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    While analyzing the demand for holding money‚ it is found that there are different motives behind such demands. It shows as to why the community demands the money balances and how the amount of money balances for different motives is determined. Many economists; however‚ argue that such a classification for money is unnecessary and useless. It is argued that the demand for money should be considered as a complete whole instead of dividing the demand for money artificially into three parts. People

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    Maya Angelou Metaphors

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    use of metaphors and symbolism. Her use of metaphors and symbols has allowed for her to gain confidence and change her ability to no longer be a caged bird‚ but a free bird. Maya Angelou transforms from a silent child into a strong independent black woman throughout her autobiography. In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Angelou uses metaphors and symbolism to highlight the difficulties she went through during the 1940s and to show how precious freedom is. Angelou uses an extended metaphor to help

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    Language Essay Metaphors enliven ordinary language. People get so accustomed to using the same words and phrases over and over‚ and always in the same ways‚ that they no longer know what they mean. When a child looks up at the sky and does not know the word “star” he or she is forced to say‚ “Mommy‚ look at the lamp in the sky”. Metaphors give maximum meaning with a minimum of words‚ they create new meanings; they allow you to write about feelings‚ thoughts‚ things and experiences freely. “Critical

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    Literary Term #9 Metaphor: A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but‚ literally‚ it is not. In connecting one object‚ event‚ or place‚ to another‚ a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. Metaphoric language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning. As an effect‚ a metaphor functions primarily to increase stylistic colorfulness

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    Atticus Finch Metaphors

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    The meaning behind the metaphor is that dont kill or harm anything or anyone that is not doing anything bad. That metaphor also ties in with racism‚ because Atticus relates it to the horrible racism that witnesses weather it is from his corruption or just in everyday life. The first time that Atticus said that to his children

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    crime of killing their leader‚ Julius Caesar‚ and in the end‚ the conspirators suffer the consequences. Shakespeare provides an abundance of reasoning behind each conspirator’s motive for joining the conspiracy‚ showing each individual’s true form.

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    calm water metaphor

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    What is the Calm Waters Metaphor? by SREE RAMA RAO on MARCH 4‚ 2010 Until recently the calm waters metaphor dominated the thinking of practicing managers and academics. The prevailing model for handling change in calm waters is best illustrated in Kurt Lewin’s three step description of the change process. According to Lewin‚ successful change requires unfreezing the status quo‚ changing to a new sate‚ and freezing the new change to make it permanent. The status quo can be considered an equilibrium

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    tells Torvald how she has always been a doll for him and her father. How she was only moved from one house to another‚ yet was never able to be herself‚ she was influenced and controlled by Torvald himself. In A Doll’s House‚ Henrik Ibsen uses the metaphor of a dollhouse in order to illustrate and emphasize the controlling of women during the late 1800s as well as the imperfections of a family. When Nora describes how she feels to Torvald‚ she says how Torvald has “only thought it pleasant to be in

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor

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    A Buffalo Common Metaphor Over the past few decades the High Plains have consistently been losing its population. So‚ in 1987 Doctors Frank and Deborah Popper introduced the idea of Buffalo Commons. They described this project as “A combination of literary metaphor‚ public-policy proposal‚ futurist prediction and ecological restoration project” (The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents). The essential focus of this project was to replace the ever decrease population by returning buffalo back to the

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    Emily Dickinson Metaphors

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    In “We grow accustomed to the Dark‚” Emily Dickinson uses eloquent metaphors‚ obsidian imagery‚ and repetitious structure to explain how when you “learn to see” the bad events in your life can get a little better. After reading the whole poem‚ the eloquent metaphors used by Emily Dickinson can be better brought to light in order to help explain her point of view. Throughout this poem‚ she uses dark as a metaphor which explains why it is always capitalized. Once the importance is recognized‚ a reader

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