Christina of Sweden

As a small town girl from Kentwood, Louisiana, Britney always wanted more. Britney Spears, a teenage girl who just wanted to follow her dreams and become a star took it a little too far and became crazy. From a young age Britney has always gone outside the box with everything she has done. From kissing Madonna to dancing with a snake on stage you can always count on her to take it to the next level. On December 2, 1981 Jamie and Lynn Spears welcomed their first daughter, Britney Jean Spears…

The Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti can be interpreted in many ways, a possible reading of the Goblin Market can be the influence that drugs have on a person. Drugs cause psychological addiction and become associated with the release of pleasure inducing endorphins. But these pleasure come with a life threatening cost. As evidenced by the text, Laura goes through a traumatic experience, craving for the fruit and suffering the mental and physical consequences of an addict. Laura’s addition…

It was early September, so early that school hadn’t started yet. I received a text from a family friend, telling me he was on his way to come pick me up. Earlier in the week, I had a falling out with a friend, and I really needed someone to talk to. I texted TJ, asking if we could do something, to get my mind off of everything. He happily obliged and offered to take me to ice cream on Wednesday. When he pulled into the driveway, my heart leaped to my throat. I was finally going to have to come…

Both Christina Rossetti and Audre Lorde have written each a poem in which the central theme is of a recurring memory of a time past. Their poems use a variety of literary devices that involves the reader in experiencing the occurring memory of a past time with the speaker of the poem. Through this involvement, between the reader and the voice, the poems misleads the reader into being captured by their dream like state that makes the reader misread the inconsistencies within them. This essay will…

Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market illustrates two girls and their encounter with Goblins and their poisonous fruit. Although the girls know how destructive the fruit may be Laura indulges against her sister, Lizzie’s, persistent warning. Eating the fruit proves nothing less than euphoric; however, it takes a negative toll on Laura’s body. Having a parasitic effect, the fruit slowly sucked the life from her. Lizzie then bravely confronts the goblins who press their fruits against her mouth in an…

just know that you knew I was different. Why do you keep saying that? He asked. Justin, in the months that I have known you I watched you like an eagle. I knew what you would do before you did it. I knew when you broke it off with the other girl you were seeing besides crystal, I knew when you felt like you were losing everything and trying to blame Britney or Crystal for his and I knew the moment you feel in love with me and decided to change. I also knew when you found out that I was not…

representations in the music video is that Christina Aguilera showed that no matter how you are what you believe in, that you are beautiful. For example, in the video there were two men who were kissing and holding hands in public. Another one is when there was a guy putting a bra on when he was changing. In this song she sings, “You 're beautiful, no matter what they say, words can 't bring you down, oh no, you 're beautiful, in every single way” (Aguilera). Christina mixes the video with the…

The one place that affected me as a person and who I am today was Jamaica, the place where I was born, the place where I struggled and cried, and the place I call home. Growing up on a small property in Clarendon, Jamaica, I had both mom and dad at my corner loving me. My mother Maureen Rose was a maid who cleaned for wealthy people for minimum wage. My father on the other hand was a welder who worked at a factory and came home every day smelling like oil. I then was a young six years old to be…

Be small, don’t make waves, you are not a hurricane. Small, small, quiet now. Am I good? I don’t deserve this, no I shouldn’t, I’m not good enough- there’s a better choice out there. Cain. Able. I am Cain, she is Able. I am selfish. Rotten, wicked, hark! I am good. Guilt is my poison, engrained, planted, and tendered since I was small. The seed was sown in the everyday happenings of childhood, and circumstances later watered and coxed it to set root, and likewise, entwined with my being. I…

I found this passage very interesting because when I typically think of rhetoric, my mind automatically associates it with the goal of persuasion; I never made, or at the least acknowledged, the connection between rhetoric and attitude. I particularly like Burke’s use of the words move and bend in order to textually describe the change from viewing rhetoric as just a means of persuasion, to perceiving it as a means of shaping one’s inclination. After reading this passage, I have come to realize…