Diving

In the great Gatsby Chapter 3 page 39 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this excerpt to show how different he was from everyone else and stands alone since he does not drink, or dance he just watches. In chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes imagery and simile to illustrate more detail and emphasis in everything. The first type of figurative language noticed was a simile, On page 39, it states, ”in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths…” him stating this is saying…

greater powers are at play. Time spent in the outdoors is a time to blaze unbeaten paths and discover new things. When I hike new paths, I get a perception of new places that share hidden secrets. Learning Biology, I undergo the exact experience. Diving deeper, I begin to detract…

In the song “Swimming Pools” by Kendrick Lamar, he writes “Some people like the way it feels/ Some people wanna kill their sorrows/ Some people wanna fit in with the popular/ That was my problem”(Lamar), we see a very similar description of alcoholism in The Swimmer, by John Cheever, who also uses swimming pools as a metaphor for the hardships of being an alcoholic. Throughout The Swimmer, Cheever, writes using many motifs to show the narrator, Neddy Merrill’s, decline into becoming an alcoholic…

Cadillac and Ford use implicit communication techniques to talk about our consuming habits. To begin with the Cadillac video, they want to convince us that everything we got in life, we deserved it, if we overconsume or buy things we didn’t need, we work hard for it and we did sacrifice, like he said, we took only two weeks of vacations. He promotes the car because he says implicitly that luxury is the result of working hard. At the opposite, the Ford video tried to explain implicitly that…

The analogy, "Life is like a quilt" is expressed very well through the character Sophia in the movie How to make an American Quilt. I think that this analogy is a very interesting and compelling way to think think about life. Each piece of the quilt has an important role in the finished product: the scraps Sophia used to make her quilt symbolize the things holding her together, her support systems, and her inside character. The quilt top in meant to be the finished product, or the end of her…

Honestly, I can’t tell you for sure. The lines diving psychopathy, sociopathy and other Cluster B personality disorders are very blurred to say the least. Even more so because Mark is still under the age of 18 which is the age when you can start properly diagnosing someone with mental diseases. So this will be a very loose diagnosis. There is a certified test called the PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist Revised) to help asses the presence of psychopathy in people. When filling this out using Mark’s…

only thrifty but adventurous which is evident by the algorithm that Groupon uses to put the deals. “Groupon deal-of-the-day email messages, for example, often present consumers with an opportunity to do something they wouldn't ordinarily do—take sky-diving lessons or subscribe to the ballet” (McGraw-Hill). Groupon Now has a developed a smartphone app as they were able to identify the users age, gender, and income of Groupon. Which are 18-34 year old females with an average income of…

Ezra Wakinekona Giving back to Hawai’i I was born and raised in Waimea. I lived here all my life. I’ve gone to the mainland a few times and every time I go, I can’t wait to come back home. There is nowhere like Hawai’i. My plans after graduating from school is to become a lifeguard. I love the ocean and decided that working as a lifeguard will be something I will enjoy doing and be good at. This is how I will support myself now that I am an adult. Lifeguarding is more than just…

From busking the streets of Santa Monica to Pasadena, Katie Ferrara's carefree determination have led her to share her sweet sounds of folk and pop. Upon her latest EP, released this past October, Dream Catcher embodies the heart developed through Ferrara's travels. The Los Angeles native and her 6-track bliss, becomes a stance on wishful thinking, and as Ferrara states, "following your dreams." Paired with loving melodies and beautiful harmonizing, Ferrara creates a warmth at the end of each…

The theme of the story Scarlet Ibis is that Pride can both be expressed in positive and negative ways. This book is consumed with pride and his actions towards doodle, his brother, show it. There are many examples throughout this story that positive and negative can express both be good or bad. For example, “So I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow” (Hurst 417). He was embarrassed to have a five year old brother that couldn't walk or do anything with him. He spent…