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    “The Dead “written by James Joyce is a short story that gives an insight into the character of Gabriel. The author gives aspects to the character of Gabriel that will reveal to the reader’s and to the character himself; using imagery‚ point of view. As Gabriel’s wife is sleeping. The author give the imagery through the short story in order to express Gabriel’s character. For example‚ Gabriel sees the boots that represent life and death. “One boot stood upright‚ its limb upper fallen down.” The

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    The DVD version of A Christmas Carol is better than the novel. The DVD shows more detail and effects. The story does not add effects or music and just does not have the effect the movie does. People get to see what the characters actually look like in person instead of having to imagine them. This is why the DVD is better. The movie and the novel are alike in some ways. They both start out saying the same thing. The first two spirits come at the same time in the movie as in the story. All the spirits

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    Interactive Oral Commentary: Stealing My name is Kate Sampson and today I will be analysing Carol Ann Duffy’s poem‚ Stealing. To begin with‚ I will provide some background information to help put the themes in this poem into context. It was published in the 1980’s during Margaret Thatcher’s Prime Ministership‚ it is essentially a political poem in response to a new culture of greed and selfishness that ignored the working-class. There were constant poll tax riots‚ miner’s strikes‚ homelessness

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    Throughout the book‚ Mindset: The New Psychology of Success‚ Carol Dweck shares many different examples from her research on human motivation. Dweck‚ even added in some of her own personal experiences to help show how much of our conscious and unconscious thoughts really can affect us and how something like a simple change in wording when speaking to anyone or to yourself even can have such an impact on your future abilities of achievement and success. “For twenty years‚ my research has shown that

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    In the novel ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ Dickens uses multiple language devices to create mood and atmosphere in a way that conveys his attitudes towards the poor. As a child‚ Dickens’ family was in debt‚ so he know first-hand how it feels to be living in poverty. He was forced to work in a blacking factory (a factory that makes black dye for boots) in order to help his family pay off their debt. Dickens uses pathetic fallacy in this extract to create a menacing atmosphere. This is shown when it says “Meanwhile

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    T’was the night before Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge was full of greed. Well-known Charles Dickens wrote the drama‚ A Christmas Carol in the year 1843. In this drama‚ a man named Ebenezer Scrooge hated Christmas and never gave any gifts or money to those in need. Although‚ there is not just a drama‚ there also is a movie that’s also made in 1984. While the movie and drama compare to be very similar‚ the drama has different parts too when contrasted to the movie’s conflict‚ climax‚ and resolution

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    Deficiency Analysis /Audit Carol Schnippert Professor Brown HIM-1800 430791 Deficiency analysis or deficiency audits are reports generated by the Health Information Management Department in hospitals‚ clinics‚ long-term care facilities and many other medical facility that utilize either paper or electronic health records. Concurrent review and retrospective review are the two most widely used in the HIM field. Both concurrent and retrospective review are used in

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    In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy creates an interesting character. Write about the way the character is created‚ and compare this with the way other characters are created in three other poems. You should compare it with one poem by Simon Armitage and two poems from the pre-1912 poetry bank. In Havisham‚ Carol Ann Duffy explores the character of Mrs Havisham and develops her by using vivid imagery and metaphors. She starts the poem with ‘Beloved sweetheart bastard’ which is an oxymoron‚ used to display

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    In every childhood‚ it is hard to find a hobby which is the right one‚ the coolest‚ the funniest and which one is the most interesting. There are several themes for this story for example finding a hobby another one could be that he would prove himself. I would start with explaining why I choose finding a hobby as a theme. In the story Michael the main character plays the piano and at the end of the story it says “Six month later‚ I started violin lessons” (Page 12 Line 168). In the start of the

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    A Christmas Carol By: Charles Dickens Many memories run through Scrooge’s head on Christmas Eve. He is always cranky and never appreciates anything. Ever since his partner Jacob Marley past away he turned into a mean bitter old man. He is so mean that if Bob Cratchit wants money he will have to work on Christmas day. For being that way Bob pays a little visit saying that 3 ghosts will visit him to teach him a listen. The first is Ghost of Christmas Past and he shows him how lonely he

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