Essays on Misfits

Summary

Angela Yvonne Davis was born in Alabama in1944. She is a renowned educator, author, and social activist in the United States of America. Davis devoted most of her time to championing for different social causes as manifested by her participation in activities of the Black Panther Movement and Civil Rights Movement. Davis has a particular interest in inmates; therefore, she has been instrumental in promoting prisoners’ rights. She founded and worked with Critical Resistance, an organization that takes care of the affairs of detainees, particularly attempting to eliminate the prison-industrial complex. Angela’s views and activities are sometimes considered ...

Abstract

Rhetorical criticism is basically an analysis of the items people use to communicate, such as images and words. There are different strategies that one can employ when conducting such an analysis. Most importantly, the first step is the selection of an artifact to analyze since the strategies used may differ with the artifact. In this paper, the artifact to be analyzed is an advertisement from Apple and the method employed is ideological criticism, which evaluates the message presented by this advertisement.

Research Question: What is the main message behind this advertisement and was presented in a way that was ...

First published in the year 1953, this short story symbolizes lots of characters and themes, which characterized the typical O'Connor’s story. In most instances, she banked on available resources to induce certain themes to her stories. These resources could be the people she encountered or the books she read such as journals and newspapers. For instance, the obsessive assassin (Misfit) who massacres a whole household as evident in this novel is from two convicts who intimidated residents of the Atlanta region in the early 1950’s. As a result, it is, therefore, important to discuss how significant the ...