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Emma Sticklen Porter English 2, Pre-AP/GT-3 29 January 2018 Fahrenheit 451 Allusions Research 1. Allusion/Type: Juan Ramon Jimenez/ Literature A. Quote: “If they give you ruled paper, Write the other way” (Bradbury XVII). B. Explanation: In the Beginning of the story, this quote is an allusion to Juan Ramon a Jimenez, a Spanish poet. He earned the Nobel peace prize for literature in 1956. Jimenez was a well-known in the United States for his poetry. He wrote most of his poems in free verse,…

Mail had made its first official appearance in the early 1600s, where it was introduced within the American colonies. It began to revolutionize the way human beings would communicate the future, making it much more accessible to relay messages to their family and peers. The Mailing service expanded its power throughout the country, thus creating gateways for humans to connect and reach their peers. The largest mailing company, known as the United States Postal Service, took over the mailing…

The Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Language can unlock many doors, but our world can also be limited to what we know about it. This is the cruel reality that many of us face when arriving in a new country, not being able to speak the language. One feels as everything around us has broadened, but our world has shrunken. One feels impotent, unable to communicate with the people that surround us. For this reason,…

Not-so Empty Rhetoric If you were to tune into the news in the past few weeks you most likely have heard someone saying something along the lines of "It's just empty rhetoric." However, if you really analyze at this statement, it does not necessarily make sense. According the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, rhetoric is defined as "the art of speaking or writing effectively." How could someone's ability be "empty" if rhetoric is being able to write or speak efficiently? It does not make sense. I…

During the 14th Century the English language was mainly spoken by the uneducated lower classes and the language began to see some of the grammatical complexities and inflections gradually disappear. The many genders that were used for nouns had almost entirely vanished. Adjectives that once had as many as eleven different inflections were reduced to just two used for singular and plural. However, in modern English today adjectives will often perform just one. Also pronunciation stresses…

department focusing on retirement. I thought it would be interesting to compare a position on the other side of Finance. When I first read about the project, I decided I would search for jobs in European countries as I am more familiar with European languages and culture. Having visited England before, I decided to look a careers and opportunities in England. I took several tests between both sites, I took the Cross Cultural…

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki uses “In Praise of Shadows” to relate to the audience by talking about the multitude of differences between traditional Japanese aesthetics and modern Western inventions. He shows how these differences affect the past culture, causing it to fade away with the introduction of innovations that are more useful, beneficial, and efficient. Tanizaki explains the deeper meaning and significance of the simplest things. The author explains how there is a significance to everything…

Voyage to Brobdingnag, A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms”. By the way, the first and last part is extremely important in the whole story, because it should be satirizing on English government and society. Even through part two and three were just not plentiful as first and last parts, but it’s still a main part in the story, just like the transition part on this whole story. In the first trip to Lilliput, I think the war…

published in 1953, Hocart gives evidence for his criticisms against the established “kinship extension” that persisted in the 20th century. In comparing the meanings of established “extensions” of non-native kinship terms made between a number of languages, he demonstrates that these “kinship extensions” not only serve to muddle the meaning of the original word but can have disastrous, widespread, effects on our understanding of other cultures. In the article Hocart calls for a solution to the…

The Dodo bird verdict terminology, which was inspired by “Everybody's won and all must have prices” phrase in Alice's in Wonderland novel, describes the attitude that all talking therapies are equally effective and common factors shared by all of them are more important than specific technical differences (Rosenzweig,1936). In response to that a strong statement, in 1975, when one of the first comparative studies reported that there are significant differences in the outcomes among different…