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    “A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allen Poe caught my eye because it reminded me of the matrix. In the poem‚ Poe’s speaker is flung into a mental war with himself‚ questioning his own existence and the deeper meanings of life. Poe begins his poem by telling an anecdote about a conversation he had with his lover. In the conversation‚ he is departing from his love‚ but says to her that she is not wrong to think that everything which we know is “but a dream within a dream” (11). This raises a very interesting

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    Chinua Achebe uses many techniques in Things Fall Apart‚ such as foreshadowing. Ikemefuna‚ who was murdered in the book‚ was referred as an “ill-fated boy” a few chapters before he died. This shows that Ikemefuna was going to die‚ and it already makes the readers wonder what is going to happen to Ikemefuma. Also‚ Obierka tells Okonkwo that when the missionaries come he should kill himself‚ and in the end of the book Okonkwo hangs himself. Use of flashback is a huge technique used; in chapter 16

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    Brave New World Chapter 9-10 1. Rhetorical device (can use diction‚ sentence structure‚ grammar‚ etc) and/or Logical Fallacies: Identify 5 Rhetorical devices or Logical Fallacies in each chapter and discuss what effect it has on the tone‚ message‚ etc – in other words‚ what is its significance? Quote with page number Rhetorical Device/ Fallacy Effect ** This is the MOST IMPORTANT part‚ so make this really insightful** “Zip‚ and then zip; zip‚ and then zip; he was enchanted.” pg. 143 Epanalepsis

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    Is Seeing Believing?

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    ‘Theory of Knowledge’ Name: Nkole C Date: 19th October‚ 2012. Instructor: Maurice H ‘Seeing is believing.’ Belief is the mental reliance or acceptance of a condition. It causes people to validate and actualise what they have or get as information and consequently apply that to other situations in order to create new patterns- what is called Knowledge. ‘Seeing’ refers to the sensation of obtaining information through sight‚ or our senses. People can claim to obtain their knowledge in many different

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    train and by the lady in the yellow water proof coat. In this short excerpt from the story the author begins each paragraph with “And” making the transition from paragraph to paragraph a bit robotic‚ choppy and simple and is an example of a rhetorical device called anaphora. The author’s words choice

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    My First Time Experience

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    My first time experience I remember when I went scuba diving for the first time. It was the summer of 2002. My Dad‚ his two friends Mark and Bob‚ and I went on a scuba diving trip to San Carlos‚ Mexico with a group of scuba divers from June 21st-29th. It was June 22nd‚ a beautiful day. The temperature was at about 90 degrees and it was very sunny. I was on big nice scuba diving boat along with the other eight divers on the trip and captain and co-captain. The boat was headed to an island about

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    purpose to inform the nation on how African-americans should be granted the same freedom with no violence. This speech was presented in front of 250‚000 people‚ mainly those who were for King’s cause. While listening to this speech the main rhetorical device‚ metaphor‚ is presented. He used metaphor when he referred to drinking to together as white and black‚ he said “ “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred”‚ King meant that we can’t

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    America Needs Its Nerds”‚ by Leonid Fridman‚ analyzes American society’s approach on how it views its intellectuals. In the following passage‚ Fridman describes how American society should stop looking down on academically serious people‚ by calling them “nerds” and “geeks”. Instead‚ these individuals should be treated with more respect. Also‚ he explains in the passage how Americans stress being social and athletic‚ rather than being intellectually adroit. Fridman develops his argument that America

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    ways of seeing

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    John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” is an in depth look on art‚ the way people view it and the influences that traditional oil painting has had on society and modern day publicity. The beginning of the book goes into the issue of how people now look at art versus how people in the past look at art and how reproduction has effected this. The relationship between social status and the subjects of oil painting‚ particularly the female nude is discussed as well. Berger turns

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    perception‚ is definitely an elaborate procedure. Some may consider “seeing” as a privilege to humankind‚ because‚ although most animals are able to view something‚ only humans really have the ability to process and interpret what we see. Others‚ conversely‚ find “seeing” to be an overrated act of escaping reality via ones imagination. John Berger is‚ perhaps‚ one of these pessimists. In Ways of Seeing‚ Berger does introduce “seeing” as a fundamental mechanism in interpreting our world. Often‚ according

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