The management of Wheeler Company has decided to develop cost formulas for its major overhead activities. Wheeler uses a highly automated manufacturing process‚ and power costs are a significant manufacturing cost. Cost analysts have decided that power costs are mixed; thus‚ they must be broken into their fixed and variable elements so that the cost behavior of the power usage activity can be properly described. Machine hours have been selected as the activity driver for power costs. The following
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Hamlet‚ as a ghost bearing terrible news. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was killed by Claudius‚ his brother and Hamlet’s uncle. Then when he was out of the way‚ Claudius seduced the queen. Throughout the passage‚ Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to help readers understand and connect with the ghost and Hamlet’s feelings of “contempt” towards the new King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The passage begins with the ghost. He tells that everyone was told that he was “stung” by a snake and
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literary devices to portray the corruption of the American dream in The Great Gatsby. He portrays the American dream as a goal to gain wealth and show it off extravagantly to gain social class. Fitzgerald successfully integrates symbolism and imagery into the novel to express his views of the American dream. An integral part of The Great Gatsby was the symbolism Fitzgerald used to get across his view of the corrupt American dream during the 20’s. The "pile of shirts" (Fitzgerald 97) that
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wealth‚ rather than standing for its original ideals of freedom and equality. Fitzgerald brings this nightmarish world of reality to life using imagery‚ diction‚ and symbolism in order to prove to his audience that what was once perceived as an attainable goal‚ is held just out of grasp by the people that did not have to fight to reach it. Fitzgerald uses imagery while referring to Gatsby’s dock to help the reader visualize the sadness and despair that engulfed the five years of Gatsby’s life spent gazing
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ animalistic imagery is seen throughout the play and intertwines many characters. There are two main types of animalistic behaviors seen in the play. First there are the common predator-prey relationships that are visible in all animalistic societies. In the animal kingdom there is a food chain where some smarter or more cunning animal hunts or tracks down the weaker animal‚ thus a predator-prey relationship. Second is the idea that the people in the play are similar
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the perspective of a daughter completely contradicts over a bug. The daughter looks at the bug in a repellent way‚ the father however‚ looks at the bug in an approving way. In “Gaston” Saroyan uses imagery and symbolism to convey the importance of looking at things in a different way. Saroyan uses imagery throughout the short story “Gaston”‚ to show us the importance of looking at things in a different way. At first the girl in “Gaston” by Saroyan‚ refers to the bug in a bad manner: “He is a bug. He
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Analysis of Sonnet” An introduction should keep a reader’s attention for more than one sentence‚ hopefully. It should aim to have more sentences than the amount of letters in “should.” It should explain in a paragraph a brief summary of what’s to come. It should…shouldn’t it? In the same way an introduction can be referenced sarcastically‚ Billy Collins uses several techniques to mock sonnets. In “Sonnet” Billy Collins uses speaker‚ external form and tone to mock the traditional sonnets. The speaker
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many. Many themes are evident throughout the novel that are able to enhance the significance of emotional pain and suffering felt by the characters. The use of fire imagery‚ in particular‚ is utilized as a symbol of emotional distress‚ and is used very dominantly among all of the images mentioned throughout the novel. This type of imagery is important towards developing the main theme and tone of the novel – the emotional pain that the war had inflicted upon humanity. In The Wars‚ the way in which fire
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Robert Gray is a weaver of images‚ at the loom of the mind. He creates sensual images that elicit and evoke responses from the responder. His poems ’Meatworks’ and ’Flames and Dangling Wire’‚ both social commentaries‚ exemplify techniques he calls upon in order to reproduce the personas feelings‚ emotions and thoughts through powerful images. Assonance and alliteration are employed by Gray to increase the memorability of an image‚ leaving it lingering in the responders mind. He uses these techniques
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The Holy Sonnets By making many references to the Bible‚ John Donne’s Holy Sonnets reveal his want to be accepted and forgiven by God. A fear of death without God’s forgiveness of sins is conveyed in these sonnets. Donne expresses extreme anxiety and fright that Satan has taken over his soul and God won’t forgive him for it or his sins. A central theme of healing and forgiveness imply that John Donne‚ however much he wrote about God and being holy‚ wasn’t such a holy man all
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