Adjective

of the adjective “eternal,” with its connotation of grandeur and the infinite, to describe the syllable OM, highlights the sacred and everlasting nature of language. The Gita’s ideas surrounding the presence of the sacred in language are demonstrated in “The Library of Babel” when the narrator proclaims, “There is no syllable that one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror, that is not, in one of those languages, the mighty name of god” (117). Borges’ use of the adjectives,…

on function FROM your thesis statement: First define the function of a hero/heroism and...: -Use the word “function” in your paragraph. -Make sure to use the word/phrase for the function from your thesis statement. -What are traits/attributes (adjectives) synonymous with the word/phrase you chose in your thesis statement that define hero/heroism? -What words SHOW what a hero does? (Describe what a hero does using verbs.) Choose a character, author, article, poem, excerpt, or a scene that…

After taking the Implicit Association Test offered online through Harvard University in collaboration with a few other institutions, I can say that I am somewhat shocked by my results. I took the IAT for automatic preferences of those of European or African decent, essentially my preference of race. In the brief description of the test, it said that the majority of people prefer white over blacks. I thought of myself as being part of the exception group; the very few people who do not fit…

In the passage written by Amy Tan the author uses adjectives and feelings to reveal that an embarrassing experience in her youth changed her perspective of her heritage by showing how proud she was of her heritage. One time she was embarrassed, was when her family was licking the ends of their spoons in front of the minister family. She was embarrassed because most families in america have good table manners. Her family did not have the same table manners as the minsters family. The minister…

In western culture, there is an emphasis on acting a certain way to correspond with a person’s gender. We commonly use gender specific phrases that are demeaning such as ‘man up’ or ‘you throw like a girl’. These are not only toxic to the genders they are describing, but also perpetuate false expectations about how everyone should behave in order to be accepted by society. In particular, ‘strong woman’ and ‘strong female character’ have undertones of the patriarchal division of gender roles.…

English Essay - Anh Do The happiest refugee is a Memoir with the extraordinary story of how made it from Vietnam to Australia, Survived and became one of Australia’s best loved comedians. Throughout the book And meets Lots of People Some kind and willing to help and some mean and angry. In the book he meets Pirates, Nuns and a kind friend who helps him in every way possible. On Anh’s journey with his family to australia they meet up with a bunch of pirates who took pretty much everything that…

There are a lot of adjectives that are used in the poem to suggest the innocence and purity of the boy, which juxtaposition is used by the adjectives and verbs used to describe the invincibility and strength of the Nettles. The poem explores the connotations of the word ‘bed’ and ‘bed of nettles’ and there is a stark contrast to what we associate a bed with and what the bed represents in the poem. Line 1 tells us that the boy’s aged “three” to indicate the boy’s vulnerability, which is then…

In the famous poem, Root Cellar, author Theodore Roethke uses immensely visual and sensory images. “It is a tangled multiplicity of the senses, including rank smells that differentiates Roethke from most other poets of his time or indeed ours (Paglia). Through the intense descriptions in this poem, the reader not only experiences the sights and smells of going down into the cellar, but also develops an awareness of the root cellar’s contents and their connotations in the poem. Roethke’s use of…

Another aspect of ancient Greek mythology that thrives in modern-day society is the lessons that the myths taught. The word “μύθος” (mythos) translates to “story” in the English language (Green 197). Due to this, the stories of ancient Greece are called myths, although the ancient Greeks themselves did not believe these tales of gods and goddesses were merely stories. The Although the myths are no longer heeded as warnings against the wraths of gods and goddesses, the myths held truths…

Throughout The Iliad, Homer shapes his characters through the detailed depictions of their actions and the defining descriptions of their nature. “Godlike” is an adjective Homer often uses to set certain characters apart, giving the descriptive term and the described character a quality of higher significance. However, Homer depicts the gods as very similar to humans— or rather, they are outstanding personifications of key human characteristics. Therefore, in Homer’s eyes, to be godlike is to be…