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    subduing this companion‚ or maybe looking for another company he could dominate over. The existence of these competitions could be attributed to the principle that man is inherently evil. With these competitions‚ comes diffidence and glory. Man is constantly in pursuit of these three‚ whether we are aware of it or not. Man exists in the external world as a reactive creature that senses objects and is driven to act by the constant motions of the world. These constant motions lead to man’s

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    classical tripartite structure‚ and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7‚ "For whatsoever a man soweth‚ that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing"‚ Book II is entitled "Reaping"‚ and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose father is involved with the circus

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    ------------------------------------------------- Key Facts full title: Hard Times for These Times author: Charles Dickens type of work: Novel genre: Victorian novel; realist novel; satire; dystopia language: English time and place written: 1854‚ London date of first publication: Published in serial instalments in Dickens’s magazine Household Words between April 1 and August 12‚ 1854 publisher: Charles Dickens narrator: The anonymous narrator serves as a moral authority

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    by Pat Mora‚ personification is used to represent what the poem means. ¨Gold¨ takes place in a desert and the narrator is a girl. “Gold‚” is a poem about a girl who goes into the desert and feels right. She hangs out with her friends which are lizards‚ rabbits‚ and birds. This poem is told in first person. The tone is soothing and calm. The girl feels she is in sync with nature and she belongs there. She feels like it is her home. In ¨Gold‚¨ one of the examples of personification is ¨Sun paints

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    Oedipus often uses personification in his dialogs to make them more emotional. “stab of memory taking me insane” (pg. 240‚ lines 1455-1456) In this quote‚ Oedipus talks about his true feelings. He personifies his thoughts and describes how they stab him with bits if his memories. He continues by saying that these stabs are driving him insane and what he has done is all on him‚ therefore‚ he should be “cast” away. A theme found in Oedipus The King is - We are our own worst enemy. Oedipus clearly

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    In “The Rocking-Horse Winner‚” there is a lot of personification used in the story. However‚ the most important personification that affected the story’s plot development was when the house was talking. DH Lawrence draws a connection between the house being able to talk‚ and emphasizing the family’s increase of needing and wanting more money. The personification of the house affects the exposition by showing the family’s unspoken greed for money. The story starts out as the house is “whispering”

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    In chapter thirteen there is one specific passage that holds a lot of meaning. This passage uses personification with the sun and how it “[sent] up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark‚ he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made and went about his business all dressed in white.” This example of personification makes the sun seem like a person. The sun looks over the “door sill of the world” which is another way to say the sun was coming up and it got rid of the darkness

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    In Emily Dickinson’s poems “A word is dead‚” “The heart asks pleasure first‚” and “Because I could not stop for Death”‚ personification is used to understand the meaning. In “A word is dead‚” the poem is about when a word is spoken many believe it loses meaning‚ but Dickinson says it “begins to live that day.” Dickinson uses personification to describe “a word is dead” and “begins to live.” A word is an expression one uses. A word cannot die nor live‚ it can only happen through the actions of a

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    centuries‚ presidents have influenced sense if security for their citizens as they strive for a positive future towards America’s base. Many as Abraham Lincoln cared to “bind up the nation’s wounds” especially after the battle for civil rights. Personification can be referred to as a description of the post war society as it implies the country needing a fix with an appeal of ethos. A message of optimism is therefore sent to convey the presence of aspiration in Lincoln’s mind‚ even in a time of division

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    [pic] [pic] I. Company overview Alpenliebe is one of the popular product line of candy Manufacture Co.‚ Ltd. Perfetti Van Melle Vietnam with 100% foreign capital (PVM) Production‚ with the message "sweet as loving embrace"‚ the label for Alpenliebe quickly earning an important place in the market. Each in the top 10 of the most popular brands in 2006-2007‚ Alpenliebe is the biggest brand in the family candy Perfetti and also the market leading brands candy Vietnam. Flavor cream sweet ngaoif

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