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    in the overall health care model must include a culture. About a specific section related to the concept of cultural concepts depends on the development of the second chapter throughout the text. Such coexistence‚ mosaics‚ such as the salad bowl metaphor was used to describe the cultural diversity that characterizes the United States. According to the US Census Bureau‚ 50 percent close of the US population is composed of people of minority Emerging used to classify the population terms in 2050 diverse

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    life happenings. It was just a part of Tony’s life journey. In the City of God‚ original sin appears as the sin of pride. The city is Augustine’s metaphor of choice simply because‚ in his day‚ the city was the cultural and political model. Father Tom uses “defining satire” as a metaphor to help Tony see a different perspective of his life this metaphor is based on what Tony is familiar with. As Augustine speaks of two cities‚ two social order: the city of God and the earthly city‚ which co-exist

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    Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience‚ and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior‚ we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us‚ which can drive the behavior all together

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    The story Brother Dear by Bernice Friesen encapsulates the life of a girl named Sharlene‚ who enjoys teasing her older brother and has a sense of freedom‚ but she has problems with her family. The story takes place in Greenbank‚ which is somewhere in Alberta‚ because “We were at a protest in Edmonton.” By Greg‚ which tells us that they are in a relatively close place to Edmonton‚ Alberta‚ another context clue that backs up the previous claim is when Sharlene says‚ “It’s April and next year’s grade

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    Northrop Frye in ‘The motive for metaphor’ compares science and art. The common element between the two seems to be imagination. In science it becomes the final element and in art the starting point. In Frye view‚ a scientist examines the world which we are given to live‚ scrutinises all the data and attempts at forming certain theories which would underlay the rules governing the world. I doing so‚ he moves from the known realm‚ tangible world towards the concepts in his mind‚ therefore a creation

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    shown a historical distrust of metaphor. English utilitarianist Jeremy Bentham portrayed legal fictions as ‘syphilis’ which runs along the veins of legal arguments‚ arguing that metaphors are not valid as a basis for reasoning in legal arguments. Justice Cardozo warned that while metaphor begins by liberating thoughts‚ they often end up by enslaving thoughts. Often a phobia of indeterminacy led to a confusion of the real with the literal‚ and mistakenly linked metaphor to falsity. Despite the prevalent

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    idea to hurt others may seem like a logical and good idea at first‚ it may turn out to do harm to the attacker alongside the victim. For example‚ Macbeth cannot think straight‚ “full of scorpions is [his] mind” (Shakespeare‚ 3.2.38). He uses the metaphor of scorpions of King Duncan’s murder‚ constantly stinging his thoughts and poisoning his mind with thoughts of more killing. After the king’s death‚ Macbeth feels guilt for what he has done‚ first being unable to keep his crime out of mind in case

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    After Reading "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons" by Christopher N. Bacorn‚ found on page 558 in your Evergreen text‚ answer the following questions. 1.) At both the beginning and end of this persuasive essay‚ Bacorn describes a mother and her 15-year-old son. Why does he focus on their story? Would the argument be as effective if he had begun with paragraph 4 and ended with paragraph 10? 2.) The author does not press to see the angry 15-year-old boy again‚ claiming that professional counseling

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    and political forces that make up history and society‚ but they also contribute remarkably to the social processes that refigure individual identity and the socio-political‚ historical situation (174). Veenstra maintains that Greenblatt’s “economic metaphor” enables texts and their symbolic significance to prevail in society insofar as the texts’ literary devices reflect the social energy circulating in other texts that speak of the same subject matter. He further elaborates that Greenblatt’s ideas

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    My Dear Alphonse: Racism is being prejudiced towards another group of people who are distinguished differently to you. The most common way to spot the differences between to races is by the colour of the skin. The story “After You My Dear Alphonse” is written by Shirley Jackson. They story shows us how in the 1940’s racist attitudes were influenced by children’s parents‚ and how stereotypical their view was regarding and towards African American’s. The setting of “After you‚ my dear Alphonse”

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