Fall of Constantinople

My Fear by Lawrence Raab, is a poem where nightmares are portrayed as a person. This person watches us throughout the day, taking notes on what terrifies us or makes us anxious. Afterwards, when the day is over, and we are ready to go to bed, he uses our fears against us. The fear could be about death, an excruciating event, or a horrifying object, he will use anything and everything against us. The person portraying a nightmare, has a sack full of fears to pick from to scare us with tonight,…

The 1985 American Express card commercial starring the famous author Stephen King is particularly effective in its cleverness to full audiences. The ad relies strongly on the fallacy of appeal to authority and the scare tactic of the unknown. Urgency and fear have been created ingeniously in its tone and imagery. Although the ad does strongly use this fallacy and an underlined emotion of fear to persuade its audience, the result is enormously effective. First, the ad starts with lightning…

The actions of the protagonist in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, has sparked many debates on whether he is a hero or a coward. Okonkwo has several conflicting personality traits which contribute to the confusion in distinguishing hero from coward. Okonkwo is highly regarded in his home village of Umofia, however he makes many mistakes which hurt his reputation and contribute to his downfall. While Okonkwo has strengths which make him a respected member of his community, he also…

Have you ever imagined death? Imagine listening to a clock ticking down until it reaches your final hour. What if you didn’t know it was your final hour? How would you feel? Would you be nervous at every chime of the clock? I know I would. In the story, “Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe uses a clock as his suspense device. I believe that he chose it because clocks make people nervous and jittery. Every time a clock hand moves, you are an hour, a minute, a second, or even a…

Strength, Freedom, and Power It is human nature to always want more. More power; more strength; more money; more freedom. Many search for these things through external journeys, but Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon tells the readers that the search for satisfaction should be internal. The novel focuses around the life and journey of Milkman Dead, and the progression of his character as he interacts with more and different characters. Toni Morrison develops Milkman and Pilate Dead’s…

Figurative Language with Edgar Allan Poe. Imagine being a prisoner of war, and being psychologically tortured. During The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe perfectly portrays this scenario by using the setting, style, and conflict to paint a life threatening scene . By using repetition to emphasize during the climax, the audience is dared to continue reading. Will the man make it alive to fight against the enemy? He fights with himself of wanting to end the torture, but a deadly surprise is in store…

Descriptive detail, repetitive phrases, and the passing of time are used to convey a suspenseful mood in both the stories “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. A suspenseful mood of the story can be portrayed by displaying a sense of time passing. For example, when Montresor was building up the walls of the recess, he heard the moaning of Fortunato, but then afterword mentions, “There was then a long and obstinate silence” (Poe 11). This…

Edgar Allan Poe's repeated use of imagery conveys the his message of one being manipulated by one's own guilt and fear. One of the first examples of imagery is the narrator's description of the old man's blue eye. He claims the old man's "eye was like the eye of a vulture," and describes the continual "cold feeling" he experiences every time he sees the blue eye. The narrator's utilization of the dynamic imagery is to support his his actions as sane as he claims the old man's vulture preys upon…

America has had a problem with women's rights since as far back as the 1920’s. From wanting the right to vote all the way to women wanting the same pay as men and to be more accepted in the workforce. Many people say feminism comes in waves. The first major ‘wave’ was in the 1920s for women's suffrage. The second was in the 1970’s for respect towards women in the workforce. And now there is another feminism event happening, but it's not necessarily a movement this time, it’s a revolution.…

Land Divided The novel, Sseason of Mmigration to the Nnorth, the author Tayeb Salih told the story of Sudan, a small cast of characters play out their lives representing the greater nation as a whole and in this Salihy depicts how the country falls into disaster. Sudan was a timebomb, it sat armed ever since the British colonization when their culture was destroyed and their people divided, as their customs had been replaced leaving them with nothing, this is all shown through the nameless…