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On American Consumerism: An Analysis of John Updikes A & P Literature Essay
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Looking at A & P in this perspective enables us to see the bigger picture about how the story actually mirrors the consumer-based society in which Americans live. With this, it is important to first devote our attention to the context of the story and then understand the symbolism behind each character to reveal the author’s intention to create an irony about living in a consumerist country.
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The Victim of Love or Society into the Novel Entitled The Sorrows of Young Werther Literature Essay
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That novel, which was written by the German philosopher, poet, and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a very young man in 1774, has become a classic work of European literature. The form of the novel is a great part of its charm since it is written as a series of letters from Werther to his male friend.
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Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams Literature Essay
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Through the short story, the writer gives us a glimpse into the dream, aspire and life of the high-class society in the. It illustrates the society in the 1920’s, their beliefs, values and the American dream of that time. The American dream at that time was basically about money, power and the happiness that allegedly came with the booming economy.
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Trope of Detritus in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Literature Essay
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Although the cause of the world’s end is not detailed in the novel, the result of the destruction of the world is both the beginning and end of things. However, McCarthy, through the bleak images in the novel, successfully delivers his message: destruction, aside from its physical value, has an emotional and spiritual significance, as well.
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Exploring Toni Morrison`s 'The Bluest Eye' Literature Essay
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This paper explores the novel’s major scenes, title, characters, themes, prologue and afterword, symbolism, and conflict. The title The Bluest Eye has a vibrant meaning to the novel. The Black girl, Pecola Breedlove, does not like her physical look and, hence, desired to be beautiful.
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Tit for Tat Story Literature Essay
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Mom, Sarah and I lived from hand to mouth. Dad had passed away years ago, and we didn’t have any brothers. It is evidently clear from the discussion that our home was all the property we had. Mom had set the upper portion of the house on rent. She brought us up with that money. Sarah and I got educated in cheap public schools.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the character of Fortunato displays pride in the story and ultimately as seen in innumerable stories proves fatal for him and leads to his downfall. This paper will throw light upon the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. The characteristics of the story will be comprehensively presented in this paper.
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Martin Luther King Junior - Letter from Birmingham Jail Literature Essay
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He had also fought for ‘equal rights’ and attempted to end the segregation regulation which prohibited black people from arriving at social gathering in a few places, such as cafes, inns and public schools.
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How Traumatic Experience Affects a Persons Faith Literature Research Paper
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Undoubtedly, truth is said to be discernible in that by using rules of logic, people are in a position to express his or her actions. Faith is authentically human behavior that does not go against the dignity of man. In human matters, people tend to trust what others say. Therefore, one is only inclined to trust in God whom he believes he shares an inside communion.
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Argumentive Analysis of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail Literature Essay
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The content of the letter further elucidates the articulateness of the foremost civil rights leader where he tackled one by one and meticulously retorted all of the criticisms that they have encountered. This specially puts into focus the recurring remark that the movement that the demonstrations are “unwise and untimely” (King, p.1).
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Literature Essay
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Adam and Eve’s story has been depicted both with and without sin, and Satan has been depicted with a great amount of charisma. Milton writes, “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,” (Milton, John) as a characteristic of Satan, giving people the opportunity to not characterize him as otherwise.
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Analysis of Because I Could Not Stop For Death Poem by Emily Dickinson Literature Essay
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The poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is a portrayal of life as a journey that does not stop after death but continues after death. Dickinson has written several poems most of which revolve around sadness and death. The main theme in this poem is death, which is clearly spelled in the title of the poem. 
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To the Lighthouse and Heart of Darkness Literature Essay
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The very intention of the movement was to unsettle conventional notions regarding literature and existence in general. The novels and poetry that came out during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century affirm this quest for new forms. The novels To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad exhibit many of the features that were characteristic of the modernist novels.
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Renaissance Tragedy Calls into Question the Possibility of Happy Marriages Literature Assignment
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In the period of the Renaissance, a number of educated and independent women grew; they tried to broaden social freedom and weaken their dependence upon kinsmen and social class. In their opinion, successful marriages were efficient protection against social injustice and oppression, although it often proved to be a failure.
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How Steinbeck Explore Different Attitudes to Women in the Novel Literature Essay
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How Steinbeck Explore Different Attitudes to Women in the Novel The novel, Of Mice and Men portrays women in their small magnitude; however, they are the focus of the writer. These itinerant laborers do not give women any opportunity to settle down; therefore, they are in a mutually respectful relationship.
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Character Analysis Paper Literature Essay
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The story begins with an exchange between Dick Owens and charity Lomax. Charity insist that, for dick Owen to marry her, he must do something heroic just like the man from Ohio who unsuccessfully decided to help another mans slave gain access to freedom in the North.
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Woman Short Stories of Realities in Life Literature Essay
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The prose of Woman Hollering Creek reveals Sandra Cisneros’ American-Mexican origin with Spanish phrases included in her stories. Edith Wharton’s setting happened in Rome, where romantic notions are significant ingredients to provoke love and all its opposing emotions such as hate and jealousy. Both writers used symbols in their stories.
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Buddhas Instructions Literature Essay
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It is the culture of Buddhism to have a Buddha for enlightenment purposes, in order to live a liberated life away from physiological and physical sufferings.  In an attempt to discussing the theme of transformation, I have identified the following scenario in the literature that shows a process of life transition.
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In Goethe's Faust, Is Faust good or evil Literature Essay
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It is through establishing this foundation Romantics are trying to accept the idea as true that people attempt to achieve something that at some point may go beyond their limits, which they believe as potentially dangerous because it would probably bring humans into their darker side.
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A role of place in the depiction of childhood in childrens books Literature Essay
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The essay investigates the importance of sense of place to the depiction of childhood in children’s books. The storytelling process describes the nature of childhood through the reality and fantasy which J. K. Rowling uses in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Arthur Ransome uses in Swallows and Amazons.
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I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen Literature Essay
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“I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen is a short story that reflected the responsibilities and sacrifices of being a mother who belonged to a family that was an outcome of the Russian revolution. After the unsuccessful Russian Revolution, a lot of American families were having a hard time in making ends meet.
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Hamlet Film Clips, Ethan Hawke and Mel Gibson Literature Essay
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Ethan Hawke’s face lacks emotion and his anger can hardly be felt especially because he seems like a good person here. “Frailty, thy name is woman,” and it seems that either the line was not spoken at all or was modified. Mel Gibson was full of emotion especially rage and resentment, as he watches his mother and uncle mount the horse and leave.
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Reading Response on John Donne poems - Bonus will be given for quality Literature Essay
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Although he took formal education from universities but still was not able to get a degree because of these religious conflicts. The work here under discussion is his famous ‘Holy Sonnets’. These sonnets were thought to be written when his wife died while giving birth to his child.
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The American Sense of the Possible in Literature Literature Essay
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Name 1 Name Class Professor Date The American Sense of the Possible in Literature The American mythology of the country's own creation is celebrated and proclaimed throughout American literature. Written in the constitution, in the Preamble, the four words, "a more perfect Union" have been the hallmark of the American experiment.
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Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Literature Essay
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is factually a germ for all other epics and hero stories since it contains nearly all literary aspects, symbolism, themes, and other technical features that recur in the works of the same genre. This assessment draws further support from the fact that the epic is one of the earliest publications in its genre.
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The Learning Curve by David Sedaris Literature Essay
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The essay was humorous at times and was a good read if not literally taken to the fathom of the heart. It is supposed to be read as a light comedy with no intentions of getting inspirations from it. It would have been nice if David Sedaris had shown a little more respect for his occupation and a better effort to help students in gaining some kind of knowledge.
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A Soldiers Story Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Billy is a funny- appearing optometry scholar when he remains sketched to join the armed forces. He remains instructed to go and battle in Luxembourg versus the Germans in the War of the Bulge and remains immediately abducted by a tiny team of German inspectors.
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The Role of Artist in Society Literature Essay
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This age-long discussion has led to the emergence of two main schools of thought with one arguing that the art should exclusively be for its own sake with an end in itself, to be appreciated for its beauty and nothing more beyond that. The proponents of this school of thought content that art should be for art’s sake and not try to achieve anything other.
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Relationship between Mandras and Pelagia in Captain Corellis Mondolin Literature Assignment
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Throughout the journey, readers appreciate the livelier atmosphere in the saint’s party, the brutal conflict in Albania, the political celebrations in Athens, discourses on the history of Greek and the challenges facing modern combatants. The storyline takes different approaches including the first person and third person; this style breaks boredom in readers.
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What Makes Maya Angelou Poetry Inspirational Literature Research Paper
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What Makes Maya Angelou Poetry Inspirational? Maya Angelou and American citizen by birth was born Marguerite Ann Johnson in 1928. Throughout her lifetime she has written several books of poetry, five essay books and seven autobiographies. Through these achievements she became and established author and poet.
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Existentialism in Dead Poets Society: The Middle Ground between Romanticism and Realism Literature Coursework
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A new English teacher who is a Welton alumnus, John Keating, opens the eyes of his students and engages them to a world they never imagined before. Еhe story has several key characters, and most of them have their own “existentialist moments” throughout the film.
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Edgar Allen Poe: The Theme of Death Literature Essay
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The Masque of the Red Death” is an allegory, and is almost like a fairytale in its shades of fantasy and imagery. It is totally cut off from the real world. It is entirely descriptive, and the action is stylized. Except for the protagonist, Prince Prospero, the other revelers are more in the nature of caricatures, with no separate identities.
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Analysis of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Literature Essay
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In Vonnegut's hands, we begin to see what science fiction can do. It is not just a hokey medium. Instead, it is a way of gaining distance on our own world and taking a different perspective that lets us see some philosophical differences between our world and ones imagined. Billy visits some strange places and learns a great deal about the world.
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Works of Ben Franklin and John Smith Literature Essay
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Likewise, eminent individuals as well as authors like Ben Franklin and John Smith viewed the Native American people from certain perspective, which is reflected in their works.
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Literary Analysis for A Rose for Emily Literature Research Paper
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According to the paper, the main character, Emily, was depicted as a round character, whose personality and traits were clearly established and expounded throughout the story.  Emily is considered the protagonist, being the lead character, while the rest of are generally flat characters whose personalities were structured as simple descriptions.
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The Character of Sasha in a Problem by Anton Chekhov Literature Essay
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Chekhov’s centers his story, and the denouement of the plot, round the character of Sasha Uskov.  Sasha is depicted as an immature, dissolute youth. The story’s depiction of the relationships and interactions between the uncles and Sasha demonstrates an unbridgeable gap between the two generations and further emphasizes Sasha’s moral bankruptcy.
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Marketing of Airbus, Wal-Mart, and Handl Tyrol Literature Essay
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Airbus was receiving huge financial support from four European governments with no repayment conditions. In the end, an agreement was reached between European governments and the US government that Airbus would not be given more than 33% of the total development cost as financial aid for the development of any new model and that Airbus was to repay the money with interest within 17 years.
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Story The Horse Dealers Daughter Literature Literature review
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The story presents the mere haplessness and the consequent inwardness and callousness a girl named Mabel develops during her stay with her three brothers who are astonishingly selfish. In the story, they are being forced to leave their ancestral property because of the debts incurred by their dead father.
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Careers Research Study Literature Essay
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ESTP-- Personality and Career The present paper aims to portray a comprehensive scenario related to the career I look for adopting as a professional after the completion of my studies. The study will analyse my strengths and weaknesses in order to utilise the former in the best possible manner, and overcome the latter with an iron hand so that my journey towards the ultimate destination could turn out to be bright, exultant and wonderful.
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Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Literature Essay
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One of this is Mercutio, Romeo’s bestfriend. Although the best of friends, Mercutio and Romeo have different personalities and perspectives that actually helped instigate the play’s turn of events towards its tragic ending. For most stories, the main character always has his sidekick, partner in crime or someone who is always beside him in times of trouble.
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Aeneas, Pericles, Oedipus Rex Literature Essay
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Generally, Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Venus, was a Trojan leader. The story gives a clear picture of Aeneas. As can be seen, he was supposed to take the Trojans to Italy and lay foundations there for the Roman Empire. He was an exceptional hero and had all the good qualities a hero should possess.
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Essay
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Introduction Good writers are known by the level of impact their stories make to readers. Whether stories are told of visibly evident events or based on fiction, a writer must be able to win the heart of writers at the end of the day. For Jackson, writing The Lottery was a test of her calling as a writer.
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Classic and Modern of English Literature Literature Essay
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The poem talks about dreams that have been put on hold or deferred. The poet wonders what happens to such dreams that have been postponed. In this context, dreams are goals in a person’s life and not to be taken as the literal dream a person gets when they go to sleep.
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The United Fruit Company by Pablo Neruda Literature Essay
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Neruda was a Chilean poet, politician and diplomat whose birth name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. By applying the Marxist critique, we shall examine the key literary techniques applied by Neruda. The Marxist theory appreciates literary work as not only a mere depiction of style but delves into the meaning behind the writer’s decision to use a technique based on a certain history.
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King Lear and Kingdom Out of Heartbreak Literature Assignment
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In The Crucible, Abby is a hateful woman who deceived people in order to get what she wants, even when people could die. In Brave New World, the deception was not as apparent because the characters are “conditioned” to accept what was given to them. But then at the end of the story, it becomes obvious that it is the World Controllers.
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Analysis of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Book Literature Term Paper
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On the other hand, the story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an account of a young fictitious couple: Goodman Brown and his wife Faith. It depicts how the evil spirit inside human beings lures them into committing acts of sin, which adversely affects their relationship with their loved ones.
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The House on Mango Street Literature Essay
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The book focuses on the growth of Esperanza, her psychological and emotional conflicts. It focuses on her resentment of her new neighbourhood, the Mango Street, its people's sexism, poverty and the desperation that accompany her conflicts. The House On Mango Street exposes us to the knowledge that culture, personal history and the physical conditions under which we grow do mould us.
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Reliability and Virifiable Nature Between Traditional Library Resources and Internet Ones Literature Essay
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As the time passed the use of internet brought forth the virtual libraries and hence the layers of knowledge spread beyond the walls of the original libraries. Similarly, people who wanted to get knowledge and information on various matters resorted to internet resources.
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The Greek Tragedy Antigone by Sophocles Literature Book Report/Review
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As the play opens Antigone meets her sister Ismene and they lament these past occurrences. In addition to their father Oedipus’ tragedy, their brothers Polyneices and Eteocles killed themselves in a conflict. Since Polyneices fought against Thebes, Creon – the new king of Thebes – has ordered that his corpse remain unburied.
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The Power of Language Literature Essay
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Language is made up of themes such as vocabulary, syntax, grammar, and semantics. It is said for instance that “semanticists have to have at least a nodding acquaintance with other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology, which also investigate the creation and transmission of meaning” (Saeed, 2003). 
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