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    There is a difference between dying an honorable and noble death and simply dying. It is the gap between trying and giving up and it is the sense of the unbearable pleasure that comes along with success. In Norman Mailer’s “The Death of Benny Paret”, the author witnesses a first-hand account of the tragic death of the boxer, Paret. Through many rhetorical devices, Mailer is able to have an effect on his audience, allowing them to feel the same horror. Mailer uses diction to mold the events in a

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    The rhetorical devices found in the speech that Jane Addams wrote are hypophora, metaphor, conduplicatio, enumeratio, and personification. Each of these devices has a purpose in the passage, with the author combining all of the devices to strengthen her essay. The most frequent rhetorical device in the passage is Hypophora, which is when the author asks and answers a question. The author first mentioned hypophora at the beginning of the passage to ask what makes a great man. She later shifts toward

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    essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. | There are at least 3 arguments which: * Are mostly related to the essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. | There are at least 3 arguments which: * Are directly related to the essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. |

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    There are different types of knowledge and different ways of knowing. Four fundamental concepts of knowing in nursing highlighted by Caper (1978) are empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. He divided knowledge into two forms which are tacit and explicit. Tacit is insights and based on experience and not easily visible and expressible, difficult to share and communicate with others which is highly personal. Empirical sources of knowledge depend upon an individual’s manner of observing and responding

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    The town of Holcomb, Kansas is very stale and damaged throughout the book Capote characterizes his view of Holcomb by using rhetorical devices such as imagery, diction, repetition, foreshadowing, and selection of detail to give us a glimpse of his perspective of Holcomb from the beginning of the book until the end. On page four when Holcomb is introduced Capote uses imagery to give us a image in our mind of what Holcomb looks like. Throughout part one he gives us an image that sticks on his view

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    apply it to a larger theme. Woolf connects a simple moths lifespan to paint a gorgeous picture of “life” and then destroys it right in front of the audience's eyes, to leave a lasting impression of Woolf's perception of life and death. With further analysis and a more in depth look at its message, it is a essay filled with literary devices,

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    helpful in relieving our mind, but it does not ultimately provide us with the course of action that we need in order to get there. If moral philosophy cannot provide an algorithm for life's problems, then we might think that it should be purely descriptive. However, a complete description of every possible moral problem, or its solution, is not possible. So any moral theory can only offer a somewhat schematic view of moral life, albeit a very sophisticated one in Hursthouse's case. It seems inevitable

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    The Necessity of Travel 1. The thesis of this essay in the author's words is "Travel is how we put a voice to the Other and step a little beyond our second hand images of the alien." In other words, the author is trying to tell us that travelling is necessary in order for us to not hold prejudices and experience the lifestyle of other cultures. 2. The argument in his essay that was the most effective would be when he said “The minute I got off the plane in Yemen last year, I could see how everything

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    Preparing for the final Descriptive Analysis Powerpoint Presentation Choose a work of art that you have experienced, in person or through the Google Art project. This artwork must be different from the one you chose back in Week 4. Responding to the numbered items below, list your name and the title of your chosen work of art. Following through these items, you will describe your chosen artwork in detail: the title, location, artist, medium, and so on. Notice that item #7 asks you to develop

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    discussed in this research. Besides, the statistical analysis consists of four types of test which are descriptive analysis, reliability test, normality test and correlation analysis. Finally, this chapter concludes by summary of the chapter. 3.1 Type of study This study uses correlation analysis and descriptive analysis, but the main type of test that are used in this study are correlation analysis. 3.1.1 Correlation Analysis The correlation analysis are a process to examine whether there are relationship

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