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    EXTENDED ESSAY THE CRUCIBLE In this extended essay I will undertake a detailed analysis of some of the major themes in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Hysteria and‚ the oppressive nature of society are all addressed by the playwright‚ However‚ the theme of the power struggle‚ principally‚ individuality vs society is paramount. I also wanted to discuss how relevant the themes and the characteristics in the crucible are in the real modern and social world. This vital theme dominates the play. In

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    The Use of Metaphors

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    SanTianna Simmons ENG 1102 25 April 2013 A metaphor is where you show how two unrelated things are similar. For example by saying "Love is a roller-coaster.” A key aspect of a metaphor is use a specific transference of a word into another context. The human mind creates comparisons between different things. The best writers use metaphors. Like poetry‚ a metaphor will express a thousand different meanings all at once‚ allowing the writer to convey much more content than they could do otherwise

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    Extended Essay Guidance and Marksheet (2013 Criteria) General Assessment Criteria Criteria purpose of the essay is specified 1 2 SUBJECT SPECIFIC GUIDELINES ▪ The research question must focus on the human past and not be of a trivial nature. ▪ The research question is stated in the introduction but is not clearly expressed or is too broad in ▪ The research question must be clearly and scope to be treated effectively within the word limit. 0 ▪ The research question is

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    ‘Death of the Author’ Analysis Roland Barthes is a French literary philosopher born in 1915. In one of his theories ‘Death of the author’ he argues that by “giving a text an author is to impose a limit on that text”. He claims that having knowledge of the author’s background and purpose for the text restricts the readers imaginative license to build their own interpretations‚ and that the author and text are completely unrelated. Barthes declares‚ "The death of the author is the birth of the

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    Extended Essay Visual Arts Degas and his misogyny May 2008 Sarika Nair Vishwashanti Gurukul 002767-046 Word Count:

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    Dead metaphor   Description A dead metaphor occurs where the once-evocative transferred image is no longer effective or even understood‚ perhaps being lost in the aeons of time. Example Fabulous was something worthy of fable. Like many other superlatives‚ it has lost its original edge and now just means ’good’. Money was so called because it was first minted at the temple Juno Moneta. The origin of ’the whole nine yards’ seems unknown‚ even to an expert word website. Discussion Dead metaphors are

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    parents. Interview them‚ using the questions and elements you have chosen. For your writing‚ you will need a metaphor. The metaphor in our book was the loom- the author used it to weave together all the elements of her mother’s life into a single fabric. You could use a car‚ a cake‚ a computer- anything which has components. The components come together to create one thing. Choose a metaphor which has meaning to you- your writing will be much more powerful this way. Finally‚ put your chosen cultural

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    Determining the circuitry operant in the brain responsible for development of fear and anxiety is key to developing suitable treatments for the wide range of human anxiety disorders. The extended amygdala is a macrostructure in the forebrain that includes three key players in fear and anxiety-like behaviors: the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala(BLA)‚ central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA)‚ and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). The BLA sends excitatory projections to both CeA and BNST

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    The psycholinguistics of metaphor Glucksberg’s article was about how humans could understand metaphors. To determine how humans are capable of comprehending metaphors‚ Glucksberg draws a comparison between metaphorical and literal phrases to find their similarities and discover any distinct differences in their processing. To do this‚ he examines two hypothesized ways of processing metaphors and uses the evidence in his arsenal to find the most accurate hypothesis. To understand how the

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    my eyes. I do not mind at all” | In her thesis she explains that even though people do discriminate against her‚ she does not feel colored. She states “There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul‚ or lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all” to show how she doesn’t care that she’s colored. Being color does not determined who is she is or what she will be. She doesn’t get depressed that she’s colored. Being colored just describes one single fact about her. | Challenge/ Defense | | “Sometimes

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