In the Great Gatsby‚ each character is longing for one particular paradise. Only one character actually reaches utopia‚ and the arrival is a mixed blessing at best. The concept of paradise in The Great Gatsby is a shifting‚ fleeting illusion of happiness‚ joy‚ love‚ and perfection‚ a mirage that leads each character to reach deeper‚ look harder‚ strive farther. There is Myrtle Wilson’s gaudy‚ flashy hotel paradise in which she can pretend that she is glamorous‚ elite‚ wanted and loved. She clings
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The speaker in the poem‚ “Those Winter Sundays”‚ by Robert Hayden‚ reveals both his loving and regretful feelings about his father by using symbolization‚ diction‚ and a regretful‚ “if only” tone‚ which are all reflected by the “angry home”. Hayden uses symbolization to convey the child’s feelings for the father. The speaker would “rise and dress‚/ fearing the chronic angers of that house.” The reader can imagine a child nervously getting out of bed to see his or her father. The bed is a symbol
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Has Computer-generated Imagery Ruined Cinema? The year was 1992. A small team of animators were soon to present to the world an innovation that would forever change the realm of cinema. Until this point‚ special effects artists were mostly limited to methods of stop-motion animation and practical effects to create fantastical displays within a film. That was until ground-breaking director Stephen Spielberg‚ who is most famous for his work in classic films such as E.T. and Jaws‚ made a single decision
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Propaganda used in today’s television companies are using many different types of propaganda techniques to grasp the viewer’s attention and persuade them into buying their product. Propaganda is a persuasive tool used in advertising to get a person to become interested in a product. Propaganda can be used when a person tries to get someone to do something they might not want to do such as taking their first drink of beer or some other kind of influential type situation. Propaganda can be seen on
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played a vital part in World War One as they proved to be an extremely reliable way of sending messages. Over 100‚000 were used in the war with an astonishing success rate of 95% getting through to their destination with their message. Pigeons were used extensively in World War One. Man-made communication systems were still crude and unreliable‚ so dogs and pigeons were used. Pigeons would have been found just about anywhere on the Western Front. At the First battle of the Marne in 1914‚ French
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part of Spain) in which students have the difficulty understanding terminologies in Mathematics due to EMI (English as Medium of Instruction). According to their findings‚ students are poor in this course because English is not their primary language used outside school; furthermore‚ learners hardly speak‚ read‚ or write in English. Thus‚ they are proposing on the role of the mother tongue in addressing difficulties in
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The rich imagery in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’‚ is a major reason why the poem is so powerful. In the first line‚ "Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks‚" readers can see the weariness of the soldiers‚ trudging tiredly on the war ground. Also‚ by comparing them to beggars‚ the soldiers were probably very dirty after fighting for so long. Think of a soldier staying in a battlefield‚ their uniforms‚ their faces will most likely be covered with dust‚ grime‚ or even blood. In the second line
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What is Imagery? Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language‚ especially in a literary work. Poets use this alot in their poems to get you to imagine what’s going on. In the poems “The Last Wolf” and “Animal Wisdom” they use imagery a lot. In this this essay I will tell some examples of the imagery In poem “Animal Wisdom” there are multiple examples of imagery. Like on page 100 paragraph 2 Its say” fish sprouted whiskers”. When I read that it makes me think of a fish Literally sprouting
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Krapp ’s Last Tape: Imagery in Color During the 20th century‚ there was an evident disillusion and disintegration in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and improvements in technology of this time‚ such as the Holocaust and the creation of the atom bomb. This has left people with little‚ if any‚ faith in powers above or in their own kind‚ leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is an absurd joke. From these times grew the Theater of Absurd
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The 10‚000 Hour Rule is the idea that it takes about 10‚000 hours to master a skill. In Outliers‚ Gladwell uses Bill Gates as an example. According to Gladwell‚ Gates spent approximately 10‚000 hours practicing coding‚ honing the skills that he would later use to build his multi-billion dollar software company known as Microsoft. Bill Gates is a real-life example of the idiom “Practice makes perfect”. The 10‚000 hour also factors into education. In order to ensure success in school‚ I must reform
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