1- When I wrote the summary I considered the audience to be in high school because I tried to use the words that I don’t regularly use. 2- There is a lot of points that I learned about summarizing throughout this essay‚ for example‚ I didn’t know that I had to write about the author of the article in the introduction. Secondly‚ I didn’t know about the thesis statement and what should be included within it. 3- The 574 verbs really helped me make my essay a bit less blunt‚ and way less repetitiveness
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Analysis: Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka. Set in the 1960s‚ written in the first person narrative manner‚ the poem “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka is a poetic satire against the widespread racism in the modern Western society. As a student from Nigeria‚ the poet had encountered firsthand such parochial attitude‚ and had learnt to take it in his stride‚ the poem is thus influenced by his personal experience. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poet‚
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William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a well-known Christmas play‚ it is considered as one of the most successful comedies. The play starts when Viola and her twin brother‚ Sebastian‚ survive a shipwreck. When they cannot find each other‚ each thinks the other may be dead. Then they move on to two separate ways‚ establishing two story lines that finally meet with each other after involving funny mistaken identities. The love bug in the comedy bites not only Olivia and Orsino‚ but also Sebastian
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and evil through both protagonist and antagonist views in genres such as fictions‚ science fiction‚ mythologies‚ realistic etc.‚ making the theme of “good vs. evil” a universal theme. It is seen everywhere and even at an early point in life. For example‚ Ender’s Game published in 1985‚ is science fiction war story where Ender tries to keep Earth in peace from the Buggers-aliens that try to invade Earth. At a more recent point in history are the protagonist and antagonist- Batman vs Jocker and Spiderman
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Human emotions are something that we seldom find a way to express clearly: from simple hand gestures‚ to a disgusted face. To understand his novel more thoroughly‚ Arthur Miller uses the most understandable method of comprehension‚ music‚ to express the emotions of the characters in his play‚ "Death of a Salesman". The characters‚ Willy‚ Linda‚ Biff‚ Happy‚ and Ben‚ have a certain style of music and instruments portraying them to show the reader what type of emotional person they are. The
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The descriptions of individual characters and settings convey ethical and moral judgments of a society. In the Great Gatsby‚ the descriptions of the Eggs‚ the “valley of ashes”‚ Gatsby‚ and the Buchanans all convey the judgment that the upper class of the society are shallow‚ empty and hollow and therefore‚ lacking morals and ethics and because of this‚ that the American dream has failed as citizens have become obsessed with the material aspect of the American dream rather than the spiritual aspect
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Pan’s Labyrinth was filled with symbolism. It seemed that every scene throughout the movie was trying to tell you something or tying in with something else. You could not help but notice all the different compositional modes of filmmaking. Sound for example tremendously added to the film. Although there were subtitles‚ after awhile you could almost not read them and just listen to the sounds and get a good idea about the tone it was trying to set. In fact‚ you could probably have even closed your eyes
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There are many factors that can affect a company’s overall profit and performance‚ some of which are beyond the control of the company. In the case of Fossil Corp.‚ we will be focusing on the major external factors that may have caused the company’s actual revenue and growth to differ materially from the expected future figures. Economic Conditions Economic Cycles: The retail market is a highly elastic sector and as such is affected by current economic conditions. Since Fossil Corp. is in the
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policies that helped him win specifically. The goals he has are illustrated in strong appeals to emotion‚ by making a connection with the everyday American citizen. He personalizes his speech in looking forward to the future while using the past as an example. John F. Kennedy begins his inaugural speech by using antithesis to emphasize the importance of his victory in the presidential race. Kennedy describes his victory as “symbolizing an end‚ as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal‚ as well as
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honor‚ family‚ and society in the story using three techniques: irony‚ parody‚ and satire. Cervantes expresses‚ by the use of irony‚ how he feels true friends remain loyal even through rough times and situations; they will always admire you. For example‚ Don Quixote keeps finding more trouble for himself and his squire Sancho on their journey‚ but Sancho could not be more loyal. Sancho does not quite understand and becomes a little embarrassed of Don Quixote’s childish actions but he continues to
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