Euphemism

This week’s first lecture began by us watching a short clip of Richard the II that was performed by sir john Gilbert. Richard the II was the first play in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy, Henry IV is the second play in the sequence. We talked briefly about the plot of Richard II and how Bolivar became king Henry IV. We then talked about the beginning of Henry IV in which the king is being plotted against due to his apparent forgetting of debts due, and his son whom behaves in a non-royal manner…

father used to say to me “you throw like a girl,” Or I hear guy friends harass each other with “don’t be a pussy.” A former Barlow student who will remain anonymous has said to me that wrestling coaches at our school often use derogatory language and euphemisms like “pull up your skirt”, or “don’t be a bitch.” So, we have men who feel like they have to live up to this imaginary toxic image of what a man is supposed to be, while simultaneously verbally and non verbally expressing that if you’re…

Introduction The top two selling music genres of 2014 were Rock and Roll, with eighty-eight million, two hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold, and Rhythm and Blues, also known as R&B, with thirty-five million, seven hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold (Statista.com). Selling billions of dollars worth of albums, singles, concert tickets, and merchandise every year, the artists at the forefront of these two genres are more than successful and saying so would be an understatement. Those same…

Corporal Punishment As A Valid Means For Disciplining Children Demetria Belcher Northeast Lakeview College Corporal Punishment As A Valid Means For Disciplining Children INTRODUCTION "Is corporal punishment a valid tool for disciplining children?" This question has been debated for decades worldwide, but not so much in the United States as in recent years. High profile cases in the media, such as the indictment of Vikings running back Adrian Peterson in 2014, for spanking his son…

Former U.S. Naval officer and Foreign Service officer, Mr. Angelo M. Codevilla’s book: Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft provides exemplary instruction in the art of war. Mr. Codevilla’s work seeks to inform future presidents on the matters of effective and purposeful warfare. He sees his work as important as he believes that currently world leaders see war as not a normal tool of statecraft but a curable disease, and that the citizens of every country deeply desire to…

Behind the Masks During the English Renaissance, a new wave of writers—Like Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, and William Shakespeare—aspired to tackle what it is considered to be controversial topics, such as equality, social justice, and sexual desire. However, because of their relationship with the royal court, their reputations in society, and/or the strict religious code, their controversial works were disguised, in which they employ multiple literary devices to either protect themselves from…

Tyler Martyn AP Language and Composition Summer Reading Assignment Mrs. Hoelzer Part 2: Post-Reading Questions “Politics and the English Language” – George Orwell 1. In writing his essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell simply comes out and states his thesis. He declares, “Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble” (Orwell 707). This statement is the…

II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding this topic. With the help of diary entries, photographs, and official documents, Tanaka…

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…

The United States of America should not pay blacks Reparations. One reason they shouldn’t pay them Reparations because there's no reason to pay the people in today's world they didn’t have to go through the slavery and knows what it feel like to be held up, traded for goods and to be beaten. That's why i argue that the blacks today should not be paid reparations. Reparation means the making of money for a wrongdoing. In the early 2000’s Reparations was given to veterans and diverse leaders.…