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Punch It Up For a few short months, beaches beacon us and barbecues whet our appetites for all the seasonal fare that epitomizes summertime. Along with the tantalizing food, icy cold beverages are the order of the day to quench nagging thirsts; and there's no more succulent way to allay a thirst than with the sweet fruits of summer blended into a punch. Today punch remains is a common summertime beverage,but its origins date back centuries ago when the mixture was consumed as a substitute for the

trunk of his original African self, used and abandoned in the American Wilderness with the stipulation that he rot and disappear” (78). The olfactory and gustatory imagery of the meat and sweet also stir up unpleasant memories of putrid smells and rancid tastes and together express the emotional degradation that arises when one is denied their basic rights. However, the deeper meaning behind these various types of imagery lies in the cultural context of Hughes’s

as well be healthy. Changing the lunch program, no matter how much grumbling may occur, is a long term solution for childhood obesity. Unhealthy but tasty lunches provide only short term satisfaction, and even though students may complain about rancid lunch foods, it does not affect the entire day. The United States is the fattest country in the world, and having fatty, sugary lunches is not helping. The reason nothing has changed for a long time is that most people do not care. The number of

The poet’s tone, structure, choice of word and use of imagery gradually shows the increase of the speaker’s anger and frustration in the poem. The poet is angry and frustrated because he experiences prejudice against his colour while calling a woman about renting a room. While the speaker’s diction remains short and polite in the beginning using a matter of fact tone, he speaks with increasing sarcasm when referring to his skin colour. He mocks himself by comparing his skin colour to chocolate: ‘

Kushinagar is the final resting place of the Gautama Buddha. There are a couple different version of how the Buddha became sick. While they all say that he became sick after he ate rancid pork, where he got it the pork varies. Some say it was mal-intent, some say it was purely accidental, some say the Buddha knew the pork was rancid and ate it anyway (The Buddha, 2010). Regardless, the illness slowly took the Buddha. The allowed time and he was able to impart his final lesson. The final lesson of the Historic

While The Jungle had a wide range of imagery throughout the book, of putrid slums and the rancid factories, pictures would have benefited the book and its purpose greatly. Lacking pictures as guides, readers are left to their own imagination as they conjure up visions of the conditions of the atrocious Packingtown. Many readers, whether past or current, do not have experience in this industry and therefore do not truly understand the conditions and toils of the workers. Pictures help the reader see

Such detail put into the description of these catacombs cause the reader to ponder the awful, and rancid areas that succumbing to your inner rage can take you. Revenge to Montresor brings him through “walls of piled bones”(376), in which to a reader, can thoroughly terrify them and pressure them into not ending up the same way, or not letting their instincts

Once her Grandma's wrinkled hand had touched her shoulder, she knew what she was going to ask her. She didn’t want to visit the rancid-smelling and dark attic. Susie loved her granny, but she hated how her grandmother would use her to acquire objects out of the attic because her she can’t get up to the attic. Her grandma was getting very old and had very annoying arthritis. Susie felt that she always needed to help in anyway that she could. Susie was against going there because the small, beady-eyed

details meaning a clearer image for the reader. One of the most detailed novels I have read uses a different sort of Imagery. This story Perfume by Patrick Suskind uses the sense of smell to grab the reader's interest and spike their senses with the rancid sent from Paris France. Suskind creates a composite in the novel as he allows spiritual and religious imagery to portray scent as sovereign, allowing the power of olfactory sense to be likened to Catholicism. Using descriptive details, the author

Ashton Dexter is the epitome of the typical school bully. Even as a baby, his mother was afraid to change his diaper as he urinated every time he did not receive the food he demanded with his babble of words. When he attended school, his teachers assigned his seat at the very back of the classroom fearing his unapproachable presence. One bright, sunny day, a group of smiling students boarded the school bus and happily talked amongst each other about their day. Lastly to step in was Ashton Dexter