Grammatical gender

the asphyxiation of an impassable heat, the suffocation of a dry well, the vacuousness of a clogged bastion, an emptiness where tears should replenish: ‘Who do we sit with to affirm our humanity? With depression I have nothing to grasp onto! With gender, of course! With race, absolutely! With nationality, it is a necessity! Yet this is the uncanny bit: all those things are voids, brought in being. Depression, when brought into being, is the void. All those things that do not exist…

First, we should understand that there is no magic bullet and no definitive set of metrics for social media. It is extremely important to take the time to delineate the social media metrics that best fit your company, because in doing so you are outlining how it is that you are going to measure success. Once that has been accomplished, the way to best tie your social media objectives to that of your business objectives - is to plan. To start, you set a standard or framework. This will help your…

This semester has been very different from my past years of schooling. This was my initial college semester. I learned a lot from this course, along with my other ones too. I have overcome my first obstacles at writing and have developed my skills even farther. This will continue to improve as I indulge myself into writing more essays and as I gather more knowledge. If I were to compare my first essay to my last essay, I believe that there would be a noticeable improvement. Although I notice my…

Identities of Tender Buttons and Life Breaks In Have you ever gotten so used to seeing the same everyday objects that you barely notice them anymore? Haven’t you been having terrible mood swings over that? Both Gertrude Stein and Mary Cappello in their books dissolve the tediousness of both everyday-use and everyday-felt elements and objects in a very exceptional way. Personally, I believe that Stein uses very common and simple adjectives in expressing certain objects, food, and rooms. She…

In Prayer With “bothe lawe” is that what tore him apart I will be looking closely at the Man of Law’s tale, lines 218-231, because so much of interest goes on in these lines: the friction of both religions, Islamic and Christianity, and how the language used mirrors Sultan’s decision making. Chaucer convinces us through his language that he has been in prayer during these two stanzas. It first seems that he is in prayer with Islamic when he states, “taught by Mahoun oure prophete” as if he is…

Grendel, written by John Gardner in 1971, is perhaps one of the most intriguing remediations of Beowulf to date. While the novel stays true to many aspects of the original poem, it also embodies several notable differences when compared to Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf. The most jarring difference is the perspective the novel is told from. Gardner tells the epic tale of Beowulf through the eyes of Grendel, one of the three monsters that Beowulf battles in the original poem. Furthermore,…

The narrative voice is the perspective of a novel, and it is through this voice that the reader receives and becomes connected to the story. This voice can appear in a variety of ways; for example, one common perspective is first person point of view, through which the narrator speaks directly to the reader by using personal pronouns such as ‘I.’ By creating a character that speaks directly to the reader, they become personally tied to what the narrator is telling them. In this way the reader…

Mary Oliver is overwhelmed and in awe with the beauty of nature and conveys this through the passage “Owls” with apprehensive diction and first person perspective making the reader feel like they are right alongside her as she makes observations about the wild owls, their prey, and the peaceful flowers she sees. This apprehension is added to through the reverence Mary seems to have for the owls and the fear conveyed through that reverence in the first three quarters of the passage. In the…

Sophia Nguyen Period 5 Chapter 1 Document 1. I feel that Nisa’s account of her life helps with understanding the much earlier Paleolithic people is very helpful because it gives a first person perspective on the life of a person living in a hunting-gathering society, like the Paleolithic people. Because Nisa doesn’t get much exposure to people outside her society, communicating with others was especially more important to her. 2. To Nisa, sex was very important to her because she didn’t want to…

Narrative point of view can impact the story in different ways. This essay will analyse three stories from the reader and explain why the authors chose different point of views and how their choice impacted the reader. Different narrative points of view affect the reader in different ways, in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ the effect on the reader is one of surprise horror, in Tim Winton’s ‘A Long, Clear View’ the effect on the reader is one of shock and unease and in Zsuzsi Garner’s ‘The…