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    America's Greatest Gifts

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    America’s Gift to My Generation America is like Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree.” America gives more gifts that anyone can count. Freedom is a wonderful gift that has no limits. No other country has as much diversity as America. Without the people who are willing to sacrifice for their country‚ my generation wouldn’t be nearly as great. Freedom has always been one of America’s greatest gifts‚ but it’s especially valuable now. Unlike other countries Americans have the freedom to write about

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    Marcel Mauss The Gift

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    THE GIFT ESSAI SUR LE DON in SOCIOLOGIE ET ANTHROPOLOGIE Published by PRESSES UNIVERSITAIRES DE FRANCE Paris‚ 1950 THE GIFT Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies by MARCEL MAUSS Translated by IAN GUNNISON With an Introduction by . E. EVANS-PRITCHARD Professor of Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls COHEN & College‚ Oxford WEST LTD 68-74 Carter Lane‚ London‚ E.C.4 1966 Copyright PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOWE AND BRYDONE (PRINTERS) LTD‚ LONDON

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    Hannah's Gift Analysis

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    acts of by others after Hannah had passed. Reading Hannah’s Gift stirred up many emotions in my heart. Much of Maria Housden’s story was heartwarming but sad as I felt as if I was experiencing her journey right there with her. The memories Maria shared about Hannah left

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    Irony In 'The Lottery'

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    The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in

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    When man was first created they were given gifts by Prometheus. They had received many wonderful things such as the shape of the gods and understanding. There is one special gift that Prometheus did not give man‚ dreaming. Prometheus wanted to grant man this godly ability‚ but he could not. Only Hallucinus‚ god of dreams‚ could do such a thing. There was only one problem with what Prometheus wanted to do. No one actually knew where to find Hallucinus. Only his father Hypnos‚ god of sleep‚ knew where

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    The Ironies of Orwell’s 1984 The novel 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony‚ are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each from the book. The first type of irony is verbal irony‚ in which a person says or does something one way‚ but the true meaning is the opposite. One of the first example of this irony is discovered

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    America has given me many gifts‚ and great opportunities. It has given me education‚ technology‚ and freedom. I would not be able to be me without these things. One of the first gifts America has given me is education. It is great that America has given me the chance to have education. I love the fact that i can have an education because that way you can study something that you want to when you grow up and you can make your dreams come true. We don’t all have to be the same‚ we are all treated

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    Cask Of Amontillado Irony

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    Irony in ‘The Cask of Amontillado.” Irony is expressing what an author is trying to say using language or words saying the opposite. There are three types of irony. Verbal irony is a contrast between what is said and what is actually meant. Situational irony occurs when things turn out contrary to what is expected or intended. Dramatic irony occurs when a reader or viewer knows more about a situation than the characters do. In conclusion “The Cask of Amontillado is full of irony. Examples of

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    Holiday homework belonging essay In the beginning of the book The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick‚ Billy’s sense of belonging was limited by his dad‚ his school and everyone around him. This is shown by the way his dad never accepted him and always treated him badly. He always felt like he didn’t belong in his town as everyone was different to him‚ he didn’t like his teachers at his school or anyone else in it‚ the only place he felt like he belonged was the quiet‚ secluded area‚ known as Westfield

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    Assignment Ms. Guy Lamb to the Slaughter Lamb to the Slaughter uses the different types of irony. There are three main types: Dramatic‚ Situational‚ and Verbal. Dramatic irony is cased when the audience knows something the characters don’t. Situational irony is something no one expects. And Verbal irony is saying something you don’t exactly mean. The first type of irony used is verbal irony. It was used when Mary Maloney stated “Is he dead?” knowing she had killed him. Although Mary Maloney

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