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The language that Sylvia uses give the reader sense of her personality and her attitude when she describes Miss Moore’s arrival to her neighborhood, “this lady moved on our block with nappy hair and proper speech and no makeup” (Bambara 337). Throughout the story, Sylvia expresses hatred toward Miss Moore and criticizes about how Miss Moore is educated. This tells the reader that Sylvia is not used to being around educated people and feels threatened by Miss Moore’s arrival. Therefore constantly expressing hatred towards Miss Moore by saying, “I’m really hating this nappy-head bitch and her goddam college degree” (337). As Miss Moore is determined to teach and show the children a different side of the world, Sylvia tries to distribute her negative attitude on other children by discouraging them with her rude remarks. For instance, when Rosie Giraffe showed an interest in the microscope in the show window of F. A. O. Schwartz, Sylvia made comments such as, “That there” You don’t even know what it is, stupid. Whatcha gonna do with a microscope, fool?” (340).

Sylvia finally reaches the top of the tree and captures the immense beauty of the forest. The whole forest represents her innocent nature which strengthens her connection to it. The imagery above the forest develops into the inciting incident for her change of will. She sees “The golden sun’s rays hit the green forest. Two hawks flew together in slow-moving circles far below Sylvie. Sylvie felt as if she could go flying among the clouds, too” (Jewett). This moment grows to her realizing that human attachment could not pull her away from her bond. Through her experience, she returns to the same thoughts she had before meeting the hunter. As, Atkinson further explains, “Thus, it is not

With the following second stanza the tone of the poem becomes more depressing. By saying that “there is no life higher than the grasstops or the hearts of sheep”, she creates boundaries to the vastness of life, limiting and comparing its essence to that of a plant’s and an animal’s, leaving the humans out of the poem. The depressive mood degrades the tone and atmosphere to an extent of filling it with death and fatality. If Sylvia pays “the roots of the heather too close attention”, they will “whiten her bones among them”. The combination of the words “bones” and “white” in one sentence might suggest that the roots will bring her death; since the skin of a corpse turns white due to the lack of blood, and bones are the leftovers of a dead hence both are associated with mortality. As opposed to the first stanza, the second stanza takes her to a completely different place. Grasstops, sheep, the roots of heather- all surround her, whereas in the first stanza she is completely alone in a huge desolate space. The change in her surroundings suggests her movement across the moorland, but at the same time it points out the maintenance of her demoralized emotional state and the lack of a positive change about it.

Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” details Dillard’s encounter with a weasel in the wild, and her attempts to come to terms with her feelings about said meeting. Dillard not only goes into great detail about the experience itself, but she also provides a very good background on weasels, as well as others’ experiences with the animal. Through her use of background analysis on weasels, as well as with her own experience, Dillard uses the three rhetorical appeals to argue why we humans could and should “live like weasels”.

“Hunger” is an article published in 1989 by social justice activist Maggie Helwig. In this article Helwig discusses the stereotypes behind eating disorders, and gives real life examples of the impacts an eating disorder can have on someone. She is able to incorporate many ideas that smoothly flow together to capture the audience’s attention, while also making the audience consider their thoughts and views on eating disorders. She ends the article by giving insightful information as to what it was like for her to suffer from an eating disorder, and why she chose to starve herself for eight years. Helwig uniquely incorporates logos, pathos, and ethos in her writing to completely gain the audience’s attention and influence their opinions on eating disorders.

A central theme within Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats is the idea of authenticity. It appears in the very core of the show My American Wife!, where the goal is to find “authentic,” “attractive” wives with attractive families and lifestyles so that BEEF-EX can make meat look appealing to Japanese viewers. However, many characters in the book have different views on what authenticity means, and the definitive definition is never revealed by Ozeki. In fact, My American Wife!, the authentic reality show, is one of the least realistic parts of the entire book and a reflection on the lack of authenticity in today’s reality TV shows. Although authenticity is projected as subjective, as My Year of Meats shows us, one will find nothing “real” or “genuine” about reality TV, which is negatively impacting our society.

Human trafficking,the illegal practice of trading in human beings for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, or other forms of exploitation, is a crime that affects the most vulnerable citizens of society. After drugs, it the largest criminal activity globally! The victims must be the primary concern for all law enforcement units. Human trafficking in the world can be diminished and possibly erased through teachings, government intervention, and awareness.

Being seen as conventionally attractive can lead to a specious appearance of likability and trustworthiness. Expressions such as “it is the prettiest ones that break your heart” or “it is the ones you least expect that betray you” permeate conversations and shape perceptions. It seems that appearance plays a large role in the way people are initially perceived. This may seem unfair to those not genetically gifted, but it can be used to one’s advantage. As Stephen King put it, “the trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” Similarly in “Lamb to the Slaughter”, Roald Dahl asserts that the apparently innocent are often underestimated. Dahl expresses this through his portrayal of stony calmness with which Mary Maloney kills her husband and through the irony in her ingenuity covering it up.

In her essay “Throwing Like a Girl,” Iris Marion Young examines why women move differently than do men. She discusses the apparent observable differences in bodily comportment, physical engagement with things, ways of using the body in performing tasks, and bodily self-image of feminine existence. Young makes the argument that the differences between men and women are not caused by a mysterious “essence” or by any biological or anatomical limitation, but, rather, we are socialized into “being” in our bodily space by the situation surrounding our existence.

Characterization is an important component in short story writing. In the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" written by Roald Dahl, we are introduced to Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife who recently found out that her husband is going to leave her. Mary develops into a very complex character as the events of the short story unfold. Mary is a typical housewife, waiting on her husband hand and foot. She loves him dearly, but as the short story unfolds, we see that he does not share the same feelings. Mary, unable to handle the rejection, lashes out and kills her husband. We then see Mary’s character transform before our eyes and the once loving, dutiful housewife becomes a very devious, manipulative and cold hearted character. She manages

She was quite frightened when she first heard the hunter whistling; she interprets it as “not a bird’s whistle which would have a sort of friendliness, but boy’s whistle, determined and somewhat aggressive.” (Jewett 5) Sylvia’s reaction after she heard the whistling signifies her fear of the human kind and the hunter who made the whistle represents a part of Sylvia’s home town which was somewhat too crowded for her. Considering the fact that Sylvia is afraid of the human kind and does not feel comfortable in her home town, she feels at home in the forest and as one with the natural world. But her relationship with nature came to a point where she had to undergo a ritual test to prove her worthiness and courage; “her test takes the form of a literal climb to a higher place, from where she can see the world.” (363) The process of the test consist of a climb to the top of an old pine tree, in the forest, which she believes that one can see the ocean once at the top. She thought, perhaps, she can locate the heron’s nest if she climbs to the top of it. She had difficulty climbing the tree but she had managed with determination and bravery to reach the top. “Sylvia’s courage summons a response from the tree, a deep and intimate bond of trust in which nature rises to the needs of the girl without her asking.” (Atkinson 376) At the top of the pine tree Sylvia had seen the world and she feels like she belongs in it; as

The classic Australian prison drama series should be pinning its fifth season right now. However, Wentworth season 5 is not moving along as planned. Around this time, the shooting of the film should already be starting. But it seems that the studio and the network are standing still.

Claudia Rankine 's piece (and the book overall; Zack had us reading it for Hybrid Poetics) delves into the personal restrictions of identity in terms of race, sex, and instances of fame (there 's a theme pertaining to Serena Williams that is very interesting). In this section, she practices a lot of ambiguous language and

The historical accounts by Stephen Coontz are something of importance that has brought us to where we are today. He mentioned how recognition of marriage was left to the church (Coontz, 2007). Based on additional rulings by our own Supreme Court such recognition is no longer viable based on separation or church and state cases. Additionally, because of the financial gain our government receives based on taxation of couples, I cannot for see them going back to the 16th Century standard as you had mentioned. The most interesting thing to me is that such a definition of marriage is within the power of the states to decide, not the federal government.

Rita Doves poem "Chocolate" has many different kind of literary elements in it. It is an