1. What is diction? (5 points) an author’s word choice words that are inverted connotation in dialect formal language in poetry 2. Which of the following lines from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" shows an example of dialect? (10 points) "I wish you would write me‚ say once a year‚" I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy. How long I sat beside Calypso I don’t know. "What were ye doin’ there?" 3. Read the following paragraph from John Muir’s "The Calypso Borealis" and
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22197 A Hopeless Tone is Created from Personal Experiences Established and weathered authors use certain literary techniques to further enhance the reader’s experience. Tone is one of these techniques‚ and is easily described as the general character or attitude of a piece of writing. Tim O’Brien’s combat experience in Vietnam led him to suffer from PTSD‚ and this condition led him to establish a hopeless tone in the first chapter of The Things They Carried. The author’s interview introduces
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Dear America’s Next Top Model (ANTM)‚ I believe you promote a negative self-image to women. Personally watching your show upsets me in many ways. As a young adult I still look up to actors‚ actresses and models. But you also have to remember you have a younger crowd of girls that also watch your show. Little girls from the age of 8 or younger watch Americas Next Top Model. My younger sister would watch your show till my mom would send her to sleep. She used to walk around in heels and wear my
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Literary Analysis In the narrative “Salvation” Langston Hughes vividly paints a picture of himself as a little boy in a charismatic scene of a church where he takes us into his feelings of pressure‚ confusion‚ and disappointment in himself during his “saving” from sin by Jesus. He uses literary devices ‚to build up and develop detail of his experience‚ such as his use of dialogue‚ compression‚ and he writes in the mind of a young boy. Langston Hughes brings emotion and drama to his childhood
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Case Analysis TOP STAR BAKERY I. Perspective held by the student. Though we understand the point of the manager in avoiding extra payment for overtime‚ we can be more sympathetic to employees who worked so hard to address the demand of the clients for the days that other employees are absent. For us‚ we should be paid for the time we’ve work rather than sharing the pay of our colleagues who are absent for the day. If works has been designated equally‚ we may agree with the manager however
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Christian writer Marcus Hurst urges everyone to “maintain an open mind to the truth.” However‚ he sees a problem with people who‚ due to their pride and self-confidence‚ consider their own opinion to be of higher value than the truth. In his book The Box Top to Life’s Puzzle: Explanations for the Mystery of Life (Toplink Publishing‚ 2017)‚ Hurst explains how pride has led certain people to invent lies and embrace falsehood. For Hurst‚ to embrace the truth is to stand “on the ground of humility.” There
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Will Be “We Are Still Only Human” by Verlyn Klinkenborg is an analysis of expectations and human nature in which there is too much of a positive outlook for the future of society. Klinkenborg uses a serious tone that makes his essay fit for a speech. He also uses many techniques to show tone including diction‚ imagery‚ details‚ language‚ and sentence structure. “The politeness that afflicts me is not civility‚ which is an urbane quality compatible even with cynicism”(ll.5-7). Klinkenborg’s choice
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Top shelf: It is unknown why the potaka on the far left is encased in woven string. The two potaka with handles are examples of potaka kukume (humming tops). Bottom shelf: Four examples of stone carved potaka. In A Spin: A Global History of Spinning Tops Spinning tops are among the oldest objects of play in the world. They have been found by archeologists all over the globe and on every continent except Antarctica. Tops have been invented and reinvented by different cultures and can
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Top Management’s Compensation and Its Harmful Effects Introduction Now-a-days it is becoming very common practice among companies to pay very high compensation to their CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) as well as top management executives. When general people come to know that CEOs and top executives draw a huge amount of compensation from their companies‚ they think what a teacher‚ a government employee make and wonder what those executives could possibly be doing to earn so much. But when shareholders
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leadership in 7 points through his video “7 essential qualities of all great leaders”. This definition has touched on some very important points about leadership. It is a video taking the top seven qualities of leadership and stating it in one video in hopes of getting his definition of leader ship out. The story “Top man” written by James Ramsey Ullman has a character named Martin Nace. Trying to a reach the summit of a mountain named K3 Nace makes decisions described to be good by Brian Tracy. In the
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