Reflections: Identifying your teaching metaphor I am a heart and my students are the blood that flows through me. As they pass knowledge is pushed through them. I am a fisherfolk and my students are the fish. I try to nourish them by providing bait of different types if they accept it knowledge is obtained. These are just some the metaphors my colleagues’ used to describe themselves in the classroom. Our assignment today was to best describe a metaphor that describes us a teacher. We also identified
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today. At the time‚ the Harlem renaissance was taking place‚ and it wasn’t easy for claude mckay to live there (considering he was an African American). Mckay uses elements like similie‚ metaphor‚ and personoification to describe the hardship of African americans during this renaissance. When the author uses metaphors for the first part of the poem‚ he uses lines such as‚ “she feeds me bread of bitterness” and “sinks into my throat her tigers tooth stealing my breath of life” to convey how America is
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Durkheim and Weber have theories about the origins/source and the social bearing of religion that differ from one another respectively. Durkheim focuses more on the effects of religion as a group activity while Weber focused on the individual and their relationship with their God. Durkheim played more emphasis on the moral role while Weber focused on the economic effects. Through the course of this essay we will be comparing and contrasting each of their theories concluding with why I feel Weber to have
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Matt: Wait‚ I do remember something from class… isn’t water a metaphor? Nick: Uhh…. the essay is just a draft‚ for the test you should define a metaphor. Matt: Oh‚ now you lost me‚ whats a metaphor again? Nick: Oh for… it’s something that represents itself and something else‚ but isn’t universal. Matt: Cuz‚ a symbol would be universal? Nick: Yeah‚ like water being synonymous with life‚ a bunch of civilizations popped up around water‚ like the egyptians on the Nile and the Mesopotamians on the
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the aged hairstyle expresses meaning and metaphor similar to many other statements she constructs her career upon. The grey wig illustrates the ending of an era‚ the period entrenched in representing the ideals of Gaga’s latest album. They exemplify her growth and maturation through the cycle of the album‚ and serve to respectfully and gingerly leave that period in the past. The Fame‚ The Fame Monster‚ Born This Way‚ and ARTPOP are rooted in meanings‚ metaphors‚ and statements that made her famous‚
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it. In a sense‚ they were trying to rewrite history. It was mainly written in an attempt to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity and change the governing style to Feudalism‚ among other things. Examples of this are their use of the Forest as a metaphor for Hell. Anglo-Saxon Paganism made the forest the home of their Gods‚ and the Bards needed to change that. Another element‚ is the role women play in society. The Bards made women out to be servants‚ rather than equal. Finally‚ the bards added Irony
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During the nineteenth century‚ Karl Marx and Max Weber were two of the most influential sociologist. Both their views on the rise of capitalism have various similarities and differences. They believe that capitalism is relatively new to the modern world. Their views differ on the rise of capitalism. Regardless of Marx and Weber ’s differences‚ both theorists agree that capitalism is a system of highly impersonal relations. Karl Marx was born on May 5‚ 1818 to the father of a Jewish lawyer. As a
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My Personal Metaphor I am an enthusiastic cheerleader‚ cheering for my team all day long. I describe myself as being like a cheerleader. Usually‚ cheerleaders has to have lots of spirit and pep in them to spread spirit to their school and to be spirited in everything they do. To be a cheerleader‚ you would have to be very lively and energetic at all times because people count on you to get them hyped up for a game or pep rally. Having to cheer for their team all day‚ cheerleaders need all the energy
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imagination as well. Frye teaches us that English language and the language of literature helps us bond closely our personal imagination and experience with that of the outside world‚ which is why he calls his book the motive for metaphor‚ because through this process we are using a metaphor to relate our experiences and imagination with the real world. Studying literature is very important and provides humanity with an abundant amount of social value‚ intelligence and a better approach with dealing with
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the man cared for and loved his captain‚ he didn’t celebrate with the others‚ he didn’t rejoice‚ he only mourned the loss of his captain. There were many excellent literary devices that I found very meaningful to the poem‚ especially the extended metaphor of the captain being the man’s father. I found that to be very simple to understand and see‚ but at the same time genius because
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