Innuendo

they can gain access to privileged information and sworn secrecy. Aside from this, political information is also used as a weather vane. Politicians leak information to survey a response before taking a position. They also use leaks to publish innuendo to encourage the press to start digging into it. It doesn’t necessarily matter if the leak is true information or not, but if the press starts digging into someone’s opponent, they sometimes…

culture. Cofer uses her childhood experience to show to the reader that Latin women are taught to dress as grown up since their childhood. She wants to show that stereotypes about the way Latin women dress leads people to view Latin women as sexual innuendo. Cofer wants to show to…

shell” with “spider’s legs” for spoke wheels (1.4.72, 64). She brings dreams of love to a lover. The imagery Shakespeare uses is pleasant, as though the tale was intended for a child’s ear. However, as the speech goes on, the imagery grows darker and innuendo comes into play.…

Zero-Tolerance Schools have attempted different models to reduce violence in schools and create a safe atmosphere. One such model is the zero-tolerance policy, which began in the 1980s during the war on drugs. This policy morphed during the 1990s to include other student behaviors including threats and violence (Teske, 2011). In fact, all primary and secondary schools in the United States were required to implement zero-tolerance policies to continue receiving federal funding (Mongan & Walker,…

Madness is a dual-faceted state of being that William Shakespeare uses to mold his protagonist in his play Hamlet. In this play, the tragic hero, Hamlet, shows signs of insanity that can be perceived as either genuine or a façade; he initially feigns madness in order to conceal himself, but as the play progresses and becomes more chaotic, he appears to lose his grasp on sanity. However in both instances, Hamlet’s madness conceals the inner struggle he has with both hiding and exposing his…

Celso Thomas Castilho’s article, Performing Abolitionism, Enacting Citizenship: The Social Construction of Political Rights in 1880s Recife, Brazil, provides an understanding of influence of performance on the abolitionist movement and politics in Recife, Brazil. The purpose of this article is to see political activism and influence on abolitionism from a different lens. Castilho gives great details about the abolitionist movement in Brazil, while drawing distinct connections between…

There are three definitions of comedy that have surrounded the material of this course thus far. The one I will be focusing on throughout the course of this paper is concerning incongruity. The disruption of what we, the audience, are used to seeing with our characters, action, and even language. Lysistrata, originally written by Greek playwright Aristophanes, and translated into English by Donald Sutherland is comedy that relies almost entirely on incongruity to ensure laughs from its audience.…

Genre and Gender in The Good Time Girls The Good Time Girls creates a well-written female revenge fantasy in an unexpected genre: the Western. The film is part of Refinery 29's Shatterbox Anthology, created to increase female representation in entertainment, both behind and in front of the camera. The Good Time Girls opens with Clementine dressed in men's clothing, holding a shotgun at an off-screen target while she recounts her born-in-a-whorehouse origins; she takes another shot as a…

this poplar mode of speculative pamphlets through his language of rational discourse. The full title of Swifts political pamphlet sums up nothing more reasonable or morally thoughtful, only for the reader to be taken aback by the hideousness of his innuendo within the text. By mimicking the particular genre conventions it enables the audience to be captured before the twisting of the texts that would to challenge their perceptions of reality. In both works there is a moment of realization for…

I have never finished a game of Clue. The other players were too restless and unwilling to take the steps to solve the murder. Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead pipe. Yet, I understood their anxiety . The satisfaction of a conclusion was sweeter than the process. And I yielded to this opinion until my first encounter with graphic design. When I was 12, I did not realize the significance of logos. In a search through creative articles, I opened the most appealing. “Hidden Meanings…