needs to be accomplished-- things that fuel our determination and strengthen our resolve. The two poems‚ “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes are good examples of how poetry‚ too‚ can speak to a reader’s heart and mind and fuel their determination. “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress
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The organs of speech and their work To produce sound people use their organ of speech and this process consists of a number of the successive steps. First of all the air stream realized by the lungs does through the windpipe and comes to the larynx‚ which contains the vocal cords. The vocal cords are two elastic folds (opening between them is called the glottis) which are either brought together and vibrate (in this case we hear vowels or voiced consonants) or kept apart (in this case there is
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Plan 1. Figures of quantity: hyperbole; meiosis (litotes). 2. Figures of quality: metonymy (synecdoche‚ periphrasis‚ euphemism); irony. 3. Figures of contrast: oxymoron; antithesis. 4. Practical assignment Metonymy‚ another lexical SD‚ - like metaphor - on losing its originality also becomes instrumental in enriching the vocabulary of the language‚ though metonymy is created by a different semantic process and is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena. Transference
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A Mother’s Work ENG/125 March 6‚ 2013 A Mother’s Work A liquid takes the form of the container into which it is poured. Similarly‚ an artist chooses a medium for painting or sculpture‚ and a poet chooses a form. This aesthetic should complement the artist’s overall theme. In the case of “Woman’s Work” by Julia Alvarez‚ the chosen form is a villanelle. This form is very restrictive and repetitive‚ often used to express some sort of obsessiveness. Alvarez slightly modifies the traditional
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Experience at Work Speech Collin Coolbaugh At McDonalds lines of communication are pretty open especially for the ones still in high school or college. They give whatever hours you request and how many days you want to work. If you need off one of the days just be sure to ask off two weeks in advanced and they will make sure you get the day off. The overall experience at McDonalds after being there for over a year now is outstanding. I know most people think hey its McDonalds‚ but the benefits they
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//read poem// slide 1// Good morning/afternoon. The poem that I have just read and will be analysing today is Men in Green by David Watt Ian Campbell. This poem was written in 1943 and it recalls his experience as a pilot during World War II. One year before Campbell wrote this particular poem he was piloting an aircraft on a photographic reconnaissance flight over Rabual‚ New Britain. A Japanese fighter had attacked his aircraft‚ caused extensive damage and wounded three of his crew. Although
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The Sandwich Factory I will begin the assignment with an analysis and interpretation of the short story “The Sandwich Factory” by Jason Kennedy. I will include a discussion of the text‚ “Nice work” by David Lodge and the picture‚ “Relativity” by M.C. Escher. I will end the assignment with a short essay about the description of Coketown in Charles Dickens’ novel “Hard Times”. A: The short story‚ “The Sandwich Factory” by Jason Kennedy from 2007 is about a man who takes a low-paid job at a sandwich
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Gina Flores ELL240: Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners (ACV1417A) Instructor: Ashley Simpson Classroom Scenario Analysis May 26‚ 2014 Many students were transitioning from a classroom with Spanish instruction into my classroom with instruction provided in English. I had students ranging from monolingual English speakers to students who had just recently moved to the U.S. from a Spanish-speaking country. The range of language proficiency levels crossed the entire
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The Sandwich Factory A) Today everyone wants to be something‚ they want to achieve something. They want to be successful and have an important and interesting job but some people don’t get that far. They end up working in factories‚ acting like machines hour after hour‚ doing meaningless repetitive tasks and losing their individuality. In Jason Kennedy’s short story “The Sandwich Factory” we are introduced to just such a guy who works like a machine in a factory doing the same thing every single
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The Sandwich Factory Factories turn human beings into machines. This is the perspective of the narrator in the short story “The Sandwich Factory” by Jason Kennedy. When mechanization is utilized to increase efficiency‚ factory employees become monotone working machines and individuals become just one of many - a crowd of insignificant people. This assignment will begin with an analysis and interpretation of the short story “The Sandwich Factory” by Jason Kennedy. To put the story into perspective
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