Essays on Tone

Every organization has various cadres of staff at different levels of the organization. All members of staff must work harmoniously so as to ensure that the organization achieves its desired outcomes. Indeed, the actions or inaction of each member of the organization has a bearing on the general outcome that the organization attains. However, while all members of the organization contribute to the outcome of the organization, it is the actions or inaction of the top members which can have the most profound effect on the organization. In other words, the effects of the activities undertaken at the top ...

Portfolio Analysis

The media has a massive influence on the public. This influence increase when the public has little or no opinion on the subject. Similarly, when the subject is non-ego threatening and the public has no direct experience with the subject. The media coverage ensures there is framing of views in its coverage. This is shaping of views and discussions via selective choices of facts, words and themes. Public relations has a significant influence in framing how the media will explain the product and the company This is so because framing of views creates the context in which the discussion ...

Introduction

In classical conditioning of behavior, acquisition results from the pairing of Conditional Stimulus (CS) like tone with the Unconditioned Stimulus (US) like shock. This is performed through several trials resulting in the capability of the CS to induce a new behavior described as Conditioned Response (CR) which is similar to the Unconditioned Response (UR). In the experiment of Sniffy Pro, CS’s available are Bell, Tone and Light.

Method

1. The experiment was run on Sniffy to receive 10 pairings of tone CS of medium-intensity coupled with shock US of medium-intensity.
2. New file is opened on ...

Introduction

Life has different attractions, points of interest, meanings or attitudes that varies across one’s existence. What might have seemed funny engaging at a young age might be considered irritating or upsetting at a more advanced age. This change in the attitude towards life is part of a process, the process of getting older and it is underlying the generation conflict. The generation conflict theme is common to the short stories that will be comparatively analyzed in this paper, respectively: Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” and Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. The generation ...

Introduction

Leonardo da Vinci is widely considered as one of the greatest painters and artists of all time. He is one of the most diversely talented artists ever to have lived especially in the ancient eras where art was not fully discovered. He was an Italian Renaissance polymath given than he combined many skills including those of a painter, scientist, anatomist, botanist, mathematician and musician and also a sculptor (Grack, 18). Leonardo has been described by artists as the archetype of the Renaissance man with many referring him as a man of a feverishly inventive imagination. Despite the recent times ...

Culture

Ethnography: Same Race Dating
Introduction
In many ways race is regarded as the physiological differences among people, which are being codified by language, values, culture, and other explicit sorting that comes to everyone’s head when talking about segregation by characteristics. Among the many factors that determines racial identity is through skin color where light colored skin were identified as someone from the Western hemisphere. Even in the Western regions where the majority of its population was identified as light skin individuals, the mix of other skin tones creates another set of racial subtype. One example is the Hispanics ...

Introduction

Trying to Find Chinatown is a one-act play position on New York City streets. The play has only two characters, Ronnie and Benjamin. Chinatown seems to be racial or ethnic identity. The central of conflict observed in the play is about the definition of ethnic identity. While Naked Lunch is a narrative that is hard to describe in terms of plot this is because, the book commences with the adventure of a Mr. William Lee, his journey begins with him running from the police in the US. Finally he moves to Mexico where he his directed to Dr. Benway ...

Body language

Body language is an essential part of communication. Human beings pass most of their communication through body language. The human mind is wired to decipher the non-verbal cues passed by the body before the mind interprets the audio signals produced by the mouth. People can communicate through nonverbal cues without uttering a single word. Body language entails facial expressions, gestures and body posture. The three non- verbal cues make an integral part of the body language. Body language is the most common means of communication; however, body language is understood by few people in the society. There some common ...

The E-news article written by Zach Johnson presents typical Hollywood characters, it shows their busy acting careers and how their careers affect the decisions they make. Liam Hemsworth and Emily blunt are trying to adjust to their new lifestyle in the USA and are plunged into a tradition that they are not used to, they are, however, very receptive and adjust to the change. Liam, although not excited about thanksgiving, accepts that he has celebrated past Thanksgiving Holidays. Since the article is about a public holiday which is seen in positive light by many people, the writer digresses into ...

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Robinson Crusoe

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The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
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Social and Diversity Issues

including Logical Human Reactions to Incentives and Penalties
with Examples from the Book and Personal Examples
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE STORY
3. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS NOVEL IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
4. THE AUTHOR, DANIEL DEFOE (1660 - 1731)
5. THE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THE NOVEL
- The Title
- The Plot
- The Narrator, Robinson Crusoe
- The Use of Imagery
- The Setting
- The Tone
- The Style
- The Ending
6. COMPARABLE STORIES OF THE TIME AND POSSIBLE INFLUENCES
7. ...

Communication:  Oral Language is a Bag of Air (How the Environment is responsible for Speech and Oral Language.)

Oral language is like air is a concept that has been used in linguistics to express the importance of environment in shaping the development of language in society. Man has for instance made inroads to other planets other than the earth. However, under these circumstances man has depended on sign language to communicate because the condition in space do not allow for the creation of sound waves. This is contrary to how the situation is here on earth. The environment of earth allows for the travelling of sound. The thought patterns of human being and the communication process is ...

Network Test Equipment

Every computer network is distinctive and is prone to various challenges, which may help to guarantee the correct transmission today and tomorrow. It is critical for the network administrator to analyse the network hardware equipments and network software to obtain a sense for smooth transmission, often called a baseline. In the instance that errors occur, the network administrator may be competent enough to determine from the indicator lights or by using network test equipments where the source of the transmission error originates. For instance, the network administrator would effortlessly recognize if indicator lights were out that are supposed to ...

Prewriting refers to the activities carried out in preparation for the actual drafting of the paper. Research and analysis are important features of this stage of writing as they help in understanding the context of the topic in detail. The pre-writing process entails three steps namely: analysis, anticipation and adaptation. Analyzing a topic ensures that the final report will serve its purpose once finalized and also provides guidance to the way in which the report gets presented. Anticipation refers to the identification of your audience, how much they know regarding the subject and how they are likely to take ...

Introduction and Company Background

First of all, in the scope of this paper it is essential to refer to the background of the NARS Cosmetics - the business entity, which manufactures the cosmetics and the products for skin care. This business entity has been established by François Nars, who was photographer and make-up artist. The start up for this company was 12 lipsticks, which were offered to the customers at Barneys, New York. Since the beginning of the operational activity of this business entity, the set of multi-use beauty products has been developed. Fabien Baron has created the minimalist packaging and since ...

When people’s emotions change, their body language, voice and facial expression changes, as well. Not a lot of people can pick up the changes in pitch, tone and volume. These are important factors to consider when analyzing the emotion of someone you are speaking to, especially if the conversation is over the phone (Gobl, Christer, and Ailbhe Nı́ Chasaide 189). Voice quality plays a vital role in communicating emotions, attitudes, reactions and moods. By knowing or understanding these things, an individual will be able to judge the emotion of someone that they are talking to.
When you are ...

Introduction

Philip Freneau’s To Sir Toby chronicles on the slavery experienced on the Caribbean islands. This is because the residents undergo suffering in the hands of the slave masters at the landmass. Freneau applies vivid imagery and expressive language to portray inhuman practices by slave owners. The poet tries to discourage this habit by condemning the actions of the slave masters. For instance, he opposes slavery on every level from acquisition of people as possessions, to labelling them, to brutalizing them like animals. As a result, the poem is useful as it serves as a passionate work about the ...

Pablo Picasso’s remarkable oil on canvas painting Weeping Woman (1937) is both a personally and politically significant painting. It is among the series of weeping women paintings that were painted by Picasso in 1937. Picasso addressed the theme of depicting a woman holding a handkerchief to her teary face in numerous other works of art in different mediums (Léal 396), such as drawings, etchings and paintings, all of which were produced with the intention of standing as voiceless but visual witnesses to an inexpressible modern tragedy. In 1937, after the Spanish Civil War had come to an ...

This paper is aimed at exploring various elements through which our nonverbal behavior affects our communication. This paper starts with a brief introduction about non-verbal communication and then proceeds to defining it. After a brief definition of non-verbal communication this paper presents several elements of non-verbal nature which play vital role in non-verbal communication. Further in the paper these elements are shown in respect of their role in overall communication. The paper is concluded with a brief and concise conclusion at the end. This paper mainly addresses the situation of a public speaker in order to analyze the effects ...

Analysis of Volar by Judith Ortiz Coffer

Introduction
Volar embodies a story of freedom from the confinements of human life. The author of the nonfiction story narrates of a life imagined in a dream where she was able to live life devoid of the inhibitions brought about by living life as a human being. Throughout the story, various aspects of the language and emotion employed in narrating the story helps the readers steal glances and sneak previews into the author’s desired life. In the analysis of the tone in the story, the paper will highlight the different ways that the personality of the author manifests ...

Introduction

In 1724, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a widely acclaimed cantata for Christmas day celebrations. It contained a narrative of words that praised Jesus Christ, and was supported by instrumentals and vocal codes. The cantata is a follow up on the famous hymn by Martin Luther, ‘Praise is to you, Jesus Christ ‘, and that was composed in 1524. The composition was inspired from readings that are located in the bible such as the Gospel of Luke, the book of Isaiah and Titus, which contained readings about the birth and salvation of Jesus Christ.

The composition

The narration uses aspects of repetition in ...

Robert Pack is a renowned lecturer and author in the United States as well as in the entire globe. He was born in 1929 in New York City. He attended his tertiary education at Dunmore College and Columbia University. He was a lecturer in many universities including the University of Montana. The author of many books is the sole writer of the “The Frog Prince” poem. This is a poem that is entailed of various writing techniques which make it interesting as well as meaningful. The poem has been constructed through excellent writing elements for an extremely meaningful platform.
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Tone

The tone of this piece is the author’s concern with life and death. Her voice is personal, describing the world she observes with wonder and interest. The tone is not introspective, but instead has an external focus, viewing the wider world with a tone that suggests its impersonal yet implacable nature. Although the Woolf attempts to describe with detachment, her tone cannot remain so as she witnesses the life and death of the moth. Whether or not she wants to be, her tone is one of captivation by this example of life and death. Additionally, there is a ...

Introduction

Letters From an American Farmer by Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, written around 1782, is a series of 12 letters written by Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur , a Frenchman who was naturalized as an American, who lived from December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813. The letters were written before the American Revolutionary War as if to an interested European about the unique customs, enterprises, philosophies, and government style of the new American people who were subject to the rule of Britain across the ocean. His audience makes the tone and rhetoric of the piece very ...

THESIS: The tone of Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" is one of the most important and telling aspects of this poem - both Mama's and the daughter's tone of voice (the daughter's voice implied) indicate a dramatic sense of hypocrisy and resentment on the part of the mother.
I. Introduction-

Synopsis of Poem

Thesis
II. Main Supporting Point: Mother is overbearing (bossy & strict). She tells her daughter how to set a table for different meals, how to cook things and how to pick out bread.
(Examples to support)

A. Example: "This is how to make a bread pudding / This is how to make doukona."

B. Example: "like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming."

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In Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber, Borowski adopts a variety of tones for different parts of the story. The everyday activities are often described in a casual manner, whereas the scenes of the end of day transports are much more serious and dark.

When depicting scenes of everyday life in camp, there is often a casual, almost ironic, tone. For example:

"Several of us are sitting right now on a top bunk swinging our legs in a carefree manner. We take out white, extravagantly baked bread: crumbly, falling to pieces, a little provoking in taste, but, for all that, bread that had not been moulding for weeks" (Borowski).

This example effectively demonstrates the tone of ...

This paper is based on the thesis to analyze the usage of informative and conversational tone purposefully and effectively by author to serve the purpose of his writing: to educate and inform his readers about the facts, and the journey across the historical timeframe of the extraordinary fruit: the oranges. Also, how the significance of the use of historical excursions together with the story-telling style of writing and tone appeal to ethos and pathos of the overall writing, which altogether drive the readers into the world of his non-fiction story about oranges. John McPhee is a celebrated writer who ...

1. Do you think Obama’s use of nonverbal communication in his address was effective? Why or why not? 
President Barack Obama’s use of nonverbal communication in his inaugural address was a very effective tool in his speech. The choice of words is indeed very essential but more so in a book where the reader is at all liberty to read and understand the material at his pace. When it comes to addressing an audience especially a large one, nonverbal communication is what helps to retain the interest of the audience. Obama’s speech contained an excellent control ...

‘Theme of English B’ by Langston Hughes A Comparative Essay

These two poems are completely different in tone, message and overall impact. They also use language in very different ways to create a completely different world.
‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost is short and cryptic and, in one sense, very conventional – he uses rhyme to give his poem a clear pattern. The poem is casual and child-like in tone, but the subject matter is very adult – it is an apocalyptic poem, imagining the end of the world. Frost ...

Literature

Imagery:
Both poems employ imagery as a way of relaying their messages. In the poem ‘My papa’s waltz’, the poem is descriptive of a kind of dance performed by a father and his son. A kind of bedtime ‘run around the house’. The dance is symbolic of the relationship between the father and other members of his family. The dance, while the boy enjoys it, is not an amusing matter to his father. The father, apparently under the influence of whisky, is desperate for his son to go to sleep. The dance ensuing represents a respectful relationship where ...

I have recommended “Eating Alone” because it is tone and motif. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The author mentions the earth now is “brown and old” while remembering before how he used to walk with his father. He cannot remember if he talked with him or not, but the memories of his, “left hand braced on knee, creaky—to lift and hold to myeye a rotten pear.” The memories are so strong he almost sees his father, only to find it is actually a shovel standing in dirt. The author also uses nature as a recurring theme ...

At the time he wrote the article Why You Should Fear Your Toaster More Than Nuclear Power, Taylor Pearson was a sophomore student at the University of Texas, Austin. He prepared this article as a public argument for an academic assignment, developing an informal argument on nuclear power, as he indicates on his LinkedIn profile (Taylor Pearson). Although the writing is an informal argument, the author of this text is nevertheless credible and trustworthy due to his academic record, to his interest for world affair or political issues and his transparent, clear and accurate writing style. In the analyzed ...

A logical dissection is a composed clarification about how an essayist (or speaker) endeavors to change the psyche of his or her group of onlookers. A compelling explanatory examination shows a full understanding of the interchange of the expository triangle. The reason for this task is to deliver a relative logical dissection of three articles on the same subject: one sourced from corporate media, the other sourced from the free or option press and the other distinguished from the nearby articles. These articles are Drug war and class war, America's amazingly oblivious voters, and The Slippery Slope Begins.
Drug ...

Introduction

Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden and bilingual bilingue by Rhina Espaillat address the past events as they appear in the memories of the authors. Notably, there are certain issues, which occur in our routine lives at our tender ages, which indeed have significant impacts in our memories even in future. Some occurrences should be kept as preserve for future reference as they indeed play significant roles in our lives. Ideally, it is quite important to compare and contract these two poems because this will give different and similar experiences that people have in their young age compared to ...

Hei-Kyung Hong lends her beautiful voice to Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni”, as the character Zerlina. She is betrothed to Massetto, and is the object of Don Giovanni’s eye. Zerlina is strong but also has some very conflicted emotions. She has to reconcile her behavior to the standards of her day, and it is this behavior that has her pleading for the forgiveness of her lover, Masetto.
The character of Zerlina is a peasant, but this does not mean that she is by any means weak willed. Don Giovanni must break her down, little by little, until she ...

Introduction

The Reverie by Joel Billy and Claude Billy has both similarities as well as differences. Thus, this paper exclusively reviews the Reverie by Claude Debussy that was written and composed in the late 19th century. The paper discusses and explains how the general tone is different upon listening to Reverie by Joel Billy that is a part of his album. It also highlights how Reverie by Debussy has stronger and different tones that are louder than Joel.

Reverie by Debussy

According to Debussy, “Music is the expression of the movement and flow of waters and play of curves by alternating breezes”. Unfortunately, ...

In the book, “On Killing”, the author utilizes a set of various themes to explain his ideas. The author mainly describes the psychological aspects of soldiers in the battle field and how it affects their behavior. The author describes to his elite audience the psychological concepts using different literary skills. He uses different intonations and perspectives to convince his audience. He also cites other researchers’ views to help deliver specific nuance and meaning to his audience. The author explains why soldiers develop a love for one another and the desire to protect and help each other when they work ...

Colleen J. McElroy’s poem, “Military Woman: Evolution,” is a poem that describes the changes a woman experiences while spending a career in the military. It is written from the point of view of the woman herself. McElroy makes use of several poetic devices including speaker, voice, structure, tone, imagery, and repetition to demonstrate to readers that the evolution this military woman experiences is an evolution of not only her view of woman in the military, but also her self as a woman and as a military woman.
McElroy’s choice to write this poem from a first person ...

Sarcasm is a literary style that employs sharp remarks to taunt certain states of events. The style works in nuances of irony and understatements in literary texts. A small place by Kincaid is a memoir that contains several elements of sarcasm. The publication is an explication of childhood frustrations and worries. The circumstances of Antiguan state in the tourism industry conflicts with the colonial legacy of the era. The concrete terrains of her state are under siege. The new structures lack proper propensity for reformations. The tone that Kincaid uses to portray this theme is sarcastic.
The first essence ...

“Living Like Weasels” – Annie Dillard

A Rhetorical Analysis
Both these pieces of writing centre around an encounter with an animal, but in each case the author’s real purpose is slightly different than to merely describe their encounters with an elephant, in Orwell’s case, and a weasel, in Dillard’s. Orwell’s true purpose, apart from the inevitable element of self-revelation, which any non-fictional account will probably entail, is to create pathos in the reader, faced with the description of the shooting of the elephant, and to point out the invidious effects of imperialism. Similarly, Dillard’s piece is, in a real sense, ...

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Thesis Statement

Introduction
The story starts with the personal narrative, when the protagonist takes on telling the reader about her childhood days, when she used to write ‘how to make a snowman’ in his fourth grade, but most of his writing was about his own problems than the description of snowman. He tells how the story of a snowman always ends with the melancholy of it melting away with the sun. Then he takes on mentioning step-by-step procedure of collecting candy-cans. The approach used to describe the process is similar to the ‘how-to tutorials’, but when the reader keeps ...

Section A1.

Sarah’s behavior is disruptive to the classroom in two ways. First, by moving around the classroom she is taking students’ attention from the focal point of learning. Secondly, Sarah has leadership qualities, which is why students imitate her behavior. Her behavior, thus, has an impact on the classroom environment because Sarah is an extrovert. However, in third grade, social skills, as to know when it is time to socialize, and when it is time to concentrate on the work at hand needs to be inculcated.

Section A2.

The antecedent to Sarah’s behavior is usually during the part of the ...

Part One

- I will be talking about the relationship between me and my brother. I am nine years his senior and because of the age gap, we did not grow up being close to each other. He was always alone and would do most things himself, but there are also instances when he would come to me for something.
- Our relationship is working well. Despite the big age difference and his preference to be by himself most of the time, we understand each other well. He respects me, and that includes my things. He does not go through my ...

Report Analysis – “Seawater pH and Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide”

The following is a rhetorical analysis of the technical report “Seawater pH and Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide,” checking for various aspects of rhetorical quality and consistency, as well as layout and appearance. Recommendations are then made for improvements to rhetorical quality.

Appeal to Audience

Achievement of Purpose
The goal of the paper is to introduce its audience to the concepts of pCO2 and pH and their relationship to one another, as well as their applicability to data on atmospheric carbon dioxide taken from Ocean Station Alpha and others. In terms of providing these introductory concepts, the paper achieves its purpose; the layout is ...

English

I have decided to use a local coffee shop as the scene for my observations. This location has both pleasant and unpleasant attributes. The bright yellow walls are inviting. The subtle lighting of the restaurant made possible by the bright orange oriental lampshades. The wall hangings show the lush green coffee estates from where the pure coffee is sourced. The piped music from the establishment’s stereo player gives of a relaxing mood, making it a place where you would want to relax after a hard day’s work.
The aroma of the different flavors of coffee wafts through ...

The issue of the deeper meaning of life in the world of a book or story can easily be gleaned through a story’s tone. In the case of some works of Gothic horror, tone is an excellent way to indicate the helplessness and inexorable darkness at the heart of life. William Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein all create dark, sinister tones in their works in different ways, evincing a distinct heaviness and sense of terror lying at the ...

Introduction

The social networking sites have increasingly become intrinsic in the modern dispensation. One of such social sites is Twitter. Far and wide, Twitter has become very influential in the social media industry to the extent that it has become a better platform for the conveyance of information. Jennifer Egan, one of the most celebrated authors used the social media platform that is Twitter to tell her story to a wide range of audience. The story Black Box was unveiled to the public through tweets at an average of one tweet per minute. In this case, Jennifer was able to ...

Caravaggio’s influence has been felt within many different pieces of art. Caravaggio implemented the idea that idealized beauty was not essential to making interesting or popular art. Caravaggio moved away from traditional styles, making even religious subjects look like common people. Dramatic lighting and high contrast were also important aspects of his art work. Caravaggio’s use of naturalism created a new movement away from idealized beauty. Caravaggio’s style typically had less complicated iconography and a more straight forward naturalistic approach to telling stories.
Caravaggio certainly took a different approach to the painting of religious scenes when ...

Doppler Principles in Echocardiography

What is Doppler ultrasound?
Doppler ultrasound is a type of ultrasound that allows you to diagnose vessels. This method of analysis can obtain accurate information about the functioning of vascular, clinical picture, identify malfunctions (method based on analyzing the frequency changed due to the reflection of ultrasonic waves). Diagnosis is absolutely harmless to the patient - no discomfort or discomfort during the study does not test people. The survey is conducted on an outpatient basis and does not require special preparation of the patient, the use of additional equipment and contrast media.

An Invention of Doppler Effect

The Doppler effect is easy to observe ...

Communication is an important tool to let people know about one’s thoughts and feelings. It is what helps connect people to one another regardless if the result of the interaction is positive or negative. However, people have a misconception that connecting with others is limited to verbal forms of communication only. The truth is, we make decisions and assumptions according to what we hear, as most of the time, we ignore non-verbal messages we receive and observe from others. The ability to understand and interpret non-verbal reactions through voice tone, facial expressions, and body language, among others, is ...

1. How would you describe your own voice in this essay? 
I would describe my voice in my essay on Marian Wright as expositional, and also authoritative. There are not areas where I write to say “I think” or “I believe” the information is presented as factual, has sources to indicate this and even the opinion part where I mention the rhetorical appeal of the article, is presented as a statement of face. When I write, “The rhetorical appeal in this article is that despite being one of the most developed countries in the world, some America citizens are ...

Abstract

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is due to weakening of the lower esophageal sphincter tone and is thought to be one of the most common disorders of the gastrointestinal system (Harrison’s, 2008). The loss of tone in the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) allows gastric contents to flow backwards into the esophagus (Kahrilas, 2013), causing damage to the normal esophageal mucosa. Simple measures, such as lifestyle changes can be employed to try and live with the condition, but usually the treatment is medical with various drugs to make the pH of the gastric acid less acidic as to lessen the ...

Candide is a piece written by Voltaire and is still relevant today. The piece was written in order to warn the public of consequences of radical optimism. Voltaire is known for his satirical work that is suggestive, and Candide is one of his masterpieces which demonstrate mastery of literature. Candide, the main character, is a young man who is naïve and also trusting and is banished from home. Despite the bizarre disaster that fills his life, he holds to his optimism fast. This is an example to the audience. Voltaire makes an emphasis of radical optimism dangers through ...

The pressures on women to maintain a particular sort of look are immense in our society. Thanks to the tween-oriented campaigns by the lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret, there are elementary school girls going around with shorts saying “I LOVE PINK” on them. The message is clear: these tween girls have bought into the idea that they need to look a certain way in order to receive approval. This brings sexuality into the minds of girls well before they are ready for it, and so by the time they reach middle school, many of them already view themselves through ...

“The Addict”

Abstract
This is an essay about Anne Sexton’s poem “The Addict,” It describes how Anne Sexton tried desperately tried to rid herself of mental illness and drug addiction. She wrote from her heart and her personal experience.
The hymn “When Peace Like a River Attended my Way,” was written out of great despair; the writer whole family perished at sea and when he came to the area in the ocean he went to his cabin and penned this famous hymn. Like her counterpart, Anne Sexton’s poetry is born out of great depression; she began to write poetry ...

In the book, “On Killing”, the author utilizes a set of various themes to explain his ideas. The author mainly describes the psychological aspects of soldiers in the battle field and how it affects their behavior. The author describes to his elite audience the psychological concepts using different literary skills. He uses different intonations and perspectives to convince his audience. He also cites other researchers’ views to help deliver specific nuance and meaning to his audience. The author explains why soldiers develop a love for one another and the desire to protect and help each other when they work ...

In the novel Cannery Row and the play Glengarry Glen Ross, authors John Steinbeck and David Mamet present characters whose approach to existence appears quite dissimilar on the surface. Mack and the boys from Cannery Row place little value on extravagant material possessions. They possess no ambition other than to have very basic shelter and food; they do not compete with each other or town residents to accumulate goods or social status. The real estate salespeople in Glengarry Glen Ross, on the other hand, thrive on workplace competition to acquire possessions that will signify their success. If one accepts ...

Argumentative Essay

Argumentative Essay
In Jamaica Kincaid’s story, A Small Place, she gives a clear picture of the conditions of living in Antigua. The island is portrayed as a popular tourist destination. However, the author gives a comprehensive overview of the island’s state of welfare. The people on the island lead a miserable life at best. There are no proper facilities such as schools and hospitals on the island. The struggles of Antiguans are given detailed focus by the author. The natives hate tourists because they feel they have invaded their homeland. The poverty, poor living conditions such as ...

Analysis of Colour Application

This paper studies the design concepts in color application of the cover of Foo Fighter’s ‘Wasting Light’. The colors used in the image will first be identified using the RGB standards, after which the categories and attributes, i.e.: a) hue, b) Saturation, and c) tone, will be discussed in detail. Further, the applicability of the laws of the Gestalt theories to the image with be analyzed, followed by an in-depth evaluation of the contrast of the colors. Finally, perceptual effects present in the image will be discussed.

Analysis of Colour Application

The CD cover of Foo Fighter’s 2011 release ‘Wasting Light’ ...

Just as, William Shakespeare noted that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder the generational obsession of beauty has not been overrun by time. The media is credited with the construction of the ideal models of beauty in the world today. It is, therefore, because of the media exposure that we are able to draw much attention to the different modes of beauty, and the changes that have taken place since time immemorial. The standards and specifications of beauty appear to have been shaped as time elapsed. The classic period of beauty had its own standards and specifications ...

Some readers think that the book of Job has a happy ending and is consequently affirmative in tone. Some readers think that the ending does not compensate for the physical and mental suffering of Job, consequently the book is anything but affirmative in tone.

Often times we hear the phrase, “the patience of Job,” or “being tried as job.” Whenever I hear, I feel righteous indignation. Job’s saga is surreal and there is no record that anyone has ever been tried or suffered as much as he. After analyzing Job’s story, I have concluded that it has ...