Home Is Where the Heart Is In the book Clear Light of Day‚ Anita Desai develops an extended metaphor of the Das family house to symbolize the entrapment of the Das children: Bimla‚ Tara‚ Raja‚ and Baba. Desai’s book follows each of the children as they grow up‚ but when the family gathers at the Das house for Raja’s daughter’s wedding‚ it is the first time the family had been at the house together since childhood. The house‚ kept the same through the years‚ then morphs into a prison‚ causing each
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In this poem‚ Poe uses raven as a metaphor of death and a long deep passing of grief. --> death motif Greek mythology‚ ravens are associated with Apollo‚ the god of prophecy. They are said to be a symbol of good luck‚ and were the god’s messengers in the mortal world. In the Talmud‚ the
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“Discuss the role of the mockingbird in the novel‚ both as a symbol and a metaphor.” In many novels‚ there is clear recognition of the so-called “good” characters and the “bad” characters. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ particular characters exemplify innocence. This innocence is symbolised by a mockingbird. Throughout the novel there are events whereby the mockingbird occurs‚ both as a metaphor and a symbol of the story. “… they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s
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Historical Highlights The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)serves as the nations principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans‚ and providing essential human services. HHS has enjoyed many highlights since becoming a separate agency‚ while its roots go back as far as the early days of our nation. See Secretaries of HHS/HEW 2010 The Affordable Care Act was signed into law‚ putting in place comprehensive U.S. health insurance reforms. 2003 The Medicare Prescription Drug
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Beauty Straight From Nature To Whom It May Concern: I am an advertising representative from Zadina Corp. and have produced a brilliant idea for a new ad campaign for KaBloom‚ Ltd. It is our goal here to inspire‚ create‚ and produce exciting new advertising ideas for your company to grow and expand to its fullest potential. Keeping that in mind‚ we here at Zadina Corp. have taken a fresh and innovative turn for the best for your new advertising campaign. Our proposition is to take the simple‚ yet
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The Life of Pi‚ a Religious Metahor By: Yann Martel In the Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel‚ through the main character in the book‚ Pi‚ makes the following statement‚ “I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.” In the world today‚ zoos have come under scrutiny because of their practices of illegally trapping animals and caging them for profit. The animal rights movement across the world has brought more focus
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The metaphor of red and blue oceans describes the market universe. Red Oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans‚ industry boundaries are defined and accepted‚ and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of product or service demand. As the market space gets crowded‚ prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities or niche‚ and cutthroat competition
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Marketing Theory http://mtq.sagepub.com/ Beyond Visual Metaphor: A New Typology of Visual Rhetoric in Advertising Barbara J. Phillips and Edward F. McQuarrie Marketing Theory 2004 4: 113 DOI: 10.1177/1470593104044089 The online version of this article can be found at: http://mtq.sagepub.com/content/4/1-2/113 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Marketing Theory can be found at: Email Alerts: http://mtq.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://mtq
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The film The Legend of Bagger Vance‚ based on the novel of the same name by Steven Pressfield‚ is a movie that transports the philosophical Hindu text‚ the Bhagavad Gita‚ from a celebrated battlefield‚ approximately during the 4th century BCE‚ in India to a fictional southern golf course in Savannah‚ Georgia during the Great Depression. The predominant theme of dharma (or duty) is a major point that both these works focus on. The Legend of Bagger Vance is told from the point of view of Harvey Greaves
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Gilman uses metaphor in The Yellow Wallpaper to comment on the destructive and oppressive social constructions of True Womanhood‚ an ideology present at the time Gilman wrote The Yellow Wallpaper. The eponymous wallpaper is metaphor for not only the narrator’s state of mental deterioration‚ but of the “pattern of social and economic dependence”1 of women‚ reducing them to household servants. The metaphors created in The Yellow Wallpaper lead to a feminist interpretation as each can be argued to comment
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