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Often referred to a "found" poem, William Carlos Williams's piece, “This Is Just To Say,” is said to be an apologetic note left for a loved one. Williams tries to disguise the incident within the poem as something minuscule and nonchalant but deeper analysis reveals this poem is an apology for a graver adulterous crime rather than just eating some plums. It’s title and overall structure sets the initial aura of nonchalance and casualness. Although simple, the diction allows the reader to…

required change in our language, about the additional pronoun, which should be used to address the people whose gender is not equivalent with their self-image. The author claims that today’s society has reached a critical mass of people whose self-identification is not clear or they feel themselves as an opposite sex. Based on this assumption, John McWhorter assumes that soon there will be a need in creating the neutral pronoun. This pronoun will have to designate a person as a human being and…

the freedom of men, former president of the United States John F. Kennedy delivered one of the most memorable speeches that perfectly fulfilled his purpose and appealed to the audiences in his inaugural address. The use of metaphors, and personal pronouns in Kennedy’s address not only strengthens the speech’s main subjects about civic responsibilities and human rights, but also touches the audience’s heartstring and eventually persuades them to take Kennedy’s side. Kennedy first employs…

The use of gendered language in discourse reflects the sexism that ingrained in American society. Gendered language is most easily studied through books and other forms of writing particularly when looking at the history of gendered discourse. Genders of popular authors, genders of characters, numbers of female to male characters, and themes of books are a few of the ways one can analyze gendered language and sexism in language. One of the ways gendered language perpetuates sexism is through…

book, I was particularly intrigued by Rankine's use of the second person present, which is often reserved for works of fiction. However Rankine incorporates this tense thoughtfully both in her poetry and reflective writing. Her use of the personal pronoun…

author Cyra McFadden pleads her case for why the attempts to make the English language gender-neutral have gone too far. Furthermore, she addresses different areas in which gender neutralization has become common, including job titles, last names, and pronoun usage. Ultimately, while she hopes that there will be a resolution to this issue of language leaning towards one gender, she concludes that there must be another way that does not transform the English language into a robotic and sluggish.…

Pro is a null pronoun which is not pronounced, and has all the features of a full DP subject (it can bear nominative case, or it can be singular or plural, etc.) but it is phonetically empty. According to Rizzi, pro is subject to the following conditions: 1. pro must…

Agenders life. Now a day, they can choose what they want to be and there is less pressure of society expectation on them. One should keep it in mind that androgens are facing lots of discriminations. Even now a day societies do not have official pronoun for them and…

verbally and thought this would relay into my writing. However, after completing task one and submitting my writing to the various websites I found it surprising. Feedback was I use too much passive voice, my use of verbs and nouns “flabby” and I use pronouns without attention. These websites also flagged me for abstract wording. The overall reports have commented that, I need to be more direct and pay attention…

theme in the majority of societies. In the 1919 poem, “If We Must Die,” author Claude McKay displays the significant social gap between blacks and whites. McKay does this by comparing man and they way they fight with animals as well as using separate pronouns for blacks and whites throughout the poem. Claude McKay demonstrates the distinct social gap between blacks and whites by comparing both them and their societal roles to animals. In the opening lines of the poem, McKay sets up the…