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    publishers write incredible‚ meaningful pieces of work‚ like the poem “Hope is the thing with feathers” written by Emily Dickinson. “Hope is a thing with feathers‚ that perches in the soul‚ and sings the tune without the words.” The poem is comparing the word hope to a bird. The bird in this poem has a meaning though‚ The bird symbolizes hope in everyone reading this poem‚ and how some days you feel that hope is a useful thing and some days it feels useless. But in the end it never leaving your soul.

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    My Three Favorite Things

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    My three favorite things are Cooking‚ Cleaning‚ and Shopping because they revolve in my everyday life and my job without them i will not be able to function well. Cooking is one of my favorite things . I love cooking new dishes ; I also like having new techniques an ideas in the kitchen . I have always been a fanatic of cooking shows since i was small it has bought my attention. On Holidays i tend to cook alot of diffrent dishes . My baked Homemade pies i make off stratch and my famous

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    In things fall apart the author Chinua Achebe talks in first person about Okonkwo that he is so powerful and passionate about a lot of things. Okonkwo is a very influential leader is his “umuofia” clan. He has a made a very high name for himself and everybody recognizes his achievements. Okonkwo did this because of his lazy and squandering father‚ Unoka‚ and this has what driven him to succeed. In “Things Fall Apart” the author really focuses on a lot of points but one major point he put pressure

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    Courage and The Things They Carried Being from a military town‚ people talk about war and the effects it has on people regularly. People that are not around military people probably have no idea what happens when a soldier comes home from war; they may read about one soldier in the news but they do not see the effects first hand. Tim O’Brien tries to show people the guilt people have‚ the death involved in war‚ and the things they will always carry with them in his novel The Things They Carried. While

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    as juxtaposition‚ which can go unnoticed by the reader. In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien uses many such techniques to provide more depth to his book. Four literary techniques used by Tim O’Brien are symbolism‚ pathetic fallacy‚ irony‚ and juxtaposition. One literary technique prominent in The Things They Carried‚ particularly in the story by the same name‚ is symbolism. Throughout this story‚ O’Brien mentions all the things that the soldiers carry with them‚ both physical and emotional

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    Connor Bickford Prof Guy ENC1102 A1 7 Mar 2013 Literary Analysis of “The Things They Carried” “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien depicts a platoon of soldiers serving in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was fought during the 1960/70’s in the country of Vietnam. It was an unusually brutal war and many veterans suffered for years after from their traumatic experiences. The author tells of all the things they carried from weapons to the emotional burden of wartime. Short memories are

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    What Is the Internet of Things (IOT) The Internet of Things may be a hot topic in the industry but it’s not a new concept. In the early 2000’s‚ Kevin Ashton was laying the groundwork for what would become the Internet of Things (IOT) at MIT’s AutoID lab. Ashton was one of the pioneers who conceived this notion as he searched for ways that Proctor & Gamble could improve its business by linking RFID information to the Internet. The concept was simple but powerful. If all objects in daily life were

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    Short Story Essay Symbols as used in "The Things They Carried" The use of symbolism in this story is really amazing. Using the items soldiers tend to take with them to combat zone Tim O’Brien is able to tell a lot about what really soldiers have in mind‚ their characters and even what might be going on in their personal life. I find this a story interesting to me because when I was deployed I carried things to keep me going. Personal little items I carried with me had a meaning.

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    one amazing thing summary

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    One Amazing Thing by: Chitra Divakaruni. It was first published in the US in voice by Hyperion in 2009 and later published by Penguin books India February 2010. The book also has 240 pages. Chitra B. Divakaiumi is an award winning author poet. Her work is widely known‚ as she has been published in over 500 magazines. Including Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker‚ and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. She was born in India and lived there until 1976. At which point she left Calcutta

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    The Last Thing I Remember

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    The Last Thing I Remember Have you ever had a nightmare about being captured and taken miles away from your home? In The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan‚ this is exactly what happens to Charlie West. It’s action-packed and quick paced‚ but could be compelling for many different types of people. This novel is the first book in the Homelander series‚ which is a thrilling‚ suspenseful four-book series. In this novel‚ Charlie wakes up in a strange place‚ strapped into a chair. He was surrounded

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