what we tend to focus on. Culture affects growing up‚ race‚ gender‚ class‚ family and language. Canadian Culture and Identity What does Canada mean to you? Hockey. Maple syrup. Tim Horton’s. 4 seasons Groups of 7 Snow. Margaret Atwood Understand your culture is important in understanding other cultures. Canada is a multicultural country. Literature is used to define a culture. It is easier to explain what we are not than what we are. Hard to define a culture
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stab you in the back‚ people will spread misleading and untrue rumors about you‚ what if you would know everything? Are you ready to be slapped by the truth? Are you ready to see yourself from their perspective? In this literary story “A Low Art” by Margaret Atwood‚ is about retelling Homer’s novel – The Odyssey but from Penelope’s perspective. Penelope is the faithful‚ patient‚ considerate‚ devoted and loving wife of Odysseus. Odysseus was described in the excerpt as tricky and liar‚ how great he is
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both saw the need for unity‚ but their speeches had both similarities and differences. Their style of writing‚ want for interconnection‚ and why they wanted the country to come together are some of the main points of the speeches. Patrick Henry and Margaret Smith had a comparable style or approach to their speeches. Henry states in his speech “Mr. President: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism.” He is showing that he is an advocate for freedom‚ yet still being respectful as he addresses
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awareness of good taste and is devoted to the repetitive formulas of mass culture. (Strinati‚ 2004‚ p.42) This can be seen in the blockbuster animated film The Lion King (1994) produced by Disney who use movies as mass culture tools to sell their products to consumers of western society in a myriad of ways. This essay will analyse The Lion King for its mass culture aspects Mass culture also known as popular culture‚ represent products that are of mass consumption. This is in contrast to High culture
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With America at war in 2004‚ looking back to our past to how we overcame insurmountable odds is what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was pleading when she delivered an eulogy at President Ronald Reagan’s funeral in 2004. She believes that since both wars and eras parallel each other‚ we must look to back to see how confident and daring President Reagan was when he took on the USSR and communism in order to understand how we should take on the War on Terror. She started out by describing how effective
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Stephen King and Margaret Atwood are two amazing authors with different style of writing. King talks about writing process in the interview “The Atlantic” and his nonfiction memoir “On Writing.” Basically‚ a manual book is for those who choose to write. Atwood sharing her experience of writing in the poem “The Page”. She expressed felling‚ frustrations and anxieties using metaphors. They celebrate the fact that writing is important component of our life. The poem “The Page” by Margaret Atwood is a
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How can you implement tradition while remaining original? Many authors have been stuck inside this metaphorical box‚ and often do not know how they will escape. “Survival” by Margaret Atwood describes what seems to be the traditions of Canadian literature. When it comes to showing said traditions‚ “The Painted Door” and “Travel Piece” shows the traits “Survival” describes‚ but they manage to execute them in their own unique way. Both pieces of literature use negative events to advance their stories
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In Margaret Atwood’s poem You Begin‚ we are given the sense that she is trying to explain something to us. She describes to us seemingly random objects and how they are perceived as if trying to get across an important point. This is accomplished with a lot of repetition‚ within her poem she repetitively uses the phrase “this is” and then later “this is your hand.” By doing this it leaves the impression that she wanted us to look closely at the words she was saying and determine the significance
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New things are fun‚ in the beginning‚ however‚ in the end‚ it all ends the same which is death. This is the message that Margaret Atwood’s sends her short story “Happy Endings.” The name is quite ironic‚ for no one ever really gets a happy ending in Atwood’s story. The first story was the American dream that most people envision to be their reality. Atwood uses dramatic irony in the second story‚ with one of the main characters John to only be using Mary for her body. While he truly fell in love
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Happy Endings. Or Are They? Never have I read a short story quite like Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood. As a matter of fact‚ a good amount of my peers and I have become baffled on whether or not to even refer to it as a legitimate story. It is divided into four parts‚ each giving a very frank and emotionless set of love scenarios. She purely tells it like it is; simply fact-based and stoic without any sort of feeling whatsoever. One thing leads to another‚ and that is that. Overall‚ the language
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