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    Leadership shines through all writing of Elizabeth’s writing such as her speeches and even her actions. She shows time and time again that she can be a leader just as such as a man. Which was an incredible feat even to this day. The undermining of women in the workplace didn’t start with elizabeth and it didn't end with elizabeth. She was always told how to be a leader, what she should do with other nations but her true initiation into the life of a queen was when she took control of how she ruled

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    “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” -Stephen King. Descriptive language helps to create a picture in the reader’s mind. Authors can create descriptive language through narration or dialogue. In the novel The Contender, by Robert Lipsyte, the author uses descriptive language and dialogue to develop the characters and the setting. In The Contender, the author Robert Lipsyte uses descriptive language throughout the whole story. One example of descriptive

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    Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” is a tale of a man who suffers from alcoholism. In this tale the protagonist whose name is never revealed is deranged by his addiction. The story begins with the narrator describing his love for all his pets. He says “I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.” (Poe p.1) Although, the narrators’ personality alters when

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    The stylistic elements of “Hill Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway creates a visual of two characters, a man and girl speaking to each other. Hemingway creates a short story that is written with few narrations and more dialogues. A clear image is created by the word choice and the short sentences for dialogue but long in the narration for description. Even though an image is created, the conversation between the man and woman is unclear. Hemingway’s word choice is formal language because

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    In every Disney's fairy tale, a happy ending between a beautiful princess and a charming prince always satisfies young audiences around the world. This model, therefore, was applied to a famous princess's movie "Sleeping Beauty". According to Wikipedia, "Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault." This movie tells a story of a gorgeous princess who is cursed by a powerful and evil witch called Maleficent

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    Joshua Mehigan 's second poetry collection following, The Optimist, presents an anthology disclosing rhyme, meter and colloquial speech/diction infused with realist narratives and monologues bathed in the surreal lucid elements of the subconscious. Mehigan’s collection discusses the inevitability and the gravitating novelty of change as well as the facing of ones demise in both the literal and figurative sense. Whether it is an everlasting smokestack, the evaluation of a road post car accident, a

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    The little Chinese Seamstress which was written by Dai Sijie in 2000 tells a story about re-education in communist China under the rule of Chairman Mao. The narrator tells the story from his point of view (The only exception being some interviews he conducts) and explains his interest in literature and continuing “conventional” education. This suggests that the narrator is still immature and does not have concrete ideals on what his purpose and goals are. The narrator has a great amount of respect

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    distant as well, Dirch appears at a higher position than Dragan, which suggests Dirch and Lisbeth as a much closer relationship. When Dragan’s question irritates Lisbeth, she turns her head to Dirch’s direction and confronts him for Dragan’s aggressive style; Dirch gives her a look of disappointment back. There Lisbeth refuses to make eye contact with Dragan, which means she purposely wish to put Dragan out of the conversation, even when Dragan is the one who ask questions. After she failed to win Dirch’s

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    who 'moves in dimness' (lines 40, 41), that is, set in his ways, and who is probably not going to change his perspectives. The form of the 'Mending Wall' is a long one-stanza sonnet. It is composed in clear verse and contains an account like style. Redundancy is utilized as a method to accentuate the primary thoughts. The line 'something there is that doesn't love a divider' has been rehashed in line thirty-five with another significance. It alludes to the states of mind of the narrator

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    Jimmy Carter uses imagery throughout his argumentative article to persuade his readers. The author uses imagery because he knows if he paint a good enough picture in his readers’ heads of this beautiful place, the readers are more likely to agree with him that this Arctic Refuge should not be used for industrial purposes because it will be destroyed. For example, “This magnificent area is as vast as it is wild.” Jimmy Carter uses words like “magnificent” and “vast” because he knows that those word

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