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    In the movie Stand and Deliver‚ directed by Ramon Menendez‚ Mr. Escalante who starts teaching math at a poor high school meets several difficulties at the beginning of the movie. When Mr. Escalante is driving down the street on his way to Garfield High School‚ he begins to notice dirty walls that are full of graffiti‚ closed shops‚ gang members‚ and poor people. When Mr. Escalante arrives at the school‚ he notices that there is no order in the hallways. Such as students are late for classes‚ and

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    Part I: Introduction 1 Rationale Metaphor‚ based on the association of similarity‚ is one of the two basic types of semantic transference that have been an interest for many linguistic researchers. Galperin ( 1981: 139-40) states that the term ‘metaphor’ can be understood as the transference of some quality from one object to another. Metaphor is widely used to designate the process in which a word acquires a derivative meaning. In theory‚ there are at least three communicative functions

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    stream of hypotheses about such factors as time‚ causality‚ character personality and motive‚ the efficacy of action‚ exposition‚ enigmas‚ plausibility‚ ethics‚ metaphors‚ rhythm‚ point of view‚ and much more. In general‚ a viewer comes to understand scenes by making detailed models of events. What might be termed the “classical” camera stands in for those procedures that have been successful in the past. When a viewer’s confidence in his or her predictions is high (i.e. the viewer’s constructed‚ mental

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    look like‚ how was it different from other barns‚ how was it similar to other barns? We can’t answer these questions because we’ve read the signs‚ seen other people snapping the pictures. We can’t get outside the aura. We’re a part of the aura. We’re here‚ we’re now.” (p. 13) These kind of inquiries‚ which Murray supplies throughout the book‚ gives Jack brief moments of awareness that the world around him shapes how everyone sees

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    Metaphor: To carry over The process of transferring or carrying over an aspect of one object to another. **Must be similar characteristics in each object to be effective Metaphorical rhetorical analysis combines a variety of components from other styles of criticism we have studied. It begins by using the Tenor (The topic being explained) and the vehicle (The mechanism through which we view the topic) to identify the metaphors found in the artifact. Much like cluster criticism‚ you use the metaphors

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    Here I’ am Taking My Own Picture”- Analytical Its hard to imagine a time where photographs actually took time to produce. First of course to take the photograph‚ and then into the dark room where the film was transferred onto special paper to be put through developing chemicals. In the end you would hope for the best and that you looked good in the photo. It wasn’t all that long ago that this process existed. However‚ now we live in a technological world where anything is possible. You no

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    Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door‚ the black man‚ and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold‚ which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters‚ the crowd or

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    before I finish this sentence let me rewind and share what happen to me this day. I was 14 years old‚ excited‚ but nervous entering my first year of High School. For the first month or so‚ things were going great‚ but then the week of homecoming started to come upon the school and what started as a great week was about to take a turn for the worst. As accustomed to most high schools‚ it was Friday night and the homecoming football game was about to commence. Because I was in a wheelchair I had to

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    WHY AM I HERE?: A REFLECTIVE APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY AS A WAY OF LIFE IN THE ECLECTIC LIGHT OF ANCIENT WESTERN THOUGHT AND VIKTOR E. FRANKL’S MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING CHAPTER 1 This world is an unfinished story. Everything tells more than it can listen to; and the unheard remains in silence which listens patiently and responds silently. The rise of this age of technology and information has broadened our horizons of experience in and encounter with the world. Dating millions of years

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    Philip Larkin’s poem “Here” is able to use clear syntax‚ vivid imagery‚ and clever choice of words to distinctly convey his attitudes towards the four different places he describes in the poem: a bustling city‚ a large town‚ a suburban community‚ and an isolated paradise. Syntax structure is a key area in which the poem uses the format of words to convey the specific meanings between the four different stanzas. Three ways he is able to do this are listing‚ enjambment‚ and transitions between the

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