GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps
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producer Sembene Ousmane is a very emotional and inspiring movie. At the beginning of the movie girls are made to have female genital mutilation done which they know is very dangerous and painful. When four little girls run away from a purification ceremony where they get cut‚ they escape to Colle‚ a woman who refused to have her own daughter Amasatou circumcised. Colle Ardo is an everyday hero in Burkina Faso and by the end of the movie she saves the girls from having to get female genital mutilation
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Introduction Ever since her first novel The Joy Luck Club hit the shelves in 1989‚ Chinese-American writer Amy Tan has been heralded as the new voice of Chinese-American literature. The novel‚ which recounts the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters in a short story format‚ spent nine months on the New York Times bestseller list. However‚ while critics have celebrated Tan for the cultural insights her works provide‚ the author herself is critical of the representative
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a toll on the residents’ health. Didion’s usage of many stylistic elements such as syntax‚ diction‚ and figurative language greatly contributed to her essay‚ in the sense that it provided many concepts and ideas to her writing that it wouldn’t have had otherwise. Didion’s usage of syntax added to the type of language she built throughout her essay. She includes an element of surprise or suspense to captivate the reader’s attention by writing mesmerizing lines such as‚ “the Pacific turned ominously
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Summary The novel The Dante Club‚ written by Matthew Pearl‚ begins with John Kurtz‚ Chief of the Boston police‚ investigating a murder that occurred in 1865. The man murdered was Artemus Prescott Healey‚ who was the highest official of the Massachusetts courts. Healey’s body was found naked and covered with insects and maggots on a sandy beach next to his property. His chambermaid insisted that he was still alive when she found him days later‚ and that he cried out before dying. Then Pearl introduces
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Robert Frost’s "The telephone" is a poem about an individual’s interpretation of a telephone conversation with another. The speaker in the poem talks about a meeting with the same person that had happened in the past showing that there is some history and that this is a sequel to another conversation. We see constant misconceptions between both people‚ and in this respect it is a sort of rebirth and a sort of familiarity between the speaker and the person on the corresponding end. Through the poem
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invisible strength? When I first heard it‚ all I could think about was a body-builder wearing the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter. After reading The Joy Luck Club however‚ I realize that Invisible strength is a trait that we should all strive to get. Invisible strength comes in many forms and does many things. In the Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan is trying to show that even in the worst of circumstances‚ people can gain control over their own lives with the motif of invisible strength. This
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The Breakfast Club relates to social health and mental health‚ by the characters personalities. In the Breakfast Club‚ five teenagers have to spend a full day in detention. Claire is the princess; the pretty‚ popular girl with parents that fight all the time. John is the criminal; the bad influence‚ and the pothead that gets beaten. Brian is the brain or nerd; he is the smart one of the group‚ that is pressured to do good by his parents. Allison is the basket case; a crazy goth‚ that makes things
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For my movie analysis assignment‚ I chose to watch the movie The Breakfast Club. The breakfast club‚ written by John Hughes in 1985‚ is an American teen drama film full of stereotypical gender roles. The characters in this film have all violated a rule at Shermer High School‚ located in Shermer‚ Illinois. The five students in the film all violated a rule at Shermer High resulting in a Saturday morning detention. The five students having to report for the Saturday morning detention do not share the
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Brittany Ochs April 11‚ 2013 Sociology Breakfast Club “Jock”‚ “prep”‚ “loser”‚ “geek”‚ “criminal”‚ “ popular”‚ are just a few labels of teenagers that are used everyday by outsiders who judge them without looking skin deep. In the matter of stereotyping‚ some may perceive it as being the base of an identity in the view of society. Stereotyping is categorized and used as a positive view. As opposed to the film The Breakfast Club‚ that creates a more negative input on stereotyping. Peer
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