...though the fashion industry claims to be without guilt, because - as I once heard a man express in a show about the same theme – (of course I can’t remember the name of the show or the exact words, but it went something like this): models are just hangers, which show the clothes, there’s no reason for young girls to get so worked up over the model’s figure. The only problem is: there is! Many girls dream about becoming a model and they quickly learn if they want to be a model, they have to be thin. Really thin And the fastest way to become thin is by starving themselves. Furthermore when girls reach their teen years and the interest in boys and an aspiration to become popular emerge, insecure girls think (because of course it’s nothing like that – at least not everywhere) the only way to obtain those things is by being thin. And sometimes this obsession to achieve a perfect body goes too far. This extremely dark side of being a teenager is portrayed in Helen Olajumoke Oyeyemi’s short story Ellyday. It is about two friends, Sophie and Elly. On a cold Saturday morning Sophie pays Elly a visit to confront her, because she has discovered Elly has anorexia and she wants to help her. Sophie starts up by saying she knows, but Elly pretends she doesn’t know what Sophie is talking about. Sophie notices that Elly is nervous and seems physically weak. Sophie then asks Elly to pull up her jumper, but Elly doesn’t want to because she’s afraid Sophie will get mad. Sophie answers by telling...
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...just talked to my Mom on the phone, actually, I got yelled at. At that time, my phone was on 37 percent, please tell me how in the world my phone drops the battery percentage that fast. Its 3:13 on a Friday, so that means i have a game to “drill team” at. Makes sense right? My mom already yelled at me for all these immaterial reasons she came up with, my phone is about to die and i have a long night ahead of me, it's going to freezing at this game and i don't even know the routine good enough. It's been a rough different start of the day, yes i am saying “start” even though it's now 3:24, because like I mentioned, there's a long night still awaiting me as soon at this bell releases me. My mom had officially ruined my mood for the rest of the day, then my phone is gonna die on the bus, the ride back home is going to be so boring. These were the main thoughts roaming around in my mind. We’ll see how this ride goes all the way to Huntington, you can always sense the tension and attitudes in the air....
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...Demons (Imagine Dragons) This song describes the tone and atmosphere and the characters. The “Don’t get too close, It’s dark inside, It’s where my demons hide” is most of the characters, since they all seem to have their inner demons with their crimes. The beginning of the song (“When the days are cold, And the cards all fold, And the saints we see, Are all made of gold, When your dreams all fail, And the ones we hail, Are the worst of all, And the blood’s run stale”) captures the atmosphere of the book; the dread, the helplessness, the darkness. “When the curtain’s call, Is the last of all, When the lights fade out, All the sinners crawl” This part makes me think of the setting, with the isolation, the storm, and how one by one...
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...Lakhani interviews Tony Nicklinson and tells about his fight to get a permission, to let a doctor help him die, without getting charged for murder. Tony Nicklinson thinks that this is most fundamental human right, and it’s been taken from him. He also thinks that people believe, that life is a gift given by God, and only he can decide when you should leave. To choose when and where to die, is a right that everybody should have, no matter which fate you believe in. Tony Nicklinson suffered a stroke, and is now only apple to move his eyelids. He is trying to change the laws, so any doctor that would help him die, wouldn’t get charged. Tony is using the internet to express his opinion, and 13.000 people follow him on twitter, but as he says this wouldn’t make him change his mind, and maybe he would be the first to say goodbye on twitter. In text two “Do any of us, however ill, have the right to die” the author Allison Pearson give a response to Nicklinsons internet activities and his opinions. She argues for, that doctors’ most important job is to keep the patient alive, and by giving them the right to help ill people die, we make them executioners. Pearson also believe that if ill people really want to die, then there can be other way to make their wish come true. If you are really ill, then you would easily get an infection, and if you refuse to get medicine, you would die. The author, Vicki Woods, in the third text “I would help a relative on the final journey”, uses a personal...
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...the name of the person he loves on the beach, because he wants the world to know he's in love. It's not clever because when the tide comes, the waves will wash it away. In poetry they use metaphor. An example : “you are like a red rose”, a red rose is a metaphor for beauty. Line 1-2: ‘’One day I wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away.’’ The speaker and his love are at the beach (strand) and the speaker is in a romantic mood, because he writes her name in the sand. The waves wash the name away. Line 3: “Again I wrote it with a second hand,” The speaker writes the name again. Second hand is the same as again. The line needs to be complete and he had already used “again”. Line 4 : “But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.” Tides: the periodic variation in the surface level of oceans. The tides are a metaphor for life and death, often used by poets, because it´s one of the cententies of life. The tide is presented as a predator. His pains (efforts) are the prey of the waves. Death is also a predator, the tides are life and death. Line 5-6: ‘’Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, a mortel thing so to immortalize.’’ Vain has two meanings here, Vain (man) = you think too highly of yourself. Vain (assay) = useless (try). It´s useless to try and make her live forever, to make her immortal, she’s telling him. That´s impossible. In doing so he´s proving he´s vain, because he thinks he can do that and he pretends to...
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...Harlem Renaissance Poets Hum 112 June 4, 2013 Harlem Renaissance Poets The Harlem Renaissance was the time period that immediately followed the First World War. During the great migration a vast number of African Americans left the southern states to relocate to northern states such as Chicago, New York, and Washington DC. They were in search of new employment and artistic opportunities. This was the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance era where African American artist (musicians and poets) called themselves the “New Negro”. The two Poets I chose to discuss throughout this essay are Langston Hughes and Claude McKay. I will be discussing their roles during the Harlem Renaissance, The elements of double consciousness within their poetry, and the primary themes seen in poetry during this time period. Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was one of the most influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance. His unique style of writing incorporated Jazz and Blues music into poetry. Langston Hughes played a significant role during the Harlem Renaissance period, his work became the voice for the average African American struggling to deal with the stress / pressures of being racially discriminated against. His poems encouraged them to love their brown skin and accept who they are and not how they are seen by their white counterparts. Instead of African Americans sacrificing their identity (culture) to blend into the white society he encouraged Negroes to have a sense of pride in...
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...Ken was a sculptor before the car accident. He has been hospitalised for 6 months and is now paralysed from the neck down. He’s a patient at the hospital, and he’s an old man, who wants to feel young and who misses ”the old times”. He’s a person who jokes a lot: “You’ll just have to make do with my backside …” (p. 7, line 6), “Have me on the floor Sister please.” (p. 7, last line), “Who said anything about a bikini?” (p. 31, line 29). All those jokes is a perfectly example of how much pervert he is. Ken hates his life because of his situation and would rather die than being hospitalised: “Can’t you see that this is why I’ve decided that life isn’t worth living? I am not human and I’m even more convinced of that by your visit than I was before, so how does that grab you? The very exercise of your so-called professionalism makes me want to die.” (p. 34, line 28-34) and another example is at page 43, Act 2: “I therefore want to be discharged to die.” (Line 16). His career and his passion, depends on his ability to move. Kens situation is that, he is sentenced to be in a hospitals bed for the rest of his life. He is suffering mentally and wants to be discharged from the hospital. Dr. Emerson, a consultant physician, won’t allow him to be discharged because he has no chance of survival in the condition he is in. 2) Do you think Ken’s personality and background helps or hinders the play’s discussion of free will? I think, that Ken’s personality and background hinders the...
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...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 before us have taken. That, would be the "known path", or the comfortable choice. This is a choice which apparently is taken because it assures one to achieve what others have achieved before. And I think that...
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...thing will eventually die. Robert Frost is saying good things will never stay forever. Many times in a person’s life there will unhappiness and sorrow, the good times will end. Even though the great times come to an end, they will be followed by more and more great times. It is just like life. Life begins through beautiful babies, but sadly, in many years the baby will die. But, since good times will come again, a new beautiful baby will be born. It also means that all things are going to change eventually, like people, seasons and nature. Gold in the poem represents youth. Line one, “Natures first green is gold,” indicates nature’s first green is youth because every living thing begins with youth. Line two, “Her hardest hue to hold,” represents that youth is very hard to keep because they get older in age. In line three, the poem says, “Her early leafs a flower”, which defines youth as innocent, and beautiful like a flower. Line four, “But only so an hour” means that the young child will grow older and no longer be innocent for it will mature and begin to do wrong things. In line five, “Then leaf subsides to leaf” symbolizes the child becoming an adult and loosing it’s innocence and childhood. “So Eden sank to grief,” states that the person realizes that they are no longer a child and that they must face the world all on their own. “So dawn goes down to day,” means the childhood of the person is finished and that it will never return. The last line, “Nothing gold can...
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...him; the fault is in mankind.” In the first four lines the poem is telling you that the sewage system that is always full and smells so bad is no body’s fault, but the men who made the sewer drainage. In lines six thru ten, “In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends, While Nature kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.” This tells us that when you have to go sit on the toilet and use it your body feels a sense of relief. In lines fourteen thru twenty the writer moves to more serious tone. Our equal raised above our size. Who would not at a crowded show stand high himself, keep others low? I love my friend as well as you, But why should he obstruct my view? Then let me have the higher post: I ask for an inch at most.” In these lines he’s trying to say that if someone is taller than you they shouldn’t stand in front and block your view. In lines twenty-one thru twenty-six he talks about if you find a loved one in a battle hope that they win the battle and not be killed. “If in a battle you should find one, whom you love of all mankind, Had some heroic action done. A champion killed, or trophy won; Rather than this be overtopped, Would you not wish his laurels cropped?” Lines twenty-seven thru thirty “Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked with pain, and you without: How patiently you hear him groan! How glad the case is not your own!” Here he talks about how glad he is that it’s his friend who has terrible stomach and bowel...
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...Jr.), “I Have a Dream” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and “If We Must Die” (Claude McKay) equality is the missing piece of the puzzle. These three writing pieces show different ways that equality can affect and change a person’s life. It shows that without equality big disasters in society may happen. To start off, in “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a heartwarming speech that convinced many people across the United States to fight for equal rights. Some of the rights that African American people were fighting for where for example the right for freedom and justice. Although they were fighting for equal rights they were also fighting for a change in people’s hearts towards African American people. This is stated in speech when Martin Luther King Jr. states “…where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King Jr. is trying to tell us that even...
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...second verse. Nujabes encapsulates his principles and morals in this last verse. He sets the overall tone for this verse in the first lines by saying "treat you better than me, cause that's the heavenly key/ To unlock the inner strength where my essence will be" He links this last verse to the first one by adding his own touch to the golden rule instead of "treat other as you would like to be treated," Nujabes states that people should treat others better than they would treat themselves. Such ideals have been upheld by men such as Martin Luther King Jr, who lead the most peaceful protest ever, even when police brutality was at its peak due to racial tensions. Instead,...
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...poem in the collection, which is quite significant because it can be considered as the most important poem due to it being the first one of the collection but also because the title itself. The queen is the most powerful female around and so by having this as the first poem gives credit to the queen as she was one of the most successful monarchs of time. The first line immediately catches the attention of the reader with its first line. “The long queen couldn’t die”. The use of the word “couldn’t” plants the question in the reader’s mind as to why the queen couldn’t die and if she is even portrayed human or not in the poem. It also shows that maybe it isn’t a choice for her and that she has to go on and be a success. This shows her importance as it suggests that the queen couldn’t die because we don’t know where we would be without her. Also that even if she did die physically, she would still be on our minds and her soul will go on because she is an icon for many especially women who went through a lot of struggles during the era. The fact that she made a lot of changes to women’s lives and they will forever be thankful to her that she couldn’t die shows how much they relied on her. Alternatively this could be looked at in a different way. During the time people would be punished if they mentioned the queen dying because it suggested Gods power would stop so this could be another reason for saying the long queen couldn’t die. In the next sentence, it goes on to say that she...
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...belonging to someone, we need that sense of security. Maya Angelou, a remarkable renaissance woman who is hailed as having one of the greatest voices of contemporary literature explores in depth the different elements on the human condition in her anthology, ‘And Still I Rise’. From the first section, ‘Touch Me, Life, Not Softly’, we are immediately introduced to the painful aspects of being in a romantic relationship. In her poem, ‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ it discusses the complexity of being abused by the one you love. The title itself suggests it’s still considered as love however it’s a different “Kind”. This shows how humans, despite how bad some circumstances are, need to feel like they are loved. In Angelou’s eye’s it’s clear the term love doesn’t have one definition simply because love can be defined in many ways so everyone will have their own perception. The first stanza concentrates on the physical abuse one feels and it’s evident Angelou isn’t afraid to go beyond as we get very harsh and graphical descriptions. She starts of by personifying “ribs” to symbolise how ribs are...
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...The theme that Charles Dickens set for his story, focused on the main character’s greed. Ebenezer, seeing his past, present, and future, decides to change his way. Both movie and drama are set to show this transition, both being similar, and yet having differences at the same time. People often say “Never judge a book by it’s cover” or “Never judge a book by it’s movie.” That’s because they can be different, and you could see things that weren’t in the other. Dramas and their movies do this as well, but there are still similarities too. In the original drama, Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy man who only cares about money and hi own well being. Around Christmas time time he goes about making others suffer through his terrible attitude towards the usually joyous holiday, “What...
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