Assignment 2 Option 1 1. Introduction Language represents human’s experiences and different fields hold different ways of language using. The language of science actively constructs scientific reality‚ i.e. a way of looking at the world‚ the roles assigned to readers and the way of organizing information (LING337-nominalisation). However‚ science may be presented diversely according to the different intended audience‚ purposes and modes. Three texts chosen in this paper are all concerned with the
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advantages and disadvantages of the model will be identified and examples will be given of how these will affect an organisation. Effects of McDonaldization on society will also be considered. The extent to which McDonaldization provides a comprehensive metaphor for contemporary society will be determined from the evidence presented. The definition of McDonaldization is “The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well
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The use of metaphors‚ repetition of words and biblical references in Obama’s speech of inauguration based on “Analyzing Political Discourses” Theory and Practice by Paul Chilton Number of Words: 2589 Introduction: Political discourses are made to impress‚ persuade and to underline ideas to change a country. Politicians use specialized writers to write for them their discourses or use a lot of time to write one‚ as political discourses
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intricate demeanor of the author towards her work. Bradstreet uses a controlling metaphor of a child and its mother to describe all of these feelings towards one of her other pieces. To do this‚ she incorporates many figurative language devices within the controlling metaphor to help bring her point across to the minds of the readers. They include diction‚ imagery‚ and irony. In order to present the controlling metaphor to the reader‚ Bradstreet uses words that relate to the concept of birth. In line
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To what extent do you think that The Fly can be read as a metaphor for the cultural fears and anxieties surrounding HIV/AIDS in American in the 1980s American society in the 1980s was traumatized with fear and anxiety over a new disease called AIDS‚ initially emerging among non conventional social groups – mainly gay men‚ though eventually spreading to the ‘ordinary’ population. While the government remained silent‚ the media frantically reported of previously vigorous and healthy people reduced
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Prufrock is presented as ‘an awkward and emasculated character’. To what extent do the metaphors in ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ create this view of the character? TS Eliot’s 20th Century poem ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ is widely seen as a modernist work that Eliot employs to make the reader of the poem actually create their own opinion of what is actually meant by the poem. The modernist movement happened mainly in the late 19th to early 20th Century and started with the French
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In no more than 2‚ 250 words‚ analyse the text of the speech‚ paying particular attention to the following features of its semantics and lexical structure: use of metaphor‚ semantic field‚ text type‚ register‚ intertextuality. Martin Luther King was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement‚ who fought against discrimination‚ and made a powerful appeal for justice and equality. Looking back to the history‚ in 1963 the America was divided into black and white population
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Being defeated by something out of someone’s control is a common issue in characters of the two books of Things Fall Apart and Krik?Krak! The first book is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which takes place in Nigeria around the 1900’s. This is a fictional book about the village of Umuofia and the people are all based on being a man. The second book Krik?Krak! Is written by Edwidge Danticat and is set in Haiti in the 1900’s. This is a nonfiction book about families and individuals that try and
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Gracie Smith Literary Heritage 2201 27 October 2011 As Long as it’s a Love Letter Deep love‚ passionate desire‚ and intriguing mystery are conveyed through the use of literary devices such as symbolism and metaphor in Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” and William Meredith’s “The Illiterate” and aide in supporting the themes that intimate relationships can be both intriguing and frightening at the same time. Love is conveyed in “The Illiterate” through the simple idea of a letter. The letter
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Plot Overview Krik? Krak! contains nine stories and an epilogue. Although the stories take place in Port-au-Prince or Ville Rose‚ Haiti‚ or New York‚ they do not overlap. The only exception is “Between the Pool and the Gardenias‚” which mentions women from earlier stories. All the stories are all about Haitian women trying to understand their relationships to their families and to Haiti. The epilogue‚ “Women Like Us‚” suggests that these women are related. The epilogue’s unnamed narrator‚ possibly
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