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    relation to other people; the extended self – the self in relation to its past actions; the private self – the emotions and thoughts that are only yours; and the conceptual self – the roles that we‚ as people‚ play in society to others. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story of Tim’s journey to self-knowledge. The story of one unified self would not for either Neisser or O’Brien. While reading‚ O’Brien tells stories about himself and the people close to him before‚ during‚ and after the

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    Describe strategies and working practices used to minimise abuse. In this assignment i will be describing different strategies and working practices used in different health and social care settings to minimise abuse. Looking at different characteristics of abuse is the fundamental part in trying to minimise abuse. There are different types of strategies i will be describing the following six: Written and Oral Communications Anti-Discriminatory Practices Use of IT Strategies Needs

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    11 Mrs. Pepe 12/15/13 Rhetorical Essay Common throughout religious stories we read today mainly focuses on how the author feels about their faith. However‚ in Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter it composed a both beautiful and tragic story while still creating a deep impact on the conflicting views of the society and nature in the Puritan society. Hawthorne uses his main characters in this novel to focus on three main rhetorical strategies; symbolism‚ hypocrisy and maliciousness

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    The novels If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried were both written by Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam War veteran and all of the novels he wrote are about his times in the war. He includes the same characters in the stories‚ but changed their names and descriptions. I do not believe that O’Brien wrote the books for any political reason. Both of the novels have very much in common including the style that it is written‚ and the stories that are told. There are also differences

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    not doing anything to make a change in society‚ which is why he keeps on repeatedly saying that “ Now is the time”‚ because he wants action to be done and not delayed.He wants the audience to feel irate and pressing.The use of “ I have a dream” is used a multitude of times in his speech; he uses this phrase to make the audience realize that his dream of racial equity is in fact reachable. MLK not only compels about his dream‚ but authorizes his dream to be “ ...deeply rooted in the American dream”

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    In addition‚ he used techniques to improve his speech as metaphors. And we can see examples of metaphors in the phrases “Nor have we neglected any means of making it crystal clear” “we shall stand at the bar of history of knowing that the responsibilities…” and many other

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    The best way to live is to remember that you’ll die. The CEO and founder of Apple and Pixar‚ Steve Jobs presents his speech‚ about finding and doing what you love‚ to the Stanford graduating class of 2005. Job’s purpose in his commencement speech was to convince and encourage the graduates to follow their heart in their pursuit of happiness‚ no matter what obstacles get in their way. Throughout his speech he adopted a serious tone as he convinced them to “…find what you love…” (4)‚ through anecdotes

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    THE AGING WORK FORCE: BUSINESS STRATEGIES The Aging Work Force: Business Strategies Used by Employers S. L. Lemmon Texas A & M University Commerce Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3 Employee Benefits………………………………………………………………………………..3 Training an Aging Workforce…………………………………………………………………….5 Human Capital…………………………………………………………………………………….6 Summary…………………………………………………………………………………………..7 References…………………………………………………………………………………………8 The Aging Work

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    let the reader decide whether he may be a coward or not. The TED Talks explain why veterans miss the war and why it’s difficult to adjust from war‚ which connects to The Things They Carried because there are stories about people who miss the war and people who couldn’t adjust to the war. Within the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien tells what happened figuratively‚ the story truth‚ and what happened

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    transport the reader to a dimension of pure concentrated realism‚ wonderment‚ and imagination. This is not to say that the rest of the books within the selection are unable to achieve a similar goal‚ but rather to stress the point that the rhetorical devices used within In Cold Blood aid in the creation of the aforementioned

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