Although they are very different works, the poem "A Description of a City Shower- and the novel Gulliver's Travels are examples of Swift's satire at its best. "A Description of a City Shower- discusses the problems that occur when it rains in London. ... While "A Description of a City Shower- has its share of satire, Gulliver's Travels has much more. ... Although Swift uses satire in both "A Description of a City Shower- and Gulliver's Travels to get his point across, both works are very different. "A Description of a City Shower- is a narrative poem, written in iambi...

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• Grade Level: High School

Both stories also include similar imagery in terms of the description of the city. The city is depicted as a negative and hectic place. In Crèvecœur's novel, Letters from an American Farmer, he writes "Here the horrors of slavery, the hardship of incessant toils, are unseen; and no one thinks with compassion of those showers of sweat and of tears which from the bodies of Africans, daily drop, and moisten the ground they till." (153) People in the city are portrayed as savages. ... Though the stories were not written by the same author or derived from the same plot, ...

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She continues her plea, almost relishing in what she has done: " and as he died he spattered me with the dark red and violent driven rain of bitter savored blood to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds" (1389-1394). ... As Agamemnon's blood sprays across her face, she describes the results of her actions in terms of fertility and natural bounty: "Thus he went down and the life struggled out of him, as gardens stand among the showers of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds." (1389-1392). ... As she did with religion, she has cr...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is within this imagination that our desires are projected to create Gotham City, but also mirroring how society functions today. ... Plus, if he were fighting crime as a duty, the conflict shown on his face on page 12 should not exist for it is an easy answer: become Batman to save Gotham city. ... The constant descriptions of the crime in Gotham only lead him to enhance the night of his parent's death. ... The shower scene on page 25 is symbolic as well, for it shows how Bruce tries to wash away the resentment felt the night of his parent's death. The illustrations go back and fo...

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When Kumalo arrives at the city, he becomes the victim of a robbery. The city is full of crime for people have lost their moral values. ... The city creates a sense of fear and nothing can be done about it. ... He provides the emotionless atmosphere in the courthouse by using a shallow description of the trial. ... The showers end the drought in the land and bring hope and rejuvenation to the people. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Auschwitz began in the suburbs of the city Oswiecim, Poland as a concentration camp built for the forced labor of Polish political prisoners (Dwork 181). ... Once those prisoners were selected they were showered and tattooed. ... Since the majority of Auschwitz was on damp and marshy ground, fresh water was rare and prisoners were rarely allowed to shower. If prisoners were given the chance to shower they were forced to take off their clothes in the barracks and run, often in the snow, the entire way to the shower block (Shuter 22). ... Soon gas chambers were built disguised as showe...

• Word Count: 2963
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Free fighters were more sought after than slaves, presumably because they shower greater enthusiasm in the arena. ... The number of days in each year given up to annual games and spectacles of one sort or another in the city was startlingly large, and increased continually. ... Descriptions of upcoming contests, appeared on walls and on the grave stones beside main roads. ...

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Free fighters were more sought after than slaves, presumably because they shower greater enthusiasm in the arena. ... The number of days in each year given up to annual games and spectacles of one sort or another in the city was startlingly large, and increased continually. ... Descriptions of upcoming contests, appeared on walls and on the grave stones beside main roads. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Diversity is what we chose to analyze based on the desire to understand an inclusive environment and be able to incorporate this into our companies. This paper will describe diversity and it's importance to the workplace environment. We plan on describing how a company should evolve into an inclusive environment. We will analyze three different companies and discuss the importance of diversity in these organizations. We then will create a diversity benchmark for corporations to incorporate into their policies. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Description For my communications assignment I am going to describe the birth of my third and last son in 2004. ... About 12:45am on May 9th my water broke after I got up to go to the bathroom, we went to the hospital after I showered the water was clear and there were no signs of meconium. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ...

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Thus in hot weather thermals rise, and water condenses and falls as showers; also precipitation increases up mountainsides. ... Descriptions of vegetation take into account plant species and their abundance and size distribution, life forms (trees, shrubs, herbs, bryoids, epiphytes, lianas), seasonal functions (evergreen vs. deciduous), and leaf shapes, sizes, and textures. ...

• Word Count: 12375
• Approx Pages: 50
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate