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    poem. We’ve got “master‚” “faster‚” “disaster‚” “fluster‚” “vaster‚” and etc. Then we have “intent‚” “spent‚” meant‚” continent‚” and “evident.” So it’s all arranged in the rhymes. The narrative also moving progressively through the poem from insignificant things that one could lose‚ to much more difficult things to lose‚ and then finally ending with a person‚ one of the hardest things in our lives we have to lose and say goodbye too. The whole poems gives of a form of a claim that you may agree

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    kind of thing and what we do most of the time with language. 5. THE TA-TA THEORY The idea that speech came from the use of tongue and mouth gestures to mimic manual gestures. For example‚ saying ta-ta is like waving goodbye with your tongue. But most of the things we talk about do not have characteristic gestures associated with them‚ much less gestures you can imitate with the tongue and mouth. 6. THE LA-LA THEORY The idea that speech emerged from the sounds of inspired playfulness‚ love‚ poetic

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    Cora H. English III Honors 4 April 2013 WWOD: What Would Offred Do? How far would someone go to protect their rights? What is considered passive behavior during the fall of the free world? Would someone risk their life to defend freedom? Margaret Atwood raises these questions and many more in her novel The Handmaid’s Tale. She uses the character Offred to demonstrate passive behavior and acceptance of a totalitarian regime after the fall of the United States. In the new Republic of Gilead‚ Offred

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    It is immediately obvious that Hazel isn’t the typical teenage girl from Indianapolis. She is—conscientiously speaking—old for her age‚ as we see when she’s contrasted with her friend Kaitlyn. By comparison‚ Hazel is far more thoughtful and considerate about her actions than Kaitlyn‚ and she is far more analytical. One of Hazel’s defining characteristics is her wish to tread lightly upon the world. She desperately wants to mitigate the harm caused by her existence on Earth. Though this outlook on

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    I was four years old‚ surrounded by the voices of family member catching up‚ telling each other about their jobs‚ kids‚ and just life in general. Smells of Christmas cookies and a roasting turkey were lingering in the air‚ and I was itching with anticipation of the gift exchange that was about to take place. Finally‚ my grandma announced that it was time to do the gift exchange‚ and all of my cousins‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ and people that I frankly had never met before but was told I was related to came

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    speaker’s mockery of society is the use of sound devices. This is important when considering the diction because the plosive sounds give the reader a subconscious understanding of how the speaker feels. For example‚ the word “gesture” (l.4) presents the naturalistic view on how insignificant people are in comparison to the clouds. As seen in line six‚ “trolls” also is used for a sound device coupled with negative connotations. Another example of coupling plosive sounds with negative connotations would be

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    can be blocked‚ it does not change the fact that that person is still saying things they shouldn’t be saying. The point is‚ no one can defend the bullying that happens on Facebook by coming up with ways that make the bullying seem unimportant or insignificant. Facebook makes it easy for people‚ specifically children‚ to post anything from a comedic image to an insulting‚ degrading‚ and inappropriate status. Even though kids ought to know better‚ these types of things still happen and Facebook makes

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    from below looking upwards‚ always focusing on his position above the masses‚ and having “Heil Hitler” lit up in the darkness. However‚ she focused on the masses as well— the large body of people as one entity‚ one loyal swarm of worshippers‚ insignificant as individuals- yet all indisputably Aryan. This method of filming Hitler alone and the masses as a whole emphasized to the people the message that Hitler‚ the deity‚ must be given rapt attention and fervor. Contrastingly‚ individuals are unimportant

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    Playing the Enemy After reading playing the enemy‚ I must say I was actually pretty jealous of those fortunate enough to get to meet and leave an impression on the great man Nelson Mandela. The story was truly inspirational and after reading was very glad I chose this book to read. I knew that Nelson Mandela was a great man and I knew only part of his story. I knew that he was the first black president that South Africa had seen‚ I also knew that he was jailed for man years (27 to be exact) and

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    Shakespeare and Inarritu explore the idea that human life and suffering is ultimately meaningless in the play King Lear‚ and the film Birdman‚ through the theme that the inevitability of death makes life meaningless. Using a solemn tone‚ both Shakespeare and Inarritu have indicated that their story lines possess tragedies‚ and suffering. Whereas Inarritu has used a modern America setting to show how human life is ultimately meaningless‚ Shakespeare has used England in the 700th BC‚ while they are

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