...societies. Today however, people can speak with each other regardless of location, which emphasizes the importance of the power of language. The negative consequences that come from this is that those who do not master a language perfectly or differ from perfect speech are discriminated against in the general community. A phenomenon, which writer Gloria Anzaldúa, who wrote the article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” calls “Linguistic Terrorism.” According to her, linguistic terrorism negates not only the speaker, but also the experiences and culture behind that person (Anzaldúa). Thesis: Although language can be used as a tool of power, the use of faulty and imprecise language negates the speaker and causes negative consequences. Body 1, Tan: An accent is an example of imprecise English, which causes people to make negative or positive assumptions about the speaker based on the information that accent reveals. Example: In Amy Tan´s essay “Mother Tongue,” she provides an example drawn from experiences her mother had in America as an immigrant with English as her second language. Quote: “I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not even hear her”...
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...The keywords in this quote are believed, recedes, and eluded. When Nick says Gatsby believed in the green light, he means that Gatsby held that green light as truth of Daisy. Gatsby really believed that Daisy was an attainable dream. When Nick says the future recedes before them, it means that the future is gradually slipping away, ever so slightly out of their grasps. Finally, when he says eluded, it means the future and it’s promises are escaping them. The future doesn’t seem to be attainable. The scene that surrounds this quote is the scene of Gatsby’s funeral. Only Nick, Gatsby’s father, and Owl Eyes showed up. This scene shows Gatsby’s failure to gain love and respect from the people around him. Upon further analysis, readers can see the clear connections between the quote and scene. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter--to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly...
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...Literature coursework How does Patricia Glinton-Meicholas make her message clear in any two for her stories? “What you sow is what you will reap” Galatians 6:7. This meritorious biblical quote firmly displays the distinct message Glinton depicts, “Your reward will be just like your nature”. An evening in Guanima, just one of Glinton’s overviewed story telling books, promotes clarity in identifying and bring forth our Bahamian roots through story-telling. The stories “BER’ BOUKI, BER PATRIDGE & THE COW” and “BER’ BOUKI AND RABBI-SPERRIT HOUSE”, clearly foreshadow the common theme of greed. Glinton vividly paints a masterpiece on a comical canvas that evokes interest, and reviewers to crave more. Through the extensive use of literary devices such as humour, mental representation, analysis of characters and the vivid sketch of her ingenious and adapt use of illustrative language, proves richness in making common situations throughout the stories clears. Glinton paints an incredibly simplistic portrait of selfish acts and excessive desire which unravels and provokes characters to take on all means of acquiring their common needs. “There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed” Mahatma Gandhi. “A writers magic lies in the imagery which satisfies even without interpretation. It is accepted as easily as it was created” Robert Bridges. The most powerful effect of reading is the actual mental representation of words thriving in our conscious. Glinton utilizes...
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...Toni Morrison displays “New World Woman” through Sula to readers. She is independent, unconventional and wild compared to other black women during that time in the novel. In the novel, after Sula comes back to Bottom to meet her grandmother and her grandmother wants her to get married and be settled, she says: “I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.” (92) Her declaration displays an image of an independent woman who can take care of herself and live by herself without a man. This “New World Woman” image really destroys the view of people who see black women always dependence on their husbands and need men to support their lives. Also, from the sexual life aspect of Sula, it shows the image of “New World Woman” of Sula. The quote from the novel says “She was pariah, then knew it. Knew that they despised her and believed that they framed their hatred as disgust for the easy way she lay with men”, (122) which indicates that Sula is so unconventional and wild that she does not care about her reputation and this behavior is kind immoral in other people’s view in Bottom since they think women should always obedient to their husbands. In addition, Sula leave Bottom for ten years and went to college during that time, which is not major black women would to do. Furthermore, from 1976 Interview with Toni Morrison1, Toni Morrison also mentions Sula as “a woman alone – not a woman without a man, but a woman alone, without women friends”. In the later life of Sula,...
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...The Lovely Bones: Passage Analysis #1 “The hail bent the stalks and drove all the animals into their holes. Not so deep beneath the earth were the warrens of the wild rabbits I loved, the bunnies that ate the vegetables and flowers in the neighborhood nearby and that sometimes, unwittingly, brought poison home to their dens. Then, inside the earth and so far away from the man or woman who had laced a garden with toxic bait, an entire family of rabbits would curl into themselves and die” (Sebold 22). Context of Quotation: In this quote, Susie Salmon is telling readers about how she feels her death is destroying her family. To make it simpler for readers to understand, Susie uses a metaphor, comparing herself to innocent bunnies who accidentally...
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...“The Giver” Literary Analysis In life, people find that memories are a benefit, yet it somehow contains cons. Like societies in the novel The Giver, a fiction novel wrote by Lois Lowry, it explained that memories can provide wisdom and experience for situations. This theme is expressed in many ways such as figurative language and diction. Memories are needed in society so that people can learn from their experience. Recalling to the texts, Lowry uses her figurative language to give context clues of the theme. Doing that, she uses simile and imagery to hide the theme. For instance, using simile, a group of visitors from another community broke a few rules who upsetted the fair-playing Lily. “She shook her head. ‘I don’t know. They acted like…...
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...relatable, even to an audience today. 1. Introduction “History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.” Frank Rich *Expand to formal introductory paragraph 2. Topic Sentence #1 From the earliest days of Dr. Sigmund Freud introducing us to individualized psychotherapy analysis session in the early 1900s, society has embraced the science of psychology and in 1993, Jim, Marsha and, yes, even Wanda, are all apparently benefiting from this mental health fad which in fact, continues on seemingly unchanged even today in America. * First moments Wanda mentions “woman’s group” * Unfilled prescription falls out of Wanda’s suitcase; correlate amount of antidepressants available and pharmaceutical pandering to consumers today. * Liken Wanda herself, the outside force, is the ‘therapy’ that Jim and Wanda needed; Even without having been married for 13 years, like the characters, any audience member is able to appreciate the notion of life growing stale, and they can create for themselves the desperate longing for to come along and shake things up a bit, like Wanda did. * Quote Marsha “Wanda’s visit helped to stir us up in a good way, all told.” 3. Topic Sentence #2 As any of us start out in a marriage, it's common to have some expectations of what we will experience,...
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...Kamryn Frazier Mrs. Foster 10th Honors Lit/Comp Summer Reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Ishmael Beah Chapters 1-4 Quote Selection and Theme Analysis Theme: The Horrors of War “The sound of the guns was so terrifying it confused everyone. No one was able to think clearly. In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions, pushing and trampling on whoever had fallen on the ground. No one had the time to take anything with them. Everyone just ran to save his or her life. Mothers lost their children, whose confused, sad cries coincided with the gunshots. Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives”(p. 23). This quotation...
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...Discussion 1 Zenith Taskin 211350345 In the first four chapters of his seminal book “The City in History”, Lewis Mumford demonstrates and outlines various vital issues that intertwine to explain the beginnings of the city and its various institutions, behaviors and social norms that exist within. The three key issues that are the most striking are the reason for the existence of cities aside from animal needs, the dominance of women in Neolithic culture and finally, the developing role of the Paleolithic hunter. Although Mumford dissects each of these issues in isolation, he ultimately demonstrates how they all come together to become part of the earliest of cities. Before cities came into existence, Mumford explains how “there was the hamlet and the shrine and the village: before the village, the camp, the cache, the cave and the cairn” (Lewis Mumford, 1961, 5). Mumford further observes ...
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...1 May 2015 The Value of Risk-Taking: A Cross Analysis of Krakauer’s Into the Wild When I was younger, I used to play a lot of soccer; I played midfielder. As the midfielder, I had to decide on whether to move onto defense or attack for possession of the ball when the opposing team had it. Each time I decided between the two, I was left open to the fact that my decision may have been the wrong one. Sometimes I would decide to attack in an attempt to gain possession of the ball. Sometimes I would succeed and gain possession back; Sometimes I would fail and the ball would get past me. I eventually grew out of playing soccer and moved onto other sports and hobbies. I occasionally did more dangerous things, like open-face rock climbing. When rock climbing, it always comes back to the same thing: deciding on if doing this thing is worth it or not. Is attempting to jump across worth it? Should I go back down? Or continue up? Each time you ask these things, you have to decide on what to do. Be it rock climbing, playing soccer, or doing anything that involves some sort of decision making, each decision comes with a varying level of risk. In soccer, that risk is minimal and not very life threatening, but when rock climbing (maybe without a belayer), some decisions can come with more serious consequences; these can be anything like small injuries, or they can cause serious injuries or even death. Jon Krakauer, the author of Into the Wild portrays Chris McCandless as someone who takes...
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...her family is involved with the situation her attitude becomes aggressive. Polynices who is a traitor takes his last breath fighting against Thebes. The King announces anyone to honor or bury the body of Polynices would suffer a death due to the fact that he was a traitor of Thebes. The conflict of the play involves Antigone who disobeys Creon’s authority. In the speech between Haemon and Creon an Antigone is revealed between the two that exhibits Creon’s misogyny and Haemon’s analysis of his father’s discriminating attitude toward women in general. Note the tone in the following quotation: Creon: “Oh Haemon, Never lose your sense of judgment over a woman. The warmth, the rush of pleasure, it all goes cold in your arms, I warn you…a worthless woman in your house, a misery in your bed. What wound cuts deeper than a loved one turned against you? Spit her out, like a mortal enemy- let the girl go. Let her find a husband down among the dead” (1328). Creon expresses misogyny in this quote. He consults with his son Haemon about his wife as if she’s not a person because she is a woman. He goes on about Antigone to his son as if there are many other women for him to choose from and one women being put to death should not matter. He’s belief that anyone going against his authority is their enemy. Creon discusses with Haemon about Antigone as if she is a worthless girl. Creon says, “Never lose your...
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...Directions for Essay Two Step One: Understand the Assignment Before writing the essay, read the following documents in “Resources for Writing Assignments” in the course Content: How to Write a Literary Analysis Instructions for Doing Research Rubric for Grading Essays Guidelines for Using MLA Style Example of a Works Cited Page Sample Student Essays A Word of Caution: if you do not read/ understand the documents listed above, you will not fully understand the assignment and may not make a passing grade. Many of you did not read all of these instructions for Paper One. Step Two: Understand the Requirements (see Rubric for Grading Essays) Each Essay is required to have/contain the following: 3 – 4 typed pages, not counting Works Cited page Times New Roman, 12 point font A Works Cited page, even if only a primary source is used A critical argument, a thesis, based on one of the questions provided (see questions in Step Three) Essay’s thesis is supported with quotes/examples from the primary source; remember to always introduce quotes and then explain them after you have correctly cited them. Put your quotes into context for the reader. Essay’s thesis is supported with at least one secondary source – more than one source is not required, but strongly encouraged. However, do NOT use unreliable online sources, such as Wikipedia or Sparknotes Logical organization that flows, using clear transitions between sentences and paragraphs Grammatically/mechanically...
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...When Romeo learns that he is exiled from Verona, meaning he is not able to contact Juliet easily, he becomes inundated. Acting out of sadness, Romeo grabs a dagger and offers to stab himself before the Nurse snatches it away. Friar Laurence notices Romeo's weeping and says to him, "Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art/ Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote/ The unreasonable fury of a beast/ Unseemly woman in a seeming man!" (803). Friar Laurence chides Romeo for crying about his banishment, which forces him to be distant from his love, Juliet. Also, he refers to Romeo's actions and sensitivity as "womanish." The fact that Romeo is strongly rebuked for acting sensitively suggests feminine qualities are frowned upon within the play. In the article "Romeo and Juliet, Media Repackaging West Side Story, and Bruce Springsteen," Stephen M. Buhler compares gender stereotypes within pop culture and the tragic play Romeo and Juliet. He claims that "Certainly critical views that stress the 'purity' and 'innocence' of Shakespeare's protagonists and their love participate in similarly morning processes" (85). This quote further proves how the parallelism between pop culture and Romeo and Juliet are evident. Standards of society, such as being beautiful or thin, put stress on young people. This is similar to how Romeo and Juliet are pressured into acknowledging their stereotypes in Verona, Italy. Young people are heavily influenced by the culture in which they are surrounded...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “A gap of sky” by Anna Hope “A Gap of Sky” is a short story by Anna Hope. The story is about the young girl Ellie who lives in London and attend UCL. She lives a wild life with parties and drugs and therefore she cannot concentrate on her studies. She has not got anyone to hold on to and no parents to guide her. The city distracts her with all its options and temptations. There is always new and exciting things around the corner but you must focus on the important things and not choose to follow all your impulses – life is too short for that. The main themes in the story are developing and identity. Ellie finds out that it is important to keep up on her studies and take care of her body, by staying clean of drugs. Ellie is the main character in the story. She attends University College London, but she does not take her studies very serious. The text says: “It was their fault she was doing this bloody course in the first place.” So it seems like her parents have forced her to go there. She does not care much about her education. She is very close to expulsion. “She remembers the letter, the stomach-lurching letter. If this lack of application continues we will have no choice but to reconsider your place on the course.” She most likely skips classes and papers and parties instead. In the beginning she wakes up after a party. It is Monday afternoon which means that she had been partying all Sunday night. She cannot remember last night clearly because...
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...As the Time Draws Near This analytical essay will provide an analysis and interpretation of american writer Eowyn Ivey’s short story “As the Time Draws Near” (2012). The readers are introduced to the main character, Piper, who grew up in Alaska but later moved away. The short story follows her at a time when she has returned to Alaska in order to spread her dead father’s ashes under a particular spruce tree. She has a lot of thoughts about death and she is almost obsessed with it. Death is the focal point and theme in this short story. It raises questions such as what happens when we die? And what is death really? The story tells about our short time on earth and how fear of death can stand in the way of living life fully with all the experiences the current moment offers. This essay will focus mainly on setting and the father’s outlook on life. Furthermore this essay will also include an analysis of the symbolism in the short story. At the beginning the description of the nature in Alaska is a vivid portrayal followed by a number of incidents where people have been killed in or by this nature. Piper’s father is one of these people, he “falls out of the sky.” (p. 1, l. 10) Her father with the name Red lived his life like it was an adventure. The description of the landscape appears in the same way - like a never-ending adventure. The tundra is a big and open landscape. The mountains, the glaciers and the snow continues into infinity. The same infinity that Piper’s father...
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