Fading

natural, beautiful environment. The sunset isn't man-made; it is a natural, awe-inspiring, potentially divine occurrence. However, it is passing. It is not permanent. Thus, the ad suggests to its audience that this beautiful, natural phenomenon is fading, that it is somehow being destroyed. The sunset functions as a call for help. It reminds the audience, before we even notice the image of the elephant, that we must preserve nature.…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby chases a dream for the journey alone. The age of multi-sport athletes is fading. Many kids in this generation focus on a single sport. They want to be in the top echelon so they train year long. It seems like it would be a bad idea because it takes away from every other part of life. Training for one sport demands full attention. But within all the hard work lies a common reason for pushing on; the dream that they will eventually reach their goal…

“I Know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king!” Queen Elizabeth I the only daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, received a first class education in literature. Elizabeth had also received an education of politics in England that was not much interesting to her. She had the parliament question her birth which led her to serving time in prison. At Woodstock, the princess wrote poetry, which later became famous. At the age of twenty-five Elizabeth…

Many political commentators have made allegations that President Trump is comparable to a fascist authoritarian ruler. Although there is no clear definition of Fascism, we have seen a strong political behavior which displays a nationalist-militant style of leadership. In Europe, Fascism rose to power due to the current economic and political crises of the twenties and thirties after the World War and Great Depression. It is interesting that Donald Trump has rose to power in the U.S. during…

gruesome description with the immediate image of flowers that will eventually become of their bodies. Although, the two would later become flowers, they are still corpses, but that is natural and is analogous to the path an elderly couple take together fading peacefully into the universe. Hozier continues his vivid imagery writing, “When the cattle’d show fear/ After the insects have made their claim/ After the foxes have known our test” (ll. 22-24) where the animals and critters gustatory…

Twilight, a temporal image of in-between space, also tells about Walcott's imagination, his creative faculty and his conception of poetry which is related to the liberation of mental anxiety, there is a "correspondence between Walcott's creative act and the twilight. Indeed creative art is coterminous with twilight"(Macarie 81). As twilight occurs during the period of transition between daylight and darkness, creative art takes place between "the period of consciousness and the period when…

n the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding explores the theme of loss of innocence. The novel follows the story of a group of boys who are stranded on a remote Pacific island with no adults. As the storyline progresses, the boys begin to lose their grasp on civilization, regressing farther and farther into savagery. As this regression continues, the previously innocent Ralph begins to witness the savagery that humanity is capable of--one of Goldings central ideas. Finally, this leads to…

In this passage, Julie Otsuka uses the rhetorical device of metaphor to contrast the material nature of the Mother’s key with the sacredness of fading memories. By contorting the gears and mechanisms of a lock, the key provides access into the Mother’s home, yet until this point its purpose is to open a source of immaterial memories. The phrase, “The key had become part of her. It was always there, a small, dark shape, dangling,” uncovers unique similarities between the key’s palpable attributes…

The story represents how crummy custody cases can get in the midst of a miserable divorce. Both the husband and the wife long for the baby. Raymond Carver consistently uses the weather imagery to describe the feelings of his character(s), and how they feel during the divorce. The essay describes the narrative story written by Carver. There are two subtopic claims based on the overall topic. For example, one occurrence that is noticeable about the choices that Carver is making, is that both…

“Human Shaped Objects” The show of electronic music that I attended was Telemetry music series featuring Rob Mackay, Human Shaped Object, Grand Banks on November 9th at the Bridge progressive arts initiative. The concert began with Rob Mackay’s performance. He is a composer and a sound artist and a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull. He has received numerous accolades and awards internationally. The music he played explored repetition and was very interesting. However, the…