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    Sy 1 Julia Sy Professor Jillian Tan ENG 11 R42 6 August 2013 Cultural And Gender Diversity in the Cabaret Right after the final examinations of my senior year in high school‚ my mom decided to take a short weekend trip to Thailand. She had booked a ticket to Bangkok‚ and made plans for the both of us‚ including my sister and my aunt who met us up in Thailand‚ to stay at this apartment-hotel at Wireless Road‚ which was conveniently across Central Chidlom department store‚ a mall

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    Features of Mercantilism

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    1. Foreign Trade In the first place the mercantilists laid great empha¬sis on a favourable balance of trade. They held that the strength and richness of a country depends on two things-the possession of gold and silver mines and favourable balance of trade. As all the countries did not possess mines of gold and silver‚ they could built up rich stocks of these metals by exporting maximum of their manufactured articles and import¬ing minimum of commodities from other countries. Highlighting the

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    Stylistic Devices in Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury ’s 1953 Fahrenheit 451 contains a number of interesting stylistic devices. Robert Reilly praises Bradbury for having a style "like a great organ. ..." (73). David Mogen comments on the novel ’s "vivid style" (110). Peter Sisario applauds the "subtle depth" of Bradbury ’s allusions (201)‚ and Donald Watt pursues Bradbury ’s bipolar "symbolic fire" (197) imagery. In recent articles I discussed Bradbury ’s use of mirror imagery and nature imagery.

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    misconceptions and the actual reality of who Florence Nightingale was. Strachey’s euphemism of calling Nightingale "the Lady with the Lamp" as opposed to the "agitations of her soul" portrays the idea that her reality was much more different than her false perceptions. Though he admires Nightingale with awe‚ he conveys his opinion by using dark and tainted diction - "morbid"‚ "Demon possessed her". Though this might suggest into the thinking that Nightingale was evil and beyond human capabilities‚ it manifests

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    Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s

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    Ms. Florence Nightingale was originally born in Italy‚ Florence on May 12‚ 1820. Her mother was Frances Nightingale‚ and her father was William S. Nightingale. Florence only had one sister by the name of Frances Parthenope Verney. As they grew up together Florence herself became a nurse and her sister became an English writer and journalist. Her childhood was a very active one. At a young age she was very active in philanthropy‚ caring for the ill and poor people. By the time she was 16 she knew

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    the ’Ode on a Grecian Urn’‚ based on a sonnet written by Wordsworth in 1811. The theme of transience and permanence‚ which struck Keats in Wordsworth’s poetry‚ forms the leading theme in the Odes. The ode‚ ’To Autumn’‚ may be seen as a temporary ’bridge’ in the debate between the two states‚ in this case symbolised by the seasons. A reprieve is achieved‚ although the problem is not solved‚ "Where are the songs of Spring Ay‚ Where are they? Think not of them..." In ’Ode to a Nightingale’ the permanent

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    NIGHTINGALE’S ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY By Azeem Jan‚ Darlene Haddock‚ James Gibson‚ Jennifer Hall‚ Marisela Felix‚ and Melissa Dawley Grand Canyon University January 28‚ 2012 OVERVIEW OF NIGHTINGALE’S THEORY Florence Nightingale provided a framework for current nursing practice.  Health is achieved when an individual makes appropriate and educated decisions.  Illness is a negative reaction to a patient’s choices.  Key elements of nursing=clean environment‚ fresh air and water‚ warmth‚ quite and

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    A Stylistic Analysis of Death of a Pig In the article Death of a Pig‚ the author E. B. White recorded the last few days he spent with his young pig. This article was inspired by his real experience. After reading the whole article‚ readers can feel strongly that E. B. White didn’t treat his young pig as an animal‚ but a human‚ like a child‚ a friend or a relative. His various and accurate descriptions of the death of his young pig make readers feel that one of his family members pass away

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    Keats’s speakers contemplate urns (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”)‚ books (“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” [1816]‚ “On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” [1818])‚ birds (“Ode to a Nightingale”)‚ and stars (“Bright star‚ would I were stedfast as thou art” [1819]). Unlike mortal beings‚ beautiful things will never die but will keep demonstrating their beauty for all time. Keats explores this idea in the first book of Endymion (1818). The speaker in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” envies the immortality

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