Writing Style/Technique Essay

How to Relieve Stress With Mindfulness Are you sometimes stressed? Worrying about trivial things? Anxious about any outcomes? Feeling uptight at home or at work? Restless, sleepless, fatigued? Is your mind chattering too much? Do you know how to truly relax and find inner peace? If you are like 100 million Americans that according to surveys are stressed daily or weekly, stress is an issue that can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Occasional stress can be a good thing, but it…

Compare and Contrast The two stories A Secret Sorrow by Karen Van der Zee and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin can be seen to have contrasting qualities. Primarily, A Secret Sorrow conveys a cliché love story of a woman, Faye; who can’t have kids and is scared of being a disappointment to her soon to be husband, Kai. However, they work out their issues, adopt kids, and live happily ever, “in the low white ranch house under the blue skies of Texas…” (Zee 37). Second, A Sorrowful Woman is…

There are many literary devices writers throughout history have utilized. One of the most powerful, yet complicated literary device is irony. Irony occurs when what a reader expects to happen is the complete opposite of the actual outcome. Irony helps illustrate humor especially in the works “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a framed narrative that tells the tale of Jim Smiley…

scene should be filmed, can make or break a movie. Varied filming techniques throughout a movie are important so as not to lose interest, but certain themes work well among genres. It’s also important to avoid trying to use every known filming technique in a single movie as it can create a sense of overwhelming confusion. A skilled cinematographer is one who brings these ideas together…

doctor put him in the dark of ether.” I typically enjoy darker fiction and poems such as this. In fact, Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favorite authors. Yet I do not really care for this poem. It is honestly hard for me to pinpoint why exactly. Frosts writing has never been something I have cared for personally. Even with all of the darkness and intensity it just is not for…

And the use of allusion recalls the connection from people; the use of simile imaginary gives audience a picture of justice; the use of hyperbole and repetition emphasize the feeling and desire of equality and righteousness. These four rhetorical techniques emphasize his ideas of equality and justice, help audience to remember his ideas and raise audience’s emotion. King reminds us that even today, 100 years later, the black American lives under alienation and…

20 time management apps for 2015 Effective time management is a challenge to many people, whether you are a manager, employee, freelancer, student, or on holiday, time never seems to be enough. This is particularly an issue when you are trying to accomplish several tasks in a limited time frame and are required to meet deadlines. There are several apps that help users to manage their time in various ways. Some are effective as standalone while others will need to be used in conjunction with…

Is the use of a hand worth the loss of a life? In the poem “Out, Out--” by Robert Frost the speaker tells of a boy who uses a saw to cut stove length sticks of wood for a living. The boy ran his hand into a saw and instead of taking precautions to save his life he demanded that his hand be saved. As a result of these demands the boy not only loses his hand but also dies. Frost uses key imagery, foreshadowing, diction, and irony, to show that in certain circumstances holding onto something can…

What is the most significant complication when people judge before something occurs? Death, according to William Shakespeare. In Act 3 there are two speeches given, one by Decius Brutus and the other by Mark Antony. These two funeral speeches in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare are similar in organization although differ in the message. To begin, William Shakespeare is creative in differing the positions where the men stand during the funeral speeches. Brutus stands above…

In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…