which literary device they are using. For example‚ if someone were to say “opportunity came knocking” then one would know that is an example of personification. One particular literary device that many people obliviously use would be the metaphor. Some metaphors have become so common in our everyday language that many people don’t realize there is any type of comparison. Writing this essay is a waste of my very valuable time- this is something that some university students may say‚ to convey the
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The Machine Metaphor and Organizations Today The machine metaphor points out the ways that organizations are specialized‚ standardized‚ and predictable. When I try to apply this metaphor to real life‚ the first thing that comes to mind is the assembly line inside a factory. To create a product each member has their role on the assembly line and there isn’t much deviation from the set process otherwise the product may be unpredictable. In an assembly line the work is done simultaneously to achieve
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Metaphors mandate in operational form can be derived into a metaphor of zakat‚ or the reality of an organization that is charitable with zakat. This implies that business oriented organizations are no longer profit oriented‚ or stockholders-oriented‚ but zakat oriented and environment and stakeholders-oriented. With zakat orientation‚ the company strives to achieve the optimum zakat payment rate. Thus‚ net profit (net profit) is no longer a measure of corporate performance‚ but vice versa zakat‚
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essay will be examining it as a metaphor for life today. Given the limit‚ the structure is to identify the panopticon and identify areas in organisations (3 of the 5 organisations as identified by Henry Mintzberg 1988) and society today where is fits as a metaphor. This will be followed by a discussion in relation to Michel Foucault’s work whilst drawing upon various examples within contemporary organisations and society to conclude on whether it is a good metaphor or not. The Panopticon This is
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Vancouver Art Gallery Field Trip After a careful and well-organized arrangement by our English teacher Simon‚ on July 25‚ 2012 ‚ in a sunshine morning with vernal breezes on our face‚ we finally visited the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver for a tour on the exhibit “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters”. I had been expected to visit the Art of Palace for long time. Every time in the last 10 years when I passed by the VAG or in the parade gathering to listen the addresses of MP
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Othello and himself; Cassio is one the only people to survive. The play is predominantly centered around the jealousy with Iago and Othello. Throughout the play Iago uses very intelligent and sometimes even animalistic metaphors about sex‚ and jealousy. His cleverly worded metaphors accentuate the deceptive person
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understanding of it. “The Road Not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost‚ and “O Captain! My Captain”‚ by Walt Whitman‚ utilized metaphors‚ thought-provoking ideas‚ and a personalized‚ relatable style of poetry to illustrate their overall point. “The Road Not Taken” and “O Captain! My Captain!” made use of metaphors to bring out their underlying meaning in their poems. Robert Frost used a fork in the road as a metaphor about choosing paths‚ or coming to an important decision. By writing
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The question of whether the movie ‘Avatar’ is a metaphor for Earth or not is really a simple question to answer. I wouldn’t even say it is a metaphor. It is more of a prediction of where we are heading with the Earth. The story of the movie makes several references to Earth and how it’s dying. In the opening scenes of the movie‚ you see how overpopulated the Earth has become. They don’t specifically say it‚ but the battles the main character‚ Jake Sully‚ had been in and received his crippling
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years apart and both written in London. Europe was going through its Industrial Revolution during this time. These poets see London in opposite Ways; using metaphors‚ personification‚ and imagery both poets show their points of views. Blake for the people’s sorrow and Wordsworth for its landscape. Even though both Blake and Wordsworth use metaphors they use them in a way that contradict each other. Blake says within his poem‚” In every cry of every man/ in every infant’s cry of fear/ In every voice
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written by Jonathan Edwards‚ many metaphors were used. Those metaphors were used to install fear in the non-converted sinners. “His anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of fierceness of his wrath in hell‚”. This metaphor is used to show that God’s anger towards an individual is as bad as being burned in hell for all eternity. The audience for this metaphor is referring to the sinners and the non-believers. The metaphor is used in this context to show
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