Summary of “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words” by Paul McHenry Roberts, is a funny and well-written essay, in which Roberts details ways that freshman college students can bring their papers to life and make them more interesting to read. Throughout his essay, he outlines nine main tips that students can use to develop their writing more effectively. These nine tips are: Avoid the obvious content, take the less usual side, slip out of abstraction, get rid of…
In the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, there is both a literal and figurative meaning of the poem. The poem consists of eight lines of rhyming couplets written in iambic trimeter. The author uses imagery, personification,and metaphors to explain the beauty of life and how life does not last forever. Poems can be taken literally and figuratively. Frost uses imagery to show the literal side of the poem. Written in the poem, is the line “Nothing gold can stay” meaning it can not always…
Nothing Gold Can Stay was written by Robert Frost in 1923. Frost was a U.S. citizen. The style of this poem is narrative, it tells a story. But it is up to the reader about what the story is about because this poem could be interpreted in many types of ways. The meaning of this poem is not obvious at all. This title of this poem implies multiple possibilities. It can be used in many different ways and seen in amny different ways. Most readers would think that this is just a poem about nature,…
Love In the play Much ado about nothing we see the display of romantic, friendship, and family love but certain love is similar and different depending on the people and the situation. True love is broken down into three parts and that is trust, sacrifice, and vulnerability. As people if we already trust someone love comes naturally and that is why love is built on trust. Every type of relationship requires trust because with it the freedom of sharing your heart and soul will be valued and…
substantial you must first give up what you have. I agree with Devlin, as in life we tend to hold onto dark pasts and if we let them go we would know that there is more to gain in life. Both the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare support this analysis by presenting to us the nature of evil in society, it can drag you into a dark hole if you do not withdraw yourself. To explore this concept with a feminist lens I will examine Hester Prynne and…
In the play Much Ado About Nothing, written by William Shakespeare, it is thought to have a little bit of everything for everyone. It has the overly romantic couple of Claudio and Hero, that would be considered the predictable Shakspeaean couple and the couple that cannot stand each other of Beatrice and Benedick, that people see as their opposites. Claudio is an example of typical man in Elizabethan times and wanted to settle down, while Benedick was a player and had no intention of getting…
In the narrative entitled, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Barbara Demick focused on the fact that Chang-bo did not feel that the people in the government of the dictatorship were truthful, fair, or kind to the citizens. It also mentioned the consequences of the words that were spoken by him. On the other hand, his wife, Mrs. Song, felt as if the ways of the government were sufficient for the society, and that the officials in the government of the dictatorship were not being…
Why Privacy Matter Even If You Have “Nothing to Hide” In the article “Why Privacy Matter Even If You Have ‘Nothing to Hide,”’ Daniel J. Solove, talking about the government governed the information to analyze without the permission. Many people didn’t realize how many problems by let the government take their information to analyze. Solove does a great job to persuade the readers that we deserve more the privacy by using the appeal to authority and anecdote. The author’s main idea is to…
In Paul McHenry Roberts “How to say nothing in 500 words”, I was caught up by the colorfully words strategy. As I understand by his explanation using colorful words does not mean using literary colors to pen down words rather to get depth and meaning out of the message that is to be conveyed. Using these words would in turn help the reader formulate better the scene that the writer is trying to convey. This is an effective way of author to audience communication I personally find this one of the…
"If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light” (p. 3). Nothing to envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick is a unique heartrending book based on the experiences of six North Koreans or defectors over the course of fifteen years. Over the course of this time, the defectors she chose to interview experienced the death of Kim II-Sung, the rise of his son Kim Jong-II to power, and a demoralizing scarcity that…