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    narrator’s mind is racing, frantically trying to justify his actions. Immediately preceding that however, in a very different style, he opens the piece with a pair of lengthy, complexly structured sentences. He makes use of several hyphens and a semicolon, which allow him to extend his thoughts and clarify or revise the things he had said. Furthermore, the narrator often repeats adjectives to place extra emphasis on his description. This can be found several times within just a few paragraphs,…

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    Tourlough strolls through the vom and spills onto the lower pedestrian carrier streets of Nou Barri Gòtic—not glancing back at his atelier, just noting that his former workspace is a shadow on his back. Close quarters and narrow alleys make him ponder the traffic he is part of and apart from. The phrase 'mostly human ' enters his mind. The mostly human crowd is composed of individuals that are mostly human, certain percentages of their body mass replaced with various synplants. Tourlough…

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    Edmund King Lear Analysis

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    Edmund is perhaps the most conniving and clever character in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Armed with the belief that the natural world is injustice, Edmund sets out to bring down the natural order and replace it with his own immorality, which he does not truly realize. In his plot to become the next heir and possible ruler of the kingdom, Edmund puts himself into a complex situation where he has professed love for both sisters, but also has commitments to his mission of eliminating Lear and Cordelia…

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    When I signed up for English 1104, I was worried to say the least, English isn’t my strong suit by any means honestly English is a subject I’ve struggled with for a very long time. This isn’t the first time I’ve taken this either this is my second I failed the first time and I’m hoping taking this course under you ill be able to pull off a C. What I can say is that having you as my professor I’ve learned a lot of different things when it comes to writing papers just the concepts you had were…

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    In “My Papa’s Waltz,” Roethke uses an extended metaphor, but uses different language to describe it as the poem is read. “My Papa’s Waltz” has the metaphor of dancing throughout the poem, more correctly, waltzing between a father and son. Everything from the description of the fluidity of the dance to the speakers feeling towards the dance helps create a stronger meaning behind the metaphor. Roethke uses dancing as a metaphor for the relationship between the son and the father, according to the…

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    In this poem, William Wordsworth expresses the beauty he sees in nature and shows the love he has for his daughter. In the octave, the writer describes the evening as he walks along a shoreline. To him, the evening is a time of calmness, allowing one to delve into their own spirituality, an opportunity to become closer to God. His mention of a nun automatically signifies purity and religiosity, leading to divinity. He is awed by the magnitude of nature, hence the praise. The descriptions are…

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    Bravery Over Perfection

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    door that would allow them to be comfortable with being brave and taking risks, rather than being perfect. Coding, which can be considered as a trial and error process, is about trying to get information in the right place with something such as a semicolon that sets apart success from failure. In order for the girls to code, it requires them to persevere, to be imperfect and to work through it with confidence that they can do it. By starting this company and by teaching their girls to code,…

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    Academic writing plays a vital role in the development of the sciences. The main objective of academic writing is to efficiently communicate thoughts, theories or knowledge from empirical experiments or logical deductions in research papers, articles, and theses for example, trying to convince readers and researchers, and progress WORD CHOICE the knowledge in some field. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in studying the rhetorical structure of research papers, especially the…

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    Lord of the Flies and The Philosophies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Organized society is one of the oldest and most extensively studied aspects of human history. During the Enlightenment, the pinnacle of societal exploration, European philosophers were encouraged to question their beliefs and government, which eventually prompted each to form separate theories on how humans and society should interact. These ideas were about society and human nature, and are explored thoroughly in William Golding’s…

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    wouldn’t be disappointed. B. She eats with enthusiasm and drinks with abandon. C. The hitter glanced toward the stands before he hit the game-winning homerun. D. The instructor explains the diagram to students that asked questions during the lecture. Semicolons and…

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