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Examples CMT In Book II, Chapter 3 (342.30–32), Joyce employs the portmanteau word “swapstick”, combining the words “swap”, “stick”, “slapstick” and “swastika”: “This eeridreme has being effered to you by Bett and Tipp. Tipp and Bett, our swapstick quackchancers, in From Topphole to Bottom of The Irish Race and World.” Donaldo Schüler’s (2002, p. 303) translation of this passage retains the concept of “slapstick” with the term “fragorosos farsantes” [rackety masqueraders], but omits any…

General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was in many respects second to General Robert E. Lee in the Confederate popularity with southerners, especially within their memory, religion, and mythology. His early death on May 10, 1863 left many unanswered questions, however former soldiers on his staff, contemporary historians, and modern professional historians have filled in the gaps about Jackson to complete a history of the general. His history has been connected to the Confederacy, Lee, Shenandoah…

Dickinson sees the human mind as so powerful that it dwarfs God’s abilities and intellect by comparison. I also noted that Dickinson comes near to making an atheist argument at certain points, implying that God may have been created inside the human mind, since the brain can “contain” him “with ease.” Finally, I remarked that Dickinson’s word choices imply the human brain to be more sophisticated and developed…

The book EDUCATION AROUND THE WORLD; A Comparative Introduction written by Colin Brock and Nafsika Alexiadou is best described as a book with different subjects of thought represented with Venn diagrams which find their intersection at education. This book is proof that everything is founded on education but yet education is immensely affected by them. The authors wrote the book with the aim of introducing the field of Comparative and International Education to those beginning to study or take…

The Box Man In “The Box Man”, Barbara Lazear Ascher describes the lives of the Box Man and two other women in order to compare them. By analyzing these comparisons, readers can come to the conclusion that the Box Man leads a more meaningful life than the other two women. While this statement may initially appear to be absurd, it is most definitely true. Without understanding their lives, it would seem that the Box Man is living a purposeless life and his hobby of collecting boxes indicates how…

the reading performance for high school students? The emphasis of this research will focus on current reading interventions used to support high school struggling readers. Most importantly, it will synthesize the effectiveness of close reading interventions in the high school classroom. Supporting the high school struggling reader has recently sparked a great deal of conversation and research. The idea that reading interventions are not beneficial for high school students is no longer…

about Sula, but the most prevalent themes are based on the feminine and psychological lenses that can be applied to the novel. Both are large parts of the book, and without them, large points are missed. Symbolism of the characters is another large part of the work that cannot be overlooked without missing out on a large portion of what gives the book a deeper meaning. The feminine lens would seem to be the most obvious choice for looking at Sula, but not the most plentiful option for actual…

In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, we see the New Woman first being introduced to the reader by the three women that Jonathan Harken encounters in Count Dracula’s castle. Mina and Lucy are a representation of the good, traditional Victorian women in comparison to those three women. In her article "Bram Stoker 's Dracula and Late-Victorian Advertising Tactics: Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies, and Porn", Tanya Pikula argues that “Dracula not only functions as a ‘kind of ‘test-bed’ for competing arguments…

John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale.” Although the central theme of these two poems is in essence based upon the same subject, the perspectives taken by the two authors are so immensely different that they demand an entirely different reaction from the reader. Both poems make use of symbolism to great effect. The use of birds in order symbolize concepts that are crucial to human existence is clear in both pieces. In the Raven Poe uses the imagery of the Raven to…

Introduction: Eric Schlosser strongly expresses his ethos throughout his introduction. He talks us through exactly what he will express throughout the book and why. On page 3, he says, “This is a book about fast food, the values it embodies, and the world it has made.” He starts off by telling us exactly what to expect while reading and to also shed some light on the undeniable truth that most fast food businesses want to keep hidden from consumers. He openly promotes his beliefs on the primary…