Handler: What Makes Me Jealousy?

Students in Ontario taking English should only study Canadian literature because we are completely swamped and overrun by

In his short essay, Why Good English Is Good for You, John Simon utilizes several rhetorical devices in order to convey the idea of the resurrection of the dying English language. In order to gain the support needed, Simon aims his essay towards the average, educated, young adult, Americans, because they are still at the age of where they can learn and cultivate their minds for the better, while also being old enough to fully understand the ramifications of becoming better educated. Through the use of rhetorical questions, similes, pathos, appeals to history and authority, repetition, and many other devices, John Simon is successful in portraying his arguments of why the proper English language must be resurrected. In order to prove his argument,

Adam Gopnik holds a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University and continued graduate work at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Gopnik is a writer for the New Yorker and in his article, “Why Teach English?” (2013), he warns of the steady declining enrolment in University English majors since the 1970’s. Gopnik points out that there is a growing consensus that the study of English is vanishing from American educational institutions in the similar way Latin did. He is not persuaded by the two popular beliefs in defence of why English majors exist: English majors make individuals better and English majors make societies better. Gopnik draws a conclusion that studying English is rewarding and not a waste of time, due to intrinsic pleasure

Professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois of Urbana-Champaign and published writer, Denis Baron proposes in his essay, “Don’t Make English Official - Ban It Instead,” to not allow the English language to be spoken in the United States of America. His idea sprung from Congress considering passing a law to make English the official language of the United States. Baron’s purpose for writing the article was to put forth his opinion about the debate on if English should become the official language. He adopts a caustic tone while giving all perspectives and examples in order to expose the absurd arguments of others to his wide range audience.

    Many people have questioned why the United States does not have a national language, and more specifically, why English is not the national language. Among these people is Dennis Baron, who publishes his thoughts on this topic very often. One of his essays, considered a proposal, is titled “Don’t Make English Official - Ban It Instead” and discusses a new way of approaching English as the national language: banning English completely in America. Baron examines other opinions and their flaws and then establishes contrasting points that are subtly sarcastic. He is immensely effective in addressing his points and argument through the use of various techniques. The author conveys his ideas not only through his words, but through

Richard E. Miller, the author of The Dark Night of the Soul, is an English professor/executive director of the Plan-genre Writing Center at Rutgers University. He studies the English curriculum in the U.S and questions if it is successful or a dying art. This is evident in The Dark night of the Soul,

Dana Giona persuades his audience on how the decline of reading in America will impact society negatively by incorporating a precise set of diction usage and including irony in his article.

Maybe we could honor modern America’s internal hostile activities acting but at the same time maintaining a watchful eye toward state. Power becomes the goal of media control, publicity, and cruelty as the state shields its control of the political. In return, this inspires the state to pinpoint a native opponent- “every state provides, therefore, some kind of formula for the declaration of an internal enemy” (46). To answer why such phenomenon takes place, Schmitt responds that “if a part of the population declares that it no longer recognizes enemies, then, depending on the circumstance, it joins their side and aids them”

English Professor Martha Nell Smith provides us with an examination of the unjustified cuts that universities have made toward the English major. It is no secret that humanities departments everywhere have been faced with monetary problems, and English has been pushed to the forefront of these budget cuts.

Welcome back my friends to the blog that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend. Read along! Read along! There in this class is some prose that’s pretty crass. Be careful as you pass. Read along! Read along! Wow! How disappointed Emerson, Lake and Palmer must be in this sophomoric attempt at humor. Certainly, a painful finale to wonderful class. Admittedly, I have struggled to produce original and interesting content for these blogs. It wasn’t always so. In the autumn of 73, I experienced no such struggle. Ideas burst forth freely and often to form exquisite prose delighting my English professors. Indeed, the fact that I now struggle was a compelling argument to register for this class.

The rise of idiot America as this article called it is and has been a very dangerous part that is just laying underneath the surface of American society this being the case with the publics way of looking at teachers as well as politicians. These thoughts and opinions of the “cult of ignorance” have led the American people to distrust and hate the people who have the knowledge on how to best teach and govern them.Instead turning to those that can show them that their problems are the same as the average everyday joe,even when this is clearly not the case with some of these people being hugely successful in large part because of the people they claim to represent being exploited to their “saviours” benefit. Because of this numbers of literate

Most short story author's focus on one theme which are developed upon as the short story progresses. The short stories The Necklace, The Yellow Wallpaper and Roman Fever, all focus on their respective themes. The Yellow Wallpaper whose author is Perkins Gilman. Focuses on the theme of self expression. How the woman who is the narrator as well as the main character in the story is stopped from expressing herself by being told she has a disease and the cure to it is silence, and no exercise.

In The Laboratory, browning has employed numerous techniques in order to show the narrators extreme anger and jealousy. This, in particular is highlighted in the first stanza through the use of plosive sounds on line 4: “poison to poison her prithee” which through the harsh phonology, shows the speakers harshness, and somewhat, cruelty towards “her”, who is only referred to cataphorically throughout. Furthermore, this is combined with the hell-like imagery when browning uses “devil’s-smithy” in order to describe the apothecary’s process of making the “lozenge”. Comparing The Laboratory with Porphyria’s Lover, we similarly see harsh phonology in the form of plosives on line 37, at which point the narrator is describing “Porphyria” as “Perfectly pure”. This is quite ironic, though, as normally we associate plosive sounds with negative imagery, as observed in The Laboratory in which Browning has selected words like “poison”.

Schools around the world teach English to their students. In Europe especially 85 percent of students learn English as their second language (Source B). Why spend time learning another’s language while they already speak your own? There is no concrete justification. English is already one of the most spoken languages around the world and it continues to grow diminishing the value of other languages. Responses to this may include that while English is very widespread the future of languages is unpredictable, English may not in fact become the ‘global language’ it aspires to be(Source F). Mandarin is a language spoken by many people, it’s reach isn’t as far but China is an emerging superpower so who’s to say Mandarin won't become the ‘global language’. But, for now we must live in the present and not be ignorant of the fact that here and now English is the one at an upward

When a person first thinks of murder, envy probably is not their second thought, but it should be their third. Statistically speaking, jealousy ranks number three in the most common motives for manslaughter. So although it may seem like a simple enough emotion, many feelings coincide. To most, it is a stressful and unwanted inner conflict that can cause or further aggravate thoughts of insecurity and inadequacy. Also, apparently, violence-inducing rage.