Goose

The Transition from Lil Dice to Lil Zé City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002) is based on the hardships, violence and poverty within Rio De Janeiro, Brazil from the 1960s through the 1980s. Even though the direction of the film is focused on Rocket and his storyline, the subliminal focus of this film revolves around a character called Lil Zé who is influenced by poverty and his delinquent brother to form his main goal of becoming the king of the favela. In the chosen scene, Lil Zé…

personifications at the forefront of my mind. He has a remarkable way of representing the characteristics of wildlife, like when he describes an owl that has been disturbed by a goose, “ Suddenly an unmistakable cat-owl, with the most harsh and tremendous voice I ever heard from an inhabitant of the woods, responded at regular intervals to the goose, as if determined to expose and disgrace this intruder”…

when he touched them, a nod to Lin desiring traits of New China (Jin 43). Shuyu’s hands were callused and aged from working and taking care of Lin’s parents while Manna’s hands were “warm and smooth” (Jin 51). On one of Lin’s annual trips back to Goose Village, he flipped over “a dozen mildewed books he had left to be sunned on a stack of firewood” remarking that Shuyu doesn’t know how to take care of them (Jin 3). Later, while in Muji City, Lin and Manna cover his books, some of which were…

“The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Anderson is a short fairytale of hope in the darkest of times for a poor little girl. Written in December 1845, The Little Match Girl tells the tale of a young child, trying to sell matches on the cold night of December 31st to avoid being beaten by her father at home. To prolong her inevitable freezing to death by she lights matches to try to keep herself warm, to distract herself dreadful conditions and to try to keep warm. The matches she lit…

The American 1950s. A time of change and revolt. Psychiatric methods were far different and more archaic than today’s treatment measures. Solutions were often violent or manipulative, sometimes led by medication and drugs. Ken Kesey, an American author in the’50s, was, around this same time, paid to test the drug LSD in a government-sponsored experiment. Concurrently, Kesey worked the night shift on a mental ward in Oregon. While working on the ward, Kesey began to speculate that the patients…

Mikensie WIlliams Stockton LA 7 September, 2016 Scared One time I was at my church playing with my little sisters Teagan and Kelty and my two friends Cienna and Trinity. It was in the evening and we decided to play hide and go seek tag, but when we got out of the gym it was very scary the shadows, no lights except the one flickering light. Teagan and Kelty went too hide and when we went to go and find them we got really scared. Every time we went out a door would open then close!…

sailor stuck on an island while the ship he was on gets repaired. The journal has a total of fifteen entries from November to December, but is not specific about the year. In the first entry Adam Ewing describes how he meets a London doctor named Henry Goose on a South Pacific Island. The next few entries describe what he does on the island. Skipping to the sixth…

Idioms : Are idioms which have no equivalents in native language. Here learners attempt to translate idioms are encountered by absence of direct equivalents, grave mistakes usually occur when translating this class of idioms. Examples include: 1-Wild goose chaseعقيمة / لا طائل منه محاولة 2-Separate/ tell the sheep from the goats الغث من الثمين يميز 3-With a heart of gold/عطوف جدا/ رقيق رحيم 4-kick the bucket يموت 5-Rob Peter to pay…

crowd in front of the house, their unspoken affection hangs in the air. Ada feels is around her, warm as a goose down comforter”(Howe 108). This quote is a great example of how the author wants community portrayed. Their “unspoken affection” and “warm” are what the character feels and what the reader is supposed to feel and, although its not spoken outwardly, the act of community is like “a goose down comforter”. A strong sense of community also helps shape people and teach them skills that they…

example is veruca in the factory whining to her father to get her an oompa loompa. The final example is where the cast go see the giant geese and veruca again whines to her father to get her a goose. Her desire to get the goose became very high to the point where veruca tries to climb up and get the goose, but instead, she falls into the trash shoot. Augustus represents gluttony and his shown in her first appearance. The scene shows augustus eating an abundance of food and him being overweight…