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    Blood is known to all of us to represent life‚ death and often injury. Blood is an essential part of life‚ and without blood‚ we could not live. This is known to everyone‚ and because of this‚ when Shakespeare uses the symbol of blood to represent treason‚ murder and death‚ it is easily understood and fits in perfectly with the ideas we have of blood.<br><br>Blood is mentioned often in the play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first sinister reference to blood is in Act 2‚ Scene

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    feelings‚ that you may hurt her and give Maya Angelou dirty looks‚ yet she will be the bigger person. Maya Angelou uses figurative language to hook her readers with the points she tries to express. Maya Angelou grew up in the 1930’s‚living in a country plagued with bigotry‚ particularly towards women and people of color. Thesis: In “Still I Rise”‚ Maya Angelou uses strong figurative language such as personification‚ metaphors‚ and similes to convey her ideas. BP1: In “Still I Rise” Maya Angelou’s

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    Double Speak- The use of language to intentionally obscure‚ confuse‚ equivocate‚ or deceive. Double speak is seen a lot in my daily life. For example‚ I sometimes irritate my sister‚ and she tells me it is fine but has clear symbols showing that it is not fine. She shows me this by her tone of voice and her body language. Sometimes when she asks me to take out the trash and I don’t she will tell me its fine and do it herself‚ showing me in her tone and body language that it is not fine. I also see

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    from the story of Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth wants to lose her feminine qualities in order to be capable of murder. She conveys this through the use of figurative language and alliteration.     Through the usage of figurative language‚ it is understood that she wants to lose her nurturing female qualities. Her statement of “unsex me here” figuratively means that she does not want to be the sex that she was given so that she could commit the murder. Literally she means that in order to pull off the deepest

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    Iago’s uses deception‚ gossip and jealousy to negatively influence Othello in Othello Reference Shakespeare‚ William. (2003). Othello. New York‚ N.Y; Spark Publishing All future references are to this edition and will be cited parenthetically. The Law of Environment states that the people around us affect our lives‚ for better or worse. Some unfortunate elements of the relationships that people have are jealousy

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    Mikaela Myers Professor Cragoe ENG 105 30 May 2015 Deborah Tannen’s “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” In her essay‚ “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently”‚ Deborah Tannen states that classrooms are more receptive to most men than to most women because our educational system puts more emphasis on challenging debate rather than open-ended discussions. (From Inquiry to Academic Writing) From my own personal classroom experience I agree with her claims. My educational

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    play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare makes use of many techniques in order to convey the downfall of the tragic main character‚ Macbeth. Through the use of techniques such as aside‚ adjectives and punctuation‚ Shakespeare enforces the message of the play to show Macbeth’s transition from a war hero into a murderer. In the opening scenes of the play‚ William Shakespeare presents Macbeth as an honorable war hero and courageous fighter. Through the use of dialogue‚ such as “For brave Macbeth (well

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    Shakespeare uses Death and the Afterlife in Hamlet to serve many purposes: to provide a means of shaping and defining characters‚ determining them to be strong‚ fearful‚ etc.; to provide the major conflict in the play‚ an internal conflict that ultimately psychologically surpasses the breadth of the external conflict; and to present cerebral discourse on a recurring theme throughout all of Shakespeare’s works‚ playing on mankind’s inability to understand Death and what comes after. Death appears

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    killings during this horrific event. “Considerations of public opinion influenced Bill Clinton’s decision on going into Somalia in 1993. Ninety-seven per cent of the American public agreed that Clinton made the right decision” (Publics opinion on use of force‚

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    land—during this culturally delicate time. Kennedy speaks in a passionate tone for the socially divided citizens. Indeed‚ they differ between settling for peace or retaliating with anger. By acknowledging the immediate audience‚ Kennedy uses diverse figurative language and recognizes the issue of violence to grant his speech credibility. Kennedy incorporates imagery throughout

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