Commentary On The Book 'Oh Yeah, Audrey !' By Shaw

Emma Burke and Laurence Yep have different purposes writing their pieces. Emma Burke gives people a clear understanding of how it felt when the earthquake hit San Francisco. Her point of view does not express her feelings or emotions. On the other hand, Laurence Yep wants his readers to enjoy his book. He can control his characters lives with his pencil. Although they may seem different both Moon Shadow and Emma Burke share similar experiences in the

We all know what horses are, and how they are used for many different uses. Some are used to work on farms, some are bred to drag carriages, and some are race horses. In the passage The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, and Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell, they both use first-person view in different ways. Jane Smiley’s passage is in the point of view of a little girl, and Anna Sewell’s passage is in the horses perspective. Both of the passages use first person view to better describe the characters, but they use it in some different ways too.

She throws rocks at their window and she buys bus tickets to return home. Lena loves Greece and she finds a very secretive place to go skinny dipping but Kostos accidentally sees her. Lena assumes that Kostos was spying on her and she tells what had happened to her grandparents. This leads up to a huge fight between her grandparents and the grandparents of Kostos. Back in Bethesda, Tibby and Bailey start to become friends as they film a 'suckumentary' about their summer. Although it is a fun way to spend time, it is also emotional because of Bailey's illness. Bridget doesn't give up on flirting with Eric and she doesn't mind the age

In 1847 Eliza Stacey writes a letter to her father in law, Edward Stacey, to persuade him to help the family get out of this debt they have unexpectedly fallen into. Through her letter Eliza Stacey uses pathos to display the suffering the debt has brought her and ethos to establish a reason to ask for his help. She also uses personification and anecdotes to make Edward recall the series of events in the past that have led to debt hoping that Edward will feel sympathy and recognize Eliza’s helpless feeling and cry for help.

Freedom of thinking, a different way of seeing things can be hard for some. In George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, the Inquisitor gives a powerful speech, which demonizes Joan and her heresy. The Inquisitor uses his speech to persuade the church of Joan of the arc’s heresy. In his entreaty, he uses many rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. He even uses similes and analogies to make his case. The Inquisitor keeps an intense and serious tone throughout the speech, while the situation being a grave one. He makes the plea a dying matter as if Joan killed someone.

In her book Sula, Toni Morrison portrays the ambiguous nature of the connection between guilt, good, and evil, and shows that they are relative and not mutually exclusive.

Emma Amos seems like your typical woman with the household duties she upholds. Amos grew up in Atlanta, where she was surrounded by middle class African Americans. As a mother, she focused on sewing, weaving, and quilting. Her artwork displays the issues she struggled with as being a black artist. The artwork “Sandy and her Husband” portray Emma Amos tuck in the painting overlooking a man and a woman embracing each other’s body in a living room. Amos’s artwork wanted people to see a story being shared. Even though she was a black female artist, her paintings expressed the concerns of politics, gender, race, and cultural history.

Queen, by Audrey Flack is a very captivating piece of artwork. It was painted in 1976, originally Audrey Flack took a picture and then used it as the basis for this painting. Queen is a painting of box that is full of special mementos. It has features such as a quarter of an open orange, a rose, a pocket watch, a queen playing card, a locket of an older and a younger woman, lip balm, perfume, a chess piece, blush, and a chain necklace with the letter “F” on it. The painting almost looks like a vanity drawer or a keepsake drawer. However, realizing the fruits and flower in the painting I understood it to be a collection of the artist's memories as opposed to a drawer. Audrey Flack was demonstrating the many things that were significant to her while aging. Queen signifies the fight against time. It shows that no matter what possessions you retain it will not keep you young. No one can win the battle against time.

Fay Weldon’s ‘Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen’ (1984) through the form of an epistolic novel, serves to enrich a heightened understanding of the contemporary issues of Jane Austen’s cultural context. In doing so, the responder is inspired to adopt a more holistic appreciation of the roles of women inherent in Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (1813). Due to the examination of the shift of attitudes and values between the Regency era and the 1980s, the reader comes to better understanding of the conventions of marriage for a women and the role education had in increasing one’s marriage prospects. Weldon’s critical discussion of these issues transforms a modern responder’s understanding of the role of a woman during the 19th century.

Then Frankie goes to a bar and an army man tries to kiss Frankie but she won't let him. Although the book, talks about how Frankie decides to go with Janis and Jarvis and she ends up buying a dress but Bernice thinks that it does not look good on her.

He often watches Betsy from his cab, and finally enters the office and asks her out. They meet for coffee, and Betsy finds him odd but intriguing, and agrees to see him again. He takes her to a porn theater he frequents. She is revolted by this and refuses to see him again. After Betsy rejection, Bickle realizes or found out that she is just like the others.

Eliza Stacey attempts to persuade her father-in-law to help her family once again. Her husband, George, has been arrested for an unpaid debt. Stacey’s family does not have enough money to pay this debt off. To make the situation even more complicated, Stacey has had to ask her father-in-law for help in the past. However, the author is able to make a compelling case. In order to accomplish this, she uses many rhetorical strategies such as the three appeals and repetition.

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the better writers of this decade; she has created masterpieces with her stories as well as her work overall throughout the years. In one of her short stories, Valentine, she creates a series of subtle hints to fairytales. Oates is known for alluding to different and all kinds of hints in her stories, but her subliminal references to fairytales have been one I have seen the most. Throughout the short story Valentine, Oates makes many nonchalant allusions to fairytales. Oates knows how to slip them right by you, if you didn’t know any better, you wouldn’t even notice where they are instilled inside the stories themselves.

Gossip Girl is a tv show about a group of four rich, snobby Upper East side teenagers and how a nobody from Brooklyn gets involved with them. Chuck Bass, whose father, Bart, is the owner of the New York Palace hotel and a self-made millionaire, is the manipulative, “bad boy” of the group. Nate Archibald, also the son of a successful businessman, is considered the “golden boy” and best friends with Chuck. Blaire Waldorf is the “Queen Bee” of the Upper East side and is best friends with Serena van der Woodsen, who is the “it girl” that everyone wants to be. These four characters are socialites and can’t hide anything from the relentless blogger whose identity is unknown until the series finale. Dan and Jenny Humphry, from a middle-class family in Brooklyn, are forced to fight for what they want and obtain their goals through hard work and dedication, unlike the rest of the privileged characters. Whenever something scandalous happens, a mass text message is sent out to all Upper-East siders that always ends as “You know you love me, XOXO Gossip Girl.” It is found out in the last episode of the series that Gossip Girl has been Dan the whole time, and he used this blog to work his way into the Upper East side to eventually win Serena’s love.

In the exposition Gemma tucker found herself in a bit of a pickle. Her mom and her boyfriend were going off to Scotland for the summer. Gemma’s boyfriend had recently broke up with her and canceled the plans they had together, therefore her only other option was to stay with her dad in her least favorite place. the Hamptons, when Gemma was younger her parents had split because of this family they had met. Gemma's dad and her new best friend Hallie's mom at the time had been seeing each other. Gemma didn't like where things were heading because she did want her parents to divorce. she thought if she could ruin Hallie's life, Hallie wouldn't want their parents together either. After that summer Hallie and Gemma would never be friends again.