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    been initiated into intensive competition market. Each company with advanced technology‚ innovative skills and integrated marketing strategies while designing the product by corporate promotional gifts‚ it encourages us to create ideas for further development. So we can create new feature into promotion gifts. Feature: -Silicon watch has a system of measuring the individual health condition‚ which can work out how much nutrition you been. -Silicon watch can trace your position since installation

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    The Simple Gift Analysis

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    properly or appropriately placed . The poems in the free verse“The simple gift” demonstrate the ideas and struggles of belonging. The novel is simply the journey of a young man by the name of Billy and his hunger to belong to a society which will not disappoint him as his father has .The film gran torino directed by Clint eastwood also shows the opportunities and disappointments allowed by belonging to a community. The main character of “The simple gift” billy is unsatisfied with his original community which

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    Irony in Kate Chopin

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    ENGL 1302-021 2 March 2014 Irony in Kate Chopin’s "The Storm" and "Désirée’s Baby" Kate Chopin’s stories characteristically end or contain an ironic twist. Chopin uses irony to create excitement and suspense and to also provide a deeper meaning to her story. Irony can create different parallels to a story that would otherwise be one dimensional. Kate Chopin uses irony in "The Storm" and "Désirée’s Baby" effectively creating beautiful and complex stories. "The Storm" contains both dramatic

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    the “Cask of Amontillado‚” Edgar Allen Poe uses irony in setting to foreshadow the downfall of Fortunato. Poe uses the term cask in the title‚ but little do the readers know cask has a completely different meaning. Throughout the story‚ verbal irony is shown when Montresor uses different words and phrases that have other implications. Even Fortunato’s name and attire foreshadowed his untimely death. Looking at the title of this story Poe’s irony starts from the beginning. The word Cask is the

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    great suspense and irony that Shirley Jackson tells the story of a lottery in a small town. The result of the lottery is also left open to be interpreted by the reader. All this could not be done without the use of the third person objective point of view in which the story ‚“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ is told. Shirley Jackson uses situational irony as well as verbal irony to keep the readers on their toes and especially to keep the ending a surprise. Achieving this irony would be very difficult

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    The Simple Gift Analysis

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    concept of an individual being accepted unconditionally. A person’s identity is represented by what they pride themselves in. This is shown through the text‚ ‘The Simple Gift‚’ by Steven Herrick as Billy does not pride himself from where he belongs but from his identity. Billy yearns to be accepted for who he is. In ‘The Simple Gift‚’ Billy runs away from his abusive father and seeks a sense of belonging in the town of Bendarat. In the town Billy lives in an abandoned freight cart which suggests that

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    Irony in Roman Fever

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    letter back to Delphin telling him she would be there‚ which Mrs. Slade wasn’t expecting that because she was too caught up in being out to get Mrs. Ansley (120). The title of this story could possibly be the most important irony of the story. Although the other ironies are very important too‚ the story would not have that overall ironic twist to it if it were not for the title. Roman Fever is another name for pneumonia that you could catch it you were outside after dark in the valley‚ due to

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    The Gift Of Fear Essay

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    The Gift of Fear‚" a psychology book by Gavin De Becker‚ is a great valuable book. It gives significant exhortation about acceptable behavior upon human instinct‚ how to perceive dangers‚ and characterizes what genuine trepidation is and its motivation. I find this book to be very interesting. This book gave feeling of comprehension on savagery and trepidation and I feel greatly improved arranged with regards to perceiving perilous circumstances. My favorite part of the book was the warning signs

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    daughter is sent to church‚ an explosion kills the child. “ ‘Ballad of Birmingham’ provides rich lessons in irony‚ the power of poetry‚ and the history of our country” (Jolley 38). The irony is displayed from the fact that the mother wants to keep her child safe by sending her to church and thus leads to her death is one of the main literary devices that Randall uses in this poem. From this irony‚ one can see how afraid the African American

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    Fate is full of irony‚ what you dish out will come back to you. This slogan has never rung truer than in the ironic tale of the Cask Of Amontillado. Presumably taking place in the Italian countryside this story follows the protagonist‚ Montresor‚ in his quest to reap revenge on the antagonist‚ Fortunato‚ for an insult in the past. Ultimately culminating in Fortunato being buried alive this story is a textbook example of revenge. Edgar Allen Poe’s dark tale revolves around themes of betrayal‚ pride

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