Irony is an event in a story that the reader doesn’t expect and is surprising. Irony gives a story the extra power that will make it more interesting. The irony in a story will be when the events take a turn‚ and a reader’s jaw drops with astonishment. This literary element give a story the ending that it needs in order to be remembered. Irony comes in many forms‚ and some are more surprising than others. In the short stories‚ “The Censors”‚ written by Luisa Valenzuela and “The Gift of the Magi”
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in "Love in L.A" where the story involves Jake who is driving along a freeway. CHARACTERS In "Love in L.A" Jake is presented as an irresponsible‚ self absorbed and lazy protagonist. This is seen when he hits Mariana ’s car due to his carelessness. Jake is also dishonest when he gives Mariana wrong information regarding his address‚ phone number‚ and insurance information
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have a nice day‚ Yeah Miss. Miss: yeah‚ you too. Parents/Guardian Mariana: Noum?‚ What’s this letter about? You know (.) the injection? Noum: Ohh yeah?‚ I think it’s the urrm (.) the injections that we gotta to do later on in the year. (.) I heard my friends was talkin about it and stuff and plus‚ like‚ I think it was last year or soo‚ I had to have the injection for the urrm‚ cervical cancer. Soo it should be al’right. Mariana: You reckon‚ would it be al’right? if I sign it. Noum: Yeah‚ I think
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person’s illegal belongings. There are many cases of unreasonable search and seizures which exist. For example‚ if government officials were to go into a man’s house‚ whom they suspected of dealing Mariana‚ but didn’t have a good reason to believe so or a warrant‚ and had taken his illegal Mariana plants then that would be an example of unreasonable search and seizure. Another example of unreasonable search and seizure would be if police officers were to inspect a person’s car at a traffic stop
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the climate of concentration and denouncing other’s rights to be promoted and became absorbed in his work forgetting the noble mission that brought him to the censorship. He was the perfect censor and true patriotic labor. So when his own letter to Mariana reached him he condemned and he couldn’t prevent the government from executing him. Comparing Juan to any soldier who trains hard for battles for a long period of time making him psychologically tuned to the rules and the commands of the army. So
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Earthquakes and Subduction Zones Lab Amy Paret Mrs. Igo 9th Grade Periods 3 and 4 Even Date: 2/14/13 Background Research: This lab uses earthquake data to construct profiles of two convergent boundaries: the Tonga Trench and the Peru-Chile Trench. Where two tectonic plates converge‚ if one or both of the plates is an oceanic lithosphere‚ a subduction zone will form. When crust is formed at a mid-ocean ridge‚ it is hot and buoyant meaning it has a low density. As it spreads away from the ridge and
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A Character Analysis of Angelo: Outer Angel and Inner Devil There is a wide array of deceptiveness within the play "Measure for Measure." While some of the reasons for deception are good‚ other reasons are filled with evil and only for personal gain. Angelo is a perfect example of one of the characters within this play who uses his deceptive nature for evil and only for the gratification of himself. He is given a very superior and authoritative role by Vincentio‚ the Duke‚ and extends his powers
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Similar to Atwood’s presentation of Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Tennyson’s poem Mariana is a dramatic monologue which depicts a passive woman who‚ it would appear‚ cannot cope without a man‚ and believes she lacks purpose. The poem concerns the decay of the world Mariana lives in‚ such as ‘the lonely grange’ and the moss crusting over the flowerpots‚ as well as her own psychological decay as she anticipates and yearns for her absent lover. Her own decay is apparent through the repetition of the
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The film portrays Mariana‚ the female protagonist’s quick fall into poverty with her two young children. Over the course of a summer‚ Mariana loses her apartment and is homeless and desperate to take care of her children. Her husband’s friends effectively avoid her and leave her isolated with no knowledge of English or means to support
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World War One was a war that consisted of many casualties. In trench warfare‚ not all the casualties were from the opposing trench‚ they came from your own in the form of diseases and infections. These could travel via the water at the bottom of the trench‚ in seems of clothing‚ in the soldiers hair‚ or by animals that lived in the trenches along side the soldiers. The trenches were a very unsanitary place. So unsanitary everything is cleaned once a day and things are still able to be distributed
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