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Simon’s vulnerability is shown in this extract, when the beast points out that Simon is all alone, “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast.” Since he is alone, with the beast, no one can help him, but also because this is a figment of his imagination, so no one else can see the beast apart from Simon. “Only me” is used as a minor sentence and it seems to be implying that he is the only one who can help him. The adverb “only” emphasises that the beast is the only creature…

In her text Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa, Amanda Lock Swarr credits Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner for the concept of liminality, which describes “passage from one cultural state to another” (Swarr 3). However, liminality does not necessarily have to express a temporary state; it can be applied to a state which is permanently between social categories (Enke, Lecture 3/8). Swarr applies this concept to gender to create an alternative term to more widely used…

words with different endings; these different endings suggest there are feminine (-ia/-sa) and masculine (-is/-en) rhymes. As far as the English translation suggests, anything can be turned into female or masculine rhymes whether it is a verb, noun, adjective or other. In the first line “m’apais” translates as “I feed” while on the second line “m’apaia” means “content me,” by looking at the English translation in these lines the speaker in the masculine rhyme…

legitimacy of a leader, which is formed through honest relationships with their followers. Authentic leaders are said to be positive, open people who are also perceived as truthful. Politicians by stereotype are rarely referred to as authentic. Common adjectives for politicians usually include the words untrustworthy, conniving and misleading, all of which would not be characteristics of an authentic leader. Clinton has had many scandals surround his career most famously the Lewinsky Scandal.…

Cesar Chavez is a well known activist as well as civil rights leader. In an article that he wrote devoted to those in need, he uses rhetorical strategies to develop his argument about nonviolence resistance. The terms he incorporates involves personification, alliteration, and repetition. These terms renovated this article to bring contemplation to the reader. Through his use of strategies, he starts an uprising of nonviolent resistance. Cesar Chavez uses personification to emphasize and…

The piece of art I chose to study was the story of how Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. This story can be found in the second book of the Bible, Exodus. The story begins with Moses being found by the Pharaoh’s daughter after being given up by his mother. The Pharaoh’s daughter took Hebrew Moses as her own and raised him. One day Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, Moses intervened and actually killed the Egyptian. Moses became frightened and fled. Years later God appeared to Moses…

Reflective Statement Before the interactive oral on the impact of translations in the understanding of novels, I never regarded the influence of a translation on my understanding. While reading The Stranger, I knew the book had been translated from French, but disregarded that the translation might lead to alterations of words or ideas based on the style of the translation. With books originally written in one’s own language, it becomes easier to derive meaning closer to the author’s…

The poem “Siren Song” is written by Margaret Atwood in 1976. Poems have more meaning to them when you break apart the words. Analyzing a poem is an easier way of breaking down the the poem. It is a way that you can break apart the poem and find out what the poem is really about. If you don’t understand a poem a great way to understand the poem is to break it apart. This poem establishes that a siren is the subject of the poem. It begins with a siren telling us about her song. She explains to…

Before several weeks, I watched a very interesting social experiment video on YouTube. A tester who walked on street pretended very hungry and asked random strangers for a piece of pizza to those who were eating pizza. Those strangers’ reactions were kind of same; they said that they were hungry too and could not share any their piece of pizza to the asker. After that, the tester found a homeless person who wearily sat on ground, and gave some piece of pizza to him. Twenty minutes later,…

Critical Commentary Introduction “Is Hyperloop the Future of Travel” is an article from BBC that talks about Hyperloop, a conceptual transportation system that would shorten travel time by a great amount. I choose this article because I like travel and I believe that travel will become easier and faster in the near future because of innovations and new technology such as Hyperloop. This article mainly focuses on two parts: the first part explains what Hyperloop is and how it works; the second…