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    where he can set his burdening memories free and find a better life. In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses language, characters, and mood to develop the theme that conformity can go too far. Lois Lowry uses language as a main signal of conformity. She uses euphemisms to show the readers that the citizens are being deceived.…

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    your training with any other member of the community, including parents and Elders." Also, he cannot apply for medication for anything related to training. This was also included in his rules. There was no escape from the pain. Release may be a euphemism for suicide. It was what Rosemary did when she couldn't handle the pain. Jonas cannot apply for Release, it is mentioned in his guidelines for his training as Receiver. When it became too much to handle, he hatched a plan with the Giver to…

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    George Orwell, who wrote about opposition to totalitarianism, shared opinions of political messages about war: In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible… Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and…

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    While obvious as it is that a murder is irreversible as the victim is gone forever, in the play Macbeth by Shakespeare and the novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson, the authors explore the irreversible transformation of the murderers, the titular characters. Through vivid examples illustrating the progression of the main characters’- Macbeth and Jekyll’s- actions, Shakespeare and Stevenson clearly indicate that regardless of the past or accountability, actions…

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    federal government from 1932-1972,looked at the effects of untreated syphilis. In order to do this, a number of Black men inAlabama who had syphilis were misinformed about their illness. They were told theyhad “bad blood” (which was sometimes a euphemism for syphilis, though not always)and that the government was offering special free treatments for the condition.The “special free treatment” was, in fact, nothing of the sort. The researchersconducted various examinations, including spinal taps,…

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    do not support the killing of innocent human beings. But what they fail to realize is that murder has been legal in the United States for the past 42 years. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy but this is just a euphemism for the voluntary annihilation of an unborn child. In 1973, the Supreme Court made a decision on the case of Roe v. Wade ruling unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother. The Court ruled that the…

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    Do you feels safe at home knowing that if an intruder comes in you have little means of how to defend yourself?(Loaded Questions). With guns being a viable option for various situations, I feel that the public should have access to moderate firearms with reasonable background checks and sanity tests. The controversy surrounding gun control in north america can be contributed to the amount of school shootings and tragedies that have happened over the course of the past 10 years. There seems to…

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne employed personification, allusion, and theme to develop his characters In The House of the Seven Gables. These and other literary devices help flesh out his tales. Without literary devices, a story is two-dimensional and forgettable, but The House of the Seven Gables is a tale that has withstood the test of time. When Phoebe first discovered the garden, she saw the scrawny chickens who “regarded her with queer, sidelong glances, and then croaked one to another, as if…

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    stars yielded their fame from some version of a scandal. Furthermore, as our society has come to expect deception, we too have sought reasons to justify its presence. Lying is no longer considered lying; rather, we have begun to utilize countless euphemisms to detract from the severity of our dishonesty. It is evident that deception is growing not only in severity, but frequency. The routinization of dishonesty is a trait our society is much too familiar with, and it is of crucial importance…

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    While most would agree that the aforementioned pros to this issue are important, political correctness simply isn't the means for obtaining these benefits. Augusto Zimmerman and Lorraine Finlay not only hold strongly to this view (which disagrees with Corolla’s) but go as far to contend “Absolute free speech under all circumstances can never be a possibility… speech advocating or inciting direct acts of violence and direct attacks on the physical integrity of another person should never be…

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