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Introduction: The ‘DON’T SHOOT!’ picture is a cartoon by Star Tribune. Visual devices seen in the cartoon include reading path, gaze and contrast. Language devices seen in the carton include understatement, pun and allusion. ‘DON’T SHOOT’ cartoon shows an overall effective use of visual devices and literary devices so that it becomes a successful use of satire. Paragraph 1: The purpose of having visual literacies is to help the author convey his or her messages in a form of an image. In the…

A leather jacket, is just a leather jacket, until a punk makes it their own. Leather is a symbol in punk subculture that showcases their beliefs and opinions to the rest of the world. While many abhor the fashion trend, the punks find enjoyment in shocking the masses with their radical and unconventional apparel adorned in spikes, studs, chains, and intentional rips. They look for cast-off garments often from thrift stores, Good Will, and Salvation Army, especially black clothing and…

Riot Grrrl, a movement, a genre, a community. Riot Grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990’s in Washington D.C. It began near the end of 2nd wave feminism that focused primarily on thin, white, middle class, “females” it would lead the very beginnings of the 3rd wave. 3rd wave feminism is the most current wave that is multi sectional, with a common goal of abolishing fat phobia, trans-misogyny, racism, slut shaming, and many more current issues women must…

Early Life: Barbara Corcoran graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971. After graduating, she taught school for a year, but she soon moved on working various jobs including side job renting apartment in New York City. She then later in 1973 co- founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with her boyfriend, who fronted a $1,000 loan. In the mid-1970’s she began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City. In…

This letter goes to you to persuade you or at least for something to pass through your mind.We all know that halloween is a very creative holiday to all of us with the scariest things you can see.About some short time ago the news kept mentioning about a law for halloween to be illegal for teens & adults to stop trick or treating because some adults kept asking for candy.This law is officially pathetic to be honest i don't know how people try to approve it, probably some dumb person tried doing…

INT. STAIRWAY - NIGHT Yaffna stands with her arms folded across her chest at the bottom of the steps. Sandy pulls Morris’s wheelchair up the stairs. Sandy struggles, sweat drips down her face. Her face is beet red, and she looks exhausted. She is close to the top of the stairs, just two steps away. She pulls with all her strength -- but her hands slip and she drops the wheelchair. Morris’s wheelchair goes flying down the stairs. Yaffna sprints into action running up the stairs, skipping two…

Penrose changes the subject and asks Paul what his emergency was. Paul tells him he wants to go to the French authorities and that powerful people at Eden-Olympia and the Cannes police are involved. He went to Penrose because he wanted someone who would back him up. Penrose asks him is it had anything to do with Greenwood and Paul tells him that it’s possible. He says he knew what was happening and might have been murdered because he was going to do something about it. Paul wants to report armed…

Imagine a person creating a plan of killing an innocent victim without the victim even knowing. One month ago, Heart was caught extracting the life of an innocuous elderly man because he vexed one of the man’s unique characteristics. Soon after Heart, the victim’s caretaker, confessed and was apprehended by the police, he made a testimony that explained his despicable plan, and how he accomplished his dreadful goal. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in the case The State of New Jersey v. Heart,…

In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s 2016 short story The Fugitive, a deathly ill man ignores his doctor’s orders in favor of living life. The story revolves around Marciano, a man afflicted with severe tuberculosis, who has just been given his final chance to obey his doctor’s instructions and live freely. Marciano leaves the clinic and immediately removes his required mask, goes to a bar, and generally lives life without the stigma of his illness hanging over him. Several days later, however, Marciano’s…

Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 hit song, “Born to Run” is a hopeful anthem for any individual who has felt the desire to escape from the banality of day-to-day life. While the song features a love story between the narrator and a character named “Wendy”, the more overarching message is the longing to leave behind a town that holds few opportunities and take on the unknown in search of a more fulfilling future. In analyzing this song, three major themes can be identified. These can be simply summarized…