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    many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. Except for a few examples‚ all his poems are about social injustice in America. The somber tone of his writing often reflected his mood. Race relations were present in almost his whole career‚ following him from his first poem to his last. The poem "Doorknobs" was written in 1961 after his subpoena to appear before Senator McCarthy for subversive activities. Although many other poems by Hughes deal with prejudice‚ race‚ or

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    What is technical language? Scientists have tried to come up with a definition since the beginning of the 18th century‚ therefore many interpretations have been made. They started to discuss terms and vocabularies in order to define technical language. A couple of years later they emphasized the importance of text and nowadays they are talking about text from a communication aspect. The Anglo-Saxon society regarded a language to be a system‚ therefore they found little interest in technical

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    Courage and hope is the key to survival‚ according to Gabriella. Gabi is the protagonist of the novel‚ “Tree Girl”‚ by Ben Mikaelsen. She endures a tough loss of her siblings‚ Julia‚ Antonio‚ Jorge‚ Lidia‚ and Lester. She also has to fight the pain she is going through with her parents. She lost her mom to an evil sickness and her dad to soldiers who had gunned him down. It all started in Guatemala. Guatemala was Gabi’s hometown‚ it was where she lived‚ went to school and played. But‚ one day‚ her

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    shore. And the tide rises‚ the tide falls. Pee Paragraph : I think this poem is trying to tell us that when you have got ups or downs in life‚ you can’t do anything to change what has happened and you just to just carry on. I thought this because when he uses ‘The tide rises‚ the tide falls’‚ it makes me think of something that has ups and downs because the movement of the tides at sea is being compared to how humans like us have similar ups and downs. Sometimes we feel very happy (the tides go

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    Upon scansion of “Beyond the Locked Door‚” one notices the presence of four stanzas‚ with the first three being quatrains and the last stanza being a couplet. It is written in iambic pentameter. As the poem is fourteen lines long and has such a metrical scheme‚ one can assume that the poem is a sonnet. The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEFEFGG‚ which suggests that the sonnet is English. As for punctuation‚ the second line in each of the first three stanzas end with an exclamation mark and are in quotation

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    _________ Poets try to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response and to try to get us‚ the reader‚ to sense a particular thing. In this poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley Percy Bysshe‚ there are different types of sound devices. The poet uses alliteration multiple times throughout the poem. “Cold command” and “boundless and bare” are examples of alliteration because the beginning letter of each word is the same. Alliteration helps the poet to make their meaning

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    Huyền 3. Đỗ Thị Bình 4. Nguyễn Thị Ngọc 5. Hoàng Thu Phúc 6. Trần Thị Minh Hiệp Introduction While the English language has past and present tenses‚ it does not have a future tense because there is no particle for it. To say what will happen in the future‚ you can use the modal auxiliary will (plus the base form of the main verb)‚ the verb phrase be going to (plus the base form of the main verb‚ the present simple or the present progressive‚ etc… But‚ be careful! There are times when one is preferred

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    if you let your dreams be set free. The metaphors used in the poem conveys the message by describing how your life is filled with uncertainties but you are the one to make your own path along the way like your dreams. Langston also uses personification to explain how somedreams can die but it’s your choice to let them die. If you let your dreams die‚ you will be missing out on something special the can change your

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    The syntax of how they switch is interesting. Usually it changes after a clause meaning that you can hear complete sentences in each language. The phrases at least make sense on their own. There are also cases of word borrowed. Though you could argue that point. In Extract A‚ an example of switching is right at the start of the extract‚ the part in Spanish translates to “and I want to marry her‚ and she said” this phrase starts with “and” a conjunction. The English phrase before it still makes sense

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    Fifth Edition GLOBAL MARKETING A DECISION-ORIENTED APPROACH Svend Hollensen _ • CONTENTS Preface Guided tour Acknowledgements Publisher’s acknowledgements Abbreviations About the author XVI XXX xxxiv xxxvi xli xliv PARTI THE DECISION WHETHER TO INTERNATIONALIZE 1 Global marketing in the firm Learning objectives 1.1 Introduction to globalization 1.2 The process of developing the global marketing plan 1.3 Comparison of the global marketing and management style of SMEs

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