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    The song “Red” by Taylor Swift includes many literary devices to convey a highly strong message. The most important literary devices the artist uses are personification‚ symbolism and hyperbole. Primarily‚ the artist uses personification to show the problem encountered in her life. Personification is the attributes of human traits‚ emotion and form applied to something nonhuman. It is used to give writing life‚ and relate ideas and objects to humans‚ which is more effective to convey the author’s

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    Less Is More Graham Hill brought up the idea “Less stuff‚ more happiness” at a TED talk in Oct 2011. During his speech he tried to convince knowledgeable people‚ that having less stuff‚ equals more. He used the example of moving a box of items that we don’t need or use from place to place just because we think we need more. When in fact we need less in our lives. Having less equals more because we can concentrate on more important things to spend our money and time on. He explained that when he

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    Rev. Billy Graham’s grandson Tullian Tchividjian has resurfaced from an adultery scandal with a new wife and a preaching on God’s redemption. Last summer‚ Tchividjian had lost both his wife and his church because of a cheating scandal. On Saturday‚ his new wife Stacie confirmed his remarriage when she posted about his sermon at a California-based non-denominational church‚ The Christian Post reports. “What an honor it was to be invited to Spring Hills Community Church and sincerely welcomed by such

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    Swift uses logical appeal to support his suggestion about what to do regarding the poverty. He calculates the number of babies "the number of souls in Ireland being usually reckoned one million and a half‚ of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are breeders from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples‚ who are able to maintain their own children….there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those

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    author Jonathan Swift who uses an absurd idea to find solutions to a large problem. Swift appears to come up with an answer to the overpopulation that is present in Ireland. The dozens of children born into the poverty stricken families were seen to Swift as exotic merchandise. Upon reading the essay‚ readers realize that the entire piece is a satire when they discover the promised “modest” proposal is nowhere near being subtle. Through the use of satire‚ irony‚ and understatement‚ Swift criticized the

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    A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift Starving Mothers and Children Audience Analysis My target audience is fellow college students needing a summary of Jonathon Swift’s piece A Modest Proposal. My audience is college students that range from all ages. My audience has read the piece. If my audience read the essay and took it literal there will be moral issues‚ ethical issues‚ and political issues come up. I was in shock when I first read the essay but after looking into it I understand it

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    Introduction:the overall story of ’’The Power and The Glory’’ is organized under the number four. The book is divided into four parts‚ three of those parts are clearly divided into four chapters‚ while the last part is composed of four sub-parts which are not numbered‚ but clearly separated by four paragraphs. What does these systematic divisions and subdivisions in four mean?We have to consider two possible interpretations. First‚ the number four corresponds to God’s divine order. At the beginning

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    CCA Unit 1 HOPE I chose the song‚ "Begin Again" by Taylor Swift to represent this unit’s theme; hope and despair. Hope is present in this song starting from the title "Begin Again‚" this tells me that we all are faced with difficult situations and we’d all enjoy the sweet opportunity to undo the past events and start from scratch again. I enjoy this title because I can relate back to this title several times throughout my life and probably in the near future. Hope can be found in these "restarting

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    towards the essence of humanity. Many question the impact of such segregation and racism‚ which can be directly found in the stories of black’s who suffer from it. Examples of such victims of racial discrimination are Maya Angelou and Lawrence Otis Graham. In “Finishing School” Angelou describes her experiences as a black maid in the South during the 1930’s‚ working in a white household. Lawrence Otis Graham’s “The ‘Black Table’ Is Still There” recounts his observation of exposure to the normality

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    however‚ when a machine develops a problem‚ there is inevitably someone trained‚ or at least thinks they are trained‚ to fix it. If not fix it‚ then provide ideas for those with better means to do the job they cannot‚ for whatever reason. In William Graham Sumner’s The Forgotten Man‚ Sumner attempts to act as both the proverbial repairman and

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