Grammatical tenses

Power and the American Dream In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he illustrates the vacancy of love due to the corruption of wealth also known as the American dream. The American dream in the novel expresses achievement to be financially successful, which includes: having a big house, car and love. In “The Great Gatsby”, the story is narrated by Nick. Nick is able to foresee the corruption taking place. Gatsby, one of the main characters, is a very wealthy man. He fits all…

M.I.A.’s song “Born Free” has an extremely controversial music video that raises awareness to the fact that oppression and discrimination are still extremely relevant in todays modern society. The director of the music video is Romain Gavras. The way the electronic music duo delivered their message has been criticized for being far fetched because it depicts a government like group geocoding innocent redhead boys. Instead of analyzing the video as being too far fetched, I believe M.I.A. uses…

The Innateness of a Plural Identity: Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven Michelle Cliff’s novel No Telephone to Heaven is one part of a three novel series that follows the journey of multiple characters as they navigate through spaces they occupy in Jamaica and in between the various identities they take on simultaneously (Grimes “Michelle Cliff”). As a Jamaican-American author, many of Cliff’s works revolve around the plurality of identity as one’s interpretation of themselves through the…

Gordon 5 destroy to create an adult?’. The depressed person, however, is the inversion of child and adult in that they tread the traceable threads back to childhood, against the forces towing the line towards adulthood. The child garners much glee when they begin to walk: “‘Now we have heard enough of the tight-rope walker; let us see him, too!’”. A ‘tightrope state’ in the ethical imprisonment of the ‘child’ (the ‘self as other’) and ethical administration by the ‘adult’ (the ‘self for other’).…

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…

There are certain circles within the music world that hold firm to the belief that this art form is of the purest and most abstract, and should remain so, while others think music should remain open to as many people as possible. Within the context of the 21st century, the later positon has become increasingly important to adopt, not only for the continued success of this art form, but to inspire and motivate positive change in the world. The current project under consideration, titled Divided…

Technologies of writing have encompassed our world since the introduction of language by man. For some reason, even I am stumped in my wonderings of language beginning with man. Where were the ladies during this development, I ask? Surely, they were not absent in its structural forefront of grunts and hand gestures. It appears, somewhere along the way, society deemed language a man’s tool first; everyone else’s second. Gendered language is abundantly present even in our modern daily…

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,…