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For the analysis I have chosen a news article from the CNN website, it is called “Cute or creepy? This toy lets babies post selfies on Facebook”.
The article is about Laura Cornet – an Eindhoven Design Academy graduate, who is annoyed by the constant posts with pictures of babies and newborns in her Facebook news feed. Thus, she puts forward an idea that parents do not consult with their kids before posting their photos; there is no agreement between them, and actually, they have no right to do this. As a result, Laura Cornet creates a toy that gives an opportunity ...

Brett and Kate McKay come up with outstanding presentation “Appeal of June 18″ by Charles de Gaulle. The appeal is interesting on how it covers various issues that surround France. He succeeds in presenting France as conqueror despite losing to Germany in the past. He uses various techniques to convince the reader on the sensitivity of the issue that surrounded the nation. If France gets another chance, she could perform better against Germany.

The target audience is anyone who would be interested in the history of the relationship of France and Germany. The article is highly attractive to ...

Going through the book “Curious reader” I have come across very interesting issues I had no or less idea about. Among the articles I come across were:

Hodgman, Ann. “No wonder they call me a bitch“ The Curious Reader. (2009)

This is an informative article on various kinds of dog food. It’s a commentary essay on low nutritional and bad taste in the dog food quality. She describes and compares the bad taste of food with play Doh. She vividly ridiculous all the promotion advertisement slogans and tactics linked with dogs foods. Mainly she opposes all the strategies ...

‘The hardest habit to break, since it was the habit of a lifetime, would be listening to myself listening to him’. These were Wideman’s words in the story ‘Our time’. Throughout the story, one gets to know the character of the protagonists and relate with him and his feelings. The author has used a lot of imagery and very attractive words with deep meanings to tell his story. He may mean one thing but the reader reads another thing into the meaning. When he said ‘listening to himself listen’, he could have been meaning a number of things. Yet, what the ...

The setting is very important in any work of fiction. Often, the setting in the work of fiction carries a symbolic meaning that helps underscore the central theme of the work of fiction. In light of this, this paper will consider the symbolic function that the settings in A Worn Path and I Stand Here Ironing by Eudora Welty and Tillie Olsen respectively. The central theme in Eudora’s A Worn Path is the triumph of human love. This is seen through the protagonist who endures everything to make a journey inspired by the love for her grandson. Although she is ...

Humor in E.M. Forster’s “My Wood” E. M. Forster in his essay “My Wood” writes about a serious subject that it is clear from his writing he believes strongly in—he is writing about the negative affect of materialism on society and on the individual. Yet instead of decrying materialism, as bad and making people with a lot of material processions feel bad, he writes humorously. The whole essay is enjoyable to read, which is a compelling way to make a point. He uses a variety of humorous techniques that make his essay enjoyable to read. These techniques will be pointed ...

In the morality play, “Everyman”, the author sees death as an inevitable act that comes to all mankind. In fact, the author perceives death and treats death as though death is a messenger from God. The general concept in the play is that no one can escape Death because God sends Death to remind mankind of His might. Ideally, the message of death in the play arises from the search for a motive for living. While Everyman attempts to make an agreement with Death so as to extend his time on Earth, Death tells him that he has no use ...

The use of manager’s purchasing index is a statistic that has helped in predicting the production trend. The statistic used helps the reader to observe a falling trend as well as the rising trends in economic development. In addition, showing the trend also helps in comparison purposes. From the index, we note that the purchasing of the manager is lower some month compared to other months. The use of statistics in this article also helps the reader to draw inferences. An index of 50 in this case is a measure that shows whether production is contracting or expanding. An index below ...

The process of revising my essay was quite challenging but at the same time satisfying as I had the opportunity to extend myself as a good writer. The essay I chose to revise was titled “The Future for Women Driving in Saudi Arabia.” As William Zinsser quoted, “Rewriting is the essence of writing well”(Zinsser, 12) it was therefore my responsibility to go through the essay at least three times so as to correct all the grammar mistakes (proof read), restructure sentences (edit) and reorganize ideas to enable the paper have a fluid flow. Revising the essay implies re-reading ...

Uri Margolin’s assertion that “an individual's appearance, gestures, mannerism, dress, and natural and human-made environment are indicators for inferences about his or her mental and moral features” essentially claims that readers pick up on who a character is through their outside features as described in the prose (2012, p. 77). However, this assertion ignores the possibility of contrasts, societal pressures, and other factors that can provide needed context for further understanding of their true character. Tess in Tess of the d’Urburvilles, for instance, is a quintessential contradiction – somewhere between rich and poor, sophisticated and simple, strong and weak, etc. While ...

Hemmingway will teach us a lot on the things that happen in our modern lives. Hemmingway’s books are considered as empathic, illuminating and humorous. Ernest Hemmingway is considered as the most famous novelists in English Literature. He was both a novelist and public figure. Hemingway inspired many people; he lived an exuberant masculinity life that included big game hunting and he celebrated boxing, hunting, witch-hunting and welfare in pursuit of respect.
Hemingway’s readings are practical in the contemporary time. His women seemed the projections of male needfulness. The book contains many examples of anti-Semitism, and it openly denigrates ...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway adopts the use of simple language to explore the ravages of World War I through his main character Jake. Interestingly, Hemmingway does not succumb to the temptation of using colorful adjectives to describe his characters and the events narrated in the novel. Instead, Hemmingway uses short and direct phrases that leave the reader in suspense. In addition, the style makes the writer omit many details that would have otherwise been useful in dissecting his characters as well as the themes and motifs discussed in the novel. Nonetheless, the style is likeable for ...

Poetry and song share common themes or ideas. Each idea is carefully crafted to create a mood or tone, to tell a story, or simply to entertain an audience. Either way the reader or listener is left with different feelings and emotions. The writers make use of figurative devices, rhymes, rhythm and imagery to create the overall mood and atmosphere. In the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson and the song “Flirted With You All My Life” by Vic Chesnutt, both writers view the inevitable nature of death and the impact death has on an individual’ ...

In life, we have to pass through challenges and obstacles that lead us to our destiny. Appearance is not based on reality all the time, what we see on the outside does not necessarily have to portray what is inside of someone. Also, sometimes illusions and acting in an unconscious way can make us not reach our destiny or may delay it. In the case of Gulliver, he tries to chase his destiny when he quits his job, and sets a journey to the sea. He comes with many experiences that change his life and also, in the end he ...

A Rose for Emily is a story by William Faulkner. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on 25 September 1897. He was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert and Maud Faulkner, and was named after his great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner. He never completed high school, but was able to enroll in University for a special catering program, to serve the war veterans. He stands out to be the most unsurpassed American writers of the twentieth century. Faulkner has written novels, poems, screenplays and short stories. Faulkner wrote his first novel, Soldier’s Play, in 1925. In addition, his ...

In the passage Spade Archer, Dashiell Hammett uses lengthy description of the physical attributes of characters to create a long-lasting impression on the mind of the reader. For example, the author’s description of Sam Spade is interesting because of the manner in which Sam’s mean-looking frame is brought out. Hammett says, “Spades jaw was long, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v.he looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan” (2). Apart from grabbing the attention of the reader, the vivid description makes the character appear ...

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Analysis and Interpretation of “Shooting an Elephant”

“Shooting an Elephant” is an essay by George Orwell. It recounts his incredible experiences in India where he served as an imperial officer. Orwell appears to be narrating a tale on his individual life experience in Burma; however, the real theme behind his essay is to create an image of how colonialism influences the way of life of both the inhabitants in the colonized nation and the imperialistic officers. This essay expounds on how Orwell, through a broad utilization of symbolism, uses his actions and an elephant in a journey to depict ...

The poem “The Martyr” by Herman Melville has left a deep impression on me. It influences the reader from the very first line creating the morose setting and gloomy atmosphere. Furthermore, the author is trying to dip the reader in the times of Jesus Christ taking us back to that dreadful day, when He was crucified. From the very first look in is clear, that the martyr is a simple embodiment of the God’s son because the action of the poem takes place on the Good Friday, the most horrible day in the Bible.
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The most notable development in literary studies has been the evolution and proliferation of several critical vantage points/positions vis-à-vis which literary texts are analysed, evaluated and interpreted. Stylistic analysis is one such novel and fascinating approach to unravel the complexities of a text. Such an analysis uses an integrative model, by subjecting the ‘words on the page’ (language) to a close scrutiny in order to explore the text (literature) and decipher hidden values/meanings for a richer and enhanced understanding. The aim of this paper is to dissect Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and view it under the stylistics microscope for a ...

Introduction

“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” is an 1839 poem written by Robert Browning. The main subject of the poem is a Spanish monk living in a cloister who exhibits resentment against a fellow monk living in the same quarters.
Browning uses the Spanish monk to weave a stupendous web of hypocrisy and deceit. The monk expresses a variety of opinions that he shares together with those of the other monk. However, a close examination of the poem reveals that the monk’s assertions are not genuine. This monk tries to convince the audience or the reader of the poem is he is a moral and ...

Exploring Boundaries: Fashion, Adornment and the Body

Introduction
For many centuries, humans have communicated to each other in the language of dress. Even before an individual talk to another individual on the street, at a party or in a meeting, the person has already declared their age, gender, and class through their attire. Additionally, the person would have possibly announced important information or misinformation, such as origin, occupation, tastes, opinions, current moods, and sexual desires. Individuals may lack the ability to express what they have observed into words, but they have registered information unconsciously about each other. Consequently, by the end of the conversation or meeting, they ...

Compare and Contrast Business Writing Style of Two Texts

Compare and Contrast Business Writing Style of Two Texts

Introduction

Using comparison and contrasting analysis on Frehse's (2003), "Manage Your Own Career -Reinvent Your Job" and Tyson's (1998) "Working with Groups" and "Managing Conflict," offers the opportunity for examining the characteristics of academic writing with non-academic writing. In the scholarly exercise presented, the evidences include demonstrating correct referencing with in-text quotations, direct quotations, paraphrasing, and a referencing.

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Comparing the three offerings by Frehse and Tyson reveals the information is academic in nature because the three offers referenced direct quoted knowledge by recognized experts on the topics of their discourse. According to ...

- Is the paper an argument of fact? What is the argument? Do you feel that the thesis statement is “proven”?
The paper presents an argument to the readers. The paper ardently argues that the expose of the children to the components of modern technology both have their positive and negative effects. The paper goes on to cite several studies and the respective results to prove the statement of the thesis.
- Does this paper have a strong thesis statement that tells the reader what will be contained in the paper?
The paper has a strong thesis at the ...

Annotated Bibliography

Bohn, William E. “The Development of John Dryden’s Literary Criticism.” PMLA 22.1
(1907): 56-139.
In Bohn’s article, the author discusses Dryden’s critical essays, particularly in terms of his use of satire. Here, Bohn notes the way in which Dryden used a satire as its own form of criticism; “satire is itself but a sort of criticism; it has always been the form assumed by the highly trained, versifying prose-understanding” (118). Dryden was never one to give literary judgments one at a time, but rather to convey his ideas in a more abstract way, which is where his ...

‘A Super Market in California’ a literary work by Ginsberg provides a provide converse over which a lot of issues can be painted. The poem provides the reader with insights as to what the author has to say about different issues in the spheres of life. A critical analysis of the poem reveals a number of issues that would ordinarily form the subject of debate with respect to how people perceive some occurrences. In writing the poem, a number of literary skills have been used to give it a conventional look. The devices that form the basis of analysis in this text include symbolism, literary ...

In the short story “The Lottery”, written by Shirley Jackson in 1948, the author showcases a dystopian future in which tradition and a sense of community is placed above the individual. An ironic twist at the end turns a pleasant, slice-of-life story about a developing society into a morality tale in which our obsession with tradition is taken to its most extreme conclusion. The characters tacitly endorse horrific violence, showing the real monsters that lie at the very core of human nature. With “The Lottery,” Jackson wishes to showcase the foolishness of mob mentality and the gradual erosion of social freedoms from acceptance by ...

In his article “” technology and the Future of healthcare, Harold explores pieces of the future to see how to think more clearly about where we how to get where we want to go. Everywhere technology is changing as a result of technological advancements. The changes range from anesthetics to magnetic resonance imaging scanners and radiotherapy. Technological advancement is a continuous process thus future technological advancements will continue to transforming the healthcare. However, while the new technology drives innovation, human factors still remain one of the limitations of a breakthrough. All in all, technological advancements ware essential for the future in healthcare.
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Annotated bibliography on American Popular Culture

Mukerji, Chandra, and Michael Schudson. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: the University of California Press, 1991. Print.

The book aids the reader in understanding the various cultural dynamics that are involved in the American culture. The combination of the various schools of thoughts by various scholars helps the reader to understand the aspects of popular culture in different perspectives.
Franz, Kathleen, and Susan Smulyan. Major Problems in American Popular Culture: Documents and Essays. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012. Print.
IPop News. "Pop Culture's War on Fraternities .com." iWantPop. N.p., 24 Feb. 2014. Web. ...

This poem is a love song composed by Robert burns, a Scottish poet whose poems mostly fall under the genre of love. In “red rose”, the reader is made to read about a romantic affair of two persons who are intimately in love. This essay will ventilate the poem with a view to analyzing its structure, theme, subject matter, characters, stylistic devices that the poet uses to convey his message and the traits of the characters that the poet uses in the poem.

Structure of the poem:

This poem contains four stanzas. Each stanza comprises four lines/verses hence each of the stanzas is a quatrain. Each line is ...

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The concerns made by the author of this article have to do with the environmental impact of creating artificial snow and maintaining snow solid without melting. Maintaining the snow for indoor or outdoor skiing games requires a lot of energy. For example, Dubai, despite being located in a region with a desert-like environment, maintains a 22,500 square meters snow-covered area for sports. It is estimate that about 1000MWh of energy are used annually to maintain the building at a temperature below the freezing point. The fact that the electricity is generated from natural gas means greenhouse gases are released into the ...

Letters, in the past, do more than just share a message. These written words often carry the being along with the message; as if presenting one’s self to the one for whom the message is intended to be given. In this activity, a letter from Helen Keller dedicated to those who might like to donate for the cause of helping out deaf-and-blind individuals like herself shall be given particular attention to. Determining the response to the questions, what does this letter tell about Helen Keller? What result could a letter like this specifically bring about in relation to the goal that ...

A quote mentioned by Noam Chomsky is “who understands grammar as a description or theory of language” (Jeremiah 7).

In this quote author explain that teachers and students both have the responsibility of using proper forms of language while creating sentences by following all the rules of grammar in the class-room. Grammar is not just about memorization of fragments of speech only, in fact it goes beyond of highlighting knowledge that creates such words probability. Further, the grammar usage is the concept of grammar by means of advanced version. Such implementation of writing knowledge will permit the writer to become a language investigator. It becomes easy for the writers to make use of proper grammar for accurate sentence construction. ...

Introduction

In her article ‘What It Means to be Gendered Me: Life on the Boundaries of a Dichotomous Gender System”, Betsy Lucal convinces the reader of the inappropriateness of the society’s habit of forcing its members to “do gender” or simply ascribe to the formulated roles of the two main genders. She does this by employing an informal tone, detached diction and an inferior common ground to place her readers on the level of an individual who has been denied the right to exist freely without gender constraints.
The audience of the author’s article is the general society. ...

Response to the article "The Importance of Setting in the Great Gatsby by

When speaking about Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby first thing that needs to be mentioned - except for the captivating storyline - is the unique and beautiful writing style of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s felicitously marked in the article that “Using his extraordinary palette of words and language, he described the decade succeeding World War I. No other writer among his contemporaries possessed a more passionate sense of time and place”.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is a recognized talent of his genre with very natural ability to reveal people’s characters. Among the personages of the novel there are ones ...

The purpose of the Miner was to demonstrate, although diversity has made different people behave the same in a similar situation, there exist some exotic customs that are hard to understand. These people are not astonished the most exotic customs because they have seen all combinations of behavior and do not think if there exist such customs. The article was addressed to the anthropologist who thought they were aware with the diversity of different people. However, the author targets them when describing the ritual of the Nacirema, which is poorly understood. Miner assumes that the reader may have the same ...

A Response to Steven Vogel "Grades and Money”

In "Grades and Money,” Steven Vogel discusses the relationship between money and grades. He argues that students are only interested in getting good grades rather than learning. He says that most of the students have created a direct relationship between grades and money. They believe that good grades create opportunities to get more money than poor grades. Steven Vogel presents a great piece of work because everything follows from the central thesis. The author successfully directs the value of education from the importance of good grades to making money. I agree with the author’s idea that money has influence on ...

Typically when we think of comics we think of children. Their excitement mounts as superheroes defeat villains or save damsels in distress. Comic books are one dimensional and transparent with little to offer the adult world other than nostalgia. Or is there something more to them? It would be difficult for the average person to open a comic book and understand that there are a multitude of communication devices at work on the vibrant pages of Batman or X-Men. It would be equally difficult to ponder of comic books were actually more relatable because they were drawn as cartoons, than if ...

“Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky is about a man who many would recognize instantly as having an existential crisis; he is a bitter, cynical, spiteful former civil servant. At the beginning of his journal, he assures the reader that his motive in writing is not to entertain them. He tells of his exploits as a spiteful civil servant, his skill at making people unhappy and his reason for staying at a job he despised and hated. Once he has made his cheerlessness and lack of mirth clear, he proceeds to expound on his situation, as well as the philosophy by which he ...

The theme of self-identity of the individual plays one of the key roles in the contemporary sociological science. It is justified by the increased importance of the personal understanding of self and the emerging crisis of self-identification of people within the contemporary social system. Therefore, this theme represents special ineptest for the scientific researches and analyses of social science specialists. The analysis of the following sources shows the complex character of the self-identity theory and wide range of narrative techniques used to attract attention of the reader.
In the book “Identity’s Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion” written ...

In her 1926 short story “Sweat”, Zora Neale Hurston tells a sad story of the abusive relationship in a poor household, where Delia has to wash people’s clothes to earn money that her unemployed, lazy, cheating and abusive husband freely spends on his lover Bertha. The story is full of symbols that are used to enhance the reader’s understanding of Delia’s sufferings and struggle of a kind, hard-working and honest woman with evil for fifteen years before her liberation caused by the evil’s, her husband’s, death.
The first of the two connected symbols is the snake ...

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”Why I live at the P.O.” is a monologue story in which the main narrator, whom other characters refer to as “Sister,” clearly explains how it transpired that she left her family home in China Grove, Mississippi. While in the process of her narration, she unknowingly reveals her characters as well as reveals many family secrets (Crow, 26).
According to the narrator, her experiences with her Uncle Rondo, her grandfather and her loving mother had always been harmonious until the 4th of July holiday. This is when her younger sister, Stella-Rondo, suddenly leaves her husband to return to her ...

The issue of airport security has been a major concern not just for governments, but also travellers. With the recent rise in insecurity especially incidents of terrorism, every traveller is concerned about their safety while governments are concerned about keeping off the wrong people from crossing over to their countries. Two recent articles in the online versions of The New York Times and The Guardian look at the issue of security in airports. The first article, ‘the truth about airport security during the holidays: we know your snow globe is not a bomb’ is written by Harrington Jason, who has served ...

Jakes Barnes is the central character in the novel The Sun Also Rises in written by Ernest Hemmingway. The story centers on him, therefore, making him the protagonist of the story. He is an American journalist from Kansas but in the novel, he lives and works in Paris. He is a war veteran too, who participated in the First World War from where he suffered an injury when he was at war in Italy. As the central character, he helps in the progression of the story because everything that happens in the novel points back to him either directly or ...

Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a selection of stories that pilgrims use to tell stories that occurred as they traveled to a holy shrine in Canterbury. At first reading, “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Knight’s Tale” appear inconsistent and incomparable. Nevertheless, a closer reading of the two stories shows that the both stories are similar. The elements in the “The Miller’s Tale” reflects those in “The Knight’s Tale”. Arguably, the characters’ identities are different, yet the romance in both tales remains the same to an extent. In essence, the characters are basically the same in the two ...

Response Essay: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Apparently, I can attest rightfully on my opining that this novel is effortlessly convincing and interesting. The novel by Philip K. Dick is in essence a novel that insightfully presents a classic genre. This novel incorporates the various characteristics that best defines great work in science and fiction (Palumbo 21). Subsequent to reading this novel, one is predisposed to understanding human’s most pressing concerns particularly as it related to technological advances come the future. The author of this book incorporates the use of his artistic skills to ascertain that the reader draws a clear mental picture of the events explained in ...

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Introduction
The poem talks about the unconditional and selfless love that a brother can give to his sibling. In this scenario, the reader feels the straight brother’s remorse when he faces the death of his HIV positive brother. It is painful to watch a loved one dying and feel helpless since it is impossible to provide him with any kind of treatment. When reading the poem, the reader is able to feel the true love of the brother who tries to understand the dying sibling’s way of life despite he is desperately against it. The issue of love ...

Fiction Analysis

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In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with him watching his mother suffer with tuberculosis. From the fear of the descending pendulum of the Spanish Inquisition or the metaphorical aspects of the plague from the Red? Black Death, the end of life is a topic that thrills Poe, and it is used throughout his stories. One of the main features of Poe’s fiction is that his settings are revolved around the fantasticthe fantastic, severed from practical reality. By combining the ...

Lessons from historical fictions

The lessons that we derive from historical fiction vary, depending on what the author writes about the context that they set in the story. There are different aspects of stories that can be learnt from historical fiction about the Middle East. One, a person can learn about the historical events that took place in the Middle East. Authors will always write about significant events that took place in the past in history and those that greatly impacted on the lives of the people at that time. For instance, a historical fiction can talk about people revolting against the administration at the ...

As a rule there are many components which compose the plot of a story. Some of them have a clearly central place in a text like major characters of a story. The others might seem quite peripheral and supplemental rather than independent and self-sufficient; still, they constitute an indispensable part of the story and help the writer convey the necessary mood and reach the desirable effect on the reader. Among the latters the setting of the story should be considered.
Even though the setting is not an active agent in the story, it plays a very significant role: with no actual actions prescribed by ...

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In Bukowski’s poem “16-bit Intel 8088 chip”, there are several terms that are antiquated, including Mactintosh, disc drive, Commodore 64, IBM, Kaypro, Osborne, CP/M, Tandy 2000, and for most users, MS-DOS. The different operating systems do not understand each other since their form of communicating is too strange. Trying to get an IBM to read a disk from a Tandy 2000 is equal to having a native English speaking person trying to read a paper from a native Mandarin speaker.
This miscommunication between operating systems can be as frustrating as trying to speak with a person from another ...

The time period in which the graphic novel The Watchmen is set is the mid 1980’s. The group of vigilantes called the Watchmen have been banned from continuing to work fighting crime. Although they were previously respected and had great power, they have come to be viewed with fear and hatred. New York has fallen into disrepair and crime is rampant due to a nuclear cold war between the United States and Russia. Rorschach, one of the Watchmen, begins to unlawfully investigate the murder of Edward Blake who worked for the Government under the codename the Comedian. None of ...

- At the end of the first chapter, Chief Bromden states, “It’s gonna burn me . . . finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her and the guys—and about McMurphy. . . . It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t’t happen” (13). What does this mean? Is Broom a reliable narrator? Can you as a reader trust that his perceptions and his version of the story are accurate? Why or why not? Use an example from the book to support your response.
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Two Kinds is a story found in the book ‘The Joy Luck Club’, written by Amy Tan. The short story is about the conflict between a mother and her daughter who are clearly separated by things such as age, culture and perception. Jing-Mei Woo is the main character, and it is clear from the beginning that the high expectations her mother has over her affect her way of life. Through the unfolding events that the author gives, we get to understand the course that events took. In essence, whereas Woo saw Jing-Mei as a prodigy in piano playing, Jing-Mei detested this internally ...

My writing has been influenced through the works of other people who have shaped my understanding of the literary devices and styles that constitute to good writing. I have studied a significant number of poets and writers who have made substantial contributions to the art of writing. For instance, the works of Shakespeare, Dubois and Caesar have had an impact on my understanding of using various themes and devices to make my points in writing. For example, Shakespeare used a particular style of writing to make his plays interesting and educative. He greatly contributed to aspects of language that make it ...

In his Gothic tales of horror, Edgar Allan Poe focuses on the literal and figurative elements of death. This may have to do with the fact that one of his earliest memories was sitting and watching his mother cough her life away, a victim of tuberculosis. Whether it is the fear of the descending pendulum that was one of the creative torture devices of the Spanish Inquisition or the more metaphorical aspects of the Red Death, the end of life is a topic that fascinates Poe, and it infuses almost all of the elements in his stories. The connection between the ...

Symphony

Their voices are like bells, ringing out through the air in a clarion call of frantic joy. The air is silken and warm around me, caressing me with gentle tendrils of wind, as soft as a child’s hands. The grass is smooth, velvet, the pure green of an emerald held up to the light, and it smells of fresh mornings, and new growing things. The children play, moving in free strides of careless abandon, their small hands wrapping around the monkey bars, the chains of the swings as they push themselves skyward. The sun is bright, and as warm as ...

Writing is an art that requires meticulous skill and knowledge. Different writers use different techniques to effectively communicate their message. As writers, Siobhan Fallon and David Wood employ a unique set of rhetorical techniques that help distinguish their respective literature, “The Last Stand” and “Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle with Combat Trauma.”The Last Stand” is an insight into the life of specialist Kit Murphy a soldier who had had just returned home from the war only to find his family falling apart as his wife had become cold and indifferent. David’s article, on the other hand, is more informative ...

Rhetorical Analysis of Cofer

Judith Ortiz Cofer believes that the combination of her gender and ethnicity is the perfect storm to create a very specific type of discrimination, which is often accidental as her anecdotes show. Cofer makes her argument through anecdotal evidence and then lays out her conclusions in plaintive language at the end of her essay, “For them life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic, or criminal.” As an analysis of her essay “The Myth Of Latin Women” yields, Cofer does not go outside of her personal experience to make her claim. She ...

The essay “Never Just Pictures” by Susan Brodo is one that uses objectivity as a style to present cultural criticism. Her reaction to other works such as the “cult of the cadaverous” is her way of showing her criticism to bizarre American cultures. On never analyzing just pictures, it is easy to think of popular advertisements that have influenced the lives of people. Advertising is one of the most popular ways in which manufacturers can increase awareness on their commodities. However, easy it is for advertisements to convince people in the public to purchase things, but they do not appear ...

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Poetry Literary Analysis Essay - Richard Cory
‘Richard Cory’ a poem penned by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a narrative poem that delineates the need to cherish what one possess rather than envy others. First published in the year 1897, the poem is one of the most anthologized and memorable works of Robinson. As Morris opines, this poem condenses a man’s life into sixteen lines, and the simplicity and laconic nature of the poem intensifies the ironic touch. In this poem, the poet has made use of irony to convey the context and theme of the poem.
Richard ...