...A shirtless young man stares out past the camera as if he is looking at the logo above his head. He needlessly clings to the rock to further accentuate his impressive body structure. The logo above his head reads “DOLCE & GABBANA” in a bold semi-transparent font. A small bottle of something is juxtaposed to his left. It is the item they are trying to sell, a sports cologne. This advertisement is very effective because of the use of ethos and pathos. Although those two parts are heavily used in this ad, logos is not present as much. Even with that being said many people are going to buy this particular cologne based on ethos and pathos. This is true because Dolce and Gabbana is a very well-known company, which plays a huge part in ethos with credibility and authority. Pathos is also used heavily with people wanting to look like that or women wanting their men to look like that; this makes the reader believe that if they wear this cologne women will be more attracted to them, and that they, too, can look as good as the model in the ad. This advertisement was featured in Muscle & Fitness magazine. This particular magazine is aimed towards classy young to middle-aged men who are professionals. This can be seen through the contents in the magazine. The magazine has lots of ads that are of watches, cologne, and nice cars. With that being said we do not believe that this magazine is geared toward younger teenage men because of what ads, pictures and articles in the magazine...
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...Irony of Childish Behaviors in “The Man Who Was Almost A Man” In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost A Man”, there are a constant examples of irony that is opposite of its literal meaning in the story. This irony, in which Dave expresses his needs to be acknowledged as a adult, but he does a lot of immature acts. In “A Man Who Was Almost A Man”, Dave acts of manhood worked against him. He goes about trying to get respect in the wrong ways. He wants a gun for respect, he wants to be a real man but his mother keeps his money, and he runs away from his debts, which is something a real man would never do. Wright’s purpose for writing is to not only show how immature Dave is but to show that becoming a man is a lengthy process and t help someone else avoid those same childish acts. The transition from manhood to adulthood is quiet and force to be reckoned with but Dave shows that his childish mind has a lot to accomplish. A gun is merely a piece of metal tube in which bullets are propelled out of and a noise is given off. Dave wants a gun or metal tube for all of the wrong reasons. He believes that if he had a gun or brought a gun his co-workers would no longer treat him like an boy, in which he really is. Dave is only a young man who is trying to find his identity in his little hometown in the South. Every male wants to have power, to be masculine, and respected but if you still have a child mindset, there is no way possible that a person well ever take u serious...
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...Being a man by Paul Theroux Paul Theroux is an American writer and novelist. He has wrote many stories and essays. One essay he is famous for is called “Being a Man”. In “Being a Man” he talks about his point of view of his life from when he was a little boy to being a man, and also he talks about his insecurity of being a man. In the essay he says: “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This quote is true because this is what is stereotyped everyday. Theroux tells us that America's view of "Being a Man" means to be stupid, obedient, and soldierly. This idea goes against everything that Theroux is. Theroux has many examples that back up his belief ."In paragraph nine he says “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This means that writing is not a manly behavior. Theroux believed the idea which is why he hates being a man.Theroux goes into detail about how sports harms little boys and how it make boys every violent."Just as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser, the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts I regard high school sports as a drug far worse then marijuana.." I have witnessed two experience similar to Theroux. One was when I was in the 3rd grade. My teacher had gave the class an assignment to do. We either had to write a peom nature...
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...The Sense of Power, Independence, and Freedom “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” was written by Richard Wright, during the 1960’s. “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” is a short story centering on a young man who believes that he earns the privilege to be treated as an adult. The main character Dave badly wants to reach the manhood stage and show everyone that he is independent and responsible. In this story, everyone sees Dave as a child whom is immature and irresponsible. For instance, Dave has to ask his mom for his money so he can purchase the gun that he wants. Dave’s mom keeps every cent that he earns on his own from working in Mr. Hawkins fields. Also Dave feels that the other men in the fields does not show him the respect that he wants. In “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” Richard Wright uses symbolism to show the innate desire for freedom within human beings. In the story, the first symbolic reference is the gun. The concept of Dave owning a gun becomes his way out of childhood and into adulthood. Dave believes that the gun will suddenly make him become powerful and manly. He knew that “if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have to respect him.” In this story, Wright uses three stages of gun...
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...27 July 2012 Bronies: Changing What Makes A Man, A Man. A new sub-culture, called Bronies, follow a recreation of the little girl's show, My Little Pony, is helping change what defines what's girly and what's manly. They take a firm stand in honestly enjoying something originally seen as exclusively for underage girls. They claim there should be nothing wrong for adult men to like shows that have culturally been reserved for females. These individuals are generally shunned by the majority, similar like feminine men or as they are now called, metrosexuals, once were. Because of Bronies are changing the definitions and stereotypes which defines our genders, people are scared by the changes this show and its followers might bring. To understand Bronies, we must first take a look at the show they follow. According to MyLittleWiki.org My Little Pony started in 1981 as toys for little girls. In 1983 the first cartoon was produced called "My Little Pony 'n Friends" which aired on prime time television. (Wikipedia) Over the previous three generations, the shows were plagued by gender stereotypes, patchwork plot, and corny themes that plagued early American cartoons of the 1970's through 1990's. The lack of character depth meant the audience knew all the main characters personalities after just one episode. My Little Pony or MLP, was strictly geared towards females and it promoted a stereotype gender role for young women. Then the fourth generation of MLP appeared on The Hub cable...
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...In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” tells the tale of a young boy, seventeen year old Dave Saunders, struggling to prove his manhood, buys a gun. Evidently, to Dave the gun will make him a man because it represents power and masculinity “And if he were holding his gun in his hand, nobody could run over him; they would have to respect him.” (p.6) Also, his reasoning for associating the gun with power and violence stems from his father. Dave looks at his father as a man, but his father resorts to violence and fear to resolve things. In fact, when Dave gets in trouble at work his father threatens to beat him “ N Pa says he’s gonna beat me...He remembered other beatings, and his back quivered.” (p.11) At the same time, however,...
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...The narrator in “The Seventh Man”, had not done anything wrong when he failed to save K. I don’t feel as if it is anyone’s fault when it comes down to trying your hardest and not being successful sometimes it takes a lot to get it right. In this case I feel it wasn’t his fault due to the fact he had no control over the situation. One of my reasonings behind this is the young man was only 10 years old when this tragedy had occurred. The young boys were very close in age, K was just a grade lower than the narrator. K was like a brother that the young man had never had due to the fact his actual brother was 6 years older than the 10 year old boy. “I did have a brother, six years older, but what with the age difference and differences in our...
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..."The Man who loved Flowers" The title of the text is “The Man who loved flowers”. Reading this title made me at once pay more attention to the flowers that have an symbolic meaning. My interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the flowers’ colours is that they represent the girl in the lane, the young man and the relationship between them. The white rose represent the girl, it stands for innocence and ignorance, just like the girl that hasn’t done anything wrong and is unknowing about the man’s intentions. The yellow rose represents the young man. Yellow colour is often connected with lies and falseness as the man tricks the reader and the girl into believing that he is an ordinary man. The last colour is red, it stands for love and is the colour of blood, and love is what connects Nora and the young man. The young man is well dressed (s. 175 l. 11-12) ”he had that look about him. He was dressed in a light grey shit, the narrow tie pulled down a little”. He has got an ordinary face (s.175 l.13-14) “not an extraordinary face, but on this soft spring evening...” . The people that look at him see him as an symbol of spring and young love. You can see that in the way they describe him when he walks by the old lady at the end of the story. This is also what the reader sees him as until the man steps into the lane. Stephen King makes us believe that this is a love story, all the people the man walks by looks at him and think that he is in love, an example is (175 l. 8-10)...
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...The Man Who Was Thursday The story of The Man Who Was Thursday, It is a very symbolic Story. The writer G.K. Chesterton takes you inside a mysterious anarchist group. One of the more symbolic characters of the story is Sunday. Sunday is a very intricate character and Chesterton decodes Sunday in a very spiritual way. He is portrayed in a very interesting way. Chesterton suggests ideas of that of which Sunday represents. In the book The Man Who Was Thursday, takes place in London, in the early 1900's. It stars the main character Syme. Syme is a poet who was recruited to a secret police force. The police force that he is recruited into is looking to stop an anarchy group. He gets into the organization and becomes a top member of the group. He is sworn to not tell the police about the group by a fellow poet named Gregory. The top member Sunday has organized this anarchy group and has named the top members of the group after the days of the week. Thursday or Syme, learns that the other days of the week members are also undercover police officers. By the time he figures this out, the whole town has turned on them as anarchists. Even through everything Thursday never breaks his word and tells the police of the group. In the end he is rewarded for keeping his word and staying true., but who is Sunday? Sunday, portrayed by Chesterton in once sentence can be described as a larger than life man. Not only large in the physical sense but in a spiritual sense. In the book Chesterton...
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...The man who loved flowers When you meet a normal person at a normal event, you talk to them and everything they say seems normal. They laugh at your jokes, they comment on the weather, they complain about politicians and how they should lower the taxes, as I said a normal person. But after they have left the event is everything about them still normal? This is a story about a young guy from New York who to everyone seems normal guy who has found the love of his life, but actually is a grieving killer who kills woman when they tell him that they are not his soul mate Norma who died 10 years ago. This is Steven King’s “The man who loved flowers”. The story takes place in New York of May 1963, and the setting is very happy. The opening sequence tells us how everybody seemed to be smiling, the air was soft and beautiful, and that this was one of those nights where people who love the city would love this night. To add to the setting the main character is also very happy and very much in love. Because of the happy setting, you feel safe when you read it and you think of the main character as the “good guy”. His happy outer has en effect on the setting for example he makes the old woman at l. 13-17 p. 1, where because of the positive vibes he expresses makes her think of dancing and how spring is beautiful and so on. She begins to have happy thoughts. Even on l. 6 – 13 p. 2, when the radio is talking about how a lot of awful things are happening in the world it doesn’t change...
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...The Man Who Loved Flowers The Man who loved flowers is short story about a young handsome man, who wants to surprise a girl named Norma by giving her some flowers. The story takes place in New York on a beautiful day in May 1963 where everything seems lovely, but it turns out that the young handsome man ends up killing a random girl, who he thinks is Norma, in a narrow lane in New York’s streets. The main character in The Man Who Loved Flowers is described as a handsome young in love. In the beginning of the story he seems like a guy whose life runs perfectly, he is suited up, he is in love and he just seems like a stand up guy “He was dressed in alight grey suit, the narrow tie pulled down a little, his top collar button undone. His hair was dark and cut short”. There is nothing suspicious about him. Stephen King tricks the reader into thinking that it is a perfect evening; maybe the young guy is going to propose to this Norma? “He reached into his coat pocket and touched something in there. For a moment his ace seemed puzzled, lonely, almost haunted, an then, as his hand left the pocket, it regained its former expression of eager expectation.” But when the young man finally meets this girl, who turns out not to be Norma, we find out that Norma has been dead for ten years. I believe that the young man ones has had a lover named Norma, who he thought was the only one but she died and he was forced to live on with that, but couldn’t accept it. Therefore he is now walking...
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...“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: Shaping Identity By April 16 2012 Powell Texts and Contexts 16 April 2012 “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”: Shaping Identity The first scene of James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” presents the protagonist, as a child then as a young man. This scene condenses the journey by foreshadowing the challenges the protagonist will experience leading to him becoming the artist he was meant to be: we are introduced to three major forces that shape his identity and thoughts; Irish Nationalism, Catholic Identity, and sensitivity. James Joyce’s choice of Dublin, Ireland at the end of the 19th century as the setting is critical for this novel. Ireland was experiencing oppression and reform from their conquerors, the British. The political dimension of this time period is introduced using the implications of song. The music is used to represent the struggle for Irish independence which is a consistent theme throughout the novel. The song begins with “O, the wild rose blossoms”; when a plant is wild it is often growing rampant implying that it is an unwelcome weed in an environment that is not its own. Suffocating all other life “on the little green place” which is Ireland. The song ends with Stephen pondering “O, the green wothe botheth”; if the rose were green instead of red implying Irish independence however, still saying the rose is still a rose regardless of the color. This could mean that even if the Irish...
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...A man from Manchester, born without a penis claims he has sex with more than 100 women while keeping the secret from most of them. On the TLC channel called the 'Man with no Penis', Andrew Wardle is the subject of an hour-long documentary. He, 40-year-old, was born with a rare condition called bladder exstrophy which caused his bladder to grow outside his body. Although, doctors treated him but Wardle never developed a penis. In the show, he confesses his problem to unsuspecting ex-lovers and even his current girlfriend, 24-year-old Fedra Fabian from Hungary. In the documentary, Mr Wardle explains how he kept the secret from his partners, He said, he became an expert lover in other departments to cover up his lack of genitals. He said...
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...The signal man The Story “The Signal-Man” describes an eerie encounter between two men, the anonymous narrator of the story and a railway signalman. The signalman confides to the narrator that he has seen some disturbing sights that he believes are ghostly apparitions. The story reflects the narrator's initial skepticism, which turns to horrified belief at the conclusion. The story opens as the narrator is taking a walk in the country. He sees a signalman by the train track at the bottom of a steep cutting. He calls to the signalman, makes his way down a zigzag path to the track, and converses with him. The signalman is strangely fearful of the man, revealing that the man's greeting reminded him of a disturbing supernatural apparition he has seen—and heard—at the mouth of a nearby tunnel. The narrator wonders briefly if the signalman himself is a spirit because of his strange manner. The signalman invites the narrator to return and meet him at his signal box on the following night. At that time, the signalman tells his visitor more about the apparition. It took the form of a man who appeared in front of the tunnel waving desperately and crying, “Look out! Look out!” The signalman telegraphed warnings to other stations along the line but to no avail. Six hours later, a terrible train accident occurred. On another day, the figure reappeared and assumed an attitude of extreme grief. A few hours later, a woman died on one of the trains going by the signalman's post. The signalman...
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...The Elephant Man Name English 225 Introduction To Film Instructor: Name Date The film “The Elephant Man” is an iconic and powerful humanistic filmmaking endeavor. Director David Lynch forces the horrors and sadness of deformity onto the audience in a way that leaves the viewer tear choked with sadness and sympathy. Most people who watch the film are touched in a way that alters their view of the crippled, weak, and deformed persons of the world. The creation of the film begins with Joseph Merrick’s incredible story being written into a play by Bernard Pomerance in 1979. This play is still performed from time to time. Lynch’s film version was released the following year, but was not derived from the play but did give Lynch his inspiration. Lynch based his film version of Merrick’s life on various biographical sources most of which were Merrick’s own words in his memoirs. The script, written by Lynch, contains information based upon Merrick’s memoirs and biography, as well as from Frederick Treves’ personal accounts. As far as historical accuracy is concerned, certain details have been altered to make the story suitable for film. For example, Merrick is referred to incorrectly as “John“. This inaccuracy is however, a perpetuation of the error that was made in history according to Frederick Treves’ account of the story. Lynch in an effort to maintain realism botches the name purposely but fails to make this understandable to the viewer. This is however not an error...
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