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    Introducing Business Ethics     Is it an Oxymoron? Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Definition of business ethics: Business ethics is the study of situations‚ activities and decisions where issues of right and wrong are discussed! And business ethics is the study of ethical dilemmas! – what do you think about the dilemma in the book? Legal and ethical Legal and unethical Illegal and ethical Illegal and unethical Law Ethics Ethics Law Ethics

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    Juan Garcia English Language Too Much Pressure by Colleen Wenke Questions on Meaning What reasons does Wenke suggest for the increase in cheating among students? Wenke suggests that the increase in cheating is moral decline. She that schools need to assume the responsibility of teaching kids about what are good morals‚ the difference of good and bad. She also express her most important reason is that students are too busy to get done the little things that need get done such as homework

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    “We are more alike my friends than we are unalike.” That was a quote from Maya Angelou’s poem titled‚ Human Family. Human family talks about the diversity and similarity in the world. Former president Barack Obama presented a speech when he was running for president‚ his speech was about America‚ it’s goals‚ it’s diversity‚ and its past. The theme in both of the pieces are similar in a sense that they both emphasize heavily on being united‚ diverse‚ and believing in wants right. But both authors

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    The Poison Tree I was angry with my friend I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end I was angry with my foe I told it not‚ my wrath did grow and I watered it in fears Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles And with soft deceitful wiles And it grew both day and night Till it bore an apple bright And my foe beheld it shine And he knew that it was mine And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole In the morning glad

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    starts to reflect on his journey and realises the many things he has learnt about himself. In this poem the underworld is expressed as a place where it is beyond the living and a‚ “darkness devoid of time.” “Afraid and hideously enriched‚” This oxymoron conveys

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    A poem in which the poet explores the emotion of loss is “Visiting Hour” by Norman MacCaig. ‘Visiting Hour’ is a poem dealing with someone visiting a close relative in hospital who is terminally ill. The poet creates this loss emotion through his use of structure‚ metaphors and creates an ultimate acceptance theme to enhance my understanding of the central concerns of the poem. MacCaig starts off the poem by using different types of structure‚ including enjambment‚ repetition and word order‚ to

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    Yr 10 Romeo and Juliet coursework How does Shakespeare shape your response to the lovers’ first meeting in Act 1 Scene 5? Shakespeare shapes our response to the lovers’ first meeting in many ways. He continuously drops clues about their marriage in every scene leading to their first meeting and uses many different techniques and devices. An example of a device used is the chorus. The play was set in Verona‚ Italy. The story of Romeo and Juliet was around a long time before Shakespeare’s version

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    Havisham and thoughts of her lover’s betrayal will haunt her throughout the rest of her life‚ her pain in ongoing and never ending. Duffy takes away Miss Havisham’s title; by doing this she strips her of her identity in society. Duffy’s use of an oxymoron and pejorative‚ ‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’‚ has an undercurrent of violence‚ and emphasises Havisham’s conflicting emotions about her ex lover. The use of dark‚ monosyllabic language like ‘dead’‚ coupled with the harsh ‘d’ sound shows how detached

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    dead. The main idea presented in the poem also is the story of Le’Brun; someone who was feared by society because he was obviously different and this was even revealed through the poets presentation of his attire. Devices Oxymoron- Line 9 ‘Christian Witches.’ This oxymoron emphasizes the dual nature of the women in the village. They gossip because of the fear of difference they sense in Le’Brun and act in an unchristian like manner in their responses/reactions toward him. Alliteration- Line 1

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    felt different. Another example of a literary device was when the narrator uses repetition to emphasize how important this feeling of suddenly being different was. This was highlighted when the lyrics “Today I felt a switch in my vein” are said. Oxymorons are used in “I’m just a picture perfect nothing” to emphasize what they used to be versus what they could become. The final example of literary devices was seen in the lyrics “I’ll be a picture perfect human/ Before the sun goes down today.” This

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