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    justify the principle of the uniformity of nature‚ inductively and deductively; Hume claims that PUN cannot be justified either way because to attempt to justify the principle inductively would be fallacious in the sense that it ends in a circular argument. To attempt to justify the principle deductively would also be impossible: one would need premises strong enough to prove with certainty that PUN is real which is nonviable. I will explain why Hume is correct in the sense that the principle cannot

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    oh his approach in The Importance of Being Earnest. In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde uses many witty literary devices‚ such as puns‚ epigrams‚ and inversions‚ to reveal the absurdity of his Victorian society’s hypocritical mortality. Puns have very little pull in the literary drama biased world‚ although they are still often used. Puns can add humor unknowingly. The audience may not even realize it until they study the script on closer detail. This type of humor tends to add

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    SL Text 37: When the hens heard this‚ they raised a terrible outcry. TL Text 37: وحين سمعت الدجاحات ذلك أطلقت صرخة عالية مريعة (مزرعة الحيوانات، الفصل السابع، ص 127). In the example (37)‚ one Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens‚ who had just come in to lay again‚ must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had accepted‚ through Whymper‚ a contract for four hundred eggs a week. The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions

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    “You better run‚ you better do what you can‚” These lyrics come from the song “Beat It” by Michael Jackson. A girl from the short story “Priscilla and the wimps” did the exact opposite of that. She was not afraid of anyone‚ in fact‚ she did not even know who the big bad bully was. Richard Peck‚ who wrote the short story‚ “Priscilla and the wimps” uses caricatures and comic language to show the universal truth to stand up for others by using one’s advantages‚ such as being tall. Peck used caricatures

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    Explain the problem of induction- Discuss two different solutions to it. The problem of induction is the philosophical issue of whether using induction to justify our beliefs is reasonable. We have memories and experience from past events that allow us to prepare for the future. Although the future is not certain‚ using generalizations and predictions‚ we can assume with some certainty that‚ what will happen tomorrow‚ will be similar‚ if not the same as what happened today. We use induction

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    humor was not added‚ Romeo and Juliet would have been a very tiresome romance about love and death. Many of the puns in the play are put in frequently for humor‚ with one main goal of making the audience laugh. In the opening scene of Act One‚ two capulet servants named Gregory and Sampson‚ boast about what they will do

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    to the play because it ultimately alters the entire pace of the scene with Mercutio’s puns‚ it foreshadows the entire story‚ and it helps develop theme. Shakespeare also uses literal qualities to enhance the speech. Queen Mab altering the entire scene because Mercutio’s speech is full of puns shows significance to the overall play. Therefore the entire Queen Mab is a monologue that is an extended pun. A pun that really stood out was when Mercutio said‚ “That dreamers often lie” (Act i Scene

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    Throughout Romeo and Juliet‚ William Shakespeare uses these words to convey more than their surface value. This is done by using confusion‚ most notably in the form of oxymorons and puns. Confusion is Shakespeare’s primary asset when creating the irony within his story. He accomplishes this primarily by utilizing oxymorons and puns. This asset is first shown in an argument between servants of the houses of Montague and Capulet. Tybalt accuses Benvolio of hypocrisy because of the fact that Benvolio‚ the

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    1 Babylon University Homonymy in English and Arabic: A Contrastive Study By: Lecturer Ahmed Mohammed Ali Abdul Ameer (ME in Methods of Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Department of English College of Education (Safi yil Deen Al-Hilli) University of Babylon Asst. Lecturer Areej As’ad Ja’far Altaie (MA in English Language and Linguistics) Department of English College of Education (Safi yil Deen Al-Hilli) University of Babylon 2010 2 Introduction In fact‚ although

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    characters. A second literary device used in the play is the use of puns. A pun is another element noted early on in Julius Caesar. When Marullus addresses the Cobbler‚ the pun begins. Cobbler is meant to have two meanings in this dialog: 1 - a shoemaker and 2 - a bungler. The Cobbler refers to himself as a "mender of bad soles‚" playing with the word "soles." Marullus interprets the Cobbler as a mender of "souls." The usage of puns adds some light humor to the play as well as reflecting on the characters

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