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John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums,” establishes an explicitly ironic and dismal tone towards female empowerment in society through the contradictory characterization of Elisa and her duality as both a strong, independent woman, and a wife who is constantly being socially oppressed by the world around her. Steinbeck reinforces this idea through constant, selective detailing of the environment surrounding Elisa, and the inclusion of symbolic visual imagery throughout the text.…

In my opinion, the author has done a great job by using simplicity of a drawing to represent a really difficult situation that a nation couldn’t solve. Moreover, he used all different kinds of rhetorical keys to attract more people and show a long message within a short cartoon. However, as many possibilities as there are to view the cartoon, the tragedy will always be looked at with sad emotions to all…

Sometimes Reggio decided what to shoot only after Glass came up with the music that would end up energizing Reggio’s films. Reggio chose to shoot unscripted footage, shooting anything he thought looked good, and then worked on editing it into an hour-long film. It took 7 years to shoot, edit, and release this film (1975 – 1982). Plot The film starts out with calm wide shots and close ups of nature such…

Doodle’s brother taught him how to walk because he wanted his brother to be a normal kid. He was ashamed of his brother who was five and couldn’t walk, but he wouldn’t tell his brother it in person. “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him. We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song. ‘I’m going to teach you to walk, Doodle,’…

Suffolk Men’s Lacrosse Over and Out The Suffolk County Community College Men’s Lacrosse season came to an end this past Saturday. After beating ASA College by a sore of 13-10, Suffolk advanced to the Region 15 Championship. Unfortunately, Suffolk had to face a familiar rival, Nassau County Community College. Nassau has always had a target pinned to their back. According to the NCC website, Nassau has never had a losing season. Since the program’s inception in 1966, Nassau has won 21 NJCAA…

divided into two groups, five who use birth control pills and five who do not use birth control pills. The young women were between 22-23 years of age. The researchers divided each participant’s menstrual cycle into six equal intervals, which were 4 days long. 2 to 4 recordings were taken for each participant, amounting to approximately 20 recordings…

John Steinbeck’s short story, “The Chrysanthemums,” is an illustration of a married woman’s frustration with the limitations imposed upon her by society. As Steinbeck’s character, Elisa Allen, tends her garden and interacts with the male characters in the story her annoyance and emotions from living in a male dominated world are revealed. Throughout the story Steinbeck relays the main characters feelings of isolation, dissatisfaction and oppression by her environment. Steinbeck conveys the…

The cold wind whips my long, golden brown hair against my face. As I keep running I suddenly feel the earth turn to hard pavement under my feet. I come to an abrupt stop in the middle of the road. I hear an engine and look up just in time to leap out of the way of the blue jeep hurdling down the road. I roll over on the pavement and feel a sharp pain in my side. The jeep skids to a stop and a boy, who looks not much older than me, jumps out of the car. He has black hair that sticks up from his…

situation, the controversy is not only regarding fashion stereotype but also the distinction between my culture and American culture. However, people should show tolerance to others’ appearance because costume illustrate our taste and culture identity. As long as our appearance bring us the comfort and confidence, In my culture, even with the people who don’t dress like us or speak the same language, we still welcome and respect them. Adapting to a new culture maybe…

It didn 't matter that this type of love I had for you was forbidden and unrequited, that someday others would notice these feelings or that you 'd never accept them, as long as I could continue being with you. Besides, I never could look at you as my big brother. To me, you were the only one who took care of me with all his might. No matter how things difficult got, you didn 't complain. When I think back on the days we spent together, when I finally realized that the love I had for you was the…