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    The Drover's Wife

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    The Drover’s Wife The Drover’s wife‚ whose writer is Henry Lawson‚ describes a bush woman whose husband was away for droving. The story mainly shows about the challenging life of an independent woman with four children. One day‚ there was a snake entered the house while the children were playing about the house and she was cooking. Unfortunately‚ she could no nothing on the snake because it disappeared suddenly into a crack. To prevented safety for her children‚ she stayed awake all night long

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    Satire: Pc Hyperbole

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    content in the video Satire: PC‚ the video basically illustrates the topic of politically correctness through quotidian conversations between two high-school students. One of the students gets shackled by a shock collar from the third student‚ who performs a supervisor. The supervisor makes the shock collar beep whenever the student discusses something politically incorrectly; for example‚ the supervisor says “You can’t say ugly. You have to say visually challenging.” (Satire: PC) Utilizing “visually

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    Astronomer's Wife

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    story titled Astronomer’s Wife‚ author Kay Boyle tells a superb story of Mrs. Ames a woman who has forgotten her strength and beauty‚ whose life is missing it’s true identity because of her husband’s control. Mrs. Ames tells the story in third person as the protagonist‚ with her being the main character. The plumber is antagonist‚ who brings changes into Mrs. Ames’ life giving her back her lost identity. Mr. Ames uses control through out the story by isolating his wife from the rest of the world

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    The Great Gatsby as a Satire Satire is an implement used by authors to point out a flaw of society or group of people in general. There are different levels of satire that the author can use. For example‚ the author may employ a type a formal satire known as Juvenalian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with anger and contempt for it in a bitter fashion. There is also the contrasting form of Juvenalian satire called Horatian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with

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    The Astronomers Wife

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    Many stories contain foils or an opposing character so that the author can be able to make contrast with the main character and another so it highlights and sharpens their own characteristics. In the story “Astronomers Wife” we see a strong foil between two of the characters because of the protagonist‚ Mrs. Ames‚ who describes both men in very different views through their attitudes towards people‚ work ethics and their different intelligentsia. Another way that Mrs. Ames differs the

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    DEFINITIONS: Focus Charting - is a method for organizing health information in the individual ’s record. It is a systematic approach to documentation‚ using nursing terminology to describe individual ’s health status and nursing action. Focus • a key word or diagnostic category from a nursing diagnosis or collaborative problem on the plan of care (action plan)‚ i.e. skin integrity‚ coping‚ activity tolerance‚ self care deficit • a current individual concern or behavior‚

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    The Wife of Bath’s Faithfulness In The Canterbury Tales‚ Geoffrey Chaucer reveals the characteristics of the Wife of Bath through her tale and background. Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath as a woman of faith through her religious actions and beliefs despite her human faults. Chaucer states in the General Prologue that “not a dame dared stir/ [t]owards the altar steps in front of her‚” meaning that no one stepped in front of her to receive communion (GP ll. 459-460). If one did go ahead of

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    Enlightenment Satire Essay 1. Name two themes for the play. Discuss how Moliere develops each. The play Tartuffe written by Moliere depicts two fundamental themes‚ Hypocrisy and Deception. Tartuffe is a satire of the religious fanaticism and hypocrisy and deception were the major ideas that Moliere was trying to point out. Hypocrisy is one claiming to have moral or religious believes‚ but doesn’t really possess it. It’s the act of not practicing what one preaches. Moliere was trying to get

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    Many satires use irony and/or humor to entertain their audience while at the same time present a serious topic. The satires “The Little Girl and the Wolf‚” and “The Princess and the Tin Box” both by James Thurber‚ use the literary techniques of irony/humor in order to expose a serious message. In “The Little Girl and the Wolf” Thurber changes the plot-line of the fairy-tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” In his “The Princess and the Tin Box” Thurber changes the princess’ actions than what the reader

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    Have you ever seen Jay Leno or Mad TV over exaggerate or mock the society? If you’re up late enough and have‚ then‚ you probably encountered the works of satire. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses a great deal of satire. The author‚ Mark Twain‚ uses satire against religion‚ government‚ and society in general. I believe that without satire in the media‚ there wouldn’t be enough humor. Throughout the novel‚ we meet people whose live were ruined by alcoholism. Huck’s father is a drunken‚ abusive

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