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    Gilman uses metaphor in The Yellow Wallpaper to comment on the destructive and oppressive social constructions of True Womanhood‚ an ideology present at the time Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The eponymous wallpaper is metaphor for not only the narrator’s state of mental deterioration‚ but of the “pattern of social and economic dependence”1 of women‚ reducing them to household servants. The metaphors created in The Yellow Wallpaper lead to a feminist interpretation as each can be argued to comment

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    The invisible hand indicates situations that individuals pursuing their own self-interest leads to the social interest. It is all about free-market principles in operation and how they create desired results. The invisible hand reduces to a “laissez-faire” philosophy that sees government intervention into the markets as a real problem.The market mechanism of supply and demand communicates the wants of consumers to business and through business to resource suppliers. Competition forces business and

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    by John Donne‚ uses metaphors to develop the central idea that all people are connected. To convey this‚ Donne uses two metaphors to establish the concept of unity with every person in the world. The first metaphor describes how the church is universal and people are connected through it. He states‚ “the church is catholic‚ universal‚ so are all her actions” (488). This forms the idea that every person is connected‚ with depicting the church as connected to all people. The metaphor is expanded‚ by

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    and present alike. Various works of art‚ stories‚ and poems have attempted to convey the feeling or essence of love to make the idea of it more tangible. In Modern Love by George Meredith‚ Meredith utilizes metaphors and imagery to portray a couple in love in the modern day. The use of metaphors in his poem is specifically used to convey the irony of love itself. By comparing the couple to traditionally negative ideas‚ Meredith captures the common discord in marriage and relationships. The comparison

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    Hell is simply other people. He uses metaphors to prove that the characters lose their sense of selves in hell‚ and have no other way to look at themselves except through the other people present. Cradeau is introduced to the room‚ where the bellboy runs down what is different in hell‚ including the fact that they no longer have eyelids. Once this reality sets in‚ Cradeau says‚ “All right‚ so you have to live with your eyes open” (9) Cradeau utters this powerful metaphor after

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    In Edwards / hawthorne’s theme of sinner and black veil is don’t judge people by their appearances‚ the way they change. Edwards and hawthorne had the same tone because of the way the people felt which was scared‚ and creeped out. Each author made the people feel the same way in the both passages. Base on “black veil‚” had a symbol beneath which i lived and die. I looked around me‚ and lo. On everything the visage black veil. “Beloved and respect as you are‚ there may be whisper‚ that you’re

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    thoughts and actions of his subjects through strong use of rhetorical devices such as metaphors‚ amplifications‚ antanagoges‚ and anaphoras. By using these devices‚ the pigs were able to keep control of Animal Farm and persuade the emotions of the animals towards thinking they were wise and kind enough to rule over them.

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    The Beauty of Metaphor A Metaphor is defined as a grammatical device that “compares two different ideas by speaking of one in terms of the other. It asserts that one thing is another thing.” One of the best poets at using the metaphor is Edward Taylor‚ an intellectual New English Puritan. In his “Meditation One‚” Taylor compares “God’s Matchless Love” to water‚ saying that it fills “Heaven to the Brim!” Then‚ in his “The Reflection‚” Taylor says “Earth” was once a “Paradise of Heaven.” In both

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    The Hands of the Blacks By Luis Bernardo Honwana I can‘t remember now how we got onto the subject‚ but one day Teacher said that the palms of the black‘s Hands were much lighter than the rest of their bodies because only few centuries ago they walked around on all fours‚ like wild animals‚ so their palms Weren’t exposed to the sun‚ which made the rest of their bodies darker and darker. I thought of this when Father Cristiano told us after cathechism that we were absolutely hopeless‚ and that even

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    Introduction Angry Birds‚ as a strategy puzzle mobile game developed by Finnish computer game developer Rovio Mobile‚ has now become worldwide. As a great successful game‚ first developed for Apple’s iOS and then transplanted to other touch screen-based smart phones. In this series‚ from the viewpoint of a mobile developer‚ I want to try to find out some of the how-toes by developing a similar game that runs on the Android operating system using the Game Maker Studio. In early 2009‚ Finland based

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