Colloquialism

Click. Select. “Ava Grossmann” Type: click, click, click, click, click. “Clocked in at 3:27 pm” I Looked up. “Hi, Ava!” “Hey!” “What are you eating?” “A caramel roll, I made them last night”. “I’m surprised you made it to work, since I guess you had to leave the kitchen and the bedroom to make it here.” Stop. Look up. I asked, “how is that funny?” He replied, “Well, Ava you should know…” Stop. Snarky replies flashed across my mind. No. Smile. Turn-around. Walk-away. My…

From the first moment an infant’s eyes open, their parents are influencing them. Colloquialisms, manners, identification characteristics, subconscious tendencies, can all be traced back somewhere to an encounter or example taken from the parent sometime in a life. It is when nearing adolescence that these influences begin to be questioned and analyzed. This principle is prevalent in both Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, but only through examination of…

been faced with many cultural revolutions as the decades have progressed. Spanning from the early 1950’s to 2016, American Culture has strayed from the commonly shared values of a once religiously rooted America. The way in which we dress, our colloquialism, and commonly accepted values have propelled America into a very interesting era in which each new generation continues to distance our values from those in post-World War II United States. In Martin Gansberg’s article “38 Who Saw a Murder…

In “Consider The Lobster,” David Foster Wallace offers an interestingly ironic perspective on the intent of a creator when it comes to literature. As an author, Wallace has an insider’s perspective as to how audiences should be treating and accepting various forms of literature. On the surface, “Consider The Lobster” is an essay about the unimaginable treatment of lobsters in the Maine Lobster Festival which has an incredible lasting impact on the reader, leading them to feel an extreme amount…

Within society, both past and present, we can discern a myriad of façades which present a deceptive outer appearance. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Willy Russell’s Educating Rita and D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover are works of literature which diversely consider a vast array of characters and situations which demonstrate such façades within society. These façades may be actively used by a character or be surrounding an abstract concept or institution, such as wealth or…

Teams are formed to conquer a goal that was otherwise unachievable on your own. They are necessary in both the workforce and learning environment to push forward a task to a higher level. A team is defined as a “small task group in which the members have common purpose, interdependent roles and complementary skills that are used in various applications such as problem solving, product development, decision making, planning, negotiation, etc” (Gera, 2013). Teams have started merging into the…

alludes, and symbolizes aspects in Delia’s life that can be connected to Hurston 's Christian upbringing. For example, no matter what Sykes does Delia continues to have faith in God and attends church on a regular basis. Hurston, also incorporates colloquialism in her writing style to show the level of education that Sykes and Delia had obtained. Based on their dialect the reader can make several inferences. The reader can draw the conclusion that the two of them where not ever smart. The short…

We are living in the 21st century—where I have been accepted into a private college. Not only have I been accepted into a “private” college—I have been accepted into a “white private college”. At eighteen, I have already slain two negative stereotypes—so I would say momentum is on my side that would sweep the 95-96 Bulls. I graduated high school and have been accepted into a lesser known college(.-What that means) So yeah, my (iron or eye) sight is right on success. I’m on a lucrative road where…

he wanted to save one woman he never really knew. Captain Charlie Durham was a no-good djam fool bwoy” (Smith 294). There are many different literary devices in this quote. There is a simile when it says “False as her own white teeth”. There is colloquialism when it says “djam” and “bwoy”. Also, there is hyperbole when it says “He sacrificed a thousand people because he wanted to save one woman he never really knew”. Lastly, there is characterization when in the quote, it is describing how smart…

The concept of “black rage” was originally propositioned as part of a legal defense for mass murderer Colin Ferguson, in which long term exposure to anti-black racism was cited as a main factor in the plaintiff's psychosis. Though the defense was did not manage to save Ferguson from life in prison, it sparked a conversation that still persists to this day: “What are the long term effects of racism on the African American psyche?” In some cases, it seems as if “black rage” is simply a term used…