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A wedding dress, or a wedding gown, is an elegant clothing which a bride wears to her wedding ceremony. Usually the wedding dress is white, but the bride can actually choose any colour she would like to. There is also a variety of style solutions to the wedding dress depending on fashion trends, the festivity of the wedding ceremony and the choice of the bride. The style of the fashion dress depends on the cultural traditions of every particular country, but in the Western tradition it is accepted that a white dress with a veil is the most classic ...

The character of Kiowa was the most decent and dignified characters in the book “The Things They Carried”. The character Kiowa was deeply religious by nature and was a devout Baptist. He was a Native American Indian. He always carried an illustrated New Testament, gifted to him by his father, who was a teacher at Sunday school in Oklahoma City. The way he carried his New Testament always and the way he felt Ted Lavender’s death was unchristian and his beliefs in the stories of New Testament confirm that he was a highly religious person. He would roll the New Testament and ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a novel and a collection of short stories related to one another. It talks of the war with a protagonist that shares the author’s name. However, perhaps the most interesting character in the book was Kiowa. He was American Indian and was raised a Baptist by his father who taught Sunday school. In the midst of war, Kiowa brought rationality and a sense of calm to the members of the Alpha Company. Kiowa was kind to everyone, and it was apparent that he was Tim O’Brien’s closest friend, although it was ...

Peabody’s diction seems to be largely affected by the life experiences that he went through. His religious background and his encounters with life in general made him use various archaic words and phrases in writing his will to infer meanings that can be said to be slightly different from the contemporary meaning. The spellings and pronunciation has also been changing with time. Peabody uses the word ‘despose’ severally. Its spelling is currently ‘dispose’. OED defines it as partying with, settle or getting rid of. Apparently, Peabody uses the word to refer to willingness or inherit. “Shall despose ...