The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, is a wonderful story of a young man named christopher investigating the death of a neighbor’s dog. In pages 198-200 in the novel, Haddon uses rhetorical devices such as imagery, repetition, and organization to reveal the mood and setting of the passage. These rhetorical devices allow the reader to know that Christopher is in a ranting state while talking about the details a dream. One of the rhetorical devices used in this passage was repetition.…
The author uses personal anecdotes of how he was benefited from experiencing boredom to develop his…
Is Boredom Really That Bad I said yes because you are healthy. You are even don’t have alot of things on your mind. You have nothing,nothing on your mind.…
Entr’Acte is an early avant-garde film produced by Erik Satie and Rene Clair. In this film, two artists integrated repetitive moving image with one melody, which kept coming back, and they diffused their attitude of life into the entire production. Absurdity and repetition play extremely important roles in Entr’Acte, that both of the characteristics not only reconcile one foundational structure of the film, but also create hierarchical variations in either visual aspect or auditory aspect. Repetition in Entr’Acte builds up the fundamental structure rather than confuse the audience. Some scenes are repetitive like the overlapping architecture, ballet dancing, roller coaster.…
Rick Shenkman seems to know seems to know just how to grab the readers’ attention in his book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter. While most readers may disagree with his central arguments, I agree with him. I do believe that, as a whole society, the American people are very uninformed when it comes to politics, government, or any other relatively “uninteresting” topics. It seems as though the American people could actually care less about what is happening in our government and whether the people in power are taking advantage of our ignorance.…
In Kill ‘Em! Crush ‘Em! Eat ‘Em Raw! by John McMurtry, the author uses harsh diction to convey pathos, revealing the brutality and violence of football, and conveys the dangerous nature of football through his use of personal experiences as a form of logos. Through the use of these devices, the author asserts that football perpetuates violence and brutality in our society.…
A topic that I find engaging and feel like I lose track of time when I talk about is softball it's something I love and can talk forever about. Softball is basically my life almost every day i'm practicing some how if it's at actual practice with my travel team or running plays through my head every night and thinking about how i can improve myself. When anyone comes and talks to me about games or anything to do with softball I immediately lose my train of thought and become engaged in the conversation and can go on for hours and feel like I've only talked for a few minutes. Softball is something I turn to when I'm mad, sad, or happy no matter what kind of day I've had going to practice or a game just makes it feel like there's nothing else in the world. As soon as I step onto the field the rest of the world just disappears and doesn't exist and the only thing that matters is what's inside the fields fence.…
Communication Journal: The Science of Happiness Steven Parton’s article, “The Science of Happiness: Why Complaining is Literary Killing You”, attempts to explain how our brains are influenced by our view of situations and the attitudes of the people around us. To a great extent, Parton’s argument is logical and practical and presents some useful lessons not only about how to enhance our well-being, but also how to communicate appropriately particularly in the world of business. The important and practical aspect about the article is that the attitudes we surround ourselves with reshape our brain. Attitudes associated with pessimism, melancholy, regret, fear, and depression among other emotional elements tend to have adverse effects on our…
Award winning poet and essayist, Charles Simic, in his personal thinking essay, ”A Reunion With Boredom”, reminisces in a time with silence and boredom. Simic’s, purpose is to show how hard it is to be bored in modern day. He adopts a pitiful tone in order to bring prominence to the fixation of technology in his community. Multiple times Simic helps the reader revisualize his personal essay by using analogies.…
Level I Discussion Questions Beah moves around in time as he tells his story, flashing forward and backward. What is the effect of this technique on the overall meaning of the text? Would it be more effective if he stuck to strict chronology? Why or why not?…
According to Gatto, a retired former teacher who taught at various New York City Schools for over thirty years, claims that boredom amongst students, as well as teachers, were a normal occurrence throughout his teaching career. Gatto would ask his students and colleagues: why they felt bored?. The students would often respond with claims that the class work was uninteresting and they could not comprehend, or some felt like they already knew the material. The students also felt that the teachers did not seem qualified to teach the material they were given, or uninspired to further their own knowledge of the material. Yet, the teachers when asked the same question, would respond by saying that students were impolite and claimed that the students only cared about their grades( Gatto 142 ).…
Arlene Balvina Madrigal Cunningham ENG 102- 3rd June 29,2017 Loneliness Thinking about the word lonely, more than likely people always refer to it with a negative connotation. Being alone is not always a bad state of being for a person. Loneliness causes people to have time for themselves. The word loneliness is defined as “ affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone” (“Loneliness”).…
Boredom is simply one of the most miserable feelings anybody can feel, Another feeling…
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian author whose universally appreciated novel, Things Fall Apart, provides a voice to an ill-treated and unrepresented culture. Things Fall Apart took place in Umuofia in the 1880’s, before and during the first arrival of European missionaries. Weary of reading westerner’s interpretations of how socially backward, illiterate, and uncivilized Africans were, Chinua Achebe wished to reveal a better insight of the Ibo culture and, in doing so, preserve the wellbeing of his continent. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart displays the natives of Africa with an appropriate level of complexity to contrast the Westerner’s overly-…
Logical fallacies are part of everyday life, whether we notice them or not. Fallacies are the mistakes in our reasoning. One common fallacy is false analogy. In a false analogy, two objects, events or people that aren’t typically related, are shown to be similar. An example of this would be comparing object A to object B. If object A has property C, and object B has property C, objects A and B must be the same thing.…