Essays on Connotation

When unpacking poetry, readers should make themselves aware of the multiple denotations words may have, especially words that feel very familiar. Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” stands as a perfect example of why this practice is crucial in gaining the entire meaning of a poem. After realizing how the words “rosebuds” and “flower” potentially mean more than just their botanical connotations, the reader discovers a deeper understanding of the poem, noticing a shift in the speaker’s audience, the poem’s tone, and the speaker’s character. Ultimately, the poem reveals itself to ...

Introduction

Advertising is form of communication that is directly invoked in passing critical messages to the target audience. It is also termed as a promotional mode that has persuasive instincts of swaying buyers to a given direction. Therefore, advertisements for sales promotion are destined to orient the thinking and perception of buyers to a given product. While there are different forms of advertising, the main message expressed by these ads is always the same, and it holds one precept of persuasion to the target audience. It is the backdrop for competitive edge that most advertisers come up with different messages, ...

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderland: La Frontera is a semi-real-life work that comprises text and poems that detail the indiscernible borders that are between Latinas and non-Latinas, males and females, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and various other contrasting crowds. Anzaldúa expounds that her manner of writing involves picking out images from her personality’s judgment, spinning forth the correct words to reconstruct the images (Anzaldua, 96). She asserted that reimaging of certainty in one’s mindfulness is significant because nothing transpires in the actual world lest it first takes place in the images in one’s heads (109). This ...

Racism is a type of discrimination whereby people are subjected to different treatment basing on the connotation and social values attached to the color of their skin. According to Naber (2012), racism is not only limited to the color of the skin rather, the position of an individual in the social ladder is of great significance in dictating his status in the society. In the US to be precise, the acts of racism dates back to the time of slavery whereby the Africans were segregated in the south while the whites occupied the northern states. During that time, the ...

The poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917, during World War I. He was killed on 4 November 1918 during the battle to cross the Sambre-Oise canal at Ors. Several lines, if not the whole poem, can be paraphrased quite easily. In essence, the narrator is suggesting that had anyone experienced the same horrors as he had, they would not glorify war. Lines 1 and 2 can be paraphrased as, “We were doubled over from pain and the inability to move; we were sick, coughing continuously, and swore while trudging through mud and muck. ( ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

The work of George Orwell “Nineteen Eighty-Four” represents a totalitarian universe Oceania with its own world, rules, and even language. The author believed in close interconnection between the regime in the country and the official language used by ordinary people. Thus, the writer thought that with the corruption of thought, language suffers, too. To explain his ideas, the novelist created a special language “Newspeak” for his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a language designed by the totalitarian state Oceania used to deprive people of the freedom of thought and crush in the bud the concepts of freedom, individuality, self-expression, peace, etc. ...

Music could be one of the greatest inventions that happened in our history. It is a form of art and a form of cultural activity which is created out of various elements such as pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and even the audible qualities of texture and timbre. There are many types of music that were created that may have started in the early days. One of which is the Jazz music. This type of music represents a perfect combination of music components and elements in order to create an audible sound that many people have been enjoying since the early ...

Many have advocated far and wide the attempts at legalization of cannabis, a drug that we also very commonly referred to by the name of marijuana and it is the same attempts that have produced fruits for as of August 2015, four states have legalized the purchase of marijuana. In the year 1969, only 12 percent of the country’s population favored the legalizing of pot in the United States. Today, almost 47 years from today, more than half of the US population have switched over to the side which favors the legalization of the drug and these attempts ...

Introduction

There is no doubt that advertisements have meaning: this is the fundamental purpose of advertisements in today’s culture—to impart meaning on the viewer. However, through a thorough understanding of semiotics, it becomes clear that sometimes the meanings contained in advertisements are deeper and more complex than they seem at first glance. Everything that is produced in culture has a cultural meaning—some things, however, are much more culturally resonant than others (Chandler). Some thinkers have even suggested that all cultural realities and productions can be understood as a kind of cultural communication—and that this communication may ...

Passionate Journey is a wordless graphic novel written by Belgian graphic artist Frans Masereel. Unlike other general comic books, Passionate Journey is composed by images with no colors, hence, offering readers a greater chance to expand their interpretation and give them several variations of the plot. Published after the World War I, the book represents the experiences of an early 20th-century ordinary citizen in a modern city. The book intends to present the ups and downs of common people living int those days, specifically showing their life style in post-war period. In order to highlight the trends of that ...

Raced Body in Design and Visual Culture

Since the dawn of our civilization, people have been trying to identify themselves and the purpose of their existence. Our ancestors’ eagerness to examine and repeat the structure of the universe in the scale of human communication made them unite into tribes and families. Such a process is impossible without applying a list of criteria, which make people somehow connected, either by same origins or territory. However, if there is such a process as unity, there should somewhere be a concept of separation. Derived from the human wish to dominate over others, racism and other kinds of discrimination occurred. ...

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

Introduction

It is in ones desire to go skydiving and hope that the parachute pulls, but still questioning its possibilities. It is in ones desire to drive a car much too fast to control but believing one is fully capable of not necessarily cheating death. It is ones desire to drink a large amount of alcohol, knowingly, all at once. It is the death drive, the instinct towards chaos. Primarily it can be said that throughout the entirety of this essay we will explore many different ways in which death has been, and can ...

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<<Name>> <<Professor Name>> <<Course Title>> <<Date>> Part A+: Positive Description of Wal-Mart A trip to Wal-Mart really opened my eyes to the pleasures of shopping. I saw rows and rows of cars fill up the huge parking lot. Cars of all types and hues could be seen – from sedans to coupes to SUVs. It is literally a sea of cars that fills the landscape. Incoming cars are filled with giggly, happy children and parents, awaiting the exhilarating shopping experience. Cars rushing out ...

Music videos have always been criticized for having huge amount of sexual content, especially to those of the rock videos by the start of the 21st century. It started to go enormous on the sexual side sometime in the 1970s, until it burst in the 1980s and went wild. By the 1990s, almost every music video had sexual content. In these videos, women were being portrayed as sexual objects, with stereotypical attitudes between genders, and the erotic content that, they say, captured the heart of the adolescents. This was seen in the music videos of two rock groups of ...

Genesis - Schultz’s leadership model

Great leaders usually have certain characteristics that make them special. For any organization to be successful, then they should have great leaders with special characteristics. This research will evaluate the leadership of Howard Schultz whom I believe is a leader who possesses the characteristics of a good leader.

According to leadership theories, a good leader takes care of the other employees’ needs. They should help the other employees to work through activities such as delegation (Michael, 1). In addition, the leaders should allow employees to give their ideas that can assist the organization. Howard Schultz reports that good leadership involves observation of ...

“That’s My Dinner on Display”: A First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture

The article, “That’s My Dinner on Display”: A First Nations Reflection on Museum Culture”, has been penned by Gloria Jean Frank. The author talks about the representation of the First Nations people in the museum that treats them as anthropological specimens. The article opines that many of the objects that are exhibited in the museum in relation to the First Nations people are not antiquated or defunct. Thus, the cultures of the First Nations that are reflected in the museums require critical evaluation and scrutiny. The author is herself a First Nations people, and hence has the most ...

Arnold Cameron in his article the Culture of Slovenia mentioned that with the use of architecture it has been possible for outsiders to gauge many elements of a country’s culture such as its lifestyle, sensibilities in terms of the arts and humanities and even its social structure. Giving the famous Indian structure, the Tahj Mahal, as an example Cameron (p. 6) shared that was the structure designed as it is just to merely look like other buildings or was it build in such manner because of the country’s culture? Another example is the great pyramids of Egypt that ...

Thesis: How self control theory can be used for determining the participation in the hacking culture and what are the effects of hacking. How self control theory can be used to overcome it.

Introduction

What is Low self control Low self control and the role of parents Self control theory and digital piracy The Gottfredson and Hirschi’s concept of crime itself What are the reasons of hacking or other crimes The proliferation of the automated tools Role of youth in hacking Computer hacking requires more planning and knowledge Online resources provide ...

Is it a Controversial and Complex Issue to Change the Name of Washington’s Football Team?

English Is it a Controversial and Complex Issue to Change the Name of Washington’s Football Team?

Introduction

The clamor at the national level for the ‘Washington Redskins’ to change their name is a source of controversy. Proponents for change cite historical wrongs associated with the name ‘redskins’. Continued usage of the name creates harassment for the young amongst peers. On the other hand, fans do not wish to let go of the name they have been associated with for a long time. Opponents to name change also aver that over-sensitivity and political correctness would ultimately sanitize the entire national framework, leaving ...

Abstract

An increasing number of studies have examined and evaluated the merits of relaxed based and prescriptive stress control methods as applied in various environmental settings. Stress management methods such as cognitive strategies, biofeedback, meditation and muscle relaxation have been educated to various people as a form of reducing subjective and psychological distress. Such strategies focus their attention exclusively on the provision of skills to people individually. The skills assist in the recognition of stress and information regarding how to cope with it in a health promotion perspective. Accordingly, stress management is an effective preventive measure that the human resource departments find ...

Introduction

9/11 is the expression that has been dedicated to the 2001 terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda that the United States suffered from on September 11. It is true that 9/11 became a turning point for the George W. Bush administration. In addition, it also affected the United States' foreign policy.The events unswervingly led to the United States support for the downfall of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan where it was believed to have its foundation (Thompson, 2004). These attacks were also important as they were later used by the United States of America as a justification of invading Iraq regardless of the fact that ...

A Critical Analysis

Robert Frost has been remarked to “stand at the crossroads of 19th-century American poetry and modernism, for in his verse may be found the culmination of many 19th-century tendencies and traditions as well as parallels to the works of his 20th-century contemporaries” (“Robert Frost”). He holds a unique place in American poetry, and within that space he created some remarkable poems, at times following strict meter and rhyme, but always creating poems rich in imagery and meaning. His poem, “Fire and Ice,” is no different. Within this brief poem are layers of meaning revealed in strong imagery and the connotation of ...

Voluptuous Mors

It is a matter of prominent curves running through a black veil that flows beneath them. A game between the lights and the angles. Seven models position themselves to form a skull as the artist stands on the side with an alarmed gaze. Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, partners with photographer Philippe Halsman to create a surrealist human skull (1951). The image depicts Dali standing next to the models with an "enfreaked gaze” as Ann Millett would write. He is looking at the possible third spectator, implying that there is something in the image that should be looked at awareness, if not caution. This ...

Environmental protection has become a major issue on a global level lately. Numerous conferences and negotiations aim to eliminate worldwide consequences of environmental pollution and preserve the biosphere. Leading scientific experts are developing technologies using alternative energy sources and renewable resources. Researchers investigate the possibilities to reduce the industrial and consumer-related environmental harm and improve energy efficiency. Ecosystems protection is also one of the priorities to legislative authorities on both international and national levels. However, governmental initiatives cannot be fully efficient without support of a private sector. Various eco-initiatives are regularly held by civic organizations to raise environmental awareness of the ...

In the Edward Arlington Robinson poem “Richard Cory,” the titular character is a rich and kind man who has everything you could imagine a person needs. While he is rich, he is also benevolent with his wealth, providing charity and giving what he has to others. He is also very polite and well-mannered. Despite this outward happiness, by the end of the play he abruptly takes his own life. Robinson, in describing the hyperbolically good qualities of Cory, seeks to surprise his audience by showing that even the people’s perception of Cory as happy is proven false. There are ...

Psychology of Beauty

Many people would argue that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; it must not be the clear definition of a person. However, sadly in today’s materialistic world ‘beauty’ brings about divide and unwanted effect in a person’s self-esteem and self-image. The media today seemingly has stereotyped the beauty into standards that appear pleasing to the eyes. Media has created an ideal beauty that unconsciously affected a person’s self-image due to the constant desire to achieve that ‘ideal’ beauty. In the workforce, for instance, physical appearance has created both a disadvantage and advantage to people. Physically attractive people tend ...

Introduction

Connotation and denotation are two major methods used to describe the meanings of words. Connotations refer to the wide variety of negative and positive relationships that words can carry with them naturally. It is the imaginative and emotional association that the word carries. Denotation is the exact or literal meaning or definition of a given word that can be found in an English dictionary. Connotation in simple terms is a representation of the various cultural implications, social overtones, , and emotional meanings carried by a sign. Some things differently invoke associations in a person’s mind. If different people are subjected to the same ...

A question arises whether the media is biased against liberals. The answer is yes. Another question comes around whether the media has biased news over conservatives. The answer will be yes. Many would think these questions and answers aren’t interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another(Dellavigna and Kaplan 1187--1234). The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases present in journalism. However, the professional working in media is through television. The word bias is used as a ...

A question arises whether the media is biased against liberals. The answer is yes. Another question comes around whether the media has biased news over conservatives. The answer will be yes. Many would think these questions and answers aren’t interesting at all, due to its probability of searching evidence-anecdotal or to provide evidence of media bias as one stripe or another(Dellavigna and Kaplan 1187--1234). The interesting and instructive part of studying media biases is inherent or structural biases present in journalism. However, the professional working in media is through television. The word bias is used as a ...

FINAL INTERPRETIVE EXERCISE

The image I have selected to discuss is the narrative dance of Kathak that is normally performed by priests. This dance has high amounts of religious connotation and was used by the priests to tell stories about the gods and goddesses. These dances bear great connotation to ritualism and date back to the Brahmin priests if the ancient temples of ancient India. Originally, these dances were referred to as Kathakar and held significant religious notion, but later the name was changed to the Kathak. This image represents a form of worship as well as a form of evangelism as it tells ...

The definition white person is dynamic idea depending on the geographical differences and historic context. This then makes it difficult for one to identify himself or herself with white as a race. The concept has been applied with various degrees of internal consistency and formality with a function as color metaphor for race. However, the concept has been used with a wide degree of variation as several scholars and socialist use the word as a race while others use it as skin color identification. The definition of the word white is not enough to identify the people referred to be white. The ...

The meaning of words changes over time. Like all types of evolution, the evolution of language is affected heavily by the geographical location and the experiences of those speaking the language. During the late eighteenth century, language was frequently used in ways that it is not used today. Some words that have modern meanings and have evolved and changed with the times were used very differently in the past. Thomas Paine is no exception to this rule, using a variety of different words in “Common Sense” that are still in use today. However, many of these words are used in ...

Critical Thinking and Language

Critical Thinking and Language

Efficient communication implies structural knowledge of a common communication language, but also the understanding, through empathic abilities, of the non – verbal communication: perceiving the gestures, tics, mimic of the face, expressions or even silence as sources of communication. Language is directly linked with critical thinking because in a communication process the actors involved in the process need to think to what they want to say to their communication partners, to filter the information and based on what they understood to create an answer. This process implies structuring words, based on a critical thinking process. The communication actors need ...

Introduction

Attentional control has been a constant source of interest for psychologists in order to determine the relation between this phenomenon and attantional bias. The significance in determining the threat sources that can lead to attentional bias resides in the fact that attentional bias is considered to be the cause of anxiety. Based on Derryberry & Reed’s study, “Anxiety-Related Attentional Biases and Their Regulation by Attentional Control”, this paper presents a thesis proposal that will aim to illustrate how attentional control contributes to anticipating the potential stress factors that might be responsible for the development of anxiety. Primarily the discussion should ...

When seeking to understand a word such as modesty, the best place to begin is with a dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, modesty has two parts to its definition, including “freedom from conceit or vanity” and “propriety in dress, speech, or conduct.” The etymology of the word links the word to the Latin modestus, which means “keeping within measure” or using moderation (Blakemore and Jennett). From the dictionary definition, it is easy to understand the basic way in which the word is used. The example, “She accepted the award with modesty” describes a person who displays both freedom from vanity and ...

The individuals of the same sex vividly use the term homosocial to implore an assortment of situations and the relationships mutual. This although virtually is used to in the various instances to exclusively refer to the relationship between men which has the sexual inference in an angle that depicts the contrast of the term homoerotic. The contrast that is derived in the two terms helps vividly to explore the and explain the cloud of contrast that is being derived in the connotations that the various scholars try to link the two terms together. The term, which on the ...

Language and imagery are powerful tools to use when conveying messages, which is why media advertisements rely heavily on the use of flowery and creative words as well as visually attractive pictures to lure consumers into buying their products. Most of the time, such techniques lead to stereotypical portrayals of certain social classes or people in roles that are oftentimes regarded as funny, endearing, scary, and in some instances, derogatory. One such example is the Aunt Jemima group of advertisements that began in the late 1800s and still exist today. Through language and imagery, Aunt Jemima depicts the image ...

The film Legally Blonde pretends to be a celebration of the power of women in the dusty, sexist halls of Harvard Yard, but in fact it is a comedy that uses the time-tested ability of sexist roles to gain cheap laughs and play to the tastes of those who snicker at women, believing them to be less able than men and qualifying all of their successes at having been based on luck or some other sort of dynamic than true competence. Reese Witherspoon stars as Elle Woods, a sorority girl who fits every stereotype of the naïve blonde. She catches the ...

Introduction:

Judith Ortiz and E. Cummings can be said to be poets whose works have a lot of similarities. In most cases, their poems have been said to have more or less analogous connotations. In their poems, “next to of course god America I” and “Latin Women Pray” respectively, these two poets present to lovers of poetry two magnificent poems. In these poems, the poets carefully and artistically bring out two different issues which the personas in their poems go through. In this essay, the key focus is the particularities of meaning introduced by the poets. The paper further attempts to ...

Religious

The context of truth and morality stems from certain beliefs and values. Particular beliefs of individuals about God may differ, but the concept of God being a supernatural power remains the same across diverse religions and cultures. Experts may debate the very existence of God however God being as an omnipotent cultural idea cannot be debated (Laurin, Kay & Fitzsimons, 1). According to Plato one should be a firm believer of god and he recognized two reasons as to why we should believe in the superpower. - According to Plato, the world, moon, sun and stars and in that order ...

Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S III

Introduction

Advertising has virtually shaped the way mobile technologies are promoted and commercialized to targeted consumers. Advertising is dominantly used to shape the perceptions and thoughts of individuals in relation to a given product (Lacey 1998, p. 56). This is the platform that written, audio and visual adverts of Samsung Galaxy S III have adopted. Samsung Galaxy S III adverts have adopted certain distinguished features of media literacy that help them in attracting the current generation of consumers who are opting for digital and business-centric smart phones. The distinguished features of media literacy adopted by the smart phone are framed ...

The quince is a long-standing tradition for many Latina women; it is thought to be the moment in which a young girl becomes a woman in Latino culture. Traditional Latino clothes, music and rituals are used in a quince to solidify societal expectations of what women are expected to be and do as they enter adulthood. To that end, the quince is a clear establishment of patriarchal values that keep women from establishing agency and power over men. In Julia Alvarez' "Selections from Once Upon a Quinceanera," the way in which Latina women treat the concept of the quince shows many things about how the ...

The quince is a long-standing tradition for many Latina women; it is thought to be the moment in which a young girl becomes a woman in Latino culture. Traditional Latino clothes, music and rituals are used in a quince to solidify societal expectations of what women are expected to be and do as they enter adulthood. To that end, the quince is a clear establishment of patriarchal values that keep women from establishing agency and power over men. In Julia Alvarez' "Selections from Once Upon a Quinceanera," the way in which Latina women treat the concept of the quince shows many things about how the ...

Machismo and Marianismo

The male ideology machismo is existent and is a commonly used connotation in many cultures across Latin America. In some languages, it is introduced with a primary meaning mainly as exaggerated masculinity. In contemporary Latin America society, the connotation machismo is used to describe masculinity particularly found in men though this can also be applied to women. This indigenous ideology was based on a patriarchal and militaristic society, which socialized its men to be warriors and women to be home caretakers and subordinate to men. While many in the society debate the role of women in the Latin America society, the music ...

Terrorism is an abstract noun. Having a war on terrorism is by its own definition illogical and irrational. This is when dealing with the semantics of the word. The word terrorism has shifted in meaning many times over the century. It has come to mean many things to many people. While social sciences studies the varieties, methods, causes and history of terrorism. Philosophy deals with two fundamental interrelated questions. What is terrorism and can terrorism be ethically justified. Since 9/11 there has not been a single individual who has not been affected in one way or another by this phenomenon. This ...

The Reign of Terror was a difficult period during the French Revolution where thousands of perceived state enemies were executed. It began in September 1793 to 1794 and was decreed by the Committee of Public Safety which was set up b the Jacobins after the execution of King Louis XVI in January 1793 (Williamson 60). The leader of this committee was Maximilien Robespierre, and it was committed to eliminating elements who were opposed to the French revolution, and to guard against foreign invasion (Comay 376). Robespierre was blindly passionate about the innate goodness of man, which was he believed was corrupted ...