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    How much will you give up for someone you love? Will you give up everything? Probably not as much as the tree did. Some people take and do not give back they have no sorrow or guilt. The Giving Tree can be seen as a metaphor for a mother-child relationship. In this story‚ there is an animistic tree that cares for a boy and will do anything to see him thrive in life. As long as she sees him‚ she will be the happiest tree in the word but the boy doesn’t appreciate the love and care he is given. For

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    Sentence from the Novel | Dictionary Definition | Create Your Own Sentence | “Outside the brush house in the tuna clump‚ a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.” (pg 1) | a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds. | Sitting on the beach‚ I looked up and saw a convey of huge birds flapping their wings. | “Near the brush fence two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out.” (pg 4) | a movement made in order to

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    her marriage. She was betrayed in her marriage‚ and this was a hard emotion to encounter in her life. Hall was forced to deal with this experience that made it harder for her to love and trust anyone. Hall used various literary devices such as metaphors‚ similes‚ and imagery as she wrote this narrative. Her way of killing these chickens was her showing us that she is getting rid of her marriage even though it was painful to do so. When I read this narrative‚ I was astonished how she managed to reveal

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    really recovers from an attack. Rape is not just about women because men can also be raped. Rape is about power and how that shift of power can change one’s life forever. In Maleficent the topic of rape is presented in one scene during the movie. The metaphor for rape in Maleficent is powerful‚ shocking‚ and eye opening. Rape in films is an important way to deliver the message to a broad audience because the movie shows how power is exchanged back and fourth between victim and assailant‚ changes in characters

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    That was the biggest decision people would make; if we are going to die then we might as well die fighting. Many authors wrote about civil disobedience.A really good one is “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau. This story has a lot of metaphors and it makes a lot of interesting connections.When he talks about machines‚he is referring to men that just follow the system and

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    Clay as a Metaphor for Life Clay is a very versatile thing much like our lives. Our lives keep on changing much like clay does. As we go through the process of creating something as simple as a pinch-pot we have to mold and refine it. Working with clay is a great creating process for me. I get to control the clay and help make it what I want it to be. In life I get to control my fate in the same sort of way and make sure that it is going to turn out the way I want it to. When I get a piece of clay

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    What do you think about project scheduling prior to the class? How do you think differently now? Please identify three ways in which your thinking has changed after the class. And‚ why? Prior to the class‚ to me project scheduling was to schedule the activities that will take place during the project‚ but‚ after the class I realized that apart from the activity scheduling it also include cost scheduling also. Prior to the class I thought that project scheduling is a one man i.e. the project manager’s

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    emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”(Robert Frost). Robert Frost became one of the most famous poets of his time and still is today. In one of his more popular pieces‚ The Road Not Taken‚ Frost uses imagery‚ tone‚ and metaphors to convey that by making certain decisions will affect you for the rest of your life. Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874 in San Francisco‚ California. His interest in poetry began in high school and then escalated while attending Dartmouth

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    In the novel‚ “The Pearl” there was many things symbolizing the pearl its self. The pearl was symbolized to ambition‚ then at the end of the story the pearl was represented as sinful. The character of the pearl changed because the pearl did harmful/hurtful things to Kino and his family. The symbol of the pearl was different from the beginning of the story till the end of the story. The pearl represented as aspiration in the beginning but was known to be dishonorable at the end of the story. As Kino

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    Image of the Pearl Everyone has dreams in life that touch them in some sort of way. Sometimes the good of those dreams can turn bad. We all wish that good things happened all the time. That bad things were just a rock in the wind. The greed in the pearl changed Kino’s dreams. Changed his dreams into a big storm. The novel The Pearl by John Steinbeck illustrates the greed through symbolism of the pearl in the book. In the beginning of the story‚ the pearl brings pleasure to Kino and his family

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