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    portrayed how Americans felt during there respective timeframes. The first was Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward published in 1888. The other was Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt published in 1922. The novels are similar to each other in many ways but the reason they became so popular was because they expressed how many American’s felt during their respective eras however; both have polar opposite feels. Looking Backward has a sense of hope and optimism for the future while Babbitt has a much more…

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    1.4.2 Role of SOA Several IT organizations comprises of numerous dissimilar parts, all of which adds equally to the objective of aiding IT for coming across business needs. There are additional massive variations and trials where IT is fronting the challenging necessities from existent world business requirements nowadays. After quite a few years of experiments and recovering from Y2K, Internet, the dot.com reaction and IT recession of the first fragment of this era, we 're lastly hovering our…

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    By looking at the way composers represent the intertextual connections between texts, audiences are provided with heightened understanding of humanity’s changing contexts in shaping the values and societal paradigms that transcend in time. Within William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Richard III” (1591), Shakespeare’s depiction of the Machiavellian political endeavour regarding Richard’s personal ambition in the pursuit of authority as a product of his deformed vessel of his corporeality, reflects…

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    How to live and die in John Green’s Looking for Alaska "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley). The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a formerly lonely boy, Miles also known as Pudge, who is the protagonist and his ultimate goal is to seek a Great Perhaps. He arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School where he is immediately swept away and pulled into a fantasy by the antagonist,…

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    In one of Shakespeare's tragedies-Othello, the most important character is not Othello but Iago. He is the one who builds us the story and bring the story to a climax. As an effective rhetorician, Iago uses various persuasive and rhetorical devices to manipulate characters in the story especially Othello. To achieve his revenge, Iago shows his honesty and loyalty in front of people, feigns to not share information or misinformation he wants to share along with a large amount of evidence,…

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    As times change, values and ideas often change as they are invariably shaped by their context. However, some remain constant throughout time and are universal. The 1592 Shakespearean drama Richard III and Al Pacino 's 1995 docu-drama Looking for Richard [LFR] were written four hundred years apart yet both texts address perpetual values and ideas that are common to both eras. Through a simultaneous study of both texts, the responder is able to understand the influence of context on aspects of the…

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    Carroll portrays aspects of a child in her early years with people or subjects in which hold great influence over her upbringing with the use of metaphor, analogies, and symbolism. One of the most influential symbols that Carroll uses in Through the Looking…

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    Ever fallen deep into a place of the unknown? Ever wanted to ? The alice in wonderland poster makes me want to fall deep into this place where everything is backwards and nothing is right. The alice in wonderland poster provided by imp shows lots of characters such as the white rabbit, the evil queen of hearts, mad hatter , blue caterpillar, Cheshire cat, White queen, tweedledee and tweedledum, and of course alice herself. The white rabbit is pointing at a pocket watch he’s holding in his…

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    Through the Looking Glass, published in 1971, is a work of children’s fiction by Lewis Carroll. It is the famous sequel to Carroll’s first novel Alice in Wonderland, although it has no reference to its events. Generally referred to as ‘‘nonsense literature’’, it is a story full of humour, riddles and rhymes, all throughout while acting as a satire on the people in Carroll’s life at the time. Unlike general children’s novels that are written to instruct and educate, Carroll’s writings could only…

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    Alice begins a new journey, through the Looking-glass world, taking her on an expedition through a difficult game of chess. Alice starts out in the world by meeting up with the Red Queen, who shows her the number of many brooks running straight across from side to side, dividing the area up into squares as Alice realizes it is a giant game of chess (Carroll, 131-134). The more Alice sees of the game the more she wants to be a part of it. The Red Queen puts Alice up to the test to see if she can…

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