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    A linguistic analysis of the King James Bible (Authorized version) The purpose of this analysis is to examine an extract from the song of Solomon in terms of its linguistic features, and how these compare to PDE (Present Day English). The text contains 51 lines in which to portray these findings. The song of Solomon is written in the King James Bible, of which is also called the authorized version. This version of the King James Bible was written in the year 1611AD (early 17th century), as a translation

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    My Necklace Essay

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    This necklace is a reminder to me of how much I love my grandmother and it brings me back to all the good memories I have with her. I connect with this object on a very personal level because it is so much more than a necklace with monetary value to me, I truly value the meaning behind the necklace more than I do that actual physical object. This objects reflects certain aspects of my life; it shows that I love and care for my family and it is a way to show that love by wearing the gifts that were given

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    Verb and Gerund

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    past participle and the gerund. As natural results of its origin and development the gerund has nominal and verbal properties. The nominal characteristic of the gerund are followed: The gerund can be perform the functions of subject, predicative, object, adverbial modifier, and attribute. I will describe all of them. The Gerund is the non-finite form of the verb which combines the properties of the verb with those of the noun. The gerund serves as the verbal name of a process, but its substantive

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    The most extreme form of submission to the new order of society, centered around objects and “waves and radiation” (DeLillo 1) is Mink, who represents the epitome of consumerism culture. The description of Mink by Lentricchia on page 113 covers the descriptions of the novel perfectly. “Sitting in front of the TV, throwing fistfuls of Dylar at his mouth, babbling, Willy Mink is a compacted image of consumerism in the society of electronic media, a figure of madness, but our figure of madness.” At

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    The church of today needs to make sure that it’s speaking the language of the New Testament. Now, I’m not stating that every member of the church should speak Greek to whatever environment you may be in, but rather to proclaim the gospel with the understanding of the message in the original language. In our world today, we have a clash of two languages; one being the secular and the other being the Biblical. In our preaching, we feel we should succumb to modern language and in the end we fail because

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    contains many contradictions. The composition is somewhat confusing, for it is a meticulously detailed painting; yet, the painting is riddled with perspectival impossibilities. The space surrounding Gisze is cluttered with objects that look entirely out of place in the portrait. These objects, so carefully rendered, are at odds with each other, and the surrounding area. The sitter is depicted in a most uncomfortable manner; each part of his body is oddly positioned.

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    Now the child has a clear perception of the subject, object and the abject. The subject (child) submits himself to the prevailing rules and customs of the society, the object (other) opposes the subject and disturbs the smooth run of things whereas the abject threatens the very identity and wholeness of the subject. Objects can lead to either or both fascination and repulsion. When an object is on the verge of destroying the subject’s existence, it becomes an abject i.e

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    Symbolism In Eventide 3

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    locations. In fact, the closest thing that this game has to action is an achievement for completing a hidden object scene in less than 30 seconds, which we have to admit was quite a

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    The Quran is the masterpiece of Arabic language from many standpoints such as linguistics and stylistics. The vocabulary, style, eloquence, effectiveness, and the rich poetic rhythm of this masterpiece, which lead to its linguistic and stylistic uniqueness, are the miracles of a Miracle, i.e. the Quran. As Arberry in the introduction of his book the Koran interpreted states, the Quran "is neither poetry nor prose but a unique fusion of both" (x). Among the various rhetorical devices used in the Holy

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    In The Need for Classification the author Vickery (1975) introduces us to faceted classification and gives his argument for the need for this classification. The author of the article Brian C. Vickery was a librarian, academic and member of the Classification Research Group which was responsible for a substantial amount of the work we have on faceted classification (Broughtan, 2015, p.301-302). Vickery shows that the importance of classificcaiton cannot be denied as “Classification enables us to

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