...was pressed to death. Gile Corey and I have many things in common such as we are experienced workers we are stubborn to a fault and sarcastic to a crowd. Both Giles and I show that we are are stubborn in different ways. Both Giles and I show that we are very stubborn when it comes to different things in our life. Giles displayed his stubbornness side when he would not give up the fight to free his beloved wife Martha from being charged with witchcraft. He did everything he could to prove his poor wife was innocent by even getting 91 people to sign a petition saying that they never saw witchcraft in her eyes. Being stubborn i hate to admit it but it’s a very big flaw of mine. For example I was with my friends and we all got in my Jeep and I was gonna take them all 4 wheeling but them guys just decided to start making fun...
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...Rhetorical Analysis of “The New Greatest Generation” In his article (2013), Joel Stein argues that millennials are the new greatest generation. Stein supports his argument by providing a sarcastic tone and structure to his article. Stein hopes to inform his readers that data doesn’t determine how great person is much less a society, what determines our greatness is how we choose to act in situations, and how you view millennials is how you view change in our society. Stein did not get the audience to buy this message because of his sarcastic tone and the way he structured his article. Joel Stein tries to appeal to the readers in his article by providing “cold, hard data” to prove millennials are lazy and entitled. Stein chose to use a sarcastic...
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...grows as well, because everyone can relate to someone in The Breakfast Club. One of these relatable characters is John Bender and he is labeled a criminal. Of all the characters, the stereotypical rebel is the one with whom I can relate to the most. Like John, I had a bad attitude and was sarcastic, but unlike him, I was a good student academically. John Bender and I both had an attitude problem. He could care less about anything, clashed with authority, and looked down on the “popular crowd.” I absolutely...
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...Albert Einstein recognized, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Richard Louv, writer of Last Child in the Woods conveys a sarcastic tone and imagery to address the idea of “why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?” He also ponders, “Why do so many Americans say they want their children to watch less TV, yet continue to expand the opportunities for them to watch it?” Louv visualizes explaining the nineteenth century to a younger generation and how they will not understand what they hear. Louv assumes, “’You did what?’ they’ll ask. ‘Yes,’ we’ll say, ‘it’s true. We actually looked out the car window.’” He is sarcastic because he is in disbelief at how oblivious adolescence is becoming. Louv finds it humorous that children are becoming so dependent on technology and are becoming so detached from nature. He mocks our future generation and their foolhardiness that is arising within them. Richard Louv reminisces his days in the back seat of a driving car, and vividly explains his experience through imagery. He remembers when he “started with a kind of reverence at the horizon, as thunderheads and dancing rain moved with” him. He also personifies the “dancing rain” to portray his full image. Louv understands technology is going to expand and become more broad; however he can understand the intellectual details of nature that he remembers and realizes that technology is distracting people from visualizing...
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...Prynne, for he sees her as a horrible role model for women. Lawrence’s sarcastic tone, relevant allusions, and short, choppy diction are effective in evaluating Hester Prynne. Lawrence’s mocking tone reinforces his beliefs that Hester Prynne should not be regarded as a standard that anybody should live by. After calling Prynne a demon, Lawrence stated, “A man must be pure, just that you can seduce him to a fall.” Lawrence’s...
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...emphasize the false, mocking praise and verbal irony of sarcasm rather than its malicious or scornful intent. However, the etymology of the word "sarcasm" clearly indicates that wounding was, at least historically, the primary point. The word comes from the late Latin sarcasmus, derived from the Greek sarkasmos "a sneer, jest, taunt, mockery" and sarkazein "to speak bitterly, sneer" literally, "to strip off the flesh" or "to bite the lips in rage.” Despite smiling outwardly, most people who receive sarcastic comments feel put down and usually think the sarcastic person is a jerk. What’s more, since actions strongly determine thoughts and feelings, when a person consistently acts sarcastically it usually only heightens his or her underlying hostility and insecurity. After all, when you come right down to it, sarcasm is a subtle form of bullying and most bullies are angry, insecure, cowards. Alternatively, when a person stops voicing negative comments, especially sarcastic and critical ones, he or she soon starts to feel happier and more self-confident. In addition, the other people in his or her life benefit even faster because they no longer have to hear the emotionally hurtful language of sarcasm. Though this particular definition has a negative connotation, sarcasm can be a positive addition to one’s everyday life. There is no doubt that there are many ways in which sarcasm can be used. For example, delightful way to deliver the message to a lazy partner or spouse...
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...overall opinion of the American politician and American politics in general. The book, America – A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction (chapter 6), is deeper in the “theoretical” aspect than the other two. But you should not be fooled by the word theoretical. The book does describe the American politics and the politicians, but it is in a very informal and sarcastic approach. The sixth chapter describes campaigns and elections and therefore also how the American politician acts. It tells basic facts about American politics but with a twist of a subjective and sarcastically opinion. As an example “Initially, the process of conducting campaigns and holding elections was conceived as a means to an end – the peaceful transfer of power.”. Later on in the same passage “Today, running for office takes as much, if not more, time, energy and resources as holding it.”. “As you can see the start was pure facts and neutral writing while the end was subjective and sarcastic. In a political aspect the size of these campaigns are unnecessary, but it ensures that the person who most want to be president gets elected. It is a sarcastic way to make fun of the politicians and their job....
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...The sarcastic references to danger were built in to warn the reader in ways that they would understand but possibly discount as humor. But we wanted to make it seem like something that was fun and something that was obviously sarcastic. The video that is embedded into the site has the same tone. This video is based on the safety video that is played for all participants. Sarcastic elements are inserted into the rules for playing and for the description for how the equipment works. For example, when we stated that players would be divided into teams of children vs. adult, skilled players are an example of our use of satire. This is something many parents ask us daily, which seems insane to us, we definitely do not do this. We protect the children that come to play, as well as every player by making everything fair. Our website also contains a blog where parents have posted comments talking about how paintball has ruined their children’s...
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...have postmodern traits. It is very common for postmodern texts to utilize an unconventional narrative form. The narrator in Sun Poisoning is a 2nd person narrator, which is rarely seen in literary work. The effect of this is that it feels as if someone is bossing you around and constantly telling you what to do and feel. This is really how the life of the protagonist works. She doesn’t have much of a say in her life, for example she would rather stay home than go to Haiti but her boyfriend decides for them both that they need to get away. Additionally, the use of the 2nd person narrator engages the reader in a way that is untraditional for literary work. In this story it adds to the ironic and sarcastic tone of the story. As an example we as readers can identify with the sarcastic thoughts of the protagonist after the conversation with the other couple: “Here you manage to interrupt the conversation by saying it’s time for the barbecue dinner and time to get on line. By dragging your boyfriend over to a table, you escape further conversation with the professional travelers” . It’s easy to picture yourself trying to get out of an uninteresting conversation, and as a reader it is very easy to grasp the sarcasm of calling the couple “the professional travelers” as they themselves do in the story. The use of sarcasm and irony is very apparent throughout the story. Already from the...
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...about what rules I wanted to break and who to break them with. I made everything sound sarcastic and changed the order of my sentences for the verbal rules. I stood really close to someone and didn’t use a lot of eye contact while speaking with another person for the nonverbal rules. I made everything sound sarcastic when I was talking to my mom. I thought that this would be the most funny rule to break with my mom because she usually takes everything so serious and can’t really tell when one is being sarcastic or not. When I got home, she asked me “how was your drive? How was traffic?” Let’s just say my three hour drive home on the weekends is usually never any fun. So I replied “oh it was just great. The traffic wasn’t that bad this time.” This is breaking the pragmatic rule, which deals with the implications or interpretations of statements. I have never really used sarcasm while talking to my mom, so I thought it would be interesting, which it was. She kind of just stared at me with a blank look on her face and replied with a somewhat confused “ok”. Eventually she asked me if I was being sarcastic so I said yes. I then proceeded to tell her that I was breaking a verbal rule, which are essentials rules we follow every day whether we realize it or not. I think it’s important to follow the pragmatic rule. Depending on who you’re talking to, they won’t be able to tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. When someone asks how your day is/was, we usually reply by saying its good....
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...Fairchild did not have any doubt when the roughly dressed man told her that Mr. Easton was taking him to the Leavenworth prison. It reveals that Miss Fairchild tended to judge people by their appearance and outfits. 3. Miss Fairchild has a fair name and face, but her heart is not that fair. When her father was ill, she did not go home to take care of her father instead of continuing her journey. B. O • Henry uses irony to make this story more dramatic and sarcastic. 1. When Mr. Easton said, “My butterfly days are over”, he hinted that he is put in prison later and not being free while Miss Fairchild thought that he's talking about social days. 2. When Mr. Easton answered, “Yes, I must go on to Leavenworth.” he did mean he must go to the Leavenworth Prison and stay there while Miss Fairchild thought that he just take prisoner to Leavenworth, as a marshal. 3. When Mr. Easton said that tobacco is the one friend of the unfortunate. It sounds a bit sarcastic because he just sought joy amidst sorrow. C. O • Henry uses dramatic irony to make a surprising but acceptable ending. 1. Mr. Easton is handsome with a bold, frank countenance, which mislead readers into thinking that he is the marshal. 2. The description of the glum-faced and roughly dressed man let readers assume that he is...
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...Her sarcastic tone mocks America and how they used a unique animal to better themselves. Price describes the flamingo to have “two major claims to boldness.”(Price) The first claim shows how greedy America was with the Flamingos and the second claim shows how the flamingos pink color exemplified how unique and special it was made out to be. Price the mocks the fact that the plastic flamingos were called “Pink Flamingos”. She does this by asking what other color they could be. “Why, after all, call the birds “pink flamingos” — as if they could be blue or green? The plastic flamingo is a hotter pink than a real flamingo, and even a real flamingo is brighter than anything else around it.”(Price) Price being sarcastic points out the fact that America tries so hard to exemplify the fact that the flamingo is pink. For an animal to be such a bright hue is unique. And America wants to be seen as unique and wealthy. Price points out the plastic pink flamingos are made even brighter than real flamingos are. And real flamingos are already brighter than anything else near it. It shows how much America wanted to...
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...materialistic wants of society and the aspirations of the bourgeois family to surpass others, she uses Americans and their obsession over the pink flamingo to support her argument. Price uses diction, irony, and symbolism to additionally express her views of the culture of the United States. The generation that had been raised in the depression began to focus their attention on how to accumulate prosperity, and they began to find new and flashy ways to show off their wealth and success. Thus, creating their mania for the pink flamingos and other materialistic possessions. Her use of a sarcastic and sardonic tone...
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...Life Styles Circumplex Profile By: November 4, 2011 Introduction: The Life Styles Inventory (LSI) assessment exercise is a self evaluation survey that measures various thinking and behavioral patterns. The LSI assessment exercise provides an opportunity to evaluate oneself against twelve (12) distinctive styles within three (3) core evaluating areas: Constructive, Passive/Defensive, and Aggressive/Defensive styles. The results from the LSI assessment pinpoints my strong and weak attributes, and provide suggestions on how to improve on my less desirable characteristics which will enable me to implement a Self Improvement plan to better equip myself effectively within my work and personal lifestyle. Position | Style | Score | Percentile | 1 | Humanistic-Encouraging | 40 | 99 | 2 | Affiliative | 40 | 99 | 3 | Approval | 23 | 90 | 4 | Conventional | 35 | 99 | 5 | Dependent | 28 | 95 | 6 | Avoidance | 23 | 99 | 7 | Oppositional | 17 | 92 | 8 | Power | 26 | 99 | 9 | Competitive | 31 | 99 | 10 | Perfectionistic | 35 | 99 | 11 | Achievement | 38 | 90 | 12 | Self-Actualizing | 34 | 80 | Part 1: Personal Thinking Styles (Primary, Backup, Limited) My LSI assessment results constructed a profile which indicated that my primary style to be Humanistic-Encouraging, my backup style to be Affiliative and my limiting style to be Oppositional. The Humanistic-Encouraging style is described as individuals who believe that they can help others...
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...Society, ethnicity, humanity. These seem to be some of the most common topics in any literature, varied from expository articles to fictions to films. While the form is being altering, the theme will always be addressed throughout the whole work in different style, either straightforwardly, such as The Sheer China or obscurely, such as Nacirema. Now, I will make comparison and contrast between the works of Fahamu Pecou and Jenny Zhang to demonstrate, how common ideas can be shared by different genres of literature. Fahamu Pecou, as an African American with a miserable childhood that his schizophrenic father murdered his mother when he was at a young age, loves to express his thoughts through imagery paintings. Being in the reality that blacks...
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