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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The English language is so limited in a sense that words
sometimes can't just simply describe things such as thoughts. If and only if
someone was living in David Foster Wallace's world, else the following texts; Hamlet,
Pride and Prejudice, and Montaigne's essays
would be some sort of anomaly. Through the use of rhetorical strategies,
Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Montaigne are
able to portray the innermost thoughts of themselves and their characters.
USC or UA
For
years now people have been furthering their education by going to college right
after high school. Nowadays there are hundreds of colleges each having
something very unique and/or specializing in a certain department such as
engineering, or agriculture. Take the University
of Auburn and/or the University of Southern
California for instance. Both having many similarities and differences.
Some how Auburn
always comes at first as a choice.
Catch-22 Essay
While
reading Catch-22 I found my self having feelings of
compassion towards Yossarian, a bombardier who claims he is insane to get out
of the bombing runs, but because he's insane the military thinks he is perfect
for the job, because only crazy people would do bombing runs. It is though
through symbols and a satirical tone that Joseph Heller incorporates in Catch-22 that creates a sense of compassion
among the reader.
With the help of imagery feelings of compassion conflagrate throughout the
audience/reader. A great example of a symbol that Heller uses is the soldier in
white, a man wrapped in bandages who has fluids that recycle through him
nonstop. The soldier in white symbolizes how ridiculous wars is and also shows
the allows the readers to get a little inside Heller's mind and how he views
war. Another example of symbol in Catch-22 is the death of Snowden
briefly mentioned through out the book, it isn't until the explanation of his
death that the climax is reached in Catch-22.
Canterbury Tales Essay
The
Father of English Poetry Strayed away from the epics of his time such as Beowulf, The Iliad, and Bede's A
History of the English
Church and People. Geoffrey
Chaucer introduces a new technique in The
Canterbury
Tales. He does this through the use of purpose and tone.
In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a first person point of view to
narrate the poem. This in fact causes the reader to question whether to accept
his opinions or not. This is due to
Chaucer's tone. He satirizes the stereotype of each character making the
narrator immensely naive, as he stated himself that he was naive. Although the
narrator may be unreliable, the use of a first person point of view allows the
reader
Comparison essay
J.D.
Salinger and Sent by Ravens
Holden
Caulfield is a boy who struggles with the harsh changes of the world. Causing
him to constantly point out the flaws in everybody, but himself. He will often
refer to his past, when he was happy and compare them to current events that he
is going through. In other words Holden isn't able to let go of the changes in
his life. The song, "The Best in Me," by Sent by Ravens shares the
same central theme, the painful changes of growing up.
Holden
Caulfield is desperate to be in a world with out change as he simply states "Certain things
Is Ignorance Bliss?
Prompt #4
In
the Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan states that she wishes her daughter to
be a "beautiful fool." This is because Daisy believes that
"ignorance is bliss", but some will easily impugn with the counter
phrase "knowledge is power." As a child growing up ignorance was a
blessing. And having come to age that I am, I have begun to realize that
knowledge is constantly poisoning us. Poisoning us with anguish and contempt
thoughts.
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