On the Road by Jack Kerouac has many themes. One theme that stood out was the rebellion against Corporate America. The main characters for this theme were Dean Moriarty‚ Sal Paradise‚ and Marylou. Each of them had behaviors that conflict with an ideal‚ working American. These characters also represent a longing for something they want‚ but can’t find or are incapable of getting. The first character that was the biggest cliché against the ideal‚ working American was Dean Moriarty. Dean was
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Doing The Human Thing By: Paul D’Angelo In the article The Step Not Taken‚ Paul D’Angelo recounts an experience where he exhibited the Bystander Effect when faced with a young man crying in his presence in an elevator. He is ashamed by his decision to leave the man alone and is doubtful when his friends and acquaintances tell him he did the right thing. Did he do the right thing? What is the Bystander Effect? In this article‚ I will explore this phenomenon and the nature of the situation
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The Road An unnamed father and his young son journey across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape‚ some years after a major unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and most life on Earth. The land is filled with ash and devoid of living animals and vegetation. Many of the remaining human survivors have resorted to cannibalism‚ scavenging the detritus of city and country alike for flesh. The boy’s mother‚ pregnant with him at the time of the disaster‚ gave up hope and committed suicide some
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compares examinations with a serious contest‚ an eight-round fight‚ a final breathless sprint and even with death. All these devices leave a very vivid description of the students’ anticipating such an unpleasant inevitability as the exam. By means of the author’s language our imagination depicts a distinct and colorful picture proving the effectiveness of the stylistic devices in Gordon’s description. It’s hard to believe but suspense is even growing from one paragraph to another turning just an
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Stylistic analysis of the extract from “HARD TIMES” by Ch. Dickens. 1. The extract under consideration comes from “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens. The author was the well-loved and prolific British author of numerous works that are now considered classics. In a whimsical and unique fashion‚ Dickens pointed out society’s flaws in terms of its blinding greed for money and its neglect of the lower classes of society. Through his books‚ we come to understand the virtues of a loving heart and
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Poetic Devices Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds. “Doubting‚ dreaming dreams no mortal ever…” Poe‚ “The Raven” Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds. “Poetry is old‚ ancient‚ goes back far...So old it is that no man knows...” Sandburg‚ “Early Moon” Hyperbole – An overstatement or extreme exaggeration. Example: I nearly died laughing. Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense (sight‚ taste‚ touch‚ hearing‚ and smell) or any combination
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he will begin to hunt them down and kill them. He told “good luck” and the connection is terminated. Bryan informs Stuart and Lenore about Kim’s abduction. Bryan’s former colleague Sam tells him that based on the recording; Kim has probably been taken by an Albanian human trafficking ring that has recently begun abducting female tourists. He also says that if she is not rescued within ninety-six hours‚ she will likely never be found. Bryan travels to Paris‚ and finds Peter
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History 137 Abilities Based Assignment: Think Piece Taken Hostage On David Farber’s book Taken Hostage‚ Farber informs us about the Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter with Radical Islam. This book tells us how the United States and Iran got into conflict‚ leading to the Iranians holding American Embassy members hostage as revenge for them feeling betrayed by the United States. It also informs us about other events that occurred in a decade that caused the United States many
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The extract under the title is taken from the trilogy “The Forsyte Saga” written by the English novelist and playwright‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932 John Galsworthy. Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. His most famous work is THE FORSYTE SAGA (1906-1921)‚ an English parallel to Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks (1901). Galsworthy was a representative of the literary tradition‚ which has regarded the novel as an instrument
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language has become a focus of attention. In this paper‚ under the theory of modern stylistics‚ the stylistic features of cyber language and its causes were discussed from vocabulary and grammatical levels. The author has demonstrated some lexical features of cyber language with a number of examples. Then‚ in the second part‚ the grammatical features have been discussed. And the third part is about the causes of these stylistic features. 1.1 Background of the Present Study From 1990s‚ the Internet has
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