The Bell

which motivates the target audience to care about the Central Message (Heath, Volpe), and Stories, which motivates the target audience to take action on the central message (Heath, Volpe). In the text, “Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment” by Bell Hooks argues that college english teachers should educate for liberation to allow students to learn to think critically and analytically in order to critique conventional expectations and desires in the world around them. She teaches education…

“The Inner Climate” by Pico Iyer and “Touching the Earth” by bell hooks both share the idea of connecting to the nature. Pico Iyer argues that in order for one to externally change, they must first internally change. Similarly, bell hooks argues that the individual spiritual change affects the external environment. Though both the essays show the importance of the nature and how one should connect to it, they both go in a different direction and have their own perspectives. The use of…

The best poem in the world is The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe. This poem is filled with imagery, symbolism, onomatopoeia, alliteration, repetition, and assonance, creating a strong image and story for readers. Although this poem is long, it is split into four parts, each containing a different main symbol, which allows the readers to change their focus a little bit during each part of the poem. To begin, Poe introduces the "[s]ilver bells" (2) as a symbol of excitement and wintertime merriment in…

I have seen people vandalizing on a public transportation system, and I was just sitting there not doing anything about it. I regret my decision to remain silent. In the city of San Francisco, vandalism is a form of urban art. However, according to SF Public Work, it costs around 20 million dollars annually to cover the damage from vandalism. My bus fare was raised several times a year due to this issue. I could have done many things to stop vandalism: I could have alerted the transportation…

Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell is the story of a Slovak family's immigration to America. The book tells the story of karcha family that relocate to america after facing hardship in their mother country. The story tells about three generations of karcha family, from the first immigrant in the family, George Kracha to the third generation represented by Dobie Dobrejcak. The novel goes on to tell the hardships faced by immigrants in america, bad working conditions, low wages. The book starts…

Noted in supreme court cases, Relf v. Weinberger and Buck v. Bell, re-examining compulsory sterilization is pivotal in dismantling discrimination against women. Particularly affecting women of color, the multi-form occurrence is slowly moving into public consciousness along with the effects of settler colonialism. Depopulating foreign land through strategic movements, settler colonialists have been and continue to be clever as far as their tactics to establish political systems. Purposed to…

no farther than fifteen miles from a fast food restaurant. So, it's good to have some variety right? Taco Bell is one of the most well known "Mexican" fast food restaurants in the country. It wasn't always this way. Struggling to even open a restaurant to being such a popular one is quite an achievement. The creator of Taco Bell, Glen Bell, didn’t start out with a restaurant known as Taco Bell. He started a business known as Bell’s Drive-In and Taco Tia in 1954. Eight years later he decided to…

considered elementary, they became the best novels ever written. Two of his most famous novels are A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. The two novels compare in many different ways. For instance the theme of both novels is setting, the characterization, and the imagery Hemingway uses of war (MegaEssays). First, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls is often compared by the setting that they share. The setting of the novel A Farewell to Arms is during World War 1 or the…

This is the first novel written by Betty Louise Bell. It was published in 1984. She describes this novel as “Its essentially autobiographical fiction . . . except I have nine siblings and my mother was still alive when the book was written. Otherwise, it’s pretty much from my life.”(“Voices”). The novel follows the protagonist, Lucie Evers, on her journey to reestablish connections with her past, her heritage, and her family. Although there are several themes in this story, the two most…

social, political, and economic equality of the sex”, followed by “the movement organized around this belief”, in other words, the movement toward the social and economic equality of men and women. In “Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppression”, bell hooks defines feminism in the very title. Throughout the reading, hooks continuously stresses the importance of intersectionality, and the feminist movement not just making women equal to men. Hooks defines feminism as a movement toward the…