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    speech. To help his audience understand his goal‚ Martin Luther King Jr. had used a variety of literary devices. This includes metaphors‚ similes‚ anaphores‚ and allusions. This great significance in his speech makes his speech the best out of John Lewis’s “Patience is a Nasty and Dirty Word” and Malcolm X’s “What Does Mississippi Have to Do With Harlem” speech. Whose speeches used little or no literary devices. Martin Luther King Jr used metaphors and similes to show the importance of equal rights to

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    English ISU Essay The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Kulwinder Singh Ms. A. Weber ENG-4U1 December 07‚ 2012 The Intricate Developmental Changes of the Walls Family’s Journey The Glass Castle is a memoir based on the life of Jeannette Walls and her family in the ninety fifties‚ while dealing with adversities and struggles in society while growing up in different remote locations‚ until they escape to New York searching for opportunities. The Walls’ family travel and grow up in dysfunctional

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    Alex Rieflin Dr. Messal MGMT 401 1/28/13 Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women & The Glass Cliff Ibarra et al suggest that high-potential women often miss out on sponsorship‚ an element of mentoring that increases the incidence and speed of candidates’ promotion to upper management positions. Bruckmuller and Branscombe illustrate in their article‚ The Glass Cliff‚ a gender partiality that exists when companies look to hire a new executive. Companies with predominantly male

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    2013 Use of a Literary Device in “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” William Shakespeare’s sonnet “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is a fourteen line poem that contains three quatrains followed by a couplet. The poem is also known as Sonnet 18‚ and is a beautiful poem describing just that‚ a summer’s day. If one wishes to be technical‚ Shakespeare does more than describe a summer’s day‚ he is comparing an individual to a summer’s day. Shakespeare uses the literary devices imagery and

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    or change the properties of the glass Add chemicals for color Place the mixture in a good heat-resistant crucible or holder. Melt the mixture into a liquid Homogenize (mix in other chemicals such as sodium sulfate‚ sodium chloride or antimony oxide.)And remove bubbles from the molten glass. Shape the molten glass. By cooling into molds or blowing the glass at the end of a special tube. Cool the glass Anneal the glass to make it stronger * Tempered glass is heat resistant‚ making it 4

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    stormthecastle.com/essays/medieval-writing.htm Stained Glass. (s.f.). Recuperado el 02 de 10 de 2014‚ de Stained Glass Association of America : http://stainedglass.org/ The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. As a material stained glass is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures‚ held

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    In Ken Liu’s short story “Paper Menagerie” Jack‚ a naive Asian-American adolescent‚ lives alongside his family in America. Unlike Jack’s father‚ his Chinese mother was a significant figure throughout his childhood. She was his shoulder to cry on‚ someone who could lift him up when he was down. That was until he conformed to the matrix of society and they grew distant from each other. Caught up in his own self-righteousness‚ Jack’s mother passes away rendering him sorrowful. Liu utilizes symbolism

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    Poetic Devices Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds. “Doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever…” Poe‚ “The Raven” Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds. “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far...So old it is that no man knows...” Sandburg‚ “Early Moon” Hyperbole – An overstatement or extreme exaggeration. Example: I nearly died laughing. Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense (sight‚ taste‚ touch‚ hearing‚ and smell) or any combination

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    The Glass Ceiling: Fact or Illusion The glass ceiling is it a fact or an illusion? The two words "Glass Ceiling" are used to describe the barrier that exists for women and minorities-when it comes to getting promoted into the upper echelons of a company. Does the ceiling exist or is it a figment of the imagination? The writer intentions are to present a picture of that ceiling‚ and show how it plays a part in corporate America. That in fact the ceiling is an injustice being done to women and minorities

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    Beauty of Glass Using works of art the National Liberty Museum aims to combat bigotry by putting a spotlight on our nation’s rich tradition of freedom and diversity. Galleries celebrate outstanding artists from around the world. “Glass art is the centerpiece of National Liberty Museum. It’s the medium we use in our mission to promote non-violence and acceptance of others by showing visitors that freedom is “fragile”…”(Online ). The expressions the artists make using glass represent

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