Emma Burke And Laurence Yep: A Comparative Analysis

In Susan Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It, life for Miranda and her family comes to a screeching halt after a meteor collides with the moon, triggering calamitous natural disasters. After the initial tragedy, humanity is left with unanswered questions, to which no one seems to have answers for. As a result, Miranda must forget about her normal, mundane life and focus on the hardship ahead of her and her family. With her world collapsing around her, she is left with choices and responsibilities that affect her loved ones as much as herself. Through literary devices, Pfeffer emphasizes the emotional struggles and physical battles Miranda must surmount before and after the misfortunate collision.

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.

Clueless is a 1995 film loosely based on the famous Jane Austen’s 1816 novel Emma. Set in Beverly Hills, Cher who is almost 16 is the most popular girl in school as well as rich and pretty. Her father is a lawyer and her mother died from a liposuction surgery when she was a baby. Cher plays matchmaker throughout the film and begins with two nerdy teachers. This starts by her just trying to boost her grades, but she then sees how much happiness she is bring people so she decides to adopt the new girl, Tai, and give her a makeover. She tries to get Tai and Elton who is the most popular guy in school together but that backfires when Elton tries to make moves with Cher.

There is no doubt in the fact that Mrs Elliot felt the need to present such a spirited speech to inform us that technology such as "modification of genome" are revolutionizing the traditional way of having an offspring as nature intended . The clever use of overstatements such as "generating outrage in the world" achieve the attention of spectators and arouse strong extreme emotional response, positioning the audience to visualise what it would be like to have a World War III due to some engineering of babies. The use of multiple rhetorical questions such as: "would you want a child to suffer a debilitating illness, or, selfishly endure yourself the pain and responsibility?", provokes feelings and position listeners to react emotionally, before

With no real audience aside from the general public, Liz Osborn addresses a very serious topic that she has strong feelings on and it is evident throughout her article. Her agenda is stated in the title and is strong and easy to understand from the very beginning. There is no mistake about what she is trying to argue and make others understand and that is that she believes that homelessness should not be a controversial issue and that it should be regarded as a human rights issue. It should be something everyone takes seriously and Osborn believes this fiercely.

Dr.Demosthenes, we met at an airport not too long ago and we discussed the Rhetoric of American Identity course I am currently taking. Unfortunately, we never finished our discussion because of bad Kairos but I’d like to get more in depth with you about what I’m learning. I’m going to further explain to you what I’ve learned so far from my course by choosing an article I’ve read to illustrate concepts of rhetoric identity and identify a major argument. The article I’ve chosen to analyze arguments with is “What makes a woman?” which I’ll leave in my works cited page if you do ever get the chance to read it.

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is the author’s first-hand account of her kidnapping at the hands of Native Americans. The story reflects American and Puritan ideals one might expect to read about in a work from this period, but, in unexpected ways, Rowlandson’s narrative is also an anomaly. Throughout the text, Rowlandson seems pulled between what she wants to say and what she cannot say because of social or emotional constraints. These instances of vacillation can be frustrating for readers, who often find her emotional detachment and piety off-putting. When reading Narrative, it is important to keep in mind Rowlandson’s roles as both a woman and a writer in Puritan society, her emotional health as a survivor of traumatic experiences, and the influence of war and colonial prejudices against American Indians. In interpreting Rowlandson’s

The climax is when Clay eventually gets to his tape, because you are so curious and excited to find out what he did to Hannah.

Living in America during the 18th and 19th century with different colored skin, different religious and cultural views, and being a different gender has proven to be a difficult task being the minority and having to share the country with all white men. Native Americans, African Americans, and Women all had their struggles, their ups and downs, their joy of overcoming and their sadness, but in the end they fought hard for equality and for better treatment. In order to succeed, they must carry on a difficult path full of bumps and hostility before finding better days.

So when Susan Pfeffer wrote about what happens if the moon got closer; the people of Pennsylvania realize that they would be screwed. With Miranda at age sixteen had to go through this experience with her middle school brother Jonny, collage age brother Matt, her mother, and her dad who lived with his new pregnant wife in a different town. From food struggles, survival, to the life of a teenage, Pfeffer gave us a great young adult survival story. From teenage drama of boys and idolizing stars, to relationships from her closeness to Matt, to her protection over Jonny. Pfeffer never explains why Miranda who called her brother Jonny, switched over to Jon halfway through the book. As her mother still calls him Jonny, it is left to believe that Pfeffer made Miranda see her little brother, as a man, thus growing out of his little brother name Jonny, to Jon, if all goes downhill would be the only one that survives from their family. to Miranda outburst of hate towards her mother for picking Jonny over her, Miranda soon realizes her mother was not picking Jonny as a favorite to eat, but as a favorite to survive. With starvation holding hands with death, Miranda grows into a stellar young women, who kept this diary going over this historical period as the moon moves closer to the earth, letting loss hell on

First performed in 1995, Margaret Edson’s play, W;t (Wit) journeys into the mind of Doctor Vivian Bearing, a scholar of Donne’s Holy Sonnets and terminally ill cancer patient. In her final two hours of life, Bearing reflects upon her attempts to reconcile the disease and her impending death along with her life as a professor (Edson). Edson’s literature introduces us to the abstract concept of pain. While enlightening, words alone cannot sufficiently communicate the transcendental idea. Fortunately for us, Wit was adapted into a movie several years after its debut. This format enables us to visually conceive the physical manifestation of pain, allowing us to create a stronger connection to the work as a whole. It is essential to note that

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.

Additionally, the Wife of Bath was not submissive. Even though her husbands were “the head(s) of the household,” Alison managed gain some control in their relationship. “A husband I will have, I will not desist, who shall be both my debtor and my slave. (Pg. 291)” Essentially, if the Wife of Bath wanted her husband to be productive or helpful, she would withhold sex. “Until he had paid his ransom to me; then I would allow him to do his foolishness. (Pg. 307)” When the lack of sex wasn’t enough, Alison would nag them into compliance. However, she didn’t use the same tactics with Jenkins, because they were actually in love—“Whom I took for love and not for money. (Pg. 315)”

Published in 1869, A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by judiciary focus (the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885), to be conflictive with Housman’s own internal conflicts concerning the homoerotic tendencies which he discovered in his admiration of fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Housman, much unlike other English literary figures such as Oscar Wilde and Thomas hardy, was not an artist who found it necessary to directly confront Britain with any political dissention imposed by is works. Instead, "for Housman the discovery of self was

This quote by Aristotle is shown to be true as art is known as a language in images, and is a way artist can communicate ideas and express conceptions, about self, culture, community and mostly social definition. This is true as it shows that the internal mannerism and detail in art, is their reality and shows what is most important and significance in the artwork rather than the outward appearance of the artwork itself. Tracey Moffatt and Shirin Neshat are two artists who link back to Aristotle quote and not only that but through their artworks represent images and concepts which relate strongly back to the aspect of social definition. Moffatt’s artworks strongly link back to the social issue of child abuse as it follows the concepts of parents having a negative