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Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

The Bone People by Keri Hulme and Structural Metaphors

only now an even deeper character has been introduced, Daniels, who bloody death Simon has brought into Kerewins tower house. When...

Modern Literature and Body Metaphors

such as when an individual describes himself as being "torn in two", "up against a wall", or "hot-blooded" in which individuals ma...

Martin Gannon's Metaphoric Model and USAA Insurance Company

are some of the values" that remain basic American ideals, throughout our history and today (Gannon, 1994, p. 306). In addition to...

'Irish Conversation' Metaphor and Southwest Airlines

Clearly, the relationship between Southwest Airlines marketing division as guided by owner Herb Kelleher and the metaphoric Irish ...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

Ship of State Metaphor in Book VI of Plato's The Republic

reaching true conclusions and therefore may use their knowledge of language and logic to confuse the average person on the issues ...

Morgan's Organizational Metaphors and the Microsoft Corporation Analyzed

its popular Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office Suite. The company has expanded within the last decade to include su...

Promoting E-Commerce Within Developing Nations

could understand the concept of e-commerce based on these metaphors. Consumers now had a "virtual shopping cart" to shop on the In...

Analysis of the Style of 'Sonnet 130' by William Shakespeare

5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...

Poetry and Metaphors

savagery which slavery brought with it. Notice in this passage how the belles traits are given, then immediately juxtaposed with t...

Analysis of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

being which is so radically different from his original form that he is subsequently rejected by all who know him. He is no longe...

August 28, 1963 'I Have a Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...

'Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy' by Judy Ruiz and Metaphors

yet durable external shell which can be peeled away to reveal the different sections. While the sections are all different they to...

Metaphor of Phoenix Rising

began to feel old and weak, it would gather spices and aromatic branches, make a fire and immolate itself in the fragrant flames (...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Language, Critical Thinking, and Metaphor

because you allow someone else into the inner-most recesses of your mind. It is a process that resembles the way that eggs, milk a...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Aspects of "Romeo and Juliet"

describing Tybalt, Mercutio "invoked the plague as a figure of speech, saying ... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phanta...

Happy Eyes Prose of Liz Rosenberg

form the personality of the poet as narrator. As the reader gets to know the narrative voice, it also becomes clear that a pervasi...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...

Metaphors and Language

and still love the book, the friendship. Friends can cry together over the hard parts, and love and laugh together in the fun. ...

Metaphors of Leadership

sees the gestalt, the large picture, who has natural insight into what will happen and acts to meet those future challenges before...

Jack and Twenty One Grams of Multiple Personality Disorder

therapeutic steps down the path of recovery. The loss of 21 grams of soul is Jack stripping himself of his other personalities, t...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...

'Prayer' by George Herbert, Structure and Metaphor

In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...