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  • Importance of Symbolism in “what We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

    Importance of Symbolism in “what We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

    Symbols are an essential part of daily life, since they help to express ideas without the need of a detailed explanation; traffic signs informing drivers without short paragraphs being posted in their place, facial gestures expressing feelings without having to describe them verbally, just to name a common couple. Likewise, symbols are a crucial part of a literary work, helping the author subtly incorporate concepts throughout the work. An author will deliberately incorporate a symbol

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: David
  • Importance of the Monkey Garden in the House on Mango Street

    Importance of the Monkey Garden in the House on Mango Street

    Life as a kid is effortless, where the only motive is to have fun. Some people never want to have responsibility and complexity that comes with being an adult as they realize they must take accountability sometime. Likewise in "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza tries her best to avoid is renegade against the normal expectations of women on Mango Street. Esperanza's only way to avoid having to become part of the

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Importance of Work

    Importance of Work

    Reading Response to “The Importance of Work” “The Importance of Work” is an essay from The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. It states that women should hold jobs equivalent to men, since “women, like men, can only find their identity in work that uses their full capacities (578).” Friedan wrote this to help inspire women to go into the work force and seek “self-realization, self-fulfillment, and identity (576).” She warns that if women do not

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Importance of Work Life Balance as a Employee Retention Strategy

    Importance of Work Life Balance as a Employee Retention Strategy

    IMPORTANCE OF WORK LIFE BALANCE AS A EMPLOYEE RETENTION STRATEGY Name: Nashra Syedi Course: MBA Executive Register Number: 1528931 Email: syedinashra@gmail.com Abstract: Attracting and retaining the best talent continues to top the priority list of organizations of all sizes and industries. Inflexible work arrangements are a primary reason an organisation losses its best human resource. The main aim of this article is to study the literature pertaining to retention of good employees and the role

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    Submitted: June 20, 2016 By: nashsyedi
  • Important Quotes from Kiterunner

    Important Quotes from Kiterunner

    Quotes: 1. When Hassan is telling Amir of his dream at the lake: “But you can’t swim.” (Amir) “It’s a dream, Amir agha, you can do anything.” (Pg.63) 2. “For you a thousand times over!” (Pg. 71) 3. “A loyal Hazara. Loyal as a dog,” Assef said. (Pg. 77) 4. Then Hassan did pick up a pomegranate. He walked toward me. He opened it and crushed it against his own forehead. “There,” he croaked, red

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Top
  • Impression in Red Badge - the Courage of Impressionism

    Impression in Red Badge - the Courage of Impressionism

    The Courage of Impressionism Literary impressionism is exemplified by the author Steven Crane through the novel, The Red Badge of Courage. In reference terms, impressionism means: “a literary style characterized by the use of details and mental associations to evoke subjective and sensory impressions rather than re-creation of objective reality” (dictionary.com). In the essay, Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage, James Nagel suggests a focus on impressionism while reading the novel. An understanding of

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Improving Patient Experience Outline

    Improving Patient Experience Outline

    Improving Patient Experience Outline Introduction: One of the most crucial responsibilities of the CEO in a hospital is to ensure that each patient is receiving the best medical care that the hospital can provide. In order to do that, hospitals need to incorporate business initiatives into their setting so they can gain loyal customers. Thesis, or main claim: Using the Net Promoter System or NPS in a hospital setting can drastically improve the overall patient

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    Submitted: March 2, 2015 By: amarhayer
  • Imran

    Imran

    Marketing plans must be based upon the goals laid out in the business plan so a thorough review and understanding of the company's business plan is the first step in created a marketing plan. Once you understand the strategic goals of the company, as a successful marketer you will also fully understand the benefits of the products and services you offer. You will also understand who can benefit from those products and services and how

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    Submitted: May 6, 2011 By: imranleo82
  • In a Baloon

    In a Baloon

    Lifted Up EXT: open field, a hot-air balloon is loading up Anna Wallace (a young woman with sunglasses on) is just getting onto the balloon. Bruce the attendant tucks her money into his pocket. Don the Pilot is already aboard, doing a last-minute flight check. Jerry Brewer is pacing frantically on the grass in front of the attendant. EDITING NOTE: Get the pilot to give some tour-guide speech about the scenery, and use it in

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Vika
  • In Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Play “julius Caesar”, Why Does Antony Succeed and Brutus Fail to Persuade the Crowd.

    In Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Play “julius Caesar”, Why Does Antony Succeed and Brutus Fail to Persuade the Crowd.

    I have studied Julius Caesar a play written by William Shakespeare. I focused the study on act 3 scene 2 the speeches by Brutus and Antony. I am looking at the persuasive techniques used by the two speakers and why Antony’s speech won over the crowd. Julius Caesar has been an influential figure in history for 2000 years. Caesar was such a powerful, heroic leader with his death a devastating civil war ensued. Julius Caesar

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    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • In an Antique Land

    In an Antique Land

    In Amitav Ghosh’s, “In an Antique Land”, the author compares his life with that of a slave named Bomma. He reveals that both men live in antique lands, foreign to their culture and surrounded by very different people. Ghosh also relates the book to Percy Bysshe Shelly’s poem Ozymandias, a piece on mankind’s hubris and the insignificance of the individual. Ghosh effectively juxtaposes Bomma’s life with his own as he tries to find himself and

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Bred
  • In Chinua Achebeўїs Narrative Ў°things Fall Apartў±, Analyse How the Tribeўїs Culture and Tradition Are Broken Down

    In Chinua Achebeўїs Narrative Ў°things Fall Apartў±, Analyse How the Tribeўїs Culture and Tradition Are Broken Down

    In Chinua AchebeЎЇs masterpiece Ў°Things Fall ApartЎ± the author illustrates the fall of the Ibo tribe during the period of colonization by white people which takes place in lower Niger during the 19th century. This novel can be likened to the idea of Wiliam Butler YeatsЎЇ Poem Ў°The Second ComingЎ± where he suggests that removal of important mechanism causes things to Ў®fall apartЎЇ. In Ў°Things Fall ApartЎ±, Okonkwo is signified as the centre of the

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    Summary Herbert Clutter inspects his ranch on the morning of November 14, 1959. That same morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their daily business, running errands and baking apple pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a long drive, they pull up to the Clutter home with a shotgun and knife in hand. That morning, the bodies are discovered

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Anna
  • In Cold Blood: The Devastation of an American Dream

    In Cold Blood: The Devastation of an American Dream

    In Cold Blood: The Devastation of an American Dream On November 14, 1959, two men armed with a shotgun and a knife, raided and killed a family of four. This occurrence resonated the community that lived close by (Knickerbocker 1 of 3). By contrasting the lives of the Clutter family and the lives of the killers, Truman Capote creates a harsh view of America and its increasing violence. Spending over half a decade writing the

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • In Cold Blood: Truman Capote's Nonfiction Murder Mystery

    In Cold Blood: Truman Capote's Nonfiction Murder Mystery

    In Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, the author uses a style of writing combining factual, journalistic writing with the mystery and intrigue normally found in traditional fiction novels to develop a new genre that critics found unique from the modernists of his time. In the beginning of this book, the murders and victims seem unrelated, but as the book moves ahead, the relationship becomes clear. The victims, who are the Clutter family of four,

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: David
  • In Defense of Abortion

    In Defense of Abortion

    For hundreds of years women helped each other to abort their pregnancies. Without legal prohibitions, women in Europe and the United States provided abortions and trained each other to perform the procedures. In the past century different states had begun to outlaw any procedure that would terminate or avoid pregnancy. In 1973(?) the United States Supreme Court asserted a woman’s constitutional right to abortion in determining Roe v. Wade. After several decades of quiet disagreement,

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Monika
  • In Defnese of Luxury

    In Defnese of Luxury

    In the article “A Mild Defense of Luxury”, James Twitchell paints a vivid picture of how luxury is perceived. He gives us a close snapshot about how we fell about luxury in our society. Our society has defined so many materials like clothing, liquor, appliances, furniture, etc., that we have created our own standard when compared to what luxury should be and how can we attain it. Many years we classified what is considered

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Wendy
  • In Just - the Loss of Innocense

    In Just - the Loss of Innocense

    in Just- The Loss of Innocence By my interpretation, the poem in Just- by E.E. Cummings captures the gradual loss of innocence of children as they grow older. Each stanza tells part of the story. In stanzas one and two the children are young and pure and by the fourth and fifth stanzas the children do not even exist. In the first two stanzas, the time is spring which represents birth and the beginning of

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Vika
  • In Kasich We Trust

    In Kasich We Trust

    Montano Gladys Montano Professor Glick English 103 21st September 2016 In Kasich We Trust The race for Presidency has begun once again, candidates are beginning to place their bids but none reflect the same contingency as John Kasich. Governor Kasich announced his candidacy for the 2016 Presidency on July 21, 2015 at Ohio State University. He’s experienced, accomplished and has the background and temperament to be the next Commander in Chief. Kasich political aptitude can

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    Submitted: September 29, 2016 By: Gladys Montano
  • In Love and War

    In Love and War

    “In Love and War” Abstract: Women of Afghanistan are forced to live under oppressive regulations set forth for them by the men of their societies. Women have virtually no rights to do anything for themselves. There entire lives are controlled by and lived for someone else. Through their songs, they lament the conditions of their lives and are able to convey a beauty in their verses that all people can identity with. (67 words) Key

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • In Love with Shakespeare

    In Love with Shakespeare

    In love with Shakespeare Whether it is the 1500s or the new millennium, love is still essentially the same although with some differences in customs. Romeo and Juliet is the very epitome of love in Shakespeare’s time. Marriage in Shakespeare’s time mostly served as a union of two parties interested in acquiring property, money or political alliances. Few ever married for love. Most girls were married at 14 or 15. In Shakespeare's famous play, Romeo

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Max
  • In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Short Story Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment, one Of

    In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Short Story Dr.Heidegger’s Experiment, one Of

    In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, one of the central ideas of the story revolves around the idea of reality and illusion. The story deals with the changing old age into youth. The most thing that appealed to me the most was find that the experiment for of trying to make it reality ratherthen a figment of imagination caused by the intoxicating brew. A couple of points that Hawthorne made led me to

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • In Search of Peachy Love

    In Search of Peachy Love

    The love between father and daughter. Sometimes it's shared, however most often the father loves the daughter unconditionally whatever might happen. This peach story is very sad and colorless, to a point where if we did not have the peaches one would not be able to finish reading it. One day we have this father and daughter relationship. The girl whom from what we get in the story rarely comes to see her father:

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • In Terpreter of Maladies

    In Terpreter of Maladies

    In Interpreter of Maladies a couple is navigating between the Indian traditions they’ve inherited and the baffling new world in which they grew up in. The Dases hire an old-fashioned Indian guide, Mr. Kapasi, to drive them out to the Sun Temple in Konarak, India. Mr. Kapasi, conversant I nine languages, informs the family that he also works as an interpreter for a doctor. Because her family has their fair share of problems, Mrs. Das

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • In the American Society

    In the American Society

    Gish Jen’s In the American Society is, on the surface, an entertaining look into the workings of a Chinese American family making their way in America. The reader is introduced to the life of a Chinese American restaurant owner and his family through the eyes of his American-born daughter. When we examine the work in depth, however, we discover that Jen is addressing how traditional Chinese values work in American culture. She touches on the

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: Max
  • In the Blood

    In the Blood

    Part 1: Themes The connection between marriage and womenЎЇs happiness: In the beginning of the play, all actors clustered together, they said: she oughta be married thatЎЇs why things are bad like they are. But to who? She has five children and each of them has different father. In my opinion, she shouldn't marry any of them, because none of them accept her for who she really is. Even though she is a person that

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • In the Castle of My Skin

    In the Castle of My Skin

    The novel In The Castle Of My Skin by Barbadian novelist George Lamming and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, a native of Dominica both deal in-depth with the lives of their characters during colonialism. Similarly each author tackles the idea of alienation and loss of identity placed upon their characters, through such literary techniques as point of view, setting and characterization. One can successfully compare and contrast the novels and seek to attain a

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jack
  • In the Eye of the Beholder

    In the Eye of the Beholder

    In the Eye of the Beholder A simple glance at the picture shows nothing other than an ordinary eye, but a closer look shows much more. Embedded in the iris seems to be a computer chip. This chip could be just the reflection off the eye, or a part of the eye. The iris of the eye is red, and the skin surround the eye is blue, neither being normal colors associated with a face.

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    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: David
  • In the Gloaming

    In the Gloaming

    The Alice Dark story, “In the Gloaming,” is an allegory that depicts the story of a mother and her dying son in his last days. The title itself gives the reader the strong impression of a foreshadowing of something distressing or dismal that will occur in the story, and as we read we find that the author uses this idea of the gloaming as the focal point in her story. Initially when reading the

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Vika
  • In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night

    In The Heat of The Night In the small, sleepy town of Sparta, Mississippi, where they roll up the sidewalks at night, a police officer on a routine, boring nighttime patrol through the downtown stumbles across a dead body, a murdered man. The victim is a rich, white Chicago industrialist who was building a controversial factory in the town. The primary suspect, at least to this cop's black-and-white eye, is a lone black man,

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Monika
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