The Passage

and shows to keep people entertained. In all the text and the video they both have similarities and they have differences. In the passage “ The Use of Animals In the Entertainment” and the passage “ Jump To It” they both have some things that are the same. On thing that is the same is that they are both fun to watch and funny to have as entertainment. In the passage “ The Use Of Animals In Entertainment “ it states “ The training technique adopted to force animals to perform tricks are also…

and beliefs of the main characters. In this passage, politics reveal the gender competition through the use of personification of social constructs like anarchy and obedience, symbolism of men and woman through these political terms, specific word choice of these social constructs, and metonymy to further explicate the gender rivalry. By analyzing meanings of certain words involved in this passage, the underlying message can be deciphered. The passage starts off with the word “Unruliness”,…

The two passages How to Pull an All-Nighter and Higher Education: Not What it Used to Be, are two stories with relevance pertaining to college, and college age students. ‘How to Pull an All-Nighter’ written by Joshua Piven, David Borgenicht, and Jennifer Worick, is a guide, listing various tips on how to stay up all night, for work, school, etc. Higher Education: Not What it Used to Be is an article written by a journalist from the newsmagazine The Economist, detailing the rising costs and…

and turmoil of the events in Billy Pilgrim’s life, at the same time, which is portrayed in the passage. Starting off the passage with “Listen:”,…

hand, Passage b) recalls the eruption from the present time - an article published in The Guardian - whereas Passage a) narrates the incident in real time - an extract from the novel Naples ‘44. However, these two pieces of prose do not appear to concern themselves with the same eruption. Passage a) relates to the eruption during the Roman Empire in 79AD, whereas Passage b) relates to the eruption in 1944. This contrast in setting is also reflected through the respective speakers. In Passage…

The following passage has a few sentences with dense meaning that are couched in a monotonous telling of daily life: these few sentences alter one’s perception of the novel as a whole, and they are a focal point for the passage and the novel. “You’re not the one who has to bear it,” Mrs Compson said. “It’s not your responsibility. You can go away. You don’t have to bear the brunt of it day in and day out. You owe nothing to them, to Mr Compson’s memory. I know you have never had any tenderness…

accomplish a feat that no person can do. In passages by John James Audubon and Annie Dillard, flocks of birds are described vividly through rhetorical strategies such as diction, analogies, and similes. Both passages were similar in nature, but each author had its own style. Seeing the flocks of birds deeply impacted the observers. It is evident from these passages that watching these birds provided joy and astonishment to the onlookers. Although the passages were written by different people,…

The New American Girl In the passage from Babbitts and Bohemians: The American 1920s by Elizabeth Stevenson, the flapper is the main focus. During the 1920s, the flapper girl was suddenly there. With them they brought new styles and manners. People either loved the new American girl or loathed them. Either way, the flapper left just as fast as she came. Although she was only here for a short period of time, she had a huge influence on the 20s. Stevenson writes about the flapper girl to show the…

Not only have the Europeans used the Bible to promote slavery, but their interpretation of slavery comes from a time when enslaving coloured people was accepted because they were seen as “uncivilized” for not being Christians. However, as this passage reveals the adaptation of Christianity by slaves, readers begin to question if it is acceptable for Christians to enslave other Christians. Jacobs writes “they [the slaves] never seem so happy as when shouting and singing at religious meetings.”…

All eight of them need to step up in order to stay alive. The main themes highlighted in the chosen passage are friendship, romance and leadership. Corrie and Kevin are in love, Ellie and Lee find love in one another and Fi and Homer fall in love. Fi loves Homer dearly, as she started planning ahead for their future “so when [they get] married [she] can help him heaps and heaps”. This passage is set towards the end of the novel, in chapter twenty-one. The scene is when Ellie and Fi are waiting…