Describing a Place Essay

The character talks about misfortune using action verbs such as “tainted my mind” while describing events to have “led to [his] after tale of misery”. He then continues this trend of action verbs usage with “ruled”, “arise”, “swelling” and “swept”. Victor through his choice of personification attempts to create another entity, separate from himself…

of parallelism, metaphor, and anaphora. Obama begins his speech by describing the various plights the country was in at the time he was sworn in. He maintains, however, that the United States as a country has survived plenty of adversity before, and will continue to do so. Obama utilizes the strategy of parallelism to…

throughout the poem Richard is just being superficially described of what the people know of him when he goes to town or school. The significance of these is that this shows how people can know nothing real about a person and still feel connected by describing everything they see, but then Cory killed himself and the cold hard truth are exposed that they no nothing at all.…

nature of the gender wars that plays out throughout his Epic. Milton places a twist on the story of Eve so that the reader will be swayed to follow his beliefs. He wants to the reader to investigate the true intention of God and that because of her sin the Fall was inevitable. In this passage of Book IV, there is an initial analysis of what led to the fall of Eve. The premise for the beginning of Book IV is a dialogue that takes place between a married couple. The couple is Adam and Eve. Eve…

The Great Gatsby is a book of metaphors, and similes. The author expresses feelings and emotion with colors, time, weather, and sometimes the place where events are taking place. Normally you wouldn’t think of colors being used as a way to symbolize something, but F. Scott Fitzgerald used colors very well in the book to show different emotions, and to describe characters. In this book F. Scott Fitzgerald makes you portray characters in ways that they aren’t because of their social class. For…

a society where it exists. Proffitt brings up the issue of an abuse of power, and constantly reminds his readers that nothing down in public will ever be anonymous again. It is interesting how he brings up security cameras that are in all public places, and contrasts them with Google Glass, which is essentially the same thing, except not used for security reasons. Also, he brings up multiple scenarios where this invasion of privacy would be seen as a problem. He mentions the idea of facial…

On Monday, September 25, 2015 at around 5 pm, a dangerous typhoon swept across northeast Taiwan. This typhoon was felt by all Taiwanese people, as the aftermath of the tropical storm included fallen trees, debris, and destruction. These typhoons are formed in the monsoon trough; meaning there is minimum sea level pressure. Typhoons usually strike in Taiwan, Japan, and Guam because they are located in the “convergence zone”, where wind patterns from the northern and southern hemisphere collide.…

Hi Derek, Great post this week describing success of Texas Instrument with a complex matrix structure. Based on my experience when I was hired at Texas Instrument (TI), the peers joked that TI stands for training institute, if you learn how to swim then you will succeed at TI. The TI culture is highly competitive and rewards people for innovation. The company’s core values of “integrity, innovation and commitment are woven throughout the fabric of our history. These values lay the foundation…

No matter what adaptation of Frankenstein that we discuss, whether it be the book or the movie, the construction and animation of the creature is absolutely the most significant part of the story. Knowing the importance of the creation scene, we would assume that each film adaptation would follow along exactly ‘by the book’; unfortunately, this is not the case. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creation scene is not very lengthy, nor is the process of by which it is created. “I collected the…

Not only are there few places to buy healthy food, many children in the population we are describing come from families that can’t even afford to buy a healthy meal. Urban neighborhoods with high rates of unemployment and poverty are suffering from food insecurity (McMillan). The South Bronx alone has the highest rate of food insecurity in the country; that is 37 percent compared with the 16.6 percent for New York City as a whole (McMillan). A 2000-calorie diet consisting of low-energy but…