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    Drover’s wife and the loaded dog Stories use narrative to involve the responder in a range of experiences. Storytellers use narrative techniques to establish a setting and shape the characters personality. This is shown in Henry Lawson’s short stories the drover’s wife and the loaded dog. Henry Lawson’s the drovers wife‚ explores the perspicacity of the bush heroine with the use of a narrator. The narrators’ avoidance of using a name for the drover’s wife prevents the responder being influenced

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    THE LOADED DOG – HENRY LAWSON The short story “The Loaded Dog”‚ written by Henry Lawson in 1901 displays a significant aspect of distinctively visual through Lawson’s effective and apparent use of imagery. Lawson’s effective use of imagery stimulates the reader’s five senses in order for the audience to visualize what is actually happening. Such a notion of distinctively visual is evident in Lawson’s childhood where he contracted a condition that affected his eyesight negatively‚ thus he relied

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    humour is necessary to maintain sanity in the isolated‚ dry environment. These qualities are greatly significant to the people living within it. Henry Lawson communicates this idea in this humorous bush tale “The Loaded Dog” through humour and personification of the lanky protagonist dog. For bushmen‚ having a good sense of humour helps with the monotony of bush life and is essentially a way of survival. Without a sense of humour‚ the shortcomings of the unstable bush life and economy would easily

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    Many novels have used symbolism to express certain feelings and emotions in discreet ways. What is symbolism? "The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects‚ events‚ or relationships" (Dictionary.com). Numerous authors use the same denotations to illustrate different thoughts or ideas. Mark Twain uses various symbols‚ such as the river and the land to expose freedom and trouble in his novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Loaded Laddle

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    this assignment I chose to volunteer and further my knowledge about the Loaded Ladle‚ a food organization at Dalhousie. This organisation was created in 2010 to show the students that they do not need to pay corporate companies for their food on top of paying thousands of dollars for their tuition. The leaders of the Loaded Ladle were extremely helpful in explaining why this organization was created; I volunteered at the Loaded Ladle for over an hour on October 27th‚ a Thursday making this one of

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    In the short story ‘The loaded dog’ the plot concerns 3 gold miners and their dog‚ and the farcical consequences of leaving a bomb cartridge unattended. Henry Lawson shows language features such as adjectives‚ verbs‚ and dialogue‚ metaphors‚ similes‚ humour and graphic descriptions. This story is written in third person. The language used is colloquial and idiomatic‚ for example when he uses the line ‘your dorg’s run orf inter the srub’. Some examples of adjectives he uses in the short story are

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    English Assignment Distinctively Visual Visuals are distinctive because they make texts more enjoyable and engaging for audiences‚ as illustrated by Henry Lawson in the "Drovers Wife" and "The Loaded Dog". these 2 short stories convey the themes of hardship‚ persistence and mateship by living in tretrous conditions of the environment and surving in them.he uses these distinctively visual elements to provide context‚ create humour‚ describe setting and help communicate and devolop ideas. The Drovers

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    Words Are Loaded Pistols

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    Ways of Knowing: Language “Words are Loaded Pistols” – Jean-Paul Sartre This essay is written‚ to show the power of words‚ and to explain the quote above by Jean-Paul Sartre. I will relate this topic to ways and areas of knowing. Some examples might be given throughout the explanation of the quote and how it can be seen. Words are loaded pistols means to me‚ that thoughts are pistols‚ and words are loaded pistols‚ when you speak‚ you shoot the words out. The difference between thoughts and

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    In the poem 764 of The Norton Anthology which starts "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -" (line 1)‚ Emily Dickinson takes on the role of a married woman of the nineteenth century whose husband owns and completely controls her. The woman‚ whose voice Dickinson wrote from‚ reflects on the importance of her husband ’s life to hers and her dependency on him being there to direct her life. Dickinson never married and lived a secluded life in her family ’s home‚ only ever leaving the house for one year

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    In “My Life had stood -a loaded gun-” of Emily Dickinson’s tale about a gun and his master‚ we learn a rather ambiguous way in which an impious person‚ even a complete atheist‚ has the capability and necessary talents‚ to become a devoted and ecclesiastical individual‚ when and if God decides it is that person’s moment to become his mediator disciple towards mankind. The individual’s unused deftness is depicted as the “Loaded Gun” before “the Owner passed-identified- and carried Me away”‚ which is

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