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    Cerebral Palsy Essay

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    movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance. People who have CP may also have visual, learning, hearing, speech, epilepsy and intellectual impairments. What Causes Cerebral Palsy? The exact cause for children developing CP is often unknown. A small percentage of cases are due to complications during birth if a child…

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    Planned Child” is about a child who hated the fact that she was planned, but realises that her mother loves her anyway. The tone and mood of the two poems are unlike and each conveys the poem’s themes uniquely. Diction and imagery are very similar, as well as its use to develop the character or storyline. Structure and form are the two devices which are applied most similarly. Tone and mood differ between Olds’ and Duffy’s poems. “Stealing” uses a frustrated…

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    depicts the same Sirens as bored yet deceitful human-like seductresses. Homer and Atwood make use of intense tones, powerful points of view, and bold diction to show the contrast in the two portrayals. With great intensity in their tones, Homer and Atwood make the stark contrast betwixt their portrayals of the Sirens evident, leaving few similarities afoot. For example, Homer sets a tone of urgency as Odysseus’ crew “rac[es] past” the Sirens and then proceeded, “fl[inging] themselves at the…

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    mechanics, tone, and reputation of the brand must but taken into account. There are a lot of trumpets out there, some from reputable brands and some that are more or less the same quality as the plastic trumpets that can be purchased at a party store; with the so many different brands and models to choose from along with the decision of whether to buy a professional or student trumpet, it can be overwhelming. Yamaha is a brand well known for the superior quality of its instruments; and as…

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    John C. Maxwell once said this about tone, “People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.” Tone is the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, etc. In our world today, we use tone for various things such as understanding texts. In the poem, “The Gift” and “Those Winter Sundays,” the characters describe memories of or with their fathers. You would think that in these poems the tone would be described as a positive, happy, loving tone. However, in the two poems, the…

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    Maya Angelou Identity

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    writes about in her poem, “Still I Rise.” A motif that is evident in this poem, and many of her other poems, is identity. Maya Angelou conveys the motif of identity through her use of tone, repetition, and imagery. Tone plays a big role in the development of identity in the poem. In the beginning of the poem, the tone is critical and accusatory. Angelou starts the poem with: “You may write me down in history/ With your bitter twisted lies…” (lines 1-2). When she says, “You may write me down in…

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    Infamy Speech Analysis

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    American people. In FDR 's "Infamy" speech, he uses repetition and emotional phrases, while keeping a subtle tone, to rally the American citizens to support war efforts against the Japanese empire. The first literary device…

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    death becomes glorified and purposeful. Without the author’s use of these literary techniques, thesis may have not been portrayed nor explained, which may leave the reader feeling dazed and confused. By using syntax techniques, diction, imagery and tone to solidify the reader’s opinion on the essay, the author successfully aided the reader into understanding and analyzing the text the way the author intended. This is one of the many displays of the power of literary devices over an audience, as…

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    United States to grow. In the letter Martin Luther King used multiple shifts in tone to retain the clergymen’s attention by showing a sense of reason.…

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    Though, both poets had lived 100 years apart, their poems were similar. Their tone were both really sad. Their theme as I had said above, were also similar. The difference they had, were their rhyme scheme. Using the caged bird as a slave and the free bird as a free person, both poets had a way of expressing their knowledge of slavery. The first similarity they had was their tone. Both their tones were sad. Dunbar’s tone was sad because as you can imagine the line,”And a pain still throbs in the…

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