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    The Life of Pi‚ a Religious Metahor By: Yann Martel In the Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel‚ through the main character in the book‚ Pi‚ makes the following statement‚ “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.” In the world today‚ zoos have come under scrutiny because of their practices of illegally trapping animals and caging them for profit. The animal rights movement across the world has brought more focus

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    Historical Highlights The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)serves as the nations principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans‚ and providing essential human services. HHS has enjoyed many highlights since becoming a separate agency‚ while its roots go back as far as the early days of our nation. See Secretaries of HHS/HEW 2010 The Affordable Care Act was signed into law‚ putting in place comprehensive U.S. health insurance reforms. 2003 The Medicare Prescription Drug

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    The metaphor of red and blue oceans describes the market universe. Red Oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans‚ industry boundaries are defined and accepted‚ and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of product or service demand. As the market space gets crowded‚ prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities or niche‚ and cutthroat competition

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    Marketing Theory http://mtq.sagepub.com/ Beyond Visual Metaphor: A New Typology of Visual Rhetoric in Advertising Barbara J. Phillips and Edward F. McQuarrie Marketing Theory 2004 4: 113 DOI: 10.1177/1470593104044089 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mtq.sagepub.com/content/4/1-2/113 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Marketing Theory can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mtq.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://mtq

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    The film The Legend of Bagger Vance‚ based on the novel of the same name by Steven Pressfield‚ is a movie that transports the philosophical Hindu text‚ the Bhagavad Gita‚ from a celebrated battlefield‚ approximately during the 4th century BCE‚ in India to a fictional southern golf course in Savannah‚ Georgia during the Great Depression. The predominant theme of dharma (or duty) is a major point that both these works focus on. The Legend of Bagger Vance is told from the point of view of Harvey Greaves

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    short story‚ "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield‚ the main character‚ Miss Brill‚ is developed with the use to symbols and patterns of metaphors. The story is about Miss Brill’s routine on Sundays‚ and how she is interpreting the world around her‚ and her role in it. The main metaphors that are used are her fur coat‚ the old people‚ and her seat. All these metaphors help show that Miss Brill doesn’t live life‚ but only views it. Miss Brill’s fur coat is introduced in the first paragraph of the story

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    Gilman uses metaphor in The Yellow Wallpaper to comment on the destructive and oppressive social constructions of True Womanhood‚ an ideology present at the time Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The eponymous wallpaper is metaphor for not only the narrator’s state of mental deterioration‚ but of the “pattern of social and economic dependence”1 of women‚ reducing them to household servants. The metaphors created in The Yellow Wallpaper lead to a feminist interpretation as each can be argued to comment

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    5/12 including all of these concepts: Topics: -aside -apostrophe (literary term‚ not punctuation) -hyperbole -subtext -paradox -soliloquy -iambic pentameter -meter vs. prose in Shakespeare -When and Why Shakespeare uses rhyme -clothing metaphors in Macbeth -use of threes in Macbeth -the historical‚ real Macbeth -the Globe Theater -acting companies in Renaissance England -Why King James is the intended audience of Macbeth Each student is INDIVIDUALLY responsible for turning in all

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    In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ metaphors concerning the moon‚ flowers‚ and Cupid are prevalent and have a significant impact on the play. The play focuses on a romantic situation between four Athenians: Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Helena‚ and Demetrius. As the story unravels‚ many comparisons are made to enhance the language and the messages that the characters try to convey. The moon is personified as a chaste woman who can be both gentle and fiery. Flowers are used as romantic symbols with

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    fashionable necklace‚ for a really important event. But then‚ she lost it. In The Necklace‚ Guy de Maupassant shows his abilities for writing excellent drama stories using metaphors‚ imagery and setting . Guy de Maupassant is a very good drama and suspense writer. He is a good writer because he uses metaphors mostly perfect way. His metaphors make you enjoy a lot more the reading. When you read a story written by him‚ you can have a perfect image in your head from what is the reading about. That is a very

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