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    ). Wordplay and translation. Special Issue of The Translator‚ 2(2)‚ 127-139. Francescani‚ S.. 2005. The language of souvenirs: The use of humour in London T-shirts. Textus‚ XVIII(2)‚ 381-396. Goddard‚ A.. 2002. The language of advertising. London & New York: Routledge. Jacobson‚ R.. 1960. Closing statement: Linguistics and poetics. In: Sebeok‚ T. A.. (Ed.). Style in language. Cambridge: MA: MIT Press‚ 350-377. Marchetti‚ L.. 1999. A.E. Poe‚ from the contamination of genres to the breaking up of vases

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    After reading‚ “ Why Money doesn’t buy happiness‚” of Sharon Begley‚ I have read another essay similar to this one in high school before. This question has been asked for years‚ everyone has different answers for it‚ “Does money buy happiness?”- By the author‚ the economy where people try to get as much as for what they sell as they can‚ when where people try to pay as little as they can for things they want to buy‚ the more they can earn/save money‚ the more contentment they have. The main purpose

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    author who wrote the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker"‚ was one of many to go completely against this trend in the United States during the 18th century. He helped to introduce American Romanticism to the masses‚ a bold move considering that the general public still idolized Puritanical or Classicist writings. The freedom to create any story imaginable helped fuel authors to completely overhaul novels‚ poems‚ and short stories‚ and "The Devil and Tom Walker" is a classic representation of the

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    ABSTRACT In this paper we address the issue of pronunciation model- ing for conversational speech synthesis. We experiment with two different HMM topologies (fully connected state model and forward connected state model) for sub-phonetic model- ing to capture the deletion and insertion of sub-phonetic states during speech production process. We show that the experi- mented HMM topologies have higher log likelihood than the traditional 5-state sequential model. We also study the first and

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    In the novel‚ “What Money Can’t Buy” Michael J. Sandel uses numerous real world analogies to display how incentives and the lack of monetary limits are defacing personal relations‚ separating society based on wealth‚ and creating corruption through the commodification of everyday life. The interaction between humans is a crucial part to a healthy and functioning society. Sandel expresses that putting a monetary value on things such as a Papal Mass in New York or a free Shakespeare play in the park

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    “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Devil and Tom Walker” are both written by Washington Irving and feature a man living with his wife. Each story depicts their wives in a similar fashion; vicious‚ pestering annoyances that contribute little to nothing towards the well-being of the protagonist. Irving’s general scorn towards women is manifested in a few different ways‚ even looking beyond their blatantly negative descriptions. The first subtle way Irving shows his bias‚ intentional or not‚ is in the way

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    Money Does Not Buy Happiness For a long time money and happiness has been compared and contrasted‚ but recently there has been more of a push to find a better understanding and correlation between the two. The author of True Wealth‚ Juliet B. Schor‚ suggests that this debate started around the 1970’s‚ although‚ the basic idea of consumerism is been around for virtually forever or for ever long goods have been made in large quantities. But does having more stuff really make you happier? Is someone

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    Money Money doesn’t buy happiness but it helps. Money has become one of the main things in our modern life. Some people live their lives to earn money. They work hard‚ trying to earn as much money as they can. Some of them become crazy about it and lose their dignity hunting money. They don’t appreciate such important things as family‚ friendship‚ love and other feelings. Such people become greedy‚ they spend their lives in loneliness. I don’t deny that money influences our life a lot. As W

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    Money Can Buy Happiness: The Question of Choice in Dreiser’s “The Second Choice” The United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was undergoing a drastic change. A war between its states had just concluded‚ enslaved people were granted freedom‚ immigrants from all over the world flocked to the country‚ and a bitter divide between rich and poor was beginning to form. The literature followed the same trajectory of the country and‚ as does most literature‚ became a mirror of the

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    The Devil refused and executed Tom’s wife. When Tom gets there and recognizes his wife’s cloth hanging from a tree‚ he does not sympathize for her. Instead‚ he was ecstatic because now he would be able to reclaim his silver. When Tom realizes there was no silver‚ he is melancholy‚ he lost his silver‚ but not his wife. Personally‚ I did not see the misogyny in this story

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