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    Question: what foreshadowing of the discovery of the body of Homer Barron are we given earlier in the story? Share your experience in reading “A Rose for Emily”: did the foreshadowing give away the ending for you? Did they heighten your interest? In the short story A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner‚ the narrator talks about the life and death of a woman named Emily. In the story there is a theme of death. This can be seen by the way the story begins by talking about the death of Emily. As

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    askew”‚ said Robert Burns‚ in the poem “To a Mouse”. In this book Steinbeck uses foreshadowing a lot for upcoming events that will shock you. This book is about 2 friends that have a huge farm dream and a lot of things happen in this story to make that big plan go askew. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to indicate the deaths of the farm dream‚ Curley’s wife dying‚ and Lennie. For one‚ John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing by giving us huge hints about the farm dream dying. In chapter 4 on page 74 Crooks

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    of the show is so unique. Bryan Cranston produces and stars in the show as Walter White‚ the protagonist who develops cancer at the beginning of the show. The writers of Breaking Bad use the introductions to new characters‚ plot twists‚ and foreshadowing to critically analyze what it means to “break bad”‚ or to take matters into ones on hands‚ as they watch Walter White transform from high school chemistry teacher to mass meth producer.

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    ANALYSIS: One vital concept of physics is the energy. The universe possesses energy and matter. For simplicity‚ matter is a substance and energy is used to move these substances. Energy is appearing in various forms. Among those are kinetic‚ gravitational potential‚ elastic potential‚ electric potential‚ thermal‚ chemical‚ etc. Work‚ on the other hand‚ is the change in energy from one form to another by means of an external force. When work is done on an object‚ therefore‚ the object is said to

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    chock full of literary elements. One of the most studied and most profound literary elements found in Macbeth is foreshadowing. Foreshadow; verb; be a warning or indication of (a future event).” Foreshadowing gives the audience a hint of what is to come without completely giving away the event‚ though it will make sense after the event happens. The first example of foreshadowing we see in Macbeth is found in Act 1‚ Scene 1 in the three witches’ prophecies. We see the three witches show up multiple

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    many examples of foreshadowing as well as other literary devices to keep the reader guessing.

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    In Australian communities there are several chronic health conditions that are prevalent‚ these conditions include cardiovascular disease‚ cancer‚ respiratory disease‚ injury and mental health problems. The Prevalence of a disease is defined as the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population. Morbidity statistics such as: hospital use‚ doctor’s visits and Medicare stats‚ and health surveys/reports give relevant

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    Paw‚ W. W. Jacobs interprets foreshadowing to create tension and suspense by doing the following: creating tension by Sergeant-Major warning them about the paw‚ Herbert saying that he wouldn’t be alive to see the money‚ and lastly Mr. White having the habit of doing before thinking. Will interfering with your own fate really do so until your own sorrow? Does that sound suspenseful and make you tense? Jacobs demonstrates the use of tension and suspense by foreshadowing in his story “The Monkey’s Paw”

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    I really liked Romeo and Juliet because of the amount of irony and foreshadowing in the text. For instance‚ Romeo says “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead. And breathed such life with kisses in my lips”(V.i.6-9). This is an obvious example of foreshadowing to the upcoming scene where Juliet believes that Romeo is dead‚ and tries to take the poison from his lips. This quote is also a reference to Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech about how dreamers usually see what they want to see in dreams. I like

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    kingdom than have his lover Gaveston exiled from the kingdom. Later in the play‚ his orders are disregarded by the nobles and a civil war within the kingdom of England ensues. By the end of the play we see the king at his most tragic‚ having lost everything including his friends‚ his lover Gaveston‚ his kingdom and having been betrayed by his own wife‚ Isabella. The play Edward II reaches its emotional climax in Act V‚ Scene I. It is in this scene that the king’s image as an irresponsible and weak

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