Family name Essays

  • Leguminosae: Origin and Meaning of the Family Name

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    LEGUMINOSAE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF THE FAMILY NAME A large and very economically important flowering plant family is Leguminosae or sometimes known as Fabaceae. Although Leguminosae is an older name it is still considered valid but the new name is Fabaceae and this comes from the genus Faba and the term Faba is Latin and means bean. The group is the third largest plant family in the world with 630 genera and 18,860 species. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FAMILY Leguminosae has a very broad range of plants

  • Essay on Names in The Odyssey and The Bible

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    Importance of Names in The Odyssey and The Bible Two of the most widely studied ancient works are Homer’s Odyssey and the book of Genesis from the Bible.  Each of these texts provides a unique viewpoint of an early civilization.  In both of the texts, one can learn not only stories about great heroes, but also about the way that these peoples lived and what they believed.  Many interesting parallels can be drawn between the two developing societies shown in the Odyssey and the book of Genesis

  • Names and Titles in Gloria Naylor's novel, Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean

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    Names and Titles in Gloria Naylor's novel, Mommy, What Does Nigger Mean "Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power." (Naylor 344) A name is a mark of classification, a basis for self identity. Able to elevate or annihilate a persons' perception of herself and the surrounding society, these designations can uplift, joke, chide, mock, insult, degrade. "Society" implies the people and the atmosphere encompassing an individual in her daily life. "Culture"

  • Symbolic Animal Portrayals in Literature

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    room that she hates and eventually escapes. Chrysanthemums is about a girl named Elisa and she loves to grow chrysanthemums. She meets this guy who is on the road all the time and he lives off of fixing broken pots and pans. Boys and Girls is about a family whose father takes the foxes fur and sells it for calendars. They get two horses named Mack and Flora who are going to potentially be used as horse meat. They don’t kill them instantly because at the time they had too much meat so they used them on

  • Strangers In A Strange Land: Code Name Maris

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    Strangers in a Strange Land: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Code Name Verity is a story about friendship, loyalty, and alienation. It is inspiring and easy to relate to. From the characters we learn how to persevere in a culture where people define others based on religion, looks, hobbies, and much more. Code Name Verity teaches that “There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will.”(Wein 140). Like Maddie and Julie, the narrators of Code Name Verity, we often have to defy

  • Code Name Rudie Character Analysis

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    wrote Code Name Verity. Wein published the novel in 2012. “Achieving her private pilot's licence inspired Elizabeth to take her more recent novels in a new direction” (ElizabethWein, 2017). Wein writes Code Name Verity, set in WWII, to bring readers the knowledge of a captured Scottish Air Flight Officer in World War II, who is given a choice to reveal the plans of the British or face a horrendous execution. Code Name Verity is about how the Scottish Wireless Operator, with the code name Verity,

  • Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time

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    Los Calcinados, and migrated with her family to Texas to work in the fields…When Connie was seven, they moved to Chicago…” (Piercy, 37).  Ironically, this ascent toward knowledge and the future is not forward, nor is it linear.  Rather, it is circular and backward.  Piercy uses the names of her characters as well as the “common” language of Mattapoisett to examine the direction of the future. Names are emphasized and are of great importance to the novel.  Names like Luciente and Orion create a heavenly

  • Black Rain

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    was called and made out of. There were different names given to the bomb throughout the book and he sums up the names in one paragraph, The name of the bomb had already undergone a number of changes, from the initial “new weapon” through “new-type bomb,” “secret weapon,” “special new-type bomb,” to “special high-capacity bomb.” That day, I learned for the first time to call it an “atomic bomb.” (Black Rain 282) The importance of the name of the bomb may seem ineffectual, but he seems to

  • Names in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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    One of the leaders and important man of the town is Mr. Summers.  Summer is a  season of the year.  It is the season of growing, the season of life.  His name  represents partly the old pagan fertility ritual because the harvest that is being sacrificed to is being grown in the summer.  This is supposedly, according to Old Man Warner, what the lottery held each year was all about.  But, in this case, the harvest should be fine because the setting of the story tells us that “the flowers were blossoming

  • The Importance of Dialect and Names in Kate Chopin's The Storm

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    The Importance of Dialect and Names in The Storm Kate Chopin is able to put life into her characters in her short story The Storm because she has lived a life similar to that of the people in it.  She was raised by her French Creole mother, which explains her ties to Creole in her story.  She married a wealth New Orleans cotton broker and in 1888 he died.  She was left with no money and six children so she turned to writing as a means to raise them.  The characters in her story depict life in

  • Hayakawa Ch. 10

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    Hayakawa Chapter 10 •     Giving Things Names o     A differentiation set itself up, and, abstracting the common characteristics. o     The question what is it really? Or what is its right name? are nonsense questions. o     Things can only have “right names” only if there is a necessary connection between symbols and things being symbolized. o     What we call things and where we draw the line between one class of things and another depends upon the interests we have and the purpose of the classification

  • Stratford Caldecott Analysis

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    part of who we are. He argues that the very first task given to man by God was that of naming; this is significant because names are the very cornerstone of grammar. Naming, through grammar, allows us to define and understand the world around us. This is why we can name neither God nor ourselves - we can only name that which we

  • Comparing Symbols and Symbolism in Young Goodman Brown and The Lottery

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne, both frequently use symbols within their stories "The Lottery" and "Young Goodman Brown."  Symbols are utilized as an enhancement tool to stress the theme of each story. Hawthorne uses names and objects to enhance the theme, and Jackson mainly utilizes names to stress the theme, although she does have one object as a symbol of great importance to the theme.  The stories both contain symbols describing evil. The majority of Hawthorne's symbols describe religion

  • How Bike Names are Classified

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    “How bike names are classified as quality.” Freestyle biking is the best sport in the world. I love riding my bike and I love buying new parts for my bike. I really don’t want to go out and buy bike parts that everybody likes and then when I get it come to find out they suck. I buy bike parts for myself and for nobody else’s pleasure. There are many different kinds of bikes from Atomic bike co. to we the people bike co. There are different bikes for different people, such as the we the people

  • Modern and Classic Examples of Chaos

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    The Crucible many were pressed and pressured to give names of the involved, whether it be witchcraft or “communist dealings”. Even highly respected of both societies were tried for a mere mentioning of there name. Then those who wouldn’t admit to the crime of which they were accused they were thrown in jail. In The Crucible Tituba and the girls were so afraid that they will be punished severely by the church that they start to give the names of people they "supposedly" saw with the Devil. In actuality

  • Remembering Vietnam

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    imagine what the feelings would be like to see one of my friend's name etched in this wall, although Tomas Van Putten can. I had a personal phone interview with him on October 30th, 2002. Tom Van Putten served nine years in the U.S. Army, two of which were spent in Vietnam. In a phone interview with Tom, I asked him if he had ever visited the monument. In fact, he did and he discussed with me how hard it was to see a dozen names of men he knew that were put on that wall. "It's really an awesome

  • Attentional Interference in Relation to the Stroop Effect

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    1991). He found that it was faster to read words than it was to name the corresponding object or their properties, including their color. Due to its key in understanding attention, the study that lead to many other related investigations, originated by examining interference in reading automaticity. Stroop furthered his research by creating tasks involving color naming and reading. He first compared the time it took to read color names printed in incongruent ink colors to a base line reading of color

  • The Meaning of Smoke

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    picture that the smoke is starting to clear. It is only when the smoke seems to be clearing in his eyes, revealing both his and Kyle's true feelings that he started to get uneasy. At this point he attacks his friend and calls him all kinds of vulgar names. He says that he cannot see much because of the smoke and that at that point, "Kyle just faded out into the smoke in Shoop's" (Avellone, 3). We can see here that he knows he has lost his friend to the smoke, which is a representation of his repressed

  • Women Can do the Same Job as Men in Susan Donnelly’s Poem, Eve Names the Animals

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    Susan Donnelly’s “Eve Names the Animals”, is a short poem written to try to show the independence and importance of Eve which is not shown in the biblical story in Genesis. She uses this as her platform to show that women are able to do the same jobs as men, and that even one of the most important jobs, naming the animals, could be done by a woman. Eve feels as though Adam went about naming animals carelessly, and only named them based on appearance. It is a story of attempted separation and self

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    advertising campaigns. Picture 5. “Wordplay in advertisements by Maybelline New York”. (Source: https://www.facebook.com/maybelline?ref=ts&fref=ts). Product, and brand naming When developing the name of the company, there are many requirements to be met by entrepreneurs to achieve success with a trademark. Names like Coca-Cola, Google, Snickers, Nike, Yahoo, and many other worldwide known brands may serve an example for the future merchandisers that the coinage is the core ele... ... middle of paper