Corn-Pone Opinions Essay

The short stories, “Turned”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Good Corn”, by H.E Bates provide strong examples of how the representation of characters influence’s the reader’s perception of a text. Both stories depict similar characters: a middle-aged, childless wife, her husband and an 18-year old girl who works for them. They are both about a similar situation: man cheats on wife with girl and girl falls pregnant. However, the author’s of the text are from very different backgrounds and this is reflected in their stories. Although there are many similarities between “The Good Corn” and “Turned”, the values reflected in these stories, their resolutions and the reader’s perception of them are vastly different due to the contexts of

Humans want to be like other humans. Likeness breeds security, and with this, people will go to great lengths to conform to their peers. This concept dictates a large part of everyone’s daily lives in the society built around them, as demonstrated very clearly by Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible; a story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. In this case, because people conformed to what people around them were saying and doing--accusing people of witchcraft and executing them--twenty two lives were lost. After considering how the events of The Crucible portray conformity and the place in society conformity occupies, it becomes quite clear that conformity, while it has it virtues, can result in many societal issues that can be easily

Twain presents an example of how one year a society may wear a certain blouse and it be in style and fashion and the following year society will mock the same exact blouse and become out of fashion. Human beings yearn and desire to be accepted by society; it is in society’s nature to feel this way and it is an escapable feeling that one cannot simply make disappear. People will even go to the extent of disregarding their own personal morals just to gain society’s approval and often, “self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people”. With these actions from society, it supports Twain’s accusation of corn-pone meaning that society is unsophisticated and basically just act as a heard of sheep. Twain emphasizes that society enjoys taking values and morals of human beings and obliterating them and extrapolating them away as if their morals were the sole reason of society being damaged not the society itself. Through the use of examples and rhetoric devices within “Corn-Pone Opinions”, Twain achieves his primary argument of how humans conform to society and act as sheep following their

Pressures in the community compels everyone, even the most well-reasoned people, to be amenable and to conform to society’s standards. In The Scarlet Letter, everyone follows and complies strictly to Puritan

John F. Kennedy once said, “conformity is jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” I happen to think this quote is very true, because if no one ever had a different opinion, then would anything ever change? Or would it all stay the same? Forever? The idea of conformity can be seen as a good, or a bad thing. In many cases it is a bad thing, as one idea that is wrong is the only one that people think is right. This can specifically be seen in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus, one of the main characters, needs to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. In his town of Maycomb most of the people think of black people as nothing. Although the whole town would be against him if he did it, Atticus knows that it is the right

     Ernest Hemmingway once described a novel by Mark Twain as, “…it is the ‘one book’ from which ‘all modern American literature’ came from” (Railton). This story of fiction, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a remarkable story about a young boy growing up in a society that influences and pressures people into doing the so-called “right thing.” It is not very difficult to witness the parallels between the society Huck has grown up in and the society that influences the choices of people living today. However, what is it that gives society the power to draw guidelines to define the norms, trends, and what is morally right and wrong in life? Is it always the best choice to listen

Many Americans live and die by the saying “time is money.”. In the essays, Industrial Corn by Michael Pollan and “From the Frying Pan Into the Fire,” by Arlie Russell Hochschild the statement “time is money” is widely portrayed. They both write about how people want to be as effective and timely as possible. Both of these essays show that people demonstrate and are influenced by capitalistic ideas, especially that of efficiency in their daily lives. In Hochschild’s essay, she ventures into how capitalism influences Americans through her perspective on an Quaker Oats cereal commercial she analyzes. In Pollan’s essay, he describes how the influences of efficiency have changed the production and uses of corn throughout America. As America has transitioned to becoming increasingly

Diction- the commonly seen choice of words in writing created by many authors. Mark Twain- who is one author in particular, greatly uses “off-the-cuff” vocabulary and jargon. He allows all of his words to have a sense of denotation and connotation to significantly illustrate his many conflicted intentions. The innocent doublespeak of the text and phrase highlights the moral development of the main subject- Huck Finn, and how one is given the outlook on how he changes his actions against society. In the book, Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses seemingly emotionally sentimental, obscurely idiomatic and informal diction to encourage the purpose of satirizing the idea of southern whites believing that their intelligence is greater than that of enslaved african americans.

Thomas Jefferson’s quote, “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock,” refers to the idea that one should stand firm in their principles as opposed to changing them as styles always change. The idea that one’s principles should remain steady is an old one that now brings up connotations of honor and independence. It can also bring thoughts of unnecessary obstinacy to something even moderately modern. Staying firm in whatever principles we might have, whether they are morals, political views, or favorite TV shows, can be extremely helpful in remaining independent and forcing one to continue to use critical thinking, but it can also lead to excessive stubbornness and rejection of any change in mindset,

Conformity is a thing that most people succumb to unknowingly. A quote by Colin Wilson describes those poor souls as follows, "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain”. This quote could be interpreted as an insult of man and their cowardice, but if you look past it and think about the context of the world the quote is applying it becomes a massive discrediting of all that man stands for. The quote looks past the trivial little man and looks more so at the center of this damned society. This quote looks to denounce three major systems that perpetuate a constant stink of society breaking conformity. Those three horrendous breeding grounds of conformity are as follows, organized religion, patriarchal society, and the educational system.

Part of the absurdity of civilized society that Twain depicts is that society's accepted rules

The choice to follow these norms is not so much an exercise of freedom as it is a concealed trick into slavery. Sometimes what is perceived as good and acceptable is not what it appears to be. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes shows us the danger of mindlessly following the crowd. As the old story goes, the emperor needed new clothes and although it was apparent to the crowd that his two hired weavers hadn’t really given him invisible clothes, everyone from the emperor’s ministers to the townsfolk remained silent. It took a little child at last to exclaim the truth no one would say. This short tale was originally published in 1837 and has since been translated into hundreds of different languages. A hundred and seventy-nine years later, let us not continue to be a society of silent ministers and townsfolk pretending for the sake of

The final minutes of my school day consists of the repetition of my fingers scrolling through updated Facebook feed and Instagram’s most recent pictures while I simultaneously converse with the other students in my homeroom. Even though exercising my finger as I scroll through social media apps may be beneficial, there are better ways to utilize the 12 minute period. Throughout the school, homeroom is being used incorrectly as a social period rather than as an opportunity for students to catch up on the daily announcements and prepare for the next school, attend athletic events and club meetings, and create a one-on-one connection with their advisor.

Opinion essay is a formal piece of essay writing which presents the author’s point of view on a

What is art? Everyone knows about it, but could you say a lot about music? May be yes, may be no. Music is the best type of art. Before proving it , let’s talk about what music means. Music is an art form which medium is sound and silence. In many cultures music is an important part of people. Music contains all their history. May be for someone music is just noise of instruments, but not for me. Music reflects history, people’s fantasy, and theirs opinions about things in environment. Nowadays music has many different types. They are: Pop, Rock, Jazz, R&B, RAP, Classic, etc. Everyone chooses the