Oxymoron

As defined by Webster Dictionary, community service is “a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions” and is synonyms with public service. An increasing number of high schools are requiring their students to fulfill a designated number of hours to the community in order to graduate. Many school districts believe that community service teaches students responsibility. High school students should be required to complete a designated number of community service…

The etiology of a condition is its cause or origin. The etiologies of addiction are those areas that influence the when and how factors of addiction. It is important to identify and understand how one gets started in their addiction. To understand what causes addiction, you must look deep into yourself and figure out why you started using to begin with, there is always an underlying reason. Agent models place primary emphasis on the strong effects of the drug itself. In this view, anyone who…

Minou’s experience towards her mother’s disappearance using the dead boy as a symbol of melancholy, exhibiting not only the child’s perception of isolation, but also the consequence that affected her idiosyncrasy. The use of olfactory imagery and oxymoron in the quote, “… had learned that the world had other ways of breaking… Sick sweet. Like old rose on a breeze,” (Jakobsen, 2011, P. 64) emphasises her sudden realisation of her isolated…

this contradicts his message from the start of this stanza talking about silence, developing from greeting enemies to unsupressable darkness. Stars and celestial bodies are eternal and radiate outwards into the universe. The line also features an oxymoron, “… the beam of a lightless star”. Although seemingly impossible, stars after death can produce a beam of radiation that has no basis in visible light. This dying star or black hole reflects the theme of this poem, fining the eternal place of…

Introverts at Work – Strengths and Opportunities University of the People It is a general assumption that in order to reach corporate success, one has to be a domineering individual who feels invigorated and energized in social situations (Leadership strategies for introverts, 2009). In other words, many people’s idea of an accomplished professional embodies the personality traits of an extrovert. As a business major and a psychology…

glory of war. The audience are affected emotionally as the images conveyed draw us in and involve and help us understand the situation they’re in. In Owen’s poem, ‘Men marched asleep…Drunk with fatigue’ is an example of metaphor, short sentence, oxymoron and alliteration, providing an image of exhausted soldier like zombies after war, as the readers we feel empathy and remorseful. Examples of images in Brooke’s poem are ‘her sights and sounds; dreams as happy as her day…’ includes simile,…

Significant discoveries may be intensely meaningful for individuals. An individual’s discoveries and their process of discovering vary according to personal, cultural, historical and social contexts and values, and therefore is ascribed individual value. Texts enable an audience to understand the nature of discovery though the ramifications of emotional, physical and intellectual discoveries made by the persona, which may be transformative in a positive or negative fashion, change ones…

Williams Wordsworth, born into the unfairness of the world, saw only its beauty. Among his many famous works, This World Is Too Much With Us first published in 1807, shows insight on his love for nature and the frustration he feels against humanity for ignoring it. This new poetic composition spoke to those during the Industrial resolution who only enjoyed the materialistic things in life. Wordsworth uses metaphor, rhythm scheme/repetition, imagery, and allusion to convey his passion for nature…

emphasized on who God is. The role God plays in a person’s life, including an absentee one, will shape one’s expectations of his or herself and others throughout existing relationships. The relevance of doubt in correlation with God seems like an oxymoron to some people. One might ask why a person would put their faith in a being whom they sometimes question. Parrott and Parrott (1998) provide a compelling case that doubt is a healthy part of relating to God by claiming, “we lose sight of the…

Communism: final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably (Merriam-Webster). Marxism is the practice of communism, which was practiced in the mid19th century, when the allegory Animal Farm by George Orwell was published in 1945. George Orwell used the philosophy of communism to describe the characteristics of what was going on in the minds of people in his time. Giving anthropomorphism to the animal characters in his…