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    PART I INTRODUCTION I. GENERAL NOTES ON STYLE AND STYLISTICS Stylistics‚ sometimes called l i n g u o - s t y 1 i s t i c s‚ is a branch of general linguistics. It has now been more or less definitely outlined. It deals mainly with two interdependent tasks: a) the investi-gation of the inventory of special language media which by their ontol-ogical features secure the desirable effect of the utterance and b) certain types of texts (discourse) which due to the

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    abandoned him when he was 2 years old. He is a great writer and famous about his short stories. At this paper "The Tell Tale Heart" & will be discussed under the elements of Gothic Fiction. "The Till Tale Heart"‚ one of his great writing‚ was written 1840. It discusses a mental state. Concerning "The Black Cat" it was written 1843. "The Tell Tale Heart" is one of the greatest examples of the Gothic Fiction. It is talking about a young man who lives with an old one he is responsible of taking

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    The commercial grabs the reader’s attention and maintains it on the Old Spice man. It starts out with a former NFL player and an actor Isaiah Mustafa in an ordinary bathroom wearing nothing but a towel. He represents the “perfect male” for both women and as well as men. He is considered manly with the muscular physique‚ broad shoulders‚ bearded face and a stern voice. His strong posture and his deep male voice displays the masculine form‚ the women desire. Without losing eye contact with the audience

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    statement from the short story “A Very Old Man With Wings” illustrates how helping someone will not always end up having a positive effect on you. Gabriel Garcia Marquez lets the reader realize how badly an angel‚ A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings‚ makes an unexpected journey into a stranger’s home. In “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ the power of kindness is overtaken by ambition. Some conclusions about kindness in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” are that Pelayo

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    Old man on the bridge by Ernest Hemingway Victoria Akers 1.B A. Comprehension questions: 1. Where was the old man sitting and why? The old man was sitting on a bench on the bridge. He has been evacuated from his home in San Carlos because of the Spanish civil war and because of the artillery. He has been walking a 12 kilometres‚ so he is tired. 2. What task did the narrator have to carry out? He had to explore the bridgehead and find out what point the enemy had advanced. 3. Why was the old man

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    A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings is a curious addition to the knowledge of dealing with issues with your faith. In this story it contains tons of metaphors that are buried in the unknown and remain unknown to the reader long after the reader actually reads the story. What the story represents the faith by showing how the characters interacts with the Old Man. It makes the reader guess if they are being cruel or very compassionate. The author uses magical realism to achieve his goal of confusing

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    the Holy Bible. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ with this short story‚ he was said to have fathered the genre of “magical realism” - this refers to a literary style‚ associated with Latin America. Magical realism transforms the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal. This story depicts a poor family man‚ Pelayo‚ who struggles with the unreal himself on a dark and rainy night‚ when he encounters a man stuck in a pile of mud by

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    | | |“Old Man at the Bridge”: A Symbolic and a Hybrid Text | |[Type the document subtitle] | |Ines Belkahla | |12/8/2012

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    Gabriel Marquez’s fantasy short story‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”‚ transpires in Pelayo and his wife Elisenda’s yard on the beach after a stormy three days. While throwing dead crabs from the rain into the sea‚ Pelayo stumbles on a very old man with gigantic wings lying in the mud. On the same day‚ he tries to take care of his son who is running a fever. When Pelayo comes across him‚ he notifies Elisenda. Not knowing exactly who the man is‚ the two lock him up in Pelayo’s chicken coop

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    Subject 1:The 50 year-old man‚(HDL) cholesterol =30mg/dl‚ Which is an undesirable level of HDL is any level below 40 mg/dL (1.04 mmol/L). In this case‚ low HDL levels may help to contribute to heart disease. low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol = 160 mg/dL‚ LDL levels between 160 – 189 mg/dL (4.14 - 4.90 mmol/L) are considered high. triglycerides = 300 mg/dL‚ Levels between 200-499 mg/dL (2.26-5.63 mmol/L) are considered high. This 50 year-old man is at high risk for heart attack‚stroke

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