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feelings between the two norms. For example, if she isn’t sexually active, she is considered to be prude, but if she is too sexually active, she is considered to be a whore, slut, and or a vixen. Females are aware that there are many derogatory adjectives, use to describe the individual, often with an emphasis on sex. This constraint is call double bind; which according to Frye is the securitization of women. Frye stated, “Women face restrictions which, on-balance, are harmful to them, they…

ordered free verse reflects the controlled chaos within the city itself. One must be well familiarized with Chicago and all of its parts and citizens to truly understand the order of the city’s work, play, and crime. Sandburg also uses numerous adjectives and similes, which applies a sort of personal, human-like aura to this city. In the first half of the poem, Sandburg describes Chicago as “Wicked, crooked and brutal… is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities,” (6, 9,…

Paper rater scored my vocabulary as average. Increasing my vocabulary will help my writing to stand out (Paper Rater, 2015). I will use a thesaurus to boost my vocabulary, especially when finding informative adjectives. In the writers diet I fell into the heart attack category for verbs use. Mark Pennington (2009) gives tips to eliminate verbs. These tips were comprehensive and I have begun eliminating/ replacing verbs. I will continue to use the writers diet…

In Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Joseph Williams discusses and explains how to write in a clear and concise manner. Williams emphasizes the proper use of subjects, action verbs, voice and tone to show writers how to write with clarity. He begins lesson three focusing on actions, specifically expressing the importance of strategically utilizing subjects and action verbs (29). The clarity of a writer’s work directly affects how readers respond to it (28). Williams emphasizes two…

that really stood out to me were the different point of views, the history of anatomy, and the psychological aspects in regards to gender roles. I really enjoyed the beginning of the clip which started off by Ria asking the audience to shout out adjectives describing men and woman. The reason this influenced me so much was listening to other ideas everyone brought up. The perfect woman was described as feminine, small, petite, tall, pretty, and fabulous. It made me wonder how the large or short…

thick wrinkly plastic…) It’s a body bag? You were in a body bag! From all those movies you’ve watched, you work out that you’re in a morgue! Then…this must be that other world, the pocket world! You were all transported here! “She’s moving!” a (ADJECTIVE) voice cries out. There was someone there! The voice is male, but other than that completely unrecognizable. “Hey, help me outta this thing!” you try to scream out of the bag, rationalizing that it’d muffle your…

My chosen theme is loyalty within the play, Much ado about nothing. There is a lack of loyalty between Beatrice and Benedick as we get hints that they used to be a couple in act 2 scene 1 line 245 ‘he lent it me awhile, and i gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one.’ However they we are certain they are no longer a couple because in act 1 scene 1 line 70 Beatrice stated ‘He will hang upon him like a disease.’ This quote that Beatrice used to describe Benedick is a simile. A simile…

passage. That word is “captive.” Presented in this passage is a plethora of struggles that which African slaves and African-Americans have been faced with in both past and present societies. In response to these struggles, Spillers repeatedly uses the adjective “captive” to describes the lives of these people in more ways than one. Spillers uses “captive” to describe the physical and abstract aspect of both African males and females, and she uses it to describe the physical and abstract misogyny…

I chose the following five assignments because I thought they showed my growth the best. At the beginning of the course, writing quickwrites in less than five minutes was a bit challenging. As time went by, I was able to write a seven sentence paragraph with supporting examples, within those five minutes. Annotating a text was always something I enjoyed doing because I love to read. I did, of course, improve my annotating by writing down more of my thoughts and by analyzing the writer’s use of…

derivational and inflectional processes, they are both in fact working simultaneously. One of the examples they use is the –ed morpheme: hood (n) > hooded (adj.) heart (n) > hearted (adj.) ivy (n) > ivied (adj.) The researchers believe that the –ed adjectives used in the examples reflect an almost passive meaning, irrespective of the base from which they are formed, which could potentially contribute to the idea that derivational and inflectional –ed are the same morpheme, further…