...Stigsell Rhetoric 102 Dr. Colleen Page 4 March 2014 Born This Way Music is an ever changing part of society. It shapes to the ideas and interests of the people and creates a face to current pop culture. The problem with music is that certain kinds do not appeal to every person. Music is personal to the listener, and what may sound good to one might sound awful to another. In the article “Lady Gaga’s New Album Is a Pop Rapture”, author Jody Rosen offers an illustrative, interesting look at the music industry and the appeal of music to an audience. When creating a critical piece of writing it is important to be aware of the intended audience. Rosen successfully utilizes an excess of rhetorical strategies in his writing. His writing catches to the intended audience, and it is clear who the audience is meant to be. Throughout Rosen’s article, it is clear that he likes Lady Gaga’s talent and songwriting abilities, and his language and rhetorical strategies help to show his point in a great way. When writing an article that reviews anything it is important to be aware of the intended audience. Not only that, it is equally important to successfully support the writing for the audience. In Jody Rosen’s article he clearly states his intended audience: Gaga fans. Rosen identifies his audience in a perfect manner, and his ability for description leaves the reader with a good image in their mind. Rosen appeals to this audience by describing Gaga as a music genius. He gets to the...
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...Either you can do it this way or that way “Learn from your own mistakes, or find a master to guide you along”. Everyone in this world is granted only one life and the decisions we make have a great impact on our lives. But the best lesson we learn is from a bad decision we make. At that crucial point in time some people decide to follow the path of learning through their own experiences; while others prefer that a guide or a teacher could help them live a smooth life. Time and experience can be excellent teachers when you actually learn a lesson from your poor decisions. Experience comes from our way of living, understanding and the adjustments we make. It also comes from suffering, agony and the ordeals we are afflicted by. As one of the famous writer puts it together: “Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.” Growth starts as soon as you recognize your mistake and the way to prevent it from happening again. Every human being is bound to make mistakes in life, this is normal; but how you learn from them is really the important factor. The only way to prevent oneself from making a mistake the second time is to learn. If you don’t, you will be making that same error again and again until you are forced to learn. I’ll give you an example of my own life. I started playing Table Tennis in 2008. Back then our school had recently bought the equipment for this game and there were only few good players of this game in the whole school. Although...
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...The four contemporary approaches to management are sociotechnical systems theory, quantitative management, organizational management, and systems theory. Sociotechnical systems theory suggest that employees are more productive when the have the right tools and training. Quantitative management is a theory the states that the organizations quality can be formulated through equations, although this approach is not relied on by most managers. Organizational management is when a manager does certain activities to promote employee work. System theory is the contemporary approach that focuses on the relationship between the public and the organization All of these are important approaches to management, although I believe the most important is systems theory. System theory is stating that an organization changes inputs into outputs, also it emphasizes on how the organization is a subsystem and system to other subsystems and systems; for example: Walmart → departments → employees. The reason I believe this is more important than the others is because it focus’ on the relationship between the consumer and organization. The reason I do not believe sociotechnical isn’t the most important is because even though the employees are well trained and have the right tools, does not necessarily mean that the employees will act right when they fall into a hard situation. I find that quantitative management could be flawed through the equations and formulas. Organization management can fail because...
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...Why Born This Way ‘I look nothing like her, nothing’. This was said by a ten-year-old Asian American boy and “her” referred his mother. This young boy’s name is Ken Liu. Now he is a famous science-fiction writer, who won both 2012 Hugo Award and 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. When he was young, he was puzzled by a words-----“chink face”. Because of his face, he had to take a lot of unfair judgments from others and mocks from his peers. Therefore, Ken hated his mother who was born in China and married with his American father through an introduction service in China (his father “had picked his mom out of a catalog”). There were also problems behind the face itself. Ken’s mother could not speak English, which made Ken do not even want to talk with her. However, after his mother tried a lot to learn how to speak English, Ken did not want to talk with her neither because his mother’s “accent and broken sentences embarrassed him”. Then for many years, he almost never talked to his mother again. Many second-generation immigrants have the same experience with Ken Liu due to their special culture background. There are so much unavoidable conflict between the second-generation immigrants and their parents. Parents and teenagers in the immigrant families have different goals and concerns in their lives in United States. Dr. Vappu Tyyskä, a Associate Professor at Ryerson UniversityFirst doing many research about intergenerational relations, named these two group of people as...
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...cooperation with the S.S. soldiers. He assisted the Nazis in eliminating thousands of Jewish men, women, and children. “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” ultimately uses the narrator to convey Borowski’s message of what really happened during the Holocaust. This also explains why the story is in first person: it reflects the author’s own experiences. Borowski’s writing is quite crude: harsh yet realistic. Readers cannot judge Borowski negatively; he was as much of a victim as the people coming off the transports. Throughout “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” Borowski portrays the internal struggle that each prisoner faces: aid the S.S. soldiers in unloading transports and sending Jewish people to their deaths, or die themselves? Neither do the prisoners have weapons nor the rations to sustain themselves. “They can’t run out of people, or we’ll starve to death in this blasted camp. All of us live on what they bring,” Henri states to the narrator (Charters 152). Keeping themselves alive is of great importance. How can they even think of revolting? The language used by the narrator is also enough to prove that in no way did Borowski condone any of the things he was forced to do: “It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity” (156). The narrator realizes that, either way, the prisoners coming off the transports were doomed, so keeping them in the dark would allow them to follow directions...
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...Themes in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen The Holocaust was a depressing time in history that caused many people grief, anguish, and fear. Many people from the Holocaust have written about their experiences and trials they faced not only in concentration camps, but in their lives living under Hitler’s rule. Prisoners in the concentration camps would often have journals hidden so others could read about their lives. Surviving several concentration camps while in his twenties the author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Tadeusz Borowski, faced difficult times. Often taking extreme measures to ensure his survival, he was able to live at the expense of others’ lives. While living among the other prisoners of the concentration camp, Birkenau, Borowski does some seemingly unthinkable things. He was one of the more privileged prisoners because of the job he kept. When new transports would come in, he would take their belongings which included food, clothing, and supplies. The people would be sent immediately to the gas chambers, and the supplies taken had to be given back to the guards for upkeep of the camps, but the men who unloaded the prisoners got to keep the food. “Canada” as it was called among the prisoners, symbolized wealth and survival because this was where all the clothing and valuables were taken to distribute to Germany (Borowski 1454). The men working to unload the cattle cars were also like Canada...
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...In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury uses symbolism throughout the story. Symbolism is shown through the carousel and the illustrations. The Carousel represents the further or closer you are to death. In the story Mr. Dark along with his partner Mr.Cooger use the carnivals carousel to make Mr.Cooger younger shown through “while Mr.Cooger, as simple as shadows, as simple as light, as simple as time got younger. And younger. And younger”(Bradbury,78). They need to make him younger so he can pose as Miss Foley’s nephew and persuade her to join the carnival. They want him to get Miss Foley to join the carnival so there army of freaks is stronger. Him using the carousel backwards takes him away from death. The carousel runs on people wanting to redo a part in their life shown through “but the carnival doesn’t care if it stinks by moonlight instead of sun, so long as it gorges on fear and pain.”(202) When people are grieving or upset about something the carnival bribes them with the carousel showing them that the carousel can make them younger or older to fulfill their...
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...In Something Wicked This Way Comes there are many allusion to the bible, literature and even mythology. The first type of allusions found in the novel are biblical allusion, we see this through “hundreds of Christians wandering through but no lions for them to be tossed to.”(Bradbury pg.190). Referring to Daniel 6:16 in the bible where they threw Daniel into a lions den to prove God would not save him. This shows Jim along with Will and Charles were anticipating bad things to happen in a seemingly good situation. Another example of an allusion to the bible would be “Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave.”(Bradbury pg. 192). Referring to Genisis 3:19 in the bible. The last biblical allusion would be “...all brass and...
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...Theology Article The following paper is a response to the article, “Why Did God Make Me This Way? Anger at God in the Context of Personal Transgressions”, written by Joshua B. Grubbs and Julie J. Exline. I will summarize the key points of the experiment and its results. Then, I will reflect on a real life example pertaining to the subject. Lastly, I will compare this experiment to the idea of determinism taught during this semester. The article determined “how anger at God may be related to the experience of personal moral transgression” (Grubbs & Exline, 2014, p. 315). I came to realize while reading the article that moral transgressions could better be defined as sin in the Christian worldview. The basic idea is that people become angry with God when their sin is believed to be a result of their unchangeable identity or an unchangeable circumstance. The first part of the experiment “specifically tested how transgressions resulting from immutable aspects of the self may be related to negative evaluations of God” (Grubbs & Exline, 2014, p. 317). The participants were given a scenario in which a being created by a deity was unable to follow moral code because of a genetic defect. The participants were then asked a series of questions about how the being must have felt...
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...Mr. Dark- The Heart of Evil The things people are tempted by never directly screams that it is truly evil. Instead, evil shows up looking friendly and pleasant. In the book,Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury shows that temptation is usually hidden by something nice by introducing a character which shows how much we don’t really see. Mr. Dark is a character who represents this type of evil, showing that we should not judge only what we see. Mr.Dark is the owner of the carnival who brings the carnival to town at three in the morning. He is described as a tall, licorice dark hair, sun yellow eyed man with clock spring hair.”Bright purple,black,green, and lightning blue eels, worms and Latin scrolls slid to view on his wrist”(74) Since...
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...Have you ever looked back at the past, and had that urge or wished to do something different? Have you ever fantasized about your childhood and desired to live innocent and stress free again? In the book Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury expresses that "Youth comes but once in a life time"-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The quote shows how precious youth is and how critical it is to enjoy it, because you can't go back. This is what Bradbury conveys throughout the novel with multiple characters such as Charles Halloway, Ms.Foley, and Mr. Crosetti. Charles Halloway is one of the main characters in the book that displays the theme. He is an aging janitor at the age of 54. His strongest desire throughout the novel is to be...
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...Sharise Baker-Bazile October 27,2015 AP English Literature & Composition Period:9 Something Wicked This Way Comes By: Ray Bradbury Reading Log #1 (Prologue- Chapter 3): Arrivals Something Wicked This Way Comes, begins in October "a rare month for boys". Halloween comes early for the boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade and it will possibly change their lives forever. A lightning rod salesman (Tom Fury) walks in Greentown, where he has a feeling that a storm is coming soon. Tom Fury sees the two boys and tries to sell them a lightning rod, however, they don’t have any money. His lightning rod is covered in weird symbols and words from different languages. Tom Fury predicts that Jim’s house will get hit by the storm and urges him to put up the lighting rod. Will convinces Jim to put up the lighting rod because he thinks that the protection of the rod is more valuable. Something Wicked This Way Comes starts off with foreshadowing. Tom Fury foreshadows an event that’s going to happen soon....
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...Section #3 In the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the tone’s to describe Mr. Dark are patronizing and sly. The tone patronizing relates to Mr. Dark because he enjoys playing with people to receive what he wants. ”How old are you? Charls Halloway pressed his lips shut. Fifty purred Mr. Dark. Fifty-one? He murmured. Fifty-two? Like to be younger?” (Bradbury page 212). Mr. Dark knows that Mr. Halloways’ deepest wish is to be younger again and he knows where the boys are hiding. So in exchange for the boys he would knock of 30 years of his life. “ Tell you what, said Mr. Dark casually waving his cigarrate . If you help me with in fifteen seconds I’ll give you your fortieh birthday. Ten seconds and you’ll celebrate thirty five. A...
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...What is one of the creepiest places on Earth? For best friends, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, this turns out to be the carnival that just came into town. The carnival is owned by the creepy, Mr. Dark and Mr. Cooger. They own a carousel that ages people, forwards and backwards, and they are also trapping people in servitude without their memories. Jim and Will know they have to stop them, with help from Will’s father. In Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Will is reserved and worried about getting involved in dangerous situations, but throughout the book, he helps contribute to the idea that age doesn’t define who a person is. While Jim is outgoing, Will is more reserved and cautious, but he always does what’s needed in the...
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...In what ways did I improve myself this year? In my opinion I believe I improved this year more than any other years. I didn’t improve as much as I wished to, but I did improve instead of staying where I was at. I focused on my missing assignments, attendance, and tardies this year. I have improved on my missing assignments this year vs how they were last year. My missing assignments this year were not the best but they improved so much. I used to get whole pages freshman year of missing assignments, the most I ever got this year was less than half a page! I did great in my opinion and I am very proud of where was this year with missing work. I doubt that almost everyone hasn’t gotten at least one missing assignment in their life, but when you go from not ever doing your work and having huge pages of missing work, I don’t think you can just go to zero right away. Now I’m going to talk about my attendance goals and achievements....
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