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    William the Conqueror

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    Bible in question was the official Bible of the State of Tennessee‚ and that this was the King James Version. The defense attorney‚ Clarence Darrow‚ asked where were they to find an expert on the Bible who was acceptable to the court; Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan interjected “I am an expert on the Bible.” This was unheard of‚ a counsel for the prosecution offering to be a witness for the defense! After 8 days of trial‚ in which the jury heard no defense and nothing from neither the defendant

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    William Blake

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    Mapping the Soul -------With the freedom of poetic language‚ William Blake expressed his abhorrence of the Church’s deep-rooted stance on faith; such a stance on Christianity was considered blasphemous‚ but he could not be charged with a crime. He believed that with true spirituality‚ the individual could fully engage in their faith and attain eternal salvation without the intrusion of organized religion—for the Church is solely concerned with subduing Christians with an orthodox emphasis

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    William Faulkner

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    A Southern Setting William Faulkner is a great American Southern writer of modern times. He has won many awards including the Nobel Prize for literature. Although Faulkner stories are different‚ all of them took place in the South. In “A Rose for Emily” there are three things to show this story takes place in a small Southern town: elements of setting‚ social structure‚ and the characters’ name and title. The first thing that shows the story takes place in the South is elements of setting

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    Life Under a Chief Doublespeak Officer” is the essay that I have chosen. The purpose of this essay is to explain how doublespeak is used. It shows how some words can be changed to seem like it something important when it is not. William Lutz wrote about how a band could call a robbery just a authorized transaction. A bank in Texas did this as their ATM was stolen. (Lutz‚ para. 3.) The descriptive writing pattern used by this writer is specific language. I feel that he uses this pattern extremely

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    policeman‚ Doctors also step out of there comfort zone in order to save their patients. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos William ‚ examines when it is justifiable for doctors to use force against his patients in order to protect them from his/her own ‘Idiocy”‚ but in today’s society the use of force has changed dramatically. In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams the narrator describes the little girls rage for the doctor. “the child was fairly eating me up with her cold

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    William Carlos Williams wrote his most famous poem in 1934 entitled "This is To Say." He is credited with creating a writing style referred to as the minimalist set. His writings show the purpose of building real images. Williams set the tone of his poems with the use of simple words‚ short phrases‚ and plain talk‚ without the typical form or rhyming. So how then is it a poem? Was it just a note on the refrigerator door left for his wife? In today’s time‚ it would work nicely as a tweet. When asked

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    In the poem “Raleigh Was Right‚” author William Carlos Williams makes his viewpoint quite clear. Williams expresses his thoughts to explain the impossibility of the perfect life lived out in the country. The tone of voice in his poem would be logical and realistic. He does this by not allowing the reader to believe that there will be a perfect safe haven in the countryside. This poem negates the message from “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” He shows the reader that finding peace surrounded

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    around the “Fair Grounds‚” and they move their bottoms too‚ those lower parts must be full of energy to hold up so much enthusiastic dancing‚ so move as the dancers move in Brueghel’s notable painting called The Kermess. General Explication William Carlos Williams’s “The Dance” (1944) illustrates the joyous‚ lively atmosphere of a fair. It also uses textual patterns to represent the dance depicted in Brueghel’s great painting‚ The Kermess. The speaker‚ who is describing the painting‚ uses the

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    7) SEPARATE FACTS FROM INFERENCES One of the most important things during the process of interviewing the potential candidate for hiring them in certain post or position in the organization is the interviewers must be equipped with skills that they can separate facts from inferences that they have made earlier. What is fact? Fact is something that can be proven by observation from cause to effect. An inference is something that is inferred‚ or implied‚ by the existence of two conditions. For this

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    “Have you ever used force?”‚ In the spiel “The use of force” by William Carlos Williams‚ a physician uses force to save a child’s life. Doctors make a promise called the “Hippocratic Oath”. This oath assures that doctors do no harm. The story reveals how force is portrayed by all characters. The doctor uses force by holding the little girl down and the little girl resists which just makes the doctor use added brunt. The parents try to help hold her down but she continues to kick and scream. Using

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