neurologist put an orca brain inside a CAT scan and found that whales have a part of the brain that humans don’t have and that Whales can process emotions very highly and much more heavily then human beings do. This drives people to a talking point about how whales communicate often and have their own language to accomplish tasks as a group like providing food for their whale families. This affirmation that whales can feel through scientific research (logos) also helps strengthen the pathos…
of different humorous devices in order to uphold the reader’s attention. An example could be The Relief Theory. The narrator uses this device in order to make the reader appreciate the time they are in, where an example from the story could be, “my mother held my arms behind my back and he hit me with a golf club. In the balls.” Here the narrator points out how gruesome it was to be a kid “back in the day” since it once upon a time was legal and considered good parenting to beat discipline into…
At first, her essay seems to be a personal narrative about the difference between American and Indian cuisine. However, it turns out to be about the culture clashing of her Indian and American heritage. “We have expectations, and my parents fail to meet them, especially my mother” demonstrates that her family expected her to act based on a given standard. The food in the essay could be a symbolic form of…
Justus was prohibited from visiting his mother on occasion because his father thought the time with his mother would be set back in development. Youth Sports as Serious leisure says “too often parents and coaches expect children to think and play as adults” and the prohibition of Justus’ visit is an example of his dad transforming recreation into a constant football commitment (Siegenthaler & Gonzalez, 1997). Justus visiting his mother should not be a problem because she is the parent that…
arrogance. According to the Holy Bible, “Trained up a child that way they should go which will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). According to Fiola, (2012), “Sublime evidence of the appeal of allegory may found is Christ’s use of the parable: a brief narrative-usually allegorical but sometimes not that teaches moral (p. 472, paragraph 2) Character Consequently, The children were particularly disrespectful and often did not regard the grandmother’s well-being. If the children of the…
In this portfolio, included is my final revised personal narrative essay entitled “My savior and Lighted Path,” my first graded draft of this essay, and my letter of Final Essay Reflection. The “My savior and Lighted Path” paper contains the reasons as to why I am college and why school is so significant to me. In this essay, I speak about my life growing up with a poor, sickly mother in a poor neighborhood where my mother had abusive boyfriends to help pay her medical bills and finances. I go…
Every culture has its unique set of gender rules and normalities. Women may be encouraged to stay home with the children while the men work to make an income. In some cases, these roles are even interchangeable and it is acceptable for genders to switch responsibilities. In the Igbo culture in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, however, this is not the case due to the sexism practiced. Through the novel, Achebe presents a sexist culture. Immediately noticeable, the family structure in…
p 6 There is some irony here because so far Grandma Baby is the oldest figure in the book, yet her name is baby. what is morrison trying to get at with this irony? p 14. Morrison uses this passage for character development in sethe. In some aspects she is a brutal, harsh woman. However, know that she is barefoot she is seen as flirty and girly. p 20 What is this symbol of her milk? Morrison deliberately repeats the phrase "and they took my milk." Does this symbol connect to a larger…
different toll on humanity that lasts decades afterwards. In literature there are excessive amount of books about the great tragedy of the 20th century— The World War II Holocaust. Fetal tragedy puts a distance among relatives;…
for Christmas. Both of these elements occur in “The Most Handsome Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel García Marquez. The story is about a village that finds an unknown dead man on their shore. The men of the village go to other villages to check if he is from anywhere nearby, while the women care for him.…