Vitally, at the beginning of her article, Oyler uses her own individual experience to great effect to convincingly relate a metaphor to her overall argument. Oyler states that consistently she returns to a memory of an article from a woman’s magazine where it is suggested it would be beneficial for one to consume dessert every meal, she proceeds to further illuminate that “The darkly pragmatic angle was that regular indulgences head sugar cravings off at the pass. The spiritual angle, and the better one, was that harmless indulgences are good and you shouldn’t overthink them – even after breakfast.”. Through the recounting of this personal experience, Oyler associates this metaphor with the overall argument of her article, that the semicolon as what she considers her own harmless indulgence, is a useful, creative, and demonized piece of punctuation. Moreover, by establishing this authentic personal experience with her audience Oyler and explaining how she relates her experience with her conclusion on semicolons, thoroughly enhances her literary credibility rather than appear as biased.
When we hear the word chaos, our mind immediately deduces a place of total disorder and confusion. Most people like to have a sense of order and probability in their lives, and they are more likely to have lack of order no matter how hard they try. King James VI and I, and King Louis XIV had different outlooks about a king and how to rule their people. However, they both think that a king has absolute power and whatever they order should be accomplished. Accordingly, they both think that obeying and preforming the king's commands is a way of leading the citizens to order.
This theme was revealed through an epiphany and shows just how feeble a young mind is. This realization shows to be an important part in the story and why an adult mind takes time to sculpt
“We all make mistakes. It’s human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.” -Jesse J. Leiningen is the main character in Carl Stephenson’s short story “Leiningen Versus the Ants.”
Numerous people want to be perfect no matter what obstacles they will encounter. However, an individual cannot overcome their obstacles if they are drawn to their ego of perfectionism. Lawrence Sargent Hall believe that having too much confident in an individual result in ignorance by not realizing how some unexpected signals are too easy to miss out. He writes a short story The Ledge to explore a nameless fisherman who has pride in crafting a perfect day of hunting ducks with his son and nephew. But the fisherman did not realize that his pride will put a risk on himself, his son, and his nephew on an unexpected event.
This endless circle observed by Ridley shows how free will is hard to be truly expressed as either we are being responsible or are expressing the determinisms of what we are responsible for. Ridley goes on to say how critics use Hume’s Fork to see it as a way to predict human behaviour and how once the mathematical factor be put in place. Ridley’s claim: “Human behaviour is unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.” is supported by French mathematician and physicist, Pierre-Simon de LaPlace. LaPlace talks about the Chaos theory that rests on chance and luck in predictions, “Theory holds that even if you know all the determining factors in a system, you may not be able to predict the course it will take, because of the way different causes can interact with each other.”, which acts as a shield in defense of Ridley’s claim of human behaviour unpredictability inferring that even if all genetic determinisms and determinisms caused by society and culture be taken into play, human behaviour cannot be
Rachel Mathews E 260 March 13, 2018 Dr. Shaun Morgan Paper #1 “Bitter in the Mouth” by Monique Truong explores race, gender and sexuality, and never had a definite theme. It starts off with a young, seven-year-old North Carolina girl, with many layered secrets, who name was Linda Hammerick. She stated that she “fell in love with” (1) her great-uncle Baby Harper. She also talks about her parents, DeAnne and Thomas, and her best friend, Kelly. She states that she was her father’s tomboy and her mother’s baton twirler and that she went far away for college and law school, now living in New York.
Ramifications of chasing traditional rewards in, “How Not to Get into College”, “Somnambulist”, and “Iced- Cream” Albert Einstein once said, “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value”. Implying that people tend to get blinded in the hunt of personal triumph in their lives that they forget what really is important to them. Similarly, in Alfie Kohn’s How “Not to Get into College”, Daniel Barwick’s “The So Called Iced Cream” and Heron Jones’s “Somnambulist”, the authors develop the message that, people assume that chasing external rewards equals joy and satisfaction in their lives.
In Russel Baker's essay, "The Art of Eating Spaghetti", he was trying to express that what you end up doing shouldn't be determined by how hard it will be, but instead by if you want to do it or not. He says that he felt that he wanted to be writer, but knew that it kids didn't just graduate and be a writer. At the end, he says, "Writing couldn't lead to a job after high school, and it was hardly honest work, but Mr. Fleagle had opened a door for me." The most effect part of his essay was when he wrote about how proud he felt when Mr. Fleagle was reading his essay out loud and everyone was listening and laughing, because it's what he would feel when people read his future stories as a writer.
"The Poet’s Occasional Alternative" by Grace Paley and ‘In My Craft or Sullen Art’ by Dylan Thomas are poems which portrays writing as an arduous and under-appreciated form of art. In "The Poet’s Occasional Alternative", the speaker’s disillusionment with the poor reception of his poetry is exacerbated by the contrasting attention his pie receives, while the speaker in ‘In My Craft or Sullen Art’ reveals his motivations for persevering in his writing despite the lack of attention it receives. Both poems illustrate how the act of writing receives little attention from the masses and is thus an unappreciated form of art. In "The Poet’s Occasional Alternative”, the speaker likens the process of writing poetry to that of making a pie with starkly different results. The pie is described to “already” have a “tumbling audience”, and these expressions show how the pie is able to garner a substantial and excited following with ease, even from “small trucks” which are inanimate objects, presumably toys.
When a person first hears the title “Oranges” by Gary Soto, they might think that it is about a person on an orange farm or someone that newly discovered oranges. In this poem, the speaker talks about how he had met a girl and they walked until they were at a drugstore, they went inside and he bought her chocolate with a nickel and an orange. They were walking, she was eating her chocolate and he was eating an orange, and they were enjoying their time together. Taking chances can often result in good outcomes. Gary Soto uses similes, metaphors, attitude, and varied stanza structure in “Oranges” to highlight the importance of taking chances.
“Thank You, Ma’am”, by Langston Hughes, is a tale about a young lad named Roger who attempts stealing to provide for himself, when instead he learns a valuable lesson. “The Necklace”, by Guy de Maupassant, is a story about a selfish woman named Mathilde and her husband, with a surprising twist at the end of the short story. These fables are going to be used to compare and contrast the messages of morality, socio-economic status, and family. On the topic of morality, Roger from “Thank You, Ma’am” and Mathilde from “The Necklace” are different.
Entropy never loses, it 's like the undefeated champion. An example as mentioned in the story would be the cereal box. The box is perfectly described. It doesnt have any imperfections, precisely measured into simply the right rectangular shape and loaded with the ideal amount of cereals. In other words, it is perfect in order.
“Things are rough all over,” because it explains how it’s not only rough being a Greaser but also a Soc.” (Hinton, pg 43). Everything that you see,hear is not always
Through this query, Oates succeeds in reminding her audience of both their need to give significance to meaningless subject matter and that nature falls into the former category. Her use of quotations on the word “creativity” in and of itself debases her audiences’ self esteem because it could make them rethink how that word really applies to them. Through her mocking tone, Oates dismisses the instigators of the reverence of the natural world. She lost this deference to nature a long time ago she lost through separate and traumatizing encounters with
