introduced and Nora getting a loan to help with his illness that he is not aware of. The inciting incident is when Torvald talks of becoming the bank president and the raise he will receive has Nora thinking she will be able to pay the loan off early. The rising action starts when Korgstad tries to blackmail Nora to help him keep his job at the bank by saying he would not let her husband know about the loan she had if she would help him to keep his job. When this does not work‚ Korgstad writes a letter to
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instance‚ there are quite serious health consequences from a sedentary life. Today‚ it is not uncommon that a person sits still in front of a computer for more that 8 hours per day. Doctors reveal that such a lifestyle is responsible for both the rising obesity rate and the increasing number of patients of cervical problems. In addition to the threat‚ telecommunication poses‚ to our health‚ heavy reliance on telecommunication impairs people’s social abilities as well. Those who heavily rely on
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It’s My Party: The Birthday Party Sequence in Pink Flamingos A film about criminality and unconventionality‚ John Walter’s Pink Flamingoes is a dark comedy independent film. The protagonist‚ Divine‚ is a 300-pound drag woman. She lives with her eccentric family and competes to be “the filthiest person alive” with a corrupt couple. In the birthday party sequence‚ Walter expresses his unique style. He does this by incorporating bizarre situations that would never make it into a Hollywood film and
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Alice Thomas Flamingo Essay 4B Since the 1930s‚ Americans have been collecting and displaying plastic pink flamingos in their lawns‚ homes‚ and backyards. In her essay entitled "The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History‚" Jennifer Price identifies two major characteristics of these lawn decorations as reasons why the pink plastic flamingo was such a phenomenon in America‚ each having their own respective claim to boldness. Instead of directly stating her opinion‚ Price weaves it into the usual
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The word I choose to write about is flamingo. Flamingo is a three syllable word that has the nasal sounds /m/ and /n/ in it. This paper will walk you through the steps it takes to physically produce the word. Spoken language may seem effortless‚ but it requires a complex dance of the muscles in the lips‚ jaw‚ tongue and voice box. The ability to produce accurate speech sounds in rapid succession is something we humans take for granted. In fact‚ speech production is an extremely involved process
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In Jennifer Price’s essay entitled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”‚ she uses rhetoric devices to convey her opinions of the emptiness of American culture. Price interprets the pink flamingos as a symbol of affluent American culture during the 1950’s. Price’s comparison of pink flamingos to American culture is demonstrated through the use of tone‚ satire‚ irony‚ comparison‚ and diction. Price varies her writing style as she varies the usage of rhetorical devices in this essay. She
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introduced plastic‚ hot pink flamingo was not only a yard ornament but also a symbol of a progressive and forward-thinking generation of Americans. In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” Jennifer Price uses the bold symbol of the flamingo to reveal her view of United States culture. The beginning lines of the essay provide a vivid backdrop to Price’s argument. The image of a “pink flamingo [splashing] into the fifties market” conveys the boldness with which the flamingo was introduced. It did
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A Symbol of American Culture Jennifer Price wrote the essay‚ “The Plastic Pink Flamingo” with intentions to get her opinions clearly across. Price paid close attention to her word choice and successfully used diction to portray her tone towards how she feels about American culture. Repetition is a useful form of diction to get the writer’s point across. Price used this by constantly repeating the word “pink.” When reading something over and over again‚ one tends to get bored with the idea. Price
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describe the rising of chaos. Joan Didion uses words like “revolution” and “missing” to describe the chaos that is sweeping across the United States of America. Yeats and Didion use diction to symbolize the pandemonium in their stories. In “The Second Coming” WB Yeats uses diction to indicate the rising portentous by using “Surely some revelation is at hand.” Joan Didion writes “Those left behind filed desultory missing-persons reports‚ and then moved on themselves” diction to denote the rising confusion
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The Sun Rising By John Donne. I--The sun rising is a poem in which the poet expresses his anger with the sun. In the first stanza the poet calls the sun a busy old fool and unruly that is undisciplined because the sun visits people without their consent to their homes and disturbs them from their sleep. The poet says that the sun should not disturb lovers‚as love unlike anything knows neither season nor time. The poet tells the
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