Denotation

The media perceives Taylor Swift as nothing more than a clingy, manipulative, and crazy young woman who jumps from relationship to relationship. Being the lyrical genius she is, Swift created the song "Blank Space" in 2014 to defend her position with this preconceived notion. She uses many rhetorical devices to explain her position in this argument against the media. With the beneficial use of rhetorical devices, Taylor Swift shows that boys will only stay if it is worth a fight, and that she is…

When the world consists of the sand box in the backyard, the park down the road, the elementary school classroom, and maybe a couple local grocery stores, it’s easy to ignore the injustice in the world. Children are often removed from the realities of discrimination. However, JK Rowling sought to first address discrimination and then take a clear stance against discriminatory practices in her Harry Potter book series. By embarking on this mission on behalf of her readership, Rowling impacted the…

The Holy Eucharist is the focal point in spiritual nourishment in the Catholic life. By deeply analysing the symbols utilized in the poster promoting the Eucharist we can receive and insight into the reason why the Eucharist is of such significance to the Catholic life. The Golden Chalice situated as the focal point of the poster represents the glass in which Jesus instituted his blood at the last supper to his disciples. The Chalice is a visual representation of the Last Supper. The Chalice…

The Danger of Disregard A bird from hell, a man living through it, and a woman’s ghostly memory - the building blocks for the dark, chilling descriptions of Edgar Allen Poe’s short poetic thriller ‘The Raven’. This alluring tale recounts the night the narrator fell into ultimate hopelessness and distraught. The man had been reading through his books at the darkest hour of the night, when he began to hear a soft tapping resembling a knock. He was a loner, not used to visitors, so he was…

Upon the arrival of British settlers in 1607 in what was then referred to as Tsenacomoco, the local political geography, or traditional boundaries that divided the native factions, completely turned on its head. In the half-century that followed, the Colony of Virginia decimated the Powhatan Confederacy, the natives of the land, and oversaw their subjugation. In order to understand the context of the Powhatan demise at the hands of the British, primary texts originating from the period of their…

Since my high school Creative Writing class will be an elective class that will consist of students in tenth through twelfth grade, I will need to find ways to bring student fun into the learning as much as possible. I have found that students love to eat and socialize, so I will include food, props, and games whenever possible. Difficulty will occur as the norm for class size at my school is thirty-two to thirty-six students, and not all students want to be in the classes where they are…

The situation is that Provenzo’s primary focus has been on education as a social and cultural phenomenon (para 1). One of his concerns, has been the role of the teacher in society (para 1). In paragraph one, the situation is, “To a large extent, Hirsch, in his efforts as an educational reformer, wants to establish a national curriculum.” (para. 1). He is motivated to write by responding to Hirsch’s argument about curricular fragmentation (para. 2). Hirsch states in paragraph one, “We have…

“Ground Swell”, by Mark Jarman would be a narrative poem. Even though these are two different types of poetry they both attract the mind and feelings through their components of poetry such as persona and theme, tone, diction and structure and denotation/connotation. The persona, or the speaker, is the voice that speaks to the readers. Understanding the background of…

Melville’s use of the words “silently, palely, mechanically,” words that have extremely different denotations, all evoke Melville’s principle characterization of Bartleby; he is machine-like and lifeless. First of all, the narrator objectifies Bartleby by illustrating Bartleby’s style of copying as being mechanical. The word “mechanically,” an adverb that…

While reading The Scarlet Letter, I was introduced to many characters such as Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Pearl Prynne. Of all the main characters in the story, the person I most empathize with is Pearl. Even though Pearl is a little girl, I can understand, in a way, what she is going through. Throughout the beginning of the story, she has no idea who her father is. While I have known my father for my whole life i have known of people who have never met…