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    Valentine ‘Valentine’ is a controversial love poem written by Carol Ann Duffy. Throughout the poem the poetess compares love to an onion and she does that by using a variety of techniques such as imagery‚ symbolism‚ word choice and structure. All these techniques justify why Valentine is an unusual love-poem as they help the poet express her different point of view. Overall‚ the poem is unusual as its title mistakenly leads the reader into thinking that the poem will be typical. I felt deeply moved

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    I liked the DVD better than the written version A Christmas Carol. The reason I liked the DVD better‚ because it goes into more detail than the party does. Also instead of me having to visualize it myself‚ then I can just watch the movie. I also do not like to read if I do not have to. For the people who can’t read‚ the movie is a much better choice for them. In the story and the movie Marley were dead. Scrooge was also very good friends with Marly before he had passed away. Scrooge had also heard

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    In the novel A Christmas Carol‚ Ebenezer Scrooge is a man who is portrayed as very cold hearted‚ “the cold within him froze his features”. He always kept attention to himself and never cared about anyone else. The whole town knew him as a bad man‚ even “the blindmen’s dogs knew him… and would tug their owners into corners away from him”. Jacob Marley was his partner in life‚ and even though their relationship was for business only‚ he was Scrooge’s only friend. In regret from his own life‚ Marley

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    Compare and contrast essay I will compare the history of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” that is a play with the film “From Scrooge”. They are the same history develop in a different way because they roll in entertainment the world are different. I like a lot plays but also the movies. Let´s checks its comparison. Characters in the history are completely the same ones. Neither another character neither a missing character. In the play‚ characters are like more expressive and sarcastic‚ like

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    In chapter four of Mindset‚ author Carol Dweck explores how mindsets affect profession athletes. She uses examples of top performing athletes and how their mindset is connected to their performance on the court. Renowned psychologist‚ Carol Dweck correctly portrays how athletes incredible performance is directly connected to their growth mindset. Dweck uses Michael Jordan‚ one of the greatest basketball players of all time‚ and how he rebounded from failure. Through his mother telling him to ‘.

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    couples understand the aspects properly within the medical world. The book gives knowledge for stressful sexual situations‚ which usually are corrected. It also allows couples to realize‚ they are not the only ones with such concerns. Since people have learned about sexuality‚ or the lack there of through family members‚ friends‚ and church the book helps to illustrate unreliable information at times need only be corrected through proper communications or

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    Tonielle Jackson Dr. Manson English 351-01 March 13‚ 2013 Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol During the year of 1843 employer/employee relations were known to be horrible and no one thought it would change for the better. Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol gives a great description of how the relations were carried out. In his novella‚ Dickens reveals the harsh conditions and lack of relationship between the employer and employee. Through this novella we can see that the relationship

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    In the poem Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy‚ who is the 1st female poet Laurate‚ destructive power of jealousy is described from Medusa’s point of view. Duffy also explores the physical effects of emotional distress when her suspicion‚ doubt and fear transform into a filthy snakes. Duffy displays these by using a powerful language‚ effective tones and different text structures. Carol Ann Duffy uses language very effectively to enhance the understanding and fluency of the poem. She uses alliterations

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    poem “Originally‚” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ she is writing from a point of view of a child to adult for the reader to understand how she felt when she was a young girl moving to how she feels now. This poem is from the “The Other Country” collection‚ they all have a central theme of growing up with literary devices of imagery‚ diction‚ and alliteration threaded through the poem to help grab the reader’s attention. Duffy writes this poem using symbols as if she is telling the story to someone because that

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    philosopher‚ Wayne Dyer‚ once said‚ “If you change the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change.” If you realize what you have done wrong‚ you can change how you act the next time you are in the same situation. In the play‚ A Christmas Carol‚ the main character‚ Scrooge‚ was only able to look upon money‚ nothing else. To change‚ Scrooge had to change the way he looked at money and his life; he needed to focus on the more important things‚ like family and caring for others. In the beginning

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