...de Guzman, Francesco Maria C. Humanities I – TFD2 2012-41947 Prof. Morales The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend, my kinsfolk, Through the Last Door, And left me standing bleakly, I died yet more; The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend...
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...ideological perspective The television has been around us for centuries and it has become a major source of information to society. Spreading information amongst the people means spreading a particular kind of ideas. These ideas or beliefs provide people with a way of understanding the world and they are referred to as ‘ideology’. It is believed that the media is used to set certain ideology in society. Consequently, television, as a part of the media, has its own role in putting through these ideas. In this essay I am going to explain what ideology is and how it affects society through television. I am also going to give an example of creating particular ideological perspective using the American horror drama television series The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010) developed by Frank Darabont. Ideology, as I already mentioned, is a particular set of ideas. However, we call ‘ideological’ only the ideas that relate to the distribution of social power. (Branston, G. and Stafford, R., 2010, p. 172) There are different ideologies, such as religious, political, etc. and each of them imposes its own way of seeing the world. Yet, ‘ideology’ was first defined by classical Marxism. Karl Marx claimed that our society is capitalist, i.e. it is divided into two major groups: the dominant class (the richer/ bourgeoisie) and the working class (the poorer/proletariat). The higher class are the people with power, the people who own enterprises, the employers. On the contrary, the lower class, are...
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...I feel the sun beaming down on me. Warmth wraps my body after being inside the air conditioned car. I walk to the trunk to gather all the presents we are giving my father. My mother and my little sister are walking next to me to the entrance of the clinic. I open the door for them to go in first, still suffocating in the heat. I walk in behind my mother feeling that fresh air from the AC again. I stop dead in my tracks seeing my mother who is looking at me like she is about to give a speech in the middle of the clinic's main office . “Ask if your father is here.” I nod my head in agreement, accepting the fact that I am both her translator and daughter. I take seven steps to the main office. I clear my throat as if I am about to give a speech...
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...same as another crime. You cannot define theft the same as you could arson. You could not define assault the same as you could jay walking. There are many crimes that exist in society. These crimes range from almost insignificant to horrible to tragic. The same can be said for a person who breaks the law. It would be hard to call someone arrested for jay walking a criminal in the same context as someone arrested for murder. In life, there are many types of people. There are people who have never broken the law and have never had any sort of dealings with law enforcement. There are people that have broken the law and have had unfortunate dealings with law enforcement, yet those people are not criminals and just made a mistake. Then, you have the people that are true criminals. The true criminals of society are the people that hone their “talents and skills.” The true criminals of society are the ones that scheme elaborate plans to steal millions of dollars, the people that hide in the dark waiting for an innocent person to walk by so the criminal can rob them at gunpoint, the people that enjoy raping women or molesting children, and the people that kill other people out of jealousy, greed, or just plain enjoyment. Criminal stereotypes do exist in society. I believe that most people would equate a common thief as some poor, raggedy looking man or woman, perhaps strung out on drugs, and even having a black skin color. Society also has a very common opinion on child molesters...
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...Examples of this can be first observed in the lines: “ Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs” - perfectly proving my point this single line is the zenith of not only american writing, but also literature as a concept, forcing the reader to incarnate the feeling of asphyxiating underwater not because of the water itself but because you have a noose still clinging to your neck even after the fall to a river. Another line that also captures the quintessential emotion of longing for one’s own family, and used in a magnificent manner which would make any reader relate to the protagonist, thus making it comprehend that there is nothing like family, further improving the quality of the novel: “The thought of his wife and children urged him on” If this do not proves the greatness of this masterpiece, then no human - dead, alive, or yet to be born - deserves to even steal a glance to such sacred...
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...the moral ways to do analysis. We should know that ethical dilemma problems are belong to ethical problems, so we can't drop the trial of using different kinds of sides to see the problems. There are a very old and famous story that almost all the people know in the world --- Adam and Eve. If they followed the rules, they could stay in that heaven world, but if they stole and ate the Forbidden fruit, they could have the happiness of both in spirit and body, and they also could their own children. But if they did this, they also have to face a morality problem. We can treat this problem as a people facing the personal value and social value, which one the person will choose. Everyone knows that the social value is more important, but it is really hard to choose that when we face a big and attractive personal value. In our book, chapter 6, Social Contract, we can know that the ultraism is limited because of people's selfishness, more or less. So the best we can do is choosing the ways to solve problems get as closed as social value, and to accord with social value. Ethical problems are a huge area, and as the economic wave today we have, ethical dilemmas can be seen everywhere in the economic area. And a lot of problems should not only be treated as economic problems, but also ethical problems. It is a real story which happened in China. There was a man hit by a car, and he was dying. But he was a lucky man at first because he was found by another man...
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...English 1010-83955 Literary Analysis 12/08/14 Sha Clack Clack In line one thru seven I think the poet is saying if he could find the alternate universe where past and future meet he would tell his children about his past and bath in their future so he could see how life is so much better for them than it was for him. In lines eleven thru eighteen it is saying that nothing has changes in his life time and that we are trapped in the past of our ancestors. In lines He goes on to repeat "I am that Nigga" meaning I am that man or I am that black man. Giving the origin of the work negro tells how little we were thought of as a people. That my people has been fighting for life from the first day the white man set eyes on us. If I could find the spot where truth echoes I would stand there and whisper memories of my children's future I would let their future dwell in my past So that I might live a brighter now Now is the essence of my domain and it contains All that was and will be And I am as I was and will be because I am and always will be That nigga I am that nigga I am that nigga I am that timeless nigga that swings on pendelums like vines Through mines of boobytrapped minds that are enslaved by time I am the life that supersedes lifetimes, I am It was me with serpentine hair and a timeless stare That with immortal glare turned mortal fear into stone time capsules They still exist as the walking dead, as I do The original sulphurhead, symbol of life...
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...Kamryn Frazier Mrs. Foster 10th Honors Lit/Comp Summer Reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by: Ishmael Beah Chapters 1-4 Quote Selection and Theme Analysis Theme: The Horrors of War “The sound of the guns was so terrifying it confused everyone. No one was able to think clearly. In a matter of seconds, people started screaming and running in different directions, pushing and trampling on whoever had fallen on the ground. No one had the time to take anything with them. Everyone just ran to save his or her life. Mothers lost their children, whose confused, sad cries coincided with the gunshots. Families were separated and left behind everything they had worked for their whole lives”(p. 23). This quotation...
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...“Spunk” A Literary Analysis “Spunk” A Literary Analysis Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901. She was raised in Eatonville, Florida. Zora went to Howard University and progressed on to Barnard College. Zora’s work reflected the use of African American legends in her short stories. Zora Hurston is a vital figure who composed stories and plays during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. She was committed to telling the stories of many cultures to allocate their social legacy with deference and love with an end goal to beat the unrefined stereotyping of the period. In 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, Zora wrote a story called “Spunk”. In the story “Spunk”, Zora used the literary terms like character, setting, and conflict that catches the reader’s attention and makes the story “Spunk” a page turner. Zora used the literacy term character in her story “Spunk”, to give the readers an idea about the character personalities. The term character was also used to help the readers to connect with the characters in the story, making the story very interesting. “Spunk”, started out by describing “a giant of a brown skinned man ...” (Hurston, 1925, 502). The character described in the previous sentence, we later found out his name is Spunk Banks. Spunk Banks is described as a giant muscular man who is fearless and confident, which makes everyone scared of him. “But that’s one thing Ah likes about Spunk Banks – he ain’t skeered of nothin’ on God’s green...
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...Character Analysis Essay for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol "Greed, Ebenezer Scrooge, wealth. Feel them. Know them. Yours was as heavy as this I wear seven years ago, and you have labored to build it since," wailed Jacob Marley in Frederick Gaines's adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (396). Burdened by his greedy life, Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner, is forced to wander the spirit world with no sense of peace. He warns Scrooge to change his selfish ways to avoid the same miserable fate. Marley's ominous warning sets in motion three life-altering journey through time for Scrooge with the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet To Come. Ebenezer Scrooge, originally a greedy and heartless character, changes drastically after his ghostly experiences influence him to become a generous and caring man by the end of the story. In Scene I of "A Christmas Carol", Scrooge is a bitter and self-centered man. For instance, Scrooge's own nephew, Fred, asked Scrooge if he would join Fred and his family for dinner. Scrooge coldly denied Fred's invitation by saying "Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way…"(390)....
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...Sheila Mae T. Geroche PHILLIT AC122 Atty. Paul Gomez Hildawa Literary Text: THE VIRGIN Writer: Kerima Polotan-Tuvera Literary worksheet No. 5 “Details of Character” Analysis (Text, Context and Experience) 1. In two sentences, describe the physical characteristics of the protagonist. Miss Mijares, who is the protagonist in the story, is a 34 year-old woman, slender, almost bony and likes to wear a thick row of ruffles that made her look as though she had a bosom. She had smooth, clear brow, thin cheeks, small, receding chin, lippy and sensual pout and curly hair. 2. Directly quote the lines from the story which gave you those characteristics. “She was slight, almost bony, but she had learned early how to dress herself to achieve an illusion of hips and bosom... On her bodice, astride or lengthwise, there sat an inevitable row of thick camouflaging ruffles that made her look almost as though she had a bosom...”, “Her brow was smooth and clear and she was always pushing off it the hair she kept in tight curls at night. She had thin cheeks, small and angular, falling down to what would have been a nondescript, receding chin, but Nature's hand had erred and given her a jaw instead. When displeased, she had a lippy, almost sensual pout, surprising on such a small face.” 3. Describe the protagonist's goal, conflicts and background. Miss Mijares worked at a job placement office for ten years that made her very unapproachable, impolite, and superior. All her life, she was just...
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...THE WASTE LAND In brief, The Waste Land is a 433-line modernist poem by T. S Eliot published in 1922. It has been called “one of the most important poems of the 20th century.” Despite the poem’s obscurity which it shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures has made the poem to be a familiar touchstone of modern literature. The poem has been written in five parts. The five parts of The Waste Land are titled “The Burial of the Dead”, “A Game of Chess”, “The Fire Sermon”, “Death by Water”, and “What the Thunder Said”. The Waste Land is an allusive and complex poem. As such, it is subject to a variety of interpretations, and no two critics agree completely on its meaning. It may be interpreted on three levels: the person, the society, and the human race. The personal interpretation seeks to reveal Eliot's feelings and intentions in writing the poem. At the society level, a critic looks for the meaning of the poem in relation to the society for which it was written. Finally, the human level extends the societal level to include all human societies past, present, and future (Thompson, 1963). The question of literary value is complex. We must distinguish, first of all, between the importance of literature in our lives and the importance of any specific text. Literature defines and creates our world. In poems, plays, novels...
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...and not a cloud was in the sky. The sun shined over the podium that was dead center stage, which had its traditional red and blue décor all over it. In some towns, the lottery was stretched out over a few days to accommodate large populations but in the town of Freedomville, the small size of three hundred or so citizens meant that the event would only take a half day. The children were the first ones to arrive. They were playing with their stuffed elephants and toy donkeys, some even throwing them at each other. The girls were all dressed in red dresses with white strips while the boys...
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...pitch-black place with a nostalgic hymn of the approaching dying twilight is already filled with his desire to wake up from his endless nightmare. Holding a golden ring on his right hand, he is calmly watching over the horizon as he tries to feel better, but he cannot for he is still caged within the memories of the wicked past and within the present catastrophe. He gradually leaned his back to that mango tree where their chained names are carved inside a heart. For the past 99 days, it has been his desperate habit to wait there for the coming of that person whom he knows will never arrive. Then liquids of emotions flowed out of his vision as his heart drowns with it. Nothing can comfort him since when that peak of joy bounced him out and turned him to be a man he is now. He was never insane yet he doesn’t already know of whom he is and even the people around him; he is just hopeless and unable to keep step of what happened for the past year. Grief and fear never left him and continued to slaved him and took control over his moral and physical character which paved him to be a ‘hard to decipher person’. However, he still lives for he has still an inch of dignity despite of great loneliness. Moreover, his heart is still shouting aloud saying, “I will never leave you..” Chapter I It’s Saturday. Lesther is very excited for he will be seeing his long-time girlfriend again to celebrate their 4th year anniversary. Of course, he had prepare a very special gift for Martha; a gift that...
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...Belmondo) and Patricia Franchini (Jean Seberg) with curiosity in their faces, some even stare directly at the camera, or some cut in front of the camera. All these things blur the border between the reality and the diegesis, making the latter imperfect. So, the film not only shows real city countenance of contemporary Paris—streets crowded with busy people and roads occupied with an endless cycle of cars, but also remind the audience that they are watching a film, a fictional construct, revealing its identity by itself. Natural lighting was another innovation in shooting. Godard didn’t use any artificial lighting. The only light he used was the sunlight. For that, the cameraman Raoul Coutard, who was once a still photographer, suggested using llford HPS stock, which was a still camera stock, not a movie one. So Godard and he linked...
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