John Hall’s Theory: Violence in Aum Shinrikyo Despite whether these actions have justification are no‚ new religious movements all across the globe have been at some point under scrutiny by those outside their realm of beliefs. Aum Shinrikyo is no exception. It was subject to violence when it suffered attempts to destruction and vengeance. In 1995‚ a Tokyo subway was the hit with a nerve gas attack. It was targeted towards devotees of Aum Shinrikyo‚ who were riding it. With many ways to examine
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first chapter of The Scarlet Letter‚ the author’s detail‚ diction and point of view set the tone and setting for the novel. Through the use of these literary elements‚ Hawthorne conveys an ominous tone but hopeful tone and a shift from a dreadful setting to a beautiful setting. The opening passage does not only warn and hit to the reader that something isn’t right‚ it continually displays an unknown that is feared. The author’s diction intensifies the feelings toward the jail‚ and shows the shift
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son‚ young Hamlet‚ as a ghost bearing terrible news. The ghost tells Hamlet that he was killed by Claudius‚ his brother and Hamlet’s uncle. Then when he was out of the way‚ Claudius seduced the queen. Throughout the passage‚ Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to help readers understand and connect with the ghost and Hamlet’s feelings of “contempt” towards the new King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. The passage begins with the ghost. He tells that everyone was told that he was “stung” by a
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When writing‚ diction‚ syntax and imagery all show the author’s style. In the text “Dinner Dandruff”‚ Robert Fulghum does an excellent job of showing all three of these. The words he chooses to use‚ the way he uses them in sentences‚ and the visual effect he creates through his writing shows the reader he is a humorous author. Robert Fulghum uses multiple examples of diction in the text to show his humor. Diction are the words chosen to make a statement. For example‚ the sentence “A rational
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In the first stanza‚ the author asks the reader‚ who laid in the tomb. The man in the tomb was placed there after he died. Next‚ the author takes a moment to enjoy the beauty of nature. He tells us that this man is Jesus‚ the source or subject of all hymns in church. The stone was rolled in front of the tomb‚ and Pilate sent men to stand guard outside the tomb. The author asks the reader who is this person who was put in the tomb. In the second stanza‚ the author reveals that he will tell the
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Chomsky’s Theory Chomsky believes that children are born with an inherited ability to learn any of the human languages. He thinks that certain linguistic structures that children use so accurately‚ must have already stuck in their mind. Chomsky believes that every child has a ‘language acquisition device’ or LAD. LAD encodes the major principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain. Then the children only have to learn new vocabulary and apply the syntactic structures
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neighborhood as the speaker embarks on a walk. He see a crowd of people and hears a lover singing to his beloved and his song portrays that his love will never cease. The clocks‚ however‚ showcase a contradictory attitude through the use of their diction by insinuating that love will end because the lovers’ lives will as well. Throughout the poem‚ the lovers remain naively optimistic while the clocks take a cynical point of view toward love and time. The author of this poem demonstrates device usage
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poets write poems that depict Death as a spine-chilling inevitable end‚ others hold respect for this natural occurrence. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”‚ diction and personification is utilized to demonstrate the speaker’s cordial friendship with Death. Dickinson uses exemplar diction to stress the calm and comfortable atmosphere the speaker is in when Death is present. The reader comes to understand that the speaker holds no fear of Death‚ rather‚ great respect for
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began to look at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period‚ roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830‚ was a period when poets turned to nature‚ their individual emotions‚ and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Shelley‚ and Keats rejected conventional literary forms‚ regular meters‚ and complex characters and experimented with emotion and nature subjects in their poems which marked a literary renaissance. Besides a response to the Enlightenment
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an integral factor of literature; sometimes‚ certain political events inspire poets and authors to cleverly voice their opinions regarding the event in ways that require much ambiguity and analysis to completely understand the author’s intentions. Poetic protest is best shown with careful choice of word‚ punctuation‚ and capitalization. The first example of political protest in poetry can be seen in “Buffalo Bills” by E. E. Cummings. Cummings dislikes the fame that Buffalo Bill received from his pointless
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