Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology‚ Biology‚ and Medicine xx (2011) xxx – xxx www.nanomedjournal.com Review Article Upconversion nanoparticles: synthesis‚ surface modification and biological applications Meng Wang‚ PhDa‚c ‚ Gopal Abbineni‚ MSb ‚ April Clevenger‚ MSb ‚ Chuanbin Mao‚ PhDb ‚ Shukun Xu‚ MSa‚⁎ a College of Sciences‚ Northeastern University‚ Shenyang‚ People’s Republic of China Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry‚ University of Oklahoma
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Microwave Synthesis of Benchmark Organo-iron complexes Chem 347/447 “Microwave synthesis of benchmark Organo-iron complexes” is an interesting article by Sean M. Garringer ‚ Andrew J. Hesse ‚ John R. Magers ‚ Kristopher R. Pugh ‚ Stacy A. O’Reilly and Anne M. Wilson which describes microwave- assisted technique in chemical synthesis. The authors detail the formation of various organo-iron species with the aid of a microwave. Using microwaves in chemical
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"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge." When reading a story‚ the events that have already presented themselves‚ lead a person to perceive what is going to happen‚ but when that person encounter an unexpected event‚ as commonly experienced through irony‚ it changes what the person perceives is going to happen. The Scarlet Letter exemplifies this use of irony to challenge truth. Hawthorne provides details about a specific character‚ but then creates an event which stands in contrast to
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SEBASTIAN NOVOA GAM DESIREE’S BABY FORESHADOWING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ULTIMATE CONCEALED IRONY. In this short essay I will unfold how the sense of forshadowing employed in Kate Chopin’s story develops and eventually turns it into the ultimate concealed irony. In a sense Desiree’s Baby is a story that reveals itself prematurely throughout the narrative which allows us to guess its conclusion at several moments when the narrative voice includes literary devices to help the narrative flow. But
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Suspense and Irony in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Gift of the Magi” The two short stories “A Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’ Henry were two short stories that showed the writing skills of their authors. O’ Henry and Poe were two writers from different time periods‚ but use the same literary techniques in their works. Irony is defined as “a contradiction between expectation and reality” and suspense as “the growing interest and excitement felt while awaiting
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Death and Decay: How Theme Unfolds by Irony in “A Rose for Emily” It is difficult to confront reality with insane and indulging concepts. In “A Rose for Emily”‚ William Faulkner creates a theme that the past is preserved in a bizarre way‚ but is eventually overthrown by decay and death. The protagonist is shaped as a banal and eccentric figure of the past generation living in the southern US in the early twentieth century. Throughout the story‚ Emily Grierson is attached to the deceased: her father
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Ross Sinclair used‚ the literary device‚ irony in many ways throughout his short story "The Painted Door." This short story takes place in the great depression of the 1930’s in Saskatchewan during a horrific blizzard. Two of the three characters‚ Ann and Steven‚ are the main cause of most of the irony expressed in this short story. The irony is what makes this particular short story so tragic and dramatic. There are several examples of irony that dramatically affected the mood to be found throughout
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In the art of theatre‚ there are many times in which characters on stage are oblivious to the truth that the audience knows. These instances of dramatic irony can have a range of effects from tension to laugh out loud comedy. In his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses dramatic irony to create humor by creating problems for characters to solve‚ promoting reactions from characters‚ and tying these problem and reactions into the resolution. In The Importance of Being Earnest
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Irony in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” and Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” Irony expresses and often underlines the contrast between two opposite concepts creating an indirect‚ more sophisticated method of communication. Irony is as efficient in a literary work‚ as the reader can perceive it. Therefore‚ often times the reader must carefully analyze the material‚ reading it repeatedly if necessary‚ in order to fully understand the author’s message and intent. Tobias Wolff and Alice
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Worse Than Death ——An Analysis of Irony in Emily Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” The whole poem was in the past tense‚ just like relating to the poet’s nostalgic retrospective‚ telling a story that truly happened to her. What’s so scary a part about the poem is‚ if without the first line‚ the major subject— a “Funeral” that Emily once went through by herself‚ offering readers an angle of view from their own coffins‚ alive. The poem‚ thus‚ has put up a question probably with no answer:
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