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Lyddie would be able to reunite her family back on the farm. However, working conditions at the mills was not favored by many of the factory girls. As a result, radicals were circulating a petition where workers can sign it in order to improve working conditions in the mills. Lyddie should sign the petition because workers were treated poorly by their overseer’s and the working environment was…

giving her another reason to sign the petition. Lastly Lyddie is doing more work. The work she is doing is very dangerous and injury-prone. In the text Lyddie says “In those days I had one hundred thirty spindles to tend. Now I’ve twice that many at a speed that would make the devil curse.” Lyddie is working more at a faster pace. This is dangerous and can give Lyddie a serious injury. This is a valid reason for her to sign the…

culturally trained to reads sings before we even learned to speak. With semiotics-the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation, we utilize this within our everyday communication. Signs are made up of two components; the signifier, which is the materialistic form of the sign, and the signified, the mental concept that the sign represents. We see these signs everywhere. For example, television uses signs to give meaning to certain objects. With the constant regulation of the…

A Bell Jar The notion of ideal gender roles that have been brought up by the post-world war two era are self-evident in the novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The title of the novel itself represents how the protagonist, Esther, feels about the pressure of holding up to proper feminine decorum put into place by society. This is obvious when Esther begins to explain about her life choices, as represented by the fig tree, where each fig is a path that Esther can choose to live, however choosing…

Linguistics, he conceives of the linguistic sign as a psychological entity with a concept and a sound-image (Saussure, 66). He does this in order to avoid the fallacy of examining only the sound-image, or phonetic pronunciation of the word, for according to him, each recalls the other, and a concept without a sound-image is voiceless, and a sound-image without a concept is meaningless (Saussure, 67). The main crux of Saussure’s argument is that because “because the sign is arbitrary, it follows…

about her new companion, she looked at her friend above her head. She says "Wangero sent eye signal over my head" (Walker 89). The lifted gaze shows how Dee placed herself above other members of her family. Her eye contact and high lifted gaze are a sign of power. After African Americans were granted voting rights, they were encouraged by their leaders to take pride in their African identity as a way of propagating self-esteem (Gale 7). This could be the reason behind Dee’s lifted her gaze and…

Signs, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is a story about the testing of one man’s faith, the sacrifice of a loving mother, and the repercussions that occurred because of an alien invasion. The sacrifice tore the family apart, and the alien invasion in a way “forced” the family back together. The director tries to convey the message that everything happens for a reason, and that nothing is coincidence. Graham and his children, Morgan and Bo have suffered the loss of their mother,…

Queen’ perfume advertisement with a semiotic analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations, denotations, indexical signs, symbolic signs, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations represented throughout the advert. It additionally explores the approaches of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s and their views on signs within advertising. Moreover, it considers the deeper ideological representations of wealth, power, beauty and authority along with freedom,…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

need signed, without your signature, I’m going to have to cancel your policy, if that’s what you want, that’s fine, but if you do want our business, I need you to sign this form.” “Listen!” he roared, at that point, I thought I was about to have it. But instead, he mellowed down and said “Fine, what is this form, why do I have to sign it?” Even though I was shocked that my ears hadn’t bled this time, I quickly got back into professional mode, and explained. He asked for my name afterwards, and…