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    text. In this context, (Abed Al qader 2003 p.24) lists three important relationships: the semiotic, the structural, and the reflexive. In El Aqad’s poem, Al Oqab Al Harem, The old Eagle, the title is chiefly made of the noun and the attributive adjective. In Arabic such use of structure creates a permanent affinity between the epithet and the noun described. ( Al Razzi,1981 p.2012/14). Al Okab, the eagle, is word which connotes several meanings. It indicates freedom, power, dignity, wildness,…

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    we are introduced to a cast of characters that Williams describes as his “little company of the faded and the frightened, the difficult, the odd, the lonely” – and Williams’ exploration of how these adjectives influence the nature of the characters’ relationships. In Tennessee’s writing, these adjectives typically assume a position in a gender hierarchy, which handily lends “Streetcar” to be read from a feminist critical standpoint. The female empowerment movement realised the significance of…

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    McCarthy didn’t write this way for the reader’s convenience. McCarthy writes for the reader with walking dead style and post-apocalyptic prose, with absence of backstory and guiding information, so that the brief moments of flourishing language and adjectives abound have more meaning. The writing works to supplement the underlying existentialist tones, so that we may become more connected with the story, and with the struggle to carry the fire through an unforgiving land. This…

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    Henry David Thoreau is a writer that is obsessed with nature. To Thoreau nature is just more than trees, dirt, and animals. Nature is about the spiritual connection your soul can have. How nature makes you feel and forget about the realities of life is what's important to him. He begins his writing, Walking (1862), saying "I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-To regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and…

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    Going against the grain of the clichéd cop movie filled with violence, car chases and loud noises, Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective (2009), is an intelligent and thought-provoking piece of Romanian cinema that examines the concepts of law, morals, linguistics and dialectics. The story follows Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young plainclothes detective assigned to track a teenager who occasionally smokes hash outside his school with his friends. Aware that the kid isn’t exactly Pablo Escobar,…

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    In my review, i used the three focus writer moves. I incorporated details that the average player/user/listener/reader etc. might overlook by talking about A Boogies process in developing his voice, saying “A Boogie began experimenting with his voice, In Artist, his voice seems to change in certain songs but overall, He seemed to have landed on a creaky but sweet, melodic tone.” I used figurative language by creating a metaphor about A Boogie’s music style “Listening to A Boogie’s music is like…

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    Luther college Close nit community, supportive, and home are three adjectives I think of when I think of Luther College. When deciding on what college I was going to attend one of the ultimately helped me choose Luther was the community. From my freshman year experiences at Luther my peers on campus made Luther truly feel like I was at home. “Home” isn’t the house you grew up in, it is a place or places that make you truly feel yourself and complete. Luther, Spirit in the Pines, and my house I…

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    While passage one by N.S. Momaday creates a nostalgic and appreciative tone with the implementation of heavy imagery, elaborate sentences, and precise diction in order to explain the magnitude and the appearance of the landscape, passage two by D. Brown establishes a cryptic and melancholy tone with employment of rich imagery, compound sentences, and descriptive diction, with the intention to explain a cynical attitude towards what has happened to the plains. Although both passages employ…

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    communication with their child, it is hypothesized that mothers are more responsive to the child than the fathers based on the findings of Tamis-LeMonda et al. (2001). It is also hypothesized that mothers will use more words, including nouns and adjectives and fathers would use more verbs with their child. Thirdly, it is hypothesized mothers will use more concern phrases such as “be careful”, ask more questions, talk about characteristics of objects, events and places as fathers use more…

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    The Great Influenza In the excerpt from his book “The Great Influenza” John M. Barry, characterizes scientific research as “grunt” and “tedious” work, highlighting that scientists must acquire courage to accept and embrace uncertainty. Barry develops his ideas by utilizing an extended metaphor comparing the unknown and the known, antithetical ideas of uncertainty and certainty, and rhetorical questions to mirror the thought process a scientists encounters. Using references from scientists…

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