Olive Garden

The perceptive quality of Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Olive Kitteridge, focuses on the ordinary, the regular, and quotidian aspects of life; growing old, the fluctuations of a marriage, the anxious growth of children, and life’s everyday trivialities and little feelings that swell throughout an individual lifespan. Strout achieves this empathetic sense by using long detailed and descriptive sentences, a healthy mix of cumulative and periodic which explore and bluntly state…

fat is regarded as bad and something to be avoided, extra virgin olive oil is becoming increasingly popular. Part of this is due to the positive health benefits of consuming extra-virgin olive oil. However, this cannot be the only reason; fish oil is also very healthy and yet is not nearly as popular. Meneley travels to Tuscany, Italy to learn more about this phenomena. There she discovers some important factors in extra-virgin olive oil’s popularity. Firstly, it is an oil associated with…

Rhetorical Devices of Elizabeth Stevenson In Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s, Elizabeth Stevenson describes a change in the American people’s way of life during the 1920s. This change occurred in the way people, especially women, started to live a more free and distinctive lifestyle. Throughout this excerpt from Stevenson’s piece, she developed her argument using helpful rhetorical devices that displayed the 1920s as an exciting, new, and noteable change of life in America. Diction…

Freedoms such as being able to vote, express them-selves, and gain a sense of respect from others. Not only was fashion a piece of material back in the 1920’s, but also a form of movement. With the turn of the decade and fashion, women were able to speak for them-selves whether their voices were seen or heard as negative or positive. The Flapper image became negative for the elders but the image allowed young women to be able to grow out of that stage into mature women. Wanting to move out due…

Persian Spice : Treasure of Persian Cuisine Eclectic, ancient, cosmopolitan Persian cuisine has spread its unique style of cuisine from Greece, Rome, Asian and Mediterranean countries. From thousands of years ago, they had gardens and orchards. They grew things like roses, pomegranates, persimmons and dill, so those ingredients made their way into every dish from desserts and drinks to main courses. Hence, they had so many fruits that were native to Iran like dates, grapes and oranges, There are…

Known for its fast paced lifestyle, experimentation, and break in traditions, the ‘Roaring Twenties’ produced ideals and technology that changed America forever. One of the many prominent features of the early 20th century was the emergence of the “flapper,” women who deviated from the traditional Victorian female standards at the time. These women often bobbed their hair, wore short dresses and skirts, and took on many characteristics that had only been deemed appropriate for men. The…

Greek seasoning is a blend of herbs and spices commonly used in Greek cuisine. Many of the components have their origin in the Mediterranean region and have grown there throughout history up to the present. others have been imported since the days of ancient Greece. Oregano is one of the ingredients that show up in most Greek seasoning blends and it originated in Greece along with marjoram, another popular ingredient. Both herbs were used by ancient Greeks with marjoram being considered a…

Page used the factor of appearance to define the term "flapper". To her, a "flapper" is a woman who is within the age limit (not quite a woman but also not a girl)that would have bobbed hair (the 'badge' of flapper hood) and stylish clothing that no decent women of earlier generations would have even thought about wearing. There were many different explanations of the flapper phenomenon. Some say that it's due to the fact that one-quarter to one-third of urban woman workers live alone, free…

Flappers embodied the changing attitudes of women after World War I. Once men left their jobs for the war, women had to fill their empty roles. Women became workers that contributed to society rather than just mothers and wives. Men returned from war expecting to go back to a male-dominated society, however they were greeted by women that had tasted freedom and wanted their own independence. These new women began to call themselves “flappers”. They rebelled against all previous conventional…

When a poet chooses the right word or collection of words, the reader is carried away into the world they are trying to create. The use of figurative language and imagery are elements of literature that give poets the opportunity to open doorways in the minds of those reading their literary works. They paint the picture, bring back the smells, and give the quiet pages sound. Such is true in the poems “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins and “A Song in the Front Yard” by Gwendolyn Brooks. These…