Arrianna Theriot Susan Adams AP English Lit & Comp 17 November 2014 Close Analysis: “Daddy” Sylvia Plath was a talented young woman born to a German father and Austrian-American mother. After the death of her father‚ she fell into a downward spiral of depression‚ revealing her talent as a poet. In the poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses intense diction‚ sporadic syntax‚ and a unique style of figurative language to express the resentment she feels toward her father. Throughout the poem‚ Plath’s German
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The 300 directed by Zack Snyder is the story of the battle between Persians and a group of 300 Spartans. This movie is very stereotypical‚ with stereotypes such as stasis‚ deposition‚ and violence/ignorance. The main stereotype that is seen the most is the stereotype of exoticism‚ this can seen when the King Xerxes is shown. There is many other stereotypes in the movie but exoticism is the most prominent. Exoticism is the stereotype where everything about a place‚ object‚ or person is amplified
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traditionally male jobs and roles. This ties in with what I will be discussing of the historical concepts of gender discrimination with social normalcies and femininity to sports involving women and the correlation of the movie A League of Their Own directed by Penny Marshall. The
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The image this essay will consider is a sculpture titled “Michael Jackson and Bubbles” by the artist‚ Jeff Koons. The work is a life-sized porcelain sculpture of Michael Jackson in an extravagant costume with the chimpanzee Jackson named “Bubbles” seated on his lap in a matching costume. The image of Jackson and the chimp rest on a small raised dais and flowers are strewn around them on the dais. The sculpture was produced in 1988 and comes from a series of sculptures involving images and figures
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This generation of students are attending universities after high school more than in the past because the thought is college education leads to successful job. In the article “did anyone ask the student” Jeff Selingo went to multiple universities and took surveys with students to ask their opinions about school. When I graduated high school in 2013 I attended a community college in Pennsylvania for a semester. My thought on college in high school were “I don’t really want to continue my education
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“Joe Dirt” is a film directed by Dennie Gordon. The film tells a story of the protagonist‚ Joe Dirt’s‚ quest the find his parents who left him behind at the grand canyon when he was just eight years old. The film shows Joe’s journey of becoming a better‚ more positive person who appreciates the little things in life. Early on in the film‚ Joe is asked for his name by a haughty gate guard. Too embarrassed to say what his real name is‚ Joe tells the guard his name is Joe Dirté. The guard‚ who knows
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I chose the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath because the poem seemed familiar to me. I then remembered I read this poem in my senior class. My teacher was pregnant at the moment and she decided to give us this specific poem. Metaphors is rich in figurative language. All lines have a hidden meaning or require a little bit of thinking. At first when I read the poem I was a little confused. Later‚ with the simple clues given I discovered that it was about a pregnant woman. Plath composed a poem that
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"Daddy"‚ one of Plaths most famous and detailed autobiographical poems‚ was written in the last years of her life and is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery. The sixteen stanza poem‚ through Plaths use of ambiguous symbolism‚ arguably is bitterly addressing Plaths father‚ who died when she was only eight‚ and her husband Ted Hughes‚ who had broken her "pretty red heart in two" (st.12‚ line 1). The poem is intense with once suppressed emotion‚ setting an aggressive‚ desperate‚ almost
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Stringency: A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit. Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details The narrator makes reference to ‘a stake in your fat black heart’ and vampire imagery is clearly used here as vampire can only be killed with a stake through the heart. The stress falling on each word is like each pound and thrust of the stake. In addition‚ monosyllabic words create force and energy. The sentence is plosive and
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DEDICATION This on-The-Job training Narrative Report is wholehearted dedicated to the following persons: -Mr. and Mrs. Banasihan And to our Course Adviser Mr. Sherwin B. Sapin ACKNOWLEDGEMENT As a trainee I’m happy for the output that I have made. After a long preparation and great efforts just to make sure that this documentation were done very well‚ and when this portfolio were done all the fatigues that I had were relieved. I would
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