Multiple comparisons

Democracy in decision making may seem like a type of group decision making. The involvement of different people offering different advices that will contribute in one way or the other in coming up with the final decision. The difference in virtues and beliefs greatly contribute towards the nature of the final decision that will come out as a result. These may include the demographics, the age, and size of the group determine quality of the decisions. As a result of the different views, the group…

need for specificity as well as common function can be difficult to find, take more time than internal and the challenge of visualizing how to adapt the best process. The fourth primary benchmarking practice is generic benchmarking which is the comparison of HR practice that are the same regardless of the industry (Certisafety,…

Paradise Lost, epic simile is frequently used to create elaborate and sweeping comparisons that contribute to a character’s development. In Book IX, Milton compares Eve to a list of goddesses by writing “To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorned / Likest she seemed Pomona when she fled / Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her prime / Yet virgin of Proserpina from Jove” (393-6). This comparison constitutes as a epic simile because it spans multiple lines and goes into great detail. One thing that immediately…

Cried Wolf does a lot of work in only a short amount of space. Gretchen Shirm does so by taking on multiple characters’ stories, including different perspectives and interwoven storylines, all the while being chock full of vivid imagery and carefully crafted with literary techniques such as similes and metaphors. She also gives such specific, detailed, and relatable examples, appealing to multiple senses that make the reader feel almost as if they are actually there. For me, all of these…

Ericksen’s findings of genre are found in the similarities between other Latin works and “Christ and Satan” from the argument of wisdom in these different works. The comparison is stemmed from the question found in multiple works, such as, the Old English “Solomon and Saturn” question “Tell me what God is?” (304) Whereas, Junius manuscript question is stated as “Who possess pure intelligence except eternal God?” (304) These questions focus on the same idea but say it in very different ways. As…

peaceful life. The imagery of having something “jammed in my [your] skin” connotates pain, which is representative of the pain that having multiple selves causes Alexander. She also shares the image of mango trees growing in the concrete in New York (61). This imagery, given shortly after Alexander’s budding flower metaphor, exemplifies her struggle with having multiple selves. The exotic mango tree, representative of Alexander’s previous homes outside of America, is pictured growing in the…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

degenerate that it raises questions of sliding social virtues, contributing to the moral panic that would help to sell his writing. In order to emphasize the otherness and unnaturalness of the mollies and their behavior, Ward utilizes multiple references and comparisons to nature, animals, and the natural order in a rhyming poem that concludes the article.…

In this poem by Elisavietta Ritchie, the speaker, a woman describes her relationship with her partner through comparing it with sorting laundry and her analysis of specific pieces discuss certain aspects of it. The first stanza begins this comparison because “I think of folding you into my life,” represents how the speaker learned to share her life with her partner from that point on, mixing together, like the laundry. The mention of the bed sheets being “king sized” represents the fact that…

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri was written in the 14th century. The epic was originally written in Italian, and over the course of time multiple translations were made, which led to multiple versions of the original text. This essay compares and contrasts the translations of Robert Pinsky(1994) and Lawrence Binyon(1933), and will focus on the opening. Although very similar, the two translations provide new perspectives through diction. The two translations provide an expansion on the original…