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Shrinking Buying Power Of The Middle Class
1,763 wordsThe Shrinking Buying Power of the Middle Class According to the Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary, the middle class is a class occupying a position between the upper class and the lower class; especially: a fluid heterogeneous socioeconomic grouping composed principally of business and professional people, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers sharing common social characteristics and values (Merriam-Webster). In the United States, their family incomes would generally range from $ 2...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary Merriam Webster
943 wordsA short story is, by definition an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary). Short stories contain certain elements, which consist of the following: plot, characters, theme and setting (Axelrod and Cooper The St. Martins guide to writing 383). In addition, the Short story is told from a specific point of view. All the ...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary U S Constitution
1,082 wordsBurning an American flag has often been a source for debate and it has been proposed to make the practice illegal through an amendment. In order for this Flag Amendment to be considered, according to the U. S. Constitution, it must be proposed by two-thirds vote of each house of Congress or by the national convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state. To become part of the Constitution, the amendment must be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states o...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Feminine Traits
1,422 wordsToday, there is a trend towards people spending more leisure time watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading newspapers and magazines. Shows on television and articles in the newspapers influence our decision-making process, shaping our perceptions of the world. The fact that we are better informed and in touch with the latest news, we should be aware that accepting this enormous flow of information and allowing it to shape our mind could be dangerous. The TVs infiltrate our lives, guiding ...
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Sharon Olds And William Shakespeare
1,311 wordsFrom the Present to the Future through the Eyes of Love Plato once said, At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. What is Love? Love is an attraction based on sexual desires: affection and tenderness felt by lovers. (Merriam Websters Dictionary) We see a lot of love, marriage, broken-hearts, lust, and sex in today society but also in poetry we read by great authors. A poem such as Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love. Also from the past that knew the meaning of love through his plays, poems, and e...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary George And Lennie
622 wordsMost people have some kind of hopes or dreams. Hopes are "desires accompanied by expectations of fulfillment, they are one that give promises to the future. " (The Merriam Webster Dictionary, page 367). Dreams are "notable for their beauty, excellence, and / or enjoyable quality. " (The Merriam Webster Dictionary, pages 234 - 235). However, these dreams are many times thwarted by many obstacles along the way, as happens to George and Lennie's in John Steinback's novel, Of Mice and Men. George pr...
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Gender Bias In Language
1,152 wordsLanguage is a very powerful element. It is the most common method of communication. Yet it is often misunderstood an misinterpreted, for language is a very complicated mechanism with a great deal of nuance. There are times when in conversation with another individual, that we must take into account the person's linguistic genealogy. There are people who use language that would be considered prejudicial or biased in use. But the question that is raised is in regard to language usage: is the langu...
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Merriam Webster Middle Ages
1,149 wordsShakespeare's sonnet LV entitled "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments" is a well-crafted poem. In the first line Shakespeare uses a word, namely gilded, that can mean more than one thing. I also found this word of interest because I had never heard of it. In the Merriam-Webster dictionary to gild can have six different meanings; (1) to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold; (2) to give money; (3) to give an attractive but often deceptive appearance to; (4) to make bloody; (5) to ad...
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16 Th Century Product Or Service
3,021 wordsThe Study of Entrepreneurship Abstract The discussion in this paper is based on the different concepts and ideas of entrepreneurship which were culled from varying sources written by experts from the time of Cantillon and Jevons (16 th century economy theorists) up to the present. It will also attempt to differentiate the various theories formed by different theorists about what makes an entrepreneur and what is called for in the entrepreneurial process. The explanation of the method and practic...
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Merriam Websters Collegiate Websters Collegiate Dictionary
1,110 wordsThere are not that many words in English that can be, without any change in their grammar structure, both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived form the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old English's cuban which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can prescr...
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1,337 wordsThere are not that many words in English that can, without any change in their grammar structure, be both a verb, a noun, several slang nouns, and a transitive verb (that is the one that derived from the noun). The verbal meaning of can came to our language from either Old High German kan (in modern German it is kann and has the same meaning as English can) or from Old English's cuban which meant to know more. If we think for a moment about the meaning of being able to do something as can prescr...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Metamorphosis Gregor
3,262 wordsThesis: Society has a set of morals, that of which exist for a specific reason, not to be justified by some other action taken just because it felt like the thing to do. I. Rationalizing society II. Frankenstein A. Victor Frankenstein s desire to dominate B. Aftermath of his aspirations III. Metamorphosis A. The individualization of Gregor B. Affects on his family and society IV. The Overcoat A. Akaky Akakievich s unfortunate mishap B. Akaky Akakievich s lack of importance V. Crime and Punishmen...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Men And Women
2,456 wordsA famous quote by John Lennon saying that love is the answer and only you know that for sure was not entirely truthful the fact not realised was that, for the many people in todays contemporary dating grouping, truly knowing what the answer actually is in regards to dating is often easier said than done. Therefore, the answer certainly is not love. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (1974), love is defined as a strong affection, a warm attachment, attraction based on sexual desire, cher...
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Edgar Allan Poe Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism
1,664 wordsWebster? s Collegiate Dictionary defines existentialism as? a chiefly 20 th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for his acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad? (407). Without question existentialism is extremely complicated and almost incomprehensible. However Katharena Eierm...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Oliver Cromwell
2,571 wordsCaste is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism, which is also a division in society based on wealth, inherited rank, or occupation, and allows little mobility out of the position to which a person is born. The word caste was first used by 16 th century Portuguese traders; it is taken from the Portuguese word casta. Varna, the word for caste, means color and referring to the old racial differences between conquerors and conquered. The basis ...
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Facial Expressions Merriam Webster
1,990 wordsThe Intimate Winking Intimate Winking The face is an organ of emotion and we constantly read facial expressions to understand what others are feeling. The face also contains other powerful clues. Our identity is captured in our features and our eyes reveal important truths about us, even those we would prefer to conceal. We use facial expressions as a process of sending and receiving wordless messages such as smiling, frowning, laughing, and winking to name a few. Body language symbols may be le...
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Long Term Effects Coronary Arteries
2,146 wordsDuring the late twentieth century many new diseases have been discovered. Tomisaku Kawasaki discovered one of these diseases, Kawasaki disease, or technically muco cutaneous lymph node disease, in 1961. This particular disease remained undetected for so long because its cause is still unknown. Dr. Kawasaki, a pediatrician, uncovered this disease after studying fifty cases during his practice in Japan. Kawasaki found that in those fifty cases most were characterized by fever, redness of the eyes,...
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Merriam Webster Dictionary Television Violence Causes
2,414 wordsOur Quiet Teacher: Television Violence And Children Our Quiet Teacher: Television Violence And Children? Unless and until there is unmistakable proof to the contrary, the presumption must be that television is and will be a main factor in influencing the values and moral standards of our society? ? Pilkington Report (Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations 411) The sentence stunned even the hardest of courtroom observers. Judge Charles Arnold just finished sentencing Joshua Phillips, a young 15...
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Merriam Webster Animal Farm
620 wordsThe term propaganda is sometimes brought up in casual conversation, however, many do not realize the potential power that propaganda can have. Merriam-Webster defines propaganda as the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person. In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell, propaganda is shown to indeed cause harm. An examination of various sections of the book will be conducted in order to demonstrate three aspects of propa...
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Person Life Fulfilling Prophecy
1,696 wordsMore often than not, the outcomes of events that occur in a person? s life is the product of the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy. It is that which? occurs when a person? s expectations of an event make the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise have been true? (Adler and Towne, Looking Out, Looking In 66). Or restated, as Henry Ford once put it, ? If you think you can, you can. If you think you can? t, you? re right! ? This brief research paper touches on the two types of self-fu...
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