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Parent child relationship is very sensitive. The theme of the two poems “My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden shows the ‘Father’ plays an important role in the upbringing of child and sacrifices his days and nights in hard labors or services in order to provide the needs of his beloved children. Similarly a child returns a father’s love and care by showing his/her admiration and affection. . “Those Winter Sundays” is a…

giving her another reason to sign the petition. Lastly Lyddie is doing more work. The work she is doing is very dangerous and injury-prone. In the text Lyddie says “In those days I had one hundred thirty spindles to tend. Now I’ve twice that many at a speed that would make the devil curse.” Lyddie is working more at a faster pace. This is dangerous and can give Lyddie a serious injury. This is a valid reason for her to sign the…

culturally trained to reads sings before we even learned to speak. With semiotics-the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation, we utilize this within our everyday communication. Signs are made up of two components; the signifier, which is the materialistic form of the sign, and the signified, the mental concept that the sign represents. We see these signs everywhere. For example, television uses signs to give meaning to certain objects. With the constant regulation of the…

Names comes in all shapes and sizes. Just by taking a gander at our names, we can view into a window to the past. Last names are the utmost important part of anyone’s name, since it is past done from generation to generation. The meaning and the way names are spelled changes over time and across the world. Our names, meanings, nicknames, and why we were named what we were, are just a few ways that shape are uniqueness. Originating from the Greek name Alexandros, Alexander signified "shielding…

The name Kelsey comes from an old English name given name Ceolsige which means “ships victory” or it could be a place name meaning “Cenels island” is a combination of the old English word cenel. Meaning “ fierce “ and “eg” meaning island. I wokld wo different stories about how my name was picked. My dad thinks my mom picked it from a person named Kelsey Grammer of the TV show Fraser. My mom said that's now how I got my name. She says I got my name from a list of names that they liked. My…

A Bell Jar The notion of ideal gender roles that have been brought up by the post-world war two era are self-evident in the novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The title of the novel itself represents how the protagonist, Esther, feels about the pressure of holding up to proper feminine decorum put into place by society. This is obvious when Esther begins to explain about her life choices, as represented by the fig tree, where each fig is a path that Esther can choose to live, however choosing…

Signs, written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, is a story about the testing of one man’s faith, the sacrifice of a loving mother, and the repercussions that occurred because of an alien invasion. The sacrifice tore the family apart, and the alien invasion in a way “forced” the family back together. The director tries to convey the message that everything happens for a reason, and that nothing is coincidence. Graham and his children, Morgan and Bo have suffered the loss of their mother,…

Queen’ perfume advertisement with a semiotic analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations, denotations, indexical signs, symbolic signs, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations represented throughout the advert. It additionally explores the approaches of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s and their views on signs within advertising. Moreover, it considers the deeper ideological representations of wealth, power, beauty and authority along with freedom,…

In the 1949 film The Third Man, protagonist Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to work for his friend Harry Lime only to discover Lime died right before Martins landed in Austria. Without giving too much away, Martins ends up uncovering the circumstances surrounding his childhood chum’s death may be more complex than what’s visible on the surface. The mystery genre -- for both literature and film -- often plays on the idea that the evidence available may not always have the meaning it appears to…

Are we alone in the universe? Men have struggled with this idea throughout the whole of human history. M. Night Shyamalan takes a fresh look at this idea in his sci-fi blockbuster film Signs as he follows the journey of a family in crisis as they face an alien invasion. As the story unfolds, Shyamalan reveals his ideas on the universal theme of man’s struggles with faith and a belief in the divine design of the universe through his use of allegory, conflict, and character. The primary way…