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    Metaphors are complex comparisons used in American writing. They can be used to compare and analyze numerous things like expressions, objects, activities, and how we think. In the book, Tuning, Tying and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision, Barbara Tomlinson, the author, discusses her viewpoints on metaphors and how they relate to the process of revision. She talks about how we come to adopt our writing process which is through, “…metacognitive expressions and culturally shared information” (Tomlinson

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    and feel successful, I had to compare my times with each other and measure my personal growth, not my growth compared to the fastest girl in the state. This can be applied to life. While a little healthy competition never hurts anyone, constant comparison does. Through cross country, I was reminded daily to not compare my weakness to someone else’s

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    Pinto British Columbia Institute of Technology LIBS 7001 January 29, 2012 AN ANALYSIS OF “THE MEN WE CARRY IN OUR MINDS” In the essay, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”, Scott Russell Sanders discusses his perspective on men in comparison to the impression that women carry in their minds. Sanders uses a unique way of writing through narration and life experiences to truly illustrate his point that the impressions of men or women are based on ones own life experiences. As a young

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    comparing ourselves to others. While comparison motivates us to learn good qualities, pursue a brighter future and own a grateful hearts, it also has an adverse effect when we compare our true inner selves to the pictures of perfect life created by others on social media. To begin with, Amanda Chan’s article “How To Keep Jealousy And Envy From Ruining Your Life” serves as a foundation which introduces both positive and negative sides of comparison. On the one hand, comparison makes us more likely to be occupied

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    Associate Level Material Comparative Data Resource: Ch. 14 of Health Care Finance Complete the following table by writing responses to the questions. Cite the sources in the text and list them at the bottom of the table. |What criterion must be met |Consistency: Important when comparing data to make sure the data compared was prepared the correct way and done the same each time. | |for true comparability? |

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    language and metaphoric comparisons to communicate observations about the cycle of life and the pattern of replacement. In the main body of her poem, Olds lists a sequence of three key metaphoric comparisons between the woman and her daughter’s changing bodies. Both characters are experiencing small “previews” of their futures through developmental transformations, the younger a preview of womanhood and the older a preview of aging and ultimately future replacement. The comparison is made in the same

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    advert for the Mercedes-Benz is very personal, and is constantly putting the reader in the driver’s seat. It is laid out like a cinema screen, and that comparison continues throughout the advert. The picture is very passive and immediately places the reader at the centre of the advert, and the whole layout is calming. In comparison, in the Chrysler Voyager advert the attention of the

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    As Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Or as Self-confidence is defined as having confidence in one's self. More than a million people in the United States suffer with Obsessive Comparative Disorder, which will lead to anxiety, and Depression. As these forms of lack of confidence drags people down into the abyss only showing them in the darkness. While millions

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    metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor . Through the use of extended metaphor, Mary Oliver is allowed to express both the mentality and physicality when writing a poem, which is able to show the differences and similarities by comparison. The extended metaphor works to compare the process of writing poetry to

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    Relationships, Comparisons, Assumptions, and What Lies Beneath As time passes in a relationship, it is inevitable that confrontations are bound to occur. Whether small disagreements created from minor issues, to mediocre arguments based on daily matters, to serious incidents that can reflect relationship taboos, it is a couple’s perception and understanding of each other that can strengthen or weaken their union. The poem “How It Will End” by Denise Duhamel portrays two couples involved in similar

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