Assignment # 1: A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah The story of Ishmael Beah‚ a survivor of civil war in Sierra Leone‚ is brutal‚ challenging‚ and educational. Although the book presents mature and realistic details about war‚ the images are by no means gratuitous. Beah wants his readers to understand the atrocities of war so that people might try to stop and prevent the spread of violence in the world. As you read‚ prepare to write this reflective essay‚ due on the first
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The age of the actor has long gone: we are now in the age of stage effects’ We have moved towards more modernised performances‚ but this does not necessarily mean ‘the age of the actor has long gone.’ It means audience members now expect more from the performance‚ rather than just rely on the actor as they did in Elizabethan times. Still in our 21st century‚ we would not like to go to a play whereby the actors are poor at acting likewise an Elizabethan audience would not like that either. The
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The Long Way Home an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War‚ written by David Laskin‚ who graduated at Harvard with a degree in history and journalism. After he graduated at Harvard‚ Laskin went to Oxford University to receive an MA in English. The United States welcomes many immigrants from different countries. In the book‚ The Long Way Home‚ Laskin talks about twelve soldiers immigrating to the United States‚ and gives a background information on their lives‚ leading to them becoming
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to The Great War is a riveting tell-all of the hardships twelve immigrants endured on their journey‚ arrival‚ and duration in America during the Great War. Author‚ David Laskin‚ a Harvard graduate with a degree in history and literature‚ expresses his take on the “forgotten” war‚ justly representing the traumatizing immigration over to America‚ the fight to survive upon arrival and the milestone in their journeys‚ with the conversion into a
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is‚ on some point of comparison‚ the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association‚ comparison or resemblance including allegory‚ hyperbole‚ and simile. In simpler terms‚ a metaphor compares two objects or things without using the words "like" or "as". One of the most prominent examples
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Approaches to metaphor: Structure‚ classifications‚ cognate phenomena HELEN V. SHELESTIUK Abstract The article aspires to present a systematized view on the contemporary understanding of metaphor essence and structure‚ reviews various classifications of metaphor‚ and discusses cognate ‘similarity-based’ phenomena in natural language. The opposing views on metaphor as a three- and twocomponent structure are reconciled in the article through the analysis of di¤erent kinds of metaphors. Three types
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Gone Baby Gone Analysis According to Kant Theory I’m going to talk in this assignment about the movie: Gone Baby Gone; which is an incredible‚ fresh‚ and real film‚ and its relation with Kant theory. In this movie characters are rich and alive; the story is compelling‚ surprising‚ and not at all predictable. Kant said that one must have a respect for the moral law that is expressed in the intention‚ and I think that Patrick’s intentions were good because he did not want for the kidnapped girl
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English 1302 Dr. Hawley 5/9/2013 Herbert’s Metaphors George Herbert wrote the poems: “Alter” and “Windows” that have a good use of metaphor throughout each poem. Herbert has a good use of metaphor in these two poems that greatly enhances the meaning of them both. The metaphors used have affect over the connotation and the denotation of the adjectives and the analogies that are made with the use of the metaphors “Alter” has a great use of metaphor in not only the words but also the shape of the
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In the short story “The Metaphor” by Budge Wilson‚ a girl named Charlotte has a wonderfully flamboyant English teacher‚ Ms. Hancock. Mrs. Hancock has a certain way of making reading‚ writing and interpreting stories come alive for Charlotte. However‚ Charlotte’s mother does not approve of Ms. Hancock and is extremely rude and disrespectful to her. After Ms. Hancock passed away‚ Charlotte’s mom stated "lf you would examine this whole‚ perfectly natural situation with a modicum of rationality‚ you
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