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    The Importance of Literary Elements in Barn Burning Understanding literary elements such as patterns‚ reader/writer relationships‚ and character choice are critical in appreciating William Faulkner’s Barn Burning. Some literary elements are small and almost inconsequential while others are large and all-encompassing: the mother’s broken clock‚ a small and seemingly insignificant object‚ is used so carefully‚ extracting the maximum effect; the subtle‚ but more frequent use of dialectal

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    Doctor in the house

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    Under our study the passage of the story ’Doctor in the house’ written by a famous British writer and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal of the 20 th century Richard Gordon who worked also as a ship’s surgeon‚ but left his medical practice in 1952. The story ’Doctor in the house’ is one of Gordon’s twelve ’Doctor’ books and is noted for witty description of a medical student’s years of professional training. ’Doctor in the house’ is not really intriguing title for the story‚ but‚ perhaps

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    Point of view is the way a story is written. There are several types of point of views depending on who is telling the story; first person‚ second person‚ and third person. First person is the most difficult of the all because the author writes almost everything from the point of view of the main character as if the character is speaking to the person reading it. Certain words such as "I" and "me" are used to describe the character in the story. Second person is rarely ever seen in a story because

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    Discount House

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    LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC ALAGBADO ANNEX OTITOR SUNDAY .N. ND/BFN/ALG/010/750 LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC ALAGBADO ANNEX OGUNBONA EMMANUEL .G ND/BFN/ALG/010/690 PUBLIC FINANCE THE DEREGULATION OF THE DOWNSTREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY IS MORE OF A CURSE THAN BLESSING. DISCUSS LECTURER IN CHARGE BAARISTER OGUNSEYE THE DEREGULATION OF THE NIGERIA DOWN STREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIA OIL INDUSTRY

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    The House of the Scorpion

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    The house of the scorpion The term extraordinary can apply to many things. The definition of extraordinary is an object that is “very unusual and deserving attention”. The House of the Scorpion deserves to be called extraordinary because it spins a masterful literary web that will not set you free until you finish the last page with a satisfied sigh. Because of the moralistic issues she cunningly weaves into the book‚ the excellent literary language‚ and her cautionary take on the future‚ Farmer

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    Analysis Of The Text «Doctor In The House» By Richard Gordon This text is an extract from the book “Doctor in the house” by Richard Gordon‚ a famous English writer‚ who was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital‚ a ship’s surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon’s twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical

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    House Blessing

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    possible‚ gather where there is a crucifix present. All make the sign of the cross. The leader‚ which the Bishops encourage to be a layperson‚ begins: Peace be with this house and with all who live here. Blessed be the name of the Lord. All respond : Amen. The leader may use these or similar words to introduce the house blessing: When Christ took flesh through the Blessed Virgin Mary‚ he made his home with us. Let us now pray that he will enter this home and bless it with his presence. May

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    The House of Atreus

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    The House of Atreus The Background The House of Atreus‚ a tragic story of many generations passed down‚ is focused around on the royal family of Mycenae which is said to be one of the most important families in literature. This story is created from a curse‚ put on the whole family line. When It First Begins Tantalus‚ the son of Zeus had a foolish idea. He wanted to prove that he was better than the gods‚ so he cut up his son Pelops and fed him to the gods thinking that

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    House of Cards

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    craved for a better life for her family. A mortgage broker from her church found the family a house in an upscale neighborhood. She thought she had found her dream house. 

Cynthia Simons says her broker “grossly exaggerated her income and without her knowledge arranged two mortgages... one a loan for her down payment‚ the other an adjustable rate mortgage on the home”. 

Now‚ Simons still has the house‚ but can no longer keep up with her mortgage payments. In this case the conflict of interest is

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    The Burning Season is a film that features Chico Mendes’ struggle‚ together with other rubber tappers‚ to save the Amazon forest. The movie presented many issues or problems. Some of which are deforestation‚ social conflict‚ and social inequality. However‚ these problems are just the many aspects of one major issue which is poverty and the prospect of development. Poverty is the least common denominator of Third World countries. And alleviating it is the basic reason why most of these countries

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