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    Wild Duck Symbols

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    idealization. Instead of transfiguring light‚ Gregers only brings "dullness‚ oppression‚ and gloom" to the household. Gina responds to Gregers’s language of light/dark‚ spiritual tumults‚ taints‚ and poisons by emphasizing "the practical." She delivers one of the more memorable jokes of the play in removing the lampshade in response to Gregers’s exhortations. The joke operates by shifting from the plane of Salvationist allegory to physical comedy‚ from Gregers’s impassioned rhetoric to the banal household

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    Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols‚ or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. Fitzgerald uses symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby to show many ideas of the 1920’s life and who Jay Gatsby and the other characters really are. The symbols that are most present are colors‚ the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg‚ and Gatsby’s books. Fitzgerald uses the symbols; colors‚ The billboard‚ and Gatsby’s book to show America its idea of money and people. Colors such as green

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    nose is a sign of anger. An arrow is a sign of whatever it points toward.  Symbols expand the notions of signs and signals. Symbols are characterized by rich meanings that are multiple‚ fluid‚ diverse‚ layered‚ complex‚ and frequently predicated on metaphorical associations that assert an analogy between things from different contexts that normally may not be connected. Given that the referents of symbols tend to be general‚ abstract‚ and ambiguous‚ their personally or socially constructed

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    Usa Monuments and Symbols

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    USA Monuments and Symbols Table of Contents Introduction...…..………………………………………………………...page 2 Historical Monuments The Statue of Liberty………………………………………………..……..page 3 The White House…………..……..………………………………...……...page 4 The Pentagon…………………………………………………………..…..page 6 Geographical Monuments Yellowstone National Park…………………………………………………page 8 The Grand Canyon……………………………………………………….....page 9 Symbols Flag of the United States………………………………...………………….page 10 Bald

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    Fahrenheit 451 Symbols

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    Symbols are a big part of the world‚ without them we wouldn’t know what happened in the past. In the book Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury uses symbols as a way to provide imagery and to elaborate on specific ideas. Fahrenheit 451 uses three prominent symbols‚ the number 451 plastered on the helmets of firemen‚ the burning of the books within this society‚ and the phoenix. They all represent big issues in the world. On the cover of the book there’s a quote that says “The temperature at which books burn”

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    Paragraph OneSymbol: Spray paint The spray paint colors symbolized the pain that bobby was feeling as he got older or during his coming of age. The colors of the paint were blue‚ red and black. Those colors are usually on bruises on our bodies. When Bobby was painting his scene he started crying‚ which was showing the pain that he was in because he couldn’t find himself in his trapped up "child" body. Inside of Bobby’s body was his new self‚ his self that is coming of age. His more grown up

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    Symbols in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (Symbolism of the Rubber Hose‚ Seeds‚ and Stockings in Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”) Willy Loman is the protagonist in Arthur Miller’s play‚ “Death of a Salesman.” While reading the play‚ readers realize how many life struggles Willy has been through and is still going through. His whole working career has been spent working as a traveling salesman for a company. Willy’s struggle dealing with his work comes with the fact that he has been working

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    Symbols in "A Rose for Emily" In the short story "A Rose for Emily"‚ by William Faulkner‚ symbolism is used frequently to show insight to hidden meanings in the story. Faulkner uses a rose to symbolize love and secrecy. Emily ’s house is also used to symbolize Emily as a monument‚ alienation‚ and death. Lastly‚ the strand of hair left on the pillow symbolizes love lost and a life of decay. The rose is a symbol for love. In the story‚ Homer is the "rose" or love for Emily. Emily ’s father

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    Symbol Market Cap

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    Micro cap -  $50 million to $300 Nano cap - below $50 million Mega cap Trading on: AMEX NASDAQ NYDE NASDAQ Stock Symbol or abbreviation: Dow Jones Current price of stock 52 High and low P/E Ratio Dividends COMPANY’S PERFORMANCE WITHIN INDUSTRY Category for Comparison Company Name & Symbol Company Name & Symbol Company Name & Symbol Market Cap Net Income P/E Ratio DIV Yield Based on your findings‚ how does your company stand

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    Throughout the Bible as/in Literature there are many characters who undergo some sort of suffering. A character that specifically sticks out is Eve‚ the mother of all living things. While Eve is one of the first people to live on the earth‚ she is also the first to experience great suffering that she will remember‚ and pay the price for the rest of her life. Eve’s suffering is significant in the following three ways: experiencing great labor in childbearing‚ desiring her husband‚ and being permanently

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