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    A comparison between the three parodies in the poetry anthology ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ and ‘Come live with me and be my love’ are poems that show what the poets are willing to offer to their loves if they are to come to live with them. ‘The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd’ is an answer to the shepherd’s request. In all these poems‚ the first and last two lines of the stanzas rhyme. For example in “The Passionate Shepherd” the rhyming words are ‘love’ and ‘prove’; ‘fields’

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    take an extremely harsh stance if their children do not meet their expectations. Once I got a B on my English midterm. When I handed the score report to my mother‚ she gasped in horror and anxiously asked what was wrong with me. Well‚ I am using euphemism here because in fact‚ she angrily called me “trash” in Chinese. Later‚ that day turned out to be a nightmare filled with hundreds of “cloze practices” (a type of test in which you put suitable words in spaces in a text where the

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    The Hijras of India

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    The hijras of India are unlike any you might see in any other part of the world. You might have occasionally come across men dressed as women‚ wearing garishly bright makeup. They immediately attract attention to themselves for all the wrong reasons and most often win ridicule. We are really not sure if eunuch‚ transvestite‚ gay or transgender is actually the right term for a hijra as their social mores are very unique and are almost above classification by western terms. One can attempt to

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    Malcolm Little

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    Malcolm X born Malcolm Little‚ the man the world knows as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. His journey into literacy was not one that is common to most individuals. Learning to read while incarcerated is not an experience most are subjected to. Nevertheless Malcolm X made the most of his circumstances and with the assistance of his mentor Honorable Elijah Muhammad‚ he was able to educate himself albeit through the teachings of the Nation Of Islam. The basis for Malcolm wishing to be educated was in his

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    When writing for academic purposes‚ there are a number of conventions that you should follow. A key difference to most other forms of writing is that we give references to the sources of our argument. Ambiguity is something most academics dislike‚ and you’re more credible‚ too‚ if you avoid it. Academic writing tends to be rather formal‚ and many will advise you to avoid writing in the first person (that is‚ not write using I). This makes academic writing both formal and impersonal. The reason

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    Philippines there is no strong evidence that shows the exact birth of sex workers but as the definition of the sex workers it began from the comfort women of World War II‚ the name “comfort women” is a translation of a Japanese name IANFU it is a euphemism for shofu meaning prostitute(s) wherein sex-starved Japanese soldiers forced Filipino “comfort women” to spread their legs for the glory of the nation of the rising sun. Another picture that paved way to the dawn of sex tourism in the country was

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    Criticism of Benchmarking

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    Criticisms of Benchmarking Despite all of the positive recommendations for benchmarking cited‚ there are critics of the benchmarking proces. Wolverton (1994) states that benchmarking‚ as a cornerstone of CQI‚ is based only on current information‚ and may not give us the freedom and flexibility to see the future. In addition‚ Wolverton adds that this focus may relegate us to the role of follower‚ instead of leader. In writing about a related quality improvement technique‚ Business Process Reengineering

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    It can be quite arduous to compile incongruous‚ but yet concomitant literary context en masse. However‚ particular belletristic devices can be utilized to obtain such an ambition. Within this analysis‚ I will attempt to examine the key conceptualization of various themes within the metaphysical poem‚ The Flea‚ written by John Donne. According to Abrams (1999‚ p.170) a “Theme is sometimes used interchangeably with "motif‚" but the term is more usefully applied to a general concept or doctrine‚ whether

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    The two poems Apology to My Father by David Hutchison‚ and On the Birth of a Son by David Campbell‚ are very different at first glance. On closer examination of the similarities and differences of: audience‚ language‚ themes‚ messages‚ structure and readers role‚ connections can be made. Readers are rewarded by carefully reading these poems. A man thinking about one specific event in his life and the regret he has always felt about that night‚ is the poem Apology to My Father. Back when the male

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    devices based on polysemantic effect (zeugma‚ pun). 13. Oxymoron‚ antonomasia. 14. Intensification of a certain feature of phenomenon (simile‚ hyperbole‚ understatement). 15. Intensification of a certain feature of phenomenon (periphrasis‚ euphemism). 16. Proverbs and sayings. 17. Epigrams‚ paradox‚ allusion. 18. Spans of utterance larger than a sentence (supra-phrasal unit‚ paragraph). 19. Stylistic inversion‚ detachment. 20. Parallel constructions‚ chiasmus. 21. Repetition (all

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