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    Metaphor by George Lakoff

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    “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ague about how we use metaphor on a day-to-day basis. A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is in some point of comparison. It is not something that we think about often‚ but metaphors are part of our everyday lives. What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate   metaphors used in everyday language.   Lakoff and Johnson explained‚ our culture

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    Question: 13.5 One of the major reasons why survey research may not be effective is that the survey instruments are less useful than they should be. What would you say are the four possible major faults of survey instrument design? Survey research is a very common approach to obtaining data through responses given by participants. According to Ponto (2015) "The primary purpose of this type of survey research was to obtain information describing characteristics of a large sample of individuals of

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    You Got To Do What You Got To Do‚ To Get Where You Got to Get” In Ralph Ellison’s story “Battle Royal”‚ Ralph’s dying grandfather gives his son advice on how to advance in life as a black person‚ in the United States. Ralph’s grandfather said‚ “I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses‚ undermine ‘em with grins‚ agree ‘em to death…”(1042). Basically‚ by being really nice to white people‚ he could gain favor and possibly be rewarded for his obedience. Ralph‚ took his grandfathers advice‚ and was eventually

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    What would you do if you won 1 000 000 $ Why people want to be a rich man? What is does rich mean? In what do people see the richness? (Where do people find richness?) And how can people become rich?  Some people thinks and wants to be rich‚ because they love money‚ they want expencive (espensive‚ costly) possessions such as: things‚ cars‚ great homes and ect.  Some ones want to be a rich‚ because they love contribute‚ to help someone‚ poors‚ olds‚ who has need.  Some ones consider

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    one might visualize the things they may see. You see‚ the mind is a very powerful thing. It has been said that the average person only uses ten percent of what the mind can actually do yet it already has tremendous power. It has the power to digest and accumulate hundreds and thousands of information and is able to retrieve a certain piece of information from thousands whenever considered necessary. It has been mentioned in a research that when people say more of something‚ the more that they will

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    In December of 1777 to 1778 George Washington made a camp called Valley Forge‚ it was 18 miles outside of Philadelphia. Valley Forge wasn’t the best place for you to live it was very hard‚ but the sacrifices were worth it. If you were in Washington’s army would you quit? I wouldn’t quit Washington’s army because it says that there is a high chance to get sick but a low chance to actually die from sickness‚ also Washington is getting supplies from the Congressman because the supplies are low‚ Dr.

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    comes to not getting what the want. Being raised in this day in age‚ I’ve come to find that many people have been raised on the moral of having their way‚ which is something I don’t favor‚ The song itself isn’t completely about not getting what you want‚ but the parts that are about that are the reason why I chose this song. I think one the parts of the song that I can agree with is "You can’t always get what you want/ But if you try sometime you find/You get what you need." Things won’t always

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    Can you get fired for what you post online? In October 2010‚ Mariana Cole-Rivera‚ a domestic violence advocate at the group Hispanics United of Buffalo‚ began the Facebook thread that would get her fired. Cole-Rivera and four of her co-workers who’d responded to her post had lost their jobs. Their boss said their Facebook thread violated HUB’s harassment policy by disparaging a co-worker. The Facebook post said that‚ “Lydia Cruz‚ who is one of their co-workers‚ felt that the group wasn’t helping

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    Act 1 scene i Analysis Shakespeare begins his play with a pair of dueling brothers‚ an amendment of his source material—Thomas Lodge’s popular prose romance‚ Rosalynde—that allows him to establish‚ with great economy‚ the corrupt nature of so-called civilized life. Oliver’s mistreatment of his brother spurs Orlando to journey into the curative Forest of Ardenne as surely as Frederick’s actions did his own brother Duke Senior‚ which immediately locates the play in the pastoral tradition: those wounded

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    What You Eat Is Your Business‚” by Radley Balko In the article of Radley Balko‚ he considers obesity a problem in the nation. Balko believes that it is unhealthy for children to be eating bad food but it’s their choices to eat that food. Balko is saying that if people are eating unhealthy and are having health problems everyone shouldn’t have to pay for their health problems. Balko says‚ “In other words‚ bringing the government between you and your waistline.” Basically he is saying that the

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