“Black Talk and Pop Culture‚ by Leslie Savan is an essay taken from her 2005 book‚ “Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Language in Your Life‚ the Media‚ Business‚ Politics and Like‚ Whatever”. It describes how the Black language has integrated itself into mainstream culture. One might be surprised on the African-American origins of certain commonly used words and phrases. The essay has many examples and details about how the Black language infiltrated pop culture over the years and how it has finally
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What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept‚ where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and
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Creative Spark Talk Analysis Mario L. Gabriel PHL/458 Creative Minds and Critical Thinking April 8‚ 2015 Dr. Charles Flowers Creative Spark Talk Sir Ken Robinson is an educator‚ respected author and leading advocator for changes to the educational system. A Professor believes that the education system needs to be more creative and stop preventing creativity. Sir Robinson speech on “How Schools Kill Creativity”; given on February 2006; at TED conference in Monterey California. It focuses
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For many decades‚ the US military has‚ engaged with Hollywood’s movies by giving permission to their production crews to use their military machines and techniques. Black Hawk Down was about the US military‚ Top Gun was about the Navy‚ and Iron Man was about the Air Force (McMillen). These kinds of movies are regarded as joint-military force movies‚ and one of the largest joint-military movies is Transformers‚ which was released in 2007. The third series was recently released‚ which is now being
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In the book The Old Man and the Sea‚ Ernest Hemingway uses many literary devices including metaphors. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the ocean to show life and the role that people play in their lives. Hemingway uses the metaphor of the lions to signify people who live their lives as actively. The tourists in the book represent the people who in observe their lives and who do not take part in their own lives. In this book Ernest Hemingway uses metaphors to reflect his life experiences and opinions
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understanding of it. “The Road Not Taken”‚ by Robert Frost‚ and “O Captain! My Captain”‚ by Walt Whitman‚ utilized metaphors‚ thought-provoking ideas‚ and a personalized‚ relatable style of poetry to illustrate their overall point. “The Road Not Taken” and “O Captain! My Captain!” made use of metaphors to bring out their underlying meaning in their poems. Robert Frost used a fork in the road as a metaphor about choosing paths‚ or coming to an important decision. By writing
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shelter‚ peace‚ and beauty. Despite the large role nature has played in the upbringing of mankind‚ society has justified neglecting it’s responsibility to take care of nature by disassociating the human world from the natural world. In Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow‚ a glimpse of the
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We all use metaphors in our everyday lives. We use them to make a point‚ to make the language more alive or simply because some metaphors have become the correct word to describe something (also known as a dead metaphor. In the book “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I.A. Richards describes the metaphor as consisting of two parts; the tenor (the subject) and the vehicle (the metaphor). When we say that somebody has “a heart of gold”‚ no one thinks that this is actually the case. But the phrase gives a
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Reflections: Identifying your teaching metaphor I am a heart and my students are the blood that flows through me. As they pass knowledge is pushed through them. I am a fisherfolk and my students are the fish. I try to nourish them by providing bait of different types if they accept it knowledge is obtained. These are just some the metaphors my colleagues’ used to describe themselves in the classroom. Our assignment today was to best describe a metaphor that describes us a teacher. We also identified
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Creative Spark Talk Analysis February 16‚ 2015 Myra Stilwell Lance M. Principe‚ University of Phoenix Tales of creativity and play by Tim Brown from 2008 took a look at the relationship between creative thinking as adults and playing as a child using three specific techniques. Tim Brown is the CEO of the design firm IDEO. IDEO came up with “design thinking” by fusing design‚ business and social studies into ideas. (TED Speaker‚ 2008) Tim Brown talked about the use of three techniques to
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