FR 511 – Bakhtin (Day one) Summary The subject of our October 29th lecture was Mikhail Bakhtin and his text “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics.” To start the class‚ Dr. Wall reminded us that Laura talked about polyphony in her presentation the week before‚ and that that was where we would start the lecture on Bakhtin. To help the class better understand the concept of polyphony‚ we were shown a piece of music written by Bach: “No. 4 of 6 little preludes.” In the piece‚ the right hand was singing
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AP Rhetorical Devices List Anecdote Perspective Aphorism A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature A character’s view of the situation or events in the story A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. The writings of Benjamin Franklin contain many aphorisms‚ such as "Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man healthy‚ wealthy‚ and wise." Contradiction A direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency Apostrophe
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1. Strategy in the second half of the 1980s: Having innovative‚ high-quality products and being a reliable‚ responsive supplier. 2. (1) Benefits of the “half-life”: it will encourage the company to reduce cost and defective rates. The total quality of the production has been improved. (2) Limitations of the “half-life”: it focuses only cost‚ not revenues. The quality goals and the company’s goals were in conflict. Half-life made the whole company centered on the quality improvement‚ while
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Dante Alighieri: A Poetic Descent into Metaphorical Hell "Abandon all hope‚ ye who enter here" Only through a journey into hell can we hope to attain paradise... His Early Life: Dante Alighieri was born under the sign of Gemini‚ he was thought to be born on May 29‚ but this is not certain. He was born in Florence‚ the son of Alighiero II‚ his family was one of lower nobility. His mother died when he was a child and his father when he was eighteen. According to him‚ the most profound
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where he is ’seen’ swinging on the birches‚ and lastly Frost describes his desires to return to his childhood‚ wanting to start over. This poem contains no rhyme scheme and is not divided into stanzas. Frost utilizes the use of various literary devices‚ such as personification‚ symbolism‚ alliteration‚ and metaphors to describe to the audience the difficulties life throws at us‚ and how one can persevere with the aid of innocent images found in many of our childhood memories within our souls. The
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|Lexical stylistic devices | |Metaphor |Перенос качества с предмета на предмет; neck‚ which was a relief map of boil scars; this girl | | |was a lioness. | |Personification |the face of London;
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Analog Devices’ strategy in the second half of the 1980s: (1985-1990) In 1983‚ Ray Stata recognized that ADI was having problems with the quality of its production‚ so he implemented the concept of total quality management into the company management control system. He hired Schneiderman‚ an expert in practicing TQM and implemented the “half-life” concept and corporate scorecard into the control system. The “half-life” concept Evaluation of the “half-life” concept in light of Analog Devices’ strategy
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Timothy Cho 02/04/13 Professor Close English 102 G2 Elliot Ness: Hero or Great Story Teller? In Elliot Ness’ memoir The Untouchables‚ the author personally narrates the story of how the name “Untouchables” came to be. After being released from prison‚ Al Capone was starting trouble again in the streets of Chicago. Capone tries to bribe the police officers trying to take down his operation but Ness and his team refused the bribes. Being proud of this accomplishment Ness immediately goes
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According to Elliot Aronson in his book The Social Animal we are in a constant tension between our values of individuality and conformity. We want to fit in with the group without losing our unique qualities. However‚ at one point or another we all conform whether it be changing our answer from line B to line A in Solomon Asch’s experiment or changing our positions in an argument in order to be more liked by the group. All of this relates to self-esteem in some way‚ how we perceive our value to
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find out soon. Life is like a battlefield but only it feels longer even though it may not be. You don’t only enjoy life but you can also dread it as a person‚ you go through so many different feelings and actions throughout your life. One of the poetic devices is style‚ it shows this
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