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    trial by jury of our peers. Where exactly do you see that right‚ which is rightfully ours‚ in plea bargains? How can our trial and court system not bestow the punishment that fits the crime? When we give the accused freedom of choice‚ isn’t that an oxymoron? The only effectiveness I can see in the court system plea bargains is that solely the courts are benefitting from them. The courts save time‚ money and the prosecutors save themselves from a huge workload. Plea bargains have no effectiveness on

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    SCOPE OF STUDY THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY IS ‘’AN EXAMINATON OF THE LINGUISTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SELECTED POETIC DAVICES IN THE MENDE LANGUAGE’’. THIS WILL INCLUDE SIMILE‚ METAHOR‚ PERSONIFICATON‚ ALLITERATION‚ ASSONANCE‚ HYPERBOLE‚ ONOMATOPOEIA‚ SYMBOLS‚ OXYMORON‚ IMAGERY‚ SPEAKER‚ STANZA‚ TONE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF POETIC DEVICES‚ THEIR FUNCTIONS‚ HOW THEY ARE RELATED TO 0THER LANGUAGES [EXAMPLE ENGLISH]. IN ADDITION‚ FOR THE RESEACH TO MEET IT GOALS‚ IT WILL LOOK AT THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF THE LANGUAGE AND ITS

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    Romeo replies to Juliet’s speech by agreeing to disown his name “Henceforth‚ I never will be Romeo”. Shakespeare implies the danger that the lovers are in when Juliet points out “the place death‚ considering who thou art”. This creates tension for the audience‚ and demonstrates Juliet’s concern for Romeo’s safety – “If they do see thee‚ they will murder thee.” Romeo speaks metaphorically when he says “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls”‚ suggesting there is no boundary to

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    All Quiet on the western Front The earth‚ as in the soil beneath our feet‚ is taken for granted every single day‚ but never by a soldier on the front lines. Erich Maria Remarque explains this through his character Paul Bäumer in the excerpt of his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Paul is explaining the effects that war on the front can leave with a soldier‚ the hopelessness‚ instinct of an animal‚ and appreciation for things as simple as the earth that we walk on. While explaining these effects

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    Poetry Essay: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" Dylan Thomas wrote "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in 1951 in response to emotions he was feeling about his dying father. Thomas uses villanelle‚ tone‚ alliteration‚ and conceit to craft a masterful work‚ that gradually progresses encompassing the emotion and rage he is feeling‚ while maintaining control through diction and form. Thomas’s father was an outgoing military man most of his life. Seeing his father fading into non-existence

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    resolution of a problem. Difficulties began to arise where possible courses of action involve a mixture of harm and good consequences‚ or require a choice between harmful and good consequences. Business ethics‚ it has been claimed (Collins‚ 1994) is an oxymoron. By this‚ Collins means that business ethics is a contradiction in terms‚ he claims these words do not go together‚ with the assumption businesses are simply out to make a profit and therefore are amoral. Business ethics has also been described as

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    Bear Matthews Engligh January 7th‚ 2016 Basalt High School Ms. Wagner Gender Roles in To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee surreptitiously investigated ethnic and class-based problems that delved into gender responsibilities. First‚ Harper Lee chose the name Scout‚ which unquestionably transcends both boys and girls. Scout then metamorphoses‚ although symbolically‚ from being a girl to a boy and then returning to her female role. In doing so‚ she imbues the social-cultural

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    Heaney juxtaposes the ‘soft’ with ‘soused’ describing what has been done to the kittens. This allows a comparison between the two words and by doing this the poet has made the drowning of the kittens seem horrifying and cruel. Moreover‚ Heaney uses an oxymoron to describe the kittens as ‘glossy and dead’; here this image shows the clear contrast between the kittens being shiny as if new but dead. The contrast of the two words is absurd and this highlights the idea of the cruelty towards the poor kittens

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    The text under analysis is an essay titled “Knowledge” written by G.N.M.Tyrrell. It is an example of the argumentative type of an essay‚ because the author introduces a problematic issue and tries to influence the reader’s attitude with the help of reasoning; nevertheless‚ it contains instances of narration which is resorted for providing a factual base. The writer aims to make the reader think of the impact of progress and evoke consciousness about the use of knowledge in him/her. To be as convincing

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    Owen wrote this poem to express the damage done through war towards the humanity of the soldiers and men involved; he evokes empathy in the readers using techniques such as war imagery and personification. In the first stanza‚ he makes us‚ as readers‚ feel distant from the ‘mental cases’‚ ‘these’‚ ‘they’ and ‘their’ all create a space between us and them; however he includes us in line eight‚ ‘we’ are mentioned (line 8). By not naming them‚ he makes a representation of what they lost (who they

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