Hex sign

Hex~ A hex is a form of positive protective magic that can positively manipulate or change the actions of myself, another person or their actions to help and benefit that person and to protect them from doing harm to themselves or others. The term originally came from Norway and Switzerland from German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch settled in Pennsylvania in the late 1700s to 1800s. The term came from their Old High German word for “Witch” or “hexe ”. These immigrants brought their beliefs, customs, and practices with them and shared them in their new land. They also adopted some Native American traditions which became known as “Pow-wowing” when they observed them meeting together, or having a “pow wow” to discuss things in…

The game Hex was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein in the 1940s. This game has been of great interest to mathematicians around the world since its introduction, including Martin Gardner who explores it in chapter eight of his first Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (1959). The game is normally played on a board of 11x11 hexagons with two edges labelled black and the other two labelled white. It is a two-person game in which both players (using black and…

Daniel Chandler emphasis this in his references to Saussure’s “two-part model of the sign” (Chandler, 2002), which provides an explanation onto why the name and location may be causing confusion to the patrons. Saussure two-part model discusses how the listener of a signifier which in this case be the word “café” would psychologically associate it with “other elements associated with it in a linguistic sign” (Chandler, 2002) which is the signified. In terms of the name, The Apricot Tree Café,…

Saussure Within The Great Gatsby Structuralism can be described as a critical movement of literature that studies how elements of a text can be understood more efficiently by examining its relationship to the overall composition of a text. Ferdinand de Saussure, the “father of modern linguistics” (845) is a prominent critic in the Structuralism movement. The understanding of Saussure’s theory in Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great…

Structuralism Essay The Flowers by Alice Walker uses several structuralist concepts that can help the reader better understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A…

According to Roland Barthes’ myth formula, a sign acts as a signifier when society assigns it a widely accepted meaning. The meaning of the sign, called the signified, makes a sign logical. Walmart aligns with the mythical concept by using the happy face as a signifier. Contemporary society defines a happy face based on a perpetuated idea that adheres to the media and the Ruling Class. Popular culture defines a happy face as an expression to show a feeling of pleasure. According to Walmart’s…

everybody fits into one group or the other. Are you a religious man would say everything happens for a reason? Or are you a non- believer who would say life events are coincidence or luck? In the movie signs by Shyamalan, he shows us how a man loses his faith and now thinks differently. But as a crisis begins to happen in his life he has to gain faith back in order to survive. Shyamalan reveals a theme that everything happens for a reason through flashback, characters and symbolism. Every…

According to attachment #1 DA Form 5074-1-R date prepared: 16 November 2009 USAR transfer, indicates your branch as Army Nurse (AN) with the following entries: Part III-Computation of Entry Grade and Date of Rank. Block #30 reflects the grade of MAJ/O4 Bock #33 reflects Date of Entry on Active Duty: 12 August 09, Block #35 Date of Rank reflects: 20 May 03. Hence the publication of Federal Recognition Special Orders Number 282 AR dated 20 November 2009. However; attachment #2 DA…

“Confusyd in hirself and hir owyn unstabylnes:” Plurality, Bricolage, and Infinite Regress in The Book of Margery Kempe There is a plurality of spiritual signifiers in The Book of Margery Kempe. We all know of Kempe’s “gift of tears,” of her ecstatic visions, her commitment to wearing white and creating a chaste marriage for herself. However irritating these signifiers may be, at first read the semiotics appear to be stable. Kempe cries readily when free association brings to mind the earthly…

Henry V is the final play in Shakespeare’s second tetralogy of history plays and, like the others, reflects the Elizabethan interest in history and politics. As a biographical text, the play cannot be separated from history as “history is a story in itself” (Angus 2) and there are multiple historical constructs within it. Henry V is both a signifier and signified. It is a reconstruction of past events from an Elizabethan point of view (signifier) and, from a modern perspective is a consideration…