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    This symbol reminds those handling the package to keep out of the rain and not to store it in damp conditions. It is normally found on card based packages which would be damaged if placed in contact with water. The broken wine glass suggests that the product inside the packaging could be easily damaged if dropped or handled without care and attention. The contents are fragile! The two hands holding or protecting the package is another reminder that the contents should be handled with care

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    that God put in people so that they may recognize when they do something wrong. Guilt is when a person believes or realizes that he or she has violated his or her own standard or moral conduct and feels responsible for that violation. In "The Tell Tale Heart" the main character murdered his neighbor because he believed that his neighbor had a vulture eye‚ and it drove him mad. After murdering his neighbor‚ he cleverly hid the body under his floorboards believing that no one would ever know. Shortly

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    extreme acts. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” shows how a man becomes controlled by his roommate’s eye so much so that he commits murder so he does not have to see the clouded eye every day. Correspondingly‚ Dennis Villeneuve’s Prisoners is about a father who is so determined to find his daughter that he goes to extreme measures. Both stories depict the concept that obsession can control and leads to severe deeds in the plots‚ the conflicts and symbols. The plots of both the stories can be

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    There are a number of themes that can be extracted from the play based film‚ "Becket." They range everywhere from loyalty‚ honor‚ and friendship to politics and religious views of the time and concepts of secular and spiritual seperations. Many of these concepts presented in the film hold much contemporary relavance. What seems to be the most prevalent theme in "Becket" is honor. When looking into the film‚ we are made to ask the question "what is honor and who through the film has it?" Acording

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    childhood. The narration Holden gives of his life highlights his conflict on how to merge the two worlds. Salinger uses motifs in the novel to deliver the theme of isolation. On of the key motif that Salinger uses is the motif of death to communicate Holden’s isolation because of his own unique experiences and thoughts. Holden’s isolation is revealed throughout the novel as the motif of death weaves itself in Holden’s narration. At the beginning of the novel Holden begins to show his unwillingness

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    Guilty or innocent is the question brought forth in the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator is on trial for killing a man; however‚ is he guilty or innocent by reason of insanity? The answer is quite simple actually ‚ the man is not guilty by reason of insanity. The narrator is the posterchild for insanity. Insanity means in legal terms “one cannot distinguish fantasy from reality‚ manage their own affairs and acts impulsively.” The narrator suffers from not just one

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    AThe Ideal of Social Grace The characters’ dense‚ colorful manner of speaking represents the ideal that Renaissance courtiers strove for in their social interactions. The play’s language is heavily laden with metaphor and ornamented by rhetoric. Benedick‚ Claudio‚ and Don Pedro all produce the kind of witty banter that courtiers used to attract attention and approval in noble households. Courtiers were expected to speak in highly contrived language but to make their clever performances seem effortless

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    Carver‚ the narrator is overwhelmed with disappointment and misunderstanding in his own life. He doesn’t see all the beauty and creativity in the world‚ but merely goes through the motions of life without actively living. Blindness is an underlying theme in this story‚ but not only as a physicality‚ but a social handicap. The narrator may be more capable of sight than the blind man‚ but he knows nothing of the descriptive illustration of life. It is through the blind mans probing of the narrator‚ that

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    Motifs In The Kite Runner

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    Sacrifice Forgiveness/redemption The Kite Runner is a rattling good novel with full of interesting turning point and one major climax. It is written by Khaled Hosseini and published in 2003 May 29th. Readers could learn varies moral values from themesmotifs‚ and symbols in the novel. The Kite Runner story portrayed a personal history of Afghanistan‚ a country that is divided between political chaos and religious The Kite Runner is an epic story with a personal history of what the people of Afghanistan

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    Motif Of Blood In Macbeth

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    Alyssa Klimo English 3-4 Clean from my Hand I believe that the most prominent of the many motifs in Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” was blood. Blood appears in nearly every scene‚ if not physically then at least as an idea. It is like a presence lurking in the background at every moment‚ waiting to make its grand appearance. In the opening scene of Macbeth‚ blood as well as grime covers the captain‚ who has just gotten back from one of the bloodiest battles of Scotland to that date. King

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