...How do you feel about stolen childhoods? The authors of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” and “Rabbit-Proof Fence” discuss the struggles of young children forced to grow up to have a modest life. Katherine Boo’s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” does a better job at describing the struggles of Abdul and how he was forced to grow up at such a young age. The descriptions and details help the readers visualize how Abdul and his companions had to work hard to get minimal change. Katherine Boo, the author for “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” uses the technique of description to provide a better opinion on hard working children who are forced to grow up at a young age. On page 207 it states, “Abdul was asleep on the gritty maidan, which for years has...
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...In both excerpts from, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo and Rabbit Proof-Fence by Doris Pilkington, both authors show examples of characters facing challenges. However, Boo shows the challenges best by using figurative language, details and description. The author Boo uses figurative language to convey the challenges. For example, “And Abdul crouched on the maidan, beginning to sort two weeks’ worth of purchased trash, a stained shirt hitching up his knobby spine” (Boo 209). This is to say that the author uses figurative language to show how poor and poverty stricken Abdul and his family are. On the other hand Pilkington does not do the best job. For example, ”They were shot by the white raiders when they tried to stop them...
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...The Picture of Dorian Gray: Plot Analysis The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a fiction novel that tells about a man who goes through many trials and tribulations that test his sanity. The novel takes place in the late 19th century which is considered to be the Victorian era. The Victorian era was an era of great judgement and it really depended on your social class whether or not you would get treated with high regards. The contrast between middle-class society and the sins of the wealthy corrupted upper class played a huge role in the novel. Dorian Gray was considered to be of the higher class, therefore, he struggled with the madness that came with it. Dorian Gray was beautiful. So beautiful that Wilde made a point to explain to the reader how beautiful and good-looking he was. “Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair” (Wilde 11). Not only was Dorian Gray well respected, but he was quite the man to look at and everyone admired him. However, Dorian Gray had some of his own demons to battle with his quest to stay forever young. Having this impossible and selfish wish comes him transforming from a gorgeous innocent pure soul, to a full developed maniac. To continue, like many other novels, there’s other characters that have a great impact towards the main character. Lord Henry is the definition of a bad influence that impacted Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray does not have any parents because...
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...Media Literacy I have advocated for 30 years that, in order to preserve our democracy and protect ourselves against demagogues, we should have courses in schools on how to watch TV, how to read newspapers, how to analyze a speech – how to understand the limitations of each medium and make a judgment as to the accuracy or the motives involved. (Cronkite) Media’s influence on society is powerful and far-reaching because they introduce us to new and different images that affect our personalities and perceptions of the world we live in. A report by the Free Expression Policy Project has shown that media glamorize violence, sex, drugs, and alcohol; reinforce stereotypes about race, gender, and class; and prescribe the lifestyle to which one should aspire, and the products one must buy to attain it (Hines and Cho 2). If society wants to correct these negative influences of media, Walter Cronkite’s message on the need for media literacy is therefore imperative. Media literacy, defined by AMLA as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of forms, will empower us to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of a wide range of messages using image, language, and sound (Center for Media Literacy). By becoming media literate, it is hope that we will have a better understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our diverse culture. To showcase the importance of media literacy, analyses of news and commercial media are...
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...that the death of one so dearly loved can bring to the soul. I have known the darkness of occasional brooding, but I would dwell most upon a struggle with sorrow that has sweetened my nature, which otherwise, would have been stultified by the pain. Pain, I have realized, is beautiful only when one can rise from its depressing power. I have known the people who have become bitter and cynical under the lash of sorrow, and I have known some who have never recovered from anguish. My experience is important only so far as it may help others towards growth: it is worthless to me if it implies vanity. Sonia is, to me, as fairy tale told or a lyric half lost in fancy, a delicate melody unsung. Had she grown into full womanhood, she might have become an intellectual, for she was deliberate and clear- cut in her language, precise in her reasoning, and keen in sensing nuances which matured minds about her could not appreciate; then, I should have been forever lost, the glamour of its poetry never felt even in vague suggestions, and the delicate melodies never perceived. As a friend suggested to me when grief was most oppressive: "you shall always remember her as a child. "How beautiful I felt it was! What a beautiful things a man perceives in such sorrow! What keen and living poetry! For nothing but poetry could give such feeling. In such a moment reason would have destroyed me with consummate triumph; for if I had tried to...
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...Peer Innocence (An Analysis of Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell) Pressure is a common obstacle throughout the journey of life. Whether it is stress, a big due date, or peer pressure, it is experienced nearly every day. Peer pressure is defined as getting forced into something that was not wanted by other people, friend or not. It is considered a form of bullying. In the story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell, is a personal narrative of what happened to him when he was a police officer in Burma, India. Peer pressure was what made him make the decision he did and due to that he has to live forever with the consequences. Certainly, we have all fallen to some form of peer pressure. Peer pressure can greatly influence decisions, always...
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...Yangzhou, a place full of beauties throughout the history of China. At that time, even the emperor’s wives use Xiefuchun to make themselves look more beautiful. Xiefuchun uses Chinese traditional medicines to make the products. This is the most important aspect to make our products unique. For example, there are more than twenty kinds of Chinese herbs in its pomade. The pomade has many functions: Moisturizing, detergents, itching, detoxification, anti-inflammatory. People who were sunburned can use the pomade, it also provides the treatment of otitis media. Corporate culture: combine with the Chinese medicinal herbs. To make the products “oriental, effective, natural and humane”. Xiefuchun often helps the people in poor area, giving them the products. Also, equally to people from different areas. External Environment Target market: female customers who are between 18-40, tourists. Sociocultural environment: The social and cultural environment provide a big opportunity for Xiefuchun. It is one of the most traditional classical brand in China. Nowadays, people prefer to a more healthier and natural lifestyle, so Xiefuchun can be a very proper good choice. All the materials it used are natural and safe. In the United States, there are also many Chinese people, they know about the culture which is behind the products. They will tell their friends and colleagues about this brand. Of course the brand itself is mysterious to many other customers, and it will...
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...Dylan Weber Kim Priest English 101 Rhetorical Analysis During the beginning of this article, Tom Bissel has a back and forth comparison of his opinion about the video game Fallout 3, and telling his imaginary children, Kermit and Hussein, what he was doing the day that Barack Obama was elected to be our first African-American President of the United States. He tries to make an argument that even though there was a widely-known national, and even global, event that took place, he felt like playing the open world game of Fallout 3 was just more important. He goes on to say, “And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded wasteland, nervously monitoring his radiation level, armed only with a baseball bat, a 10mm pistol, and six rounds of ammunition, in search of a vicious gang of mohawked marauders who were 100 percent bad news and totally had to be dealt with. Trust Daddy on this one”. This analogy of two events shows that beating a video game like Fallout 3 was just as important as watching the election of the 44th President of the United States. And while the excruciating detail of the game makes it seem like there was a lot of responsibility on his hands and he makes it sound like an assertion, it wouldn’t matter in the end, because we all know it was just a virtual world, and he missed out on reality. His anecdote was very detailed, however, and I’m sure if there was anyone who was skeptical...
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...elegant because of its presence. This is relevant to humans as well, as, concerning beauty, Phi is a powerful measurement that psychologically attracts us at our most basic and primitive levels. A Study of Phi and its Importance in Human Choices Concerning Beauty One object, one thing, can be viewed in many different ways by many different types of people. For example, a piece of wood is a tool, or a building block for a carpenter. It’s a way to make a profit for the lumberjack. It’s a chain of glucose molecules for a biologist. We have our ways to view things in life depending on who we are, and how we function. Beauty, like all other things, is therefore a relative subject. A mask with strange face painting on may be incredibly beautiful to an artist, yet strange, unfamiliar, and maybe even scary to...
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...Nicole Crespo Professor Tomko WRT 201 27 April 2015 The Beautiful “Annabel Lee” In his poem “Annabel Lee” Edger Allen Poe writes about a forbidden love that ends in a horrible tragedy. Poe uses many elements of poetry such as imagery to give the reader an impression of profoundness, symbolism to give a sense of setting, and tone to let the reader know the feelings behind the poem. With the elements of poetry the readers better understand used Poe’s theme of eternal love. It also helps us have an insight of how Poe’s perspective on the idea of love was to him. Given the background Poe’s life wasn’t an easy one which can be seen in the Poem Annabel Lee. In the poem, Poe uses visual imagery to describe many different scenes in the poem. One for example is when he describes the death of Annabel Lee, “ that the wind came out of the cloud by the night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”. (25) This quote shows how Poe wanted his readers to get a visual of a tragic cold night that resulted in the death of a woman. The poem is written in a musical way, one can imagine the cold night. The reader could feel it chilling themselves and could feel the heart break of the young lover’s death. Another example of imagery is when Poe writes, “So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea” (17-20) the image given is her family taking her away from her lover to lock her up in a vault by the sea where she...
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...Matt Brown In the book “Now you see it” author, Cathy Davidson, clearly makes her point by identifying the problem, giving suggestions on how to fix the problem, and allowing the reader to see both sides of the argument. By using these three techniques, she is able to present her case and defend it extremely well. This is what you’d expect a critical analysis to say, right? But, I’m going to take you off the rails today. I’m going to show you the true nature behind high school. How, books like this have distorted the many views of adults everywhere. Yes, we’re still kids to an extent. But, I’ve met the most mature people in high school. High school is not a popularity contest, a survival study, or anything of that nature. High school is simply a group of kids growing into adults together. We don’t realize it yet, but we will look back on these years with a glowing sense of wonder. How did we come so far as people? Freshmen year, oh god the struggles. Everyone is afraid, and they should be. High school is extremely intimidating, and upperclassmen are of no means helpful. But, it’s honestly not their fault. When they were freshmen, they experienced the same thing. Why should they offer anything different? They want to put the underclassmen through the same things they went through. It’s like a rite of passage many college kids endure. But, after awhile, it’s just an everyday thing. No one even notices the changes, but it happens. Also, freshmen year was definitely the most judgmental...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “Poetic Justice” - 12 by The British short story “Poetic Justice” by Diana Appleyard concerns the choices we make in life and how these will affect us later on. At the same time, it is a story about dreams, disillusion, and facing reality.Throughout most of the story, a 3rd person narrator is used; it is seen from the narrator’s point of view with an internal focalization. However, this changes in the last two or three sentences, where,suddenly, a 1st person narrator is introduced. The actual setting of the story is the narrator’s house, most of the story actually takes place in cyberspace or in the narrator’s mind, when she is remembering past events. The story evolves around two characters; the unnamed female narrator and the long lost love of her youth, Jed Cunningham. They’re both middle aged and British, but that is about the only similarities between them. She is living in a suburban neighbourhood somewhere in the UK with her husband, two children and a dog called Bramble - the typical cliché of a post-modern housewife. Her everyday consists of doing daily chores, writing articles for some sort of magazine or newspaper and collecting her youngest daughter from school. Jed Cunningham, on the other hand, is living alone in some remote place by the sea. This is the only real information we get about the recent Jim, as it is the only fact the narrator, and therefore we, knows. On the contrary, the adolescent Jim is profoundly described by...
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...June 30, 2013 ENGL 112 Essay # 2 Comparative Analysis of Two Literary Texts Deciding For a Way in Life, Trying to Make a New One The poem “Marriage” by Gregory Corso and the poem “I go back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds deal with the main topic of marriages and their different outcomes. The authors want to prove and describe the different scenarios that their lives and others would have turned out if things had been different in the past as well as in the present using fiction as well as drama. Although both poems relate two different scenarios and their stories have no connection what so ever, Corso and Olds explore with imaginary change of events, doubts about life and the pursuit of happiness. All of those components create a connection that seemed inexistent when reading both poems. The beauty of literature is that everything is possible; the writer can change events and scenarios as the story comes along at any time the writer wants. Corso’s poem “The Marriage” transports the reader to different scenarios beginning with two questions. “Should I get married? Should I be good?” (431). Taking the first question as an example, Corso puts a huge amount of pressure into the character with one of the most important decisions that a men or women take in life. In a deeper thought the character imagines his life as poor as well as rich, if he is going to live in a middle class apartment full of rats and roaches or in a beautiful high rise overlooking the New York’s skyline,...
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...the eternal artistry in Ode on a Grecian Urn and Sailing to Byzantine Abstract: From the romantic poet John Keats to symbolical poet W. B. Yeats, both of them were persistently searching the eternity in the long journey of life. This paper tries to through the analysis of the two poems, Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium to reveal the truth that the strongest support of the soul not lies in the empty and rapidly decayed body but relies on the eternal artistry which transcends the time and space. Although the former comes from the romantic imagination of an exquisite works of art---an ancient Grecian urn, the latter originates from the Byzantium which is the symbol of art, of eternity, both of them contain the similar life philosophy, that is the immortal life lies in the art of eternal. Key words: Ode on a Grecian Urn ; Sailing to Byzantium; eternal artistry; timeless Introduction Life is limited, yet it is possible to find the eternal life. Is it contradictory? How can life be limited as well as eternal at the same time? Could it be true that life has no ending? Actually, as we all know, no matter who you are, rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, smart or mediocre, eventually you will die. However, there is one thing will never die, which is not belong to this dusty world.—that is the eternal artistry. It is true that the art will never die. Only in the combination of the art, our soul can reach the home of eternity. Throughout...
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...Unit A Assignment 1: Poetry The two poems that I have chosen that I feel deserve a detailed analysis are 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost and 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke. Robert Lee Frost was quite simply, one of America's leading 20th century poets. It could be because he wrote poems about rural life, drawing a distinct contrast between its innocence and peacefulness , and the depression and corruption of city life. It could also be because he used traditional verse forms that were understood by one and all. It might even be that people sensed his step forward in the direction of modernizing the interplay of rhythm and meter while writing exactly how people spoke. His poetry has been called traditional, experimental, regional, universal and even pastoral. And on the other hand Robert Chawner Brooke was an English poet know for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War. He was also known for boyish good looks. He was an established and rising poet with a strong academic reputation, important literary friends and potentially career changing political links. The reason why I have chosen 'The Road Not Taken' is because this poem deals with the choices we must make in life and the consequences of those choices. Frost is making an allegorical statement that basically says "there is no need to follow the steps of others". Often in life we are asked repeatedly to choose from a series of decisions that are based on the decisions that others...
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