this world including your children’s safety? Can you believe that the total number of incidents in 2015 is a shocking number of 48‚825? That is completely insane. Currently gun control is a topic of conversation mostly because of the recent tragedies. Statistics show that gun violence is raising the bar in tragedies through the year‚ now no legitimate study in the U.S. has ever shown that gun control has no
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Plan 1. Figures of quantity: hyperbole; meiosis (litotes). 2. Figures of quality: metonymy (synecdoche‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism); irony. 3. Figures of contrast: oxymoron; antithesis. 4. Practical assignment Metonymy‚ another lexical SD‚ - like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language‚ though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. Transference
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A Person Who has had Influence on my Life There¶s always a time in one¶s life‚ when a hero comes along. Somebody who has inspiredyou‚ and helped you learn what life is about.I remember it as if it was yesterday‚ surprisingly‚ as my state of mind on that cold December night can be described only of numbness and confusion. It was around eight o¶clock p.m.when my mother received a phone call from her brother-in-law‚ who told her that her sister had just recently been admitted into the hospital after
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