Shirley Jackson’s short story‚ "The Lottery"‚ ironically gives the lottery a bad meaning. The lottery in this story is used for a public stoning‚ contrary to the first thing that comes to a reader’s mind when they think of winning the lottery; a big sum of money. The reader sees both literal and metaphorical meaning of this story because for one it shows for face value what the entire story is about‚ and hidden behind it is the notion of the scapegoat being picked like a lottery number. The setting
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Sirens by Homer and ’The Siren Song’ by Margaret Artwood the story is told of an attempt to lure the men. The pieces of writing differ in the portrayal of the Sirens‚ their comparison in metaphors shift‚ and use of imagery as well. The excerpt analysis the set up of the Sirens and compares their voices to ’honeyed voices’ sweet and relaxing. Further analyzing the Sirens point of view and how they are annoyed and do not enjoy repeating the fatal yet venerable song. The comparison of what they
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Blake Snyder Beat Sheet October 19 2012 Mean girls Opening image: The first image seen is of a girl’s parents telling their daughter goodbye and to have a good first day at school. The girl’s mother is crying because unlike most kids her daughter has never been to a real school. She is sixteen years old and has been homeschooled all her life. Theme stated: “I had a lot of friends in Africa. But so far‚ none in Evanston.” This line basically foreshadows how she has no friends at her new school
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson was a dark short story that had a slight twist to it. It was based in a village were citizens had a certain tradition passed on from generation to generation that they obeyed. The symbol of the lottery was a black box filled with slips of paper‚ in which one of those slips contains a black spot that decides the fate of the person picked. The scapegoat of the story was a mother and wife named Tessie Hutchinson. A scapegoat can be an animal or person that is unjustly
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Song Analysis and Interpretation 1. Title of the song • Through Glass 2. Artist • Stone Sour 3. Type of Song • Alternative rock 4. What was the song all about? • This song makes me think of reality and the actual scene of the world we lived in. Thus‚ our minds were corrupt by the media and giving praises to the stars that are not in their own identity perhaps “fake” people. We are bombarded and controlled by media and tell the people how life is supposed to be and it seems that they
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Michael Jackson was born in Gary‚ Indiana on 1958‚ and it wasn’t short after that that he would hop onto the fast track to a life chock-full of success‚ happiness‚ turbulence‚ and controversy. At the extremely early age of five‚ Michael became the lead singer of the legendary Jackson 5‚ a group consisting entirely of his family members. With being as young as he was‚ Michael’s vocal work was amazing and he was able to showcase emotions very well. The Jackson 5 was eventually signed under Motown and
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MARKETING MIX A. PRODUCT - Dr. Dre Beats is a company that creates high-end quality headphones. It’s products allow listeners a full music experience with the capability of producing the songs as played from professional recording studios. Their target market is: Teens the youth with allowances to spend on the latest gadgets. The Generation Y‚ the people under this category are those who are all about what’s new‚ trendy‚ and value brand names. Tag-line : "People aren’t hearing all
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Music Video Analysis: “Cowboy Casanova” The music video I have chosen to analyze is “Cowboy Casanova”; this song was written by Mike Elizondo‚ Brett James‚ and co-written by Underwood herself. Carrie Underwood performs this song; this is one of my favorite songs. This song is about a girl that had her heart broke by a guy that seemed perfect; he’s a smooth talker and knows exactly how to get a girl. However he doesn’t really care about the girl at all. So the girl is trying to warn another girl
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Rat Song Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior animal) the poem shows how judgemental‚ hateful‚ hypocritical and “unnatural” the human race is. The poem furthermore advocates that humans are a much greater parasite than the rats they are so desperately
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hip-hop‚ so it was hard to narrow down to this song. Nonetheless‚ “Vocab” provides an interesting look at hip-hop. This is 1994 and hip-hop is beginning to take a prominent role in the mainstream media. When we think about gender equality in hip-hop‚ it is fair to say that Lauryn Hill more than holds her own. In this essay‚ I hope to further develop the importance of this group dynamic to hip-hop at the time and breakdown some unique hip-hop elements in the song itself. As of yet‚ we have mentioned several
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