In Norman MacCaig’s poem; Hotel Room, 12th Floor there is a sustained mood of fear of which has been created through the poets view of New York. The poet’s comments on the violence in the city uncover a frightful image of downtown New York. In this response, I will discuss how MacCaig creates this mood of fear through close examination of his poetic techniques such as: imagery, structure and sound devices. Through the use of unusual lexical choice, MacCaig successfully creates a mood of fear. Fear is created from the beginning of the poem when we read that: “a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect The Empire State Building” The word “skirting” is used to create a mood of caution and unease from the start.
Explore and evaluate how texts represent conflicting perspectives through the eye of the composer. In your answer refer to your core text and at least one other related text. Composers represent conflicting perspectives through their own unique experiences and values as their political and social contexts. Geoffrey Robertson's self styled memoir 'The Justice Game' written in the late 1900's heavily reflects these conflicting perspectives in the 'Trials of Oz' and 'The Romans in Britain' through the employment of emotive and persuasive language and ridicule in the form of satire to which convey Robertson's view through his eyes. Such conflicts also portrayed in Charles Waterstreet's article' It's a long fickle road to justice' which similar to Robertson's use of persuasive techniques utilizes satire to challenge and question the myopic procedures of the legal system.
Citizen Kane and Casablanca This essay will look at many similar as well as contrasting themes between the movies Citizen Kane (1941) and Casablanca(1942). Citizen Kane and Casablanca were produced a year apart, but each came to the screen from different places. While Casablanca was based upon an earlier screenplay, Citizen Kane was an original work written by Orson Wells and Herman Mankiewicz. While Citizen Kane was an American Drama based following the life of Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, Casablanca was a Romantic Drama following the expatriate & night club owner, Rick Blaine, in the city of Casablanca, Morocco. The original ideas for Citizen Kane came from Orson Wells who wanted to write a screenplay about a newspaper magnate Charles Randolph Hearst; on the other hand, Casablanca was based upon a stage play called Everybody Comes to Rick’s.
For the main character paul in the novel his human experiences can sometimes be over dramatized. This is demonstared through the images of pauls bizare and overstated world “ the moths that fludded the fly scream...size of bats”. In this quotation goldsworthy uses exageration which provokes the audience to imagine that there is a hint of something threatening and dangerous ahead. This is futher represented in the sentence “ like some lush green, five o'clock shadow”. The visually realised enviroment brings out more harsh qualities of human characters who inhabit it and further leads us to understand how the individual sees and percieves the world.
Be sure to cite the specific page number of the reading whenever an idea derived from an author is referenced. Example: Shumway (p.xx) refers to the important role of mass media in the spread of rock and roll culture, illustrated in “Jailhouse Rock” by the character Vince Edwards’ upward trajectory from the “backwoods” to a Hollywood film career. Do not use any direct quotes from the readings longer than 1 short sentence – put things into your own words
(p51) Gatsby’s personality is much more open and friendly on the outside, but like a closed book on the inside. Unlike Tom, he didn’t flaunt his affections for a married woman, but went to great lengths to hide it, and to meet in secret. “’He wants to know,’ continued Jordan, ‘if you’ll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over.’ “. (p83) When he let Daisy slip through his fingers the first time, he couldn’t let it go. He moved to West Egg only so he could be close to Daisy and he had all those parties in the hope that she would be one of his ‘show up guests’.
The reason why it took the foreigners so long to get to there was because of the naturally changing magnetic field around there; thus, they could not locate M’ic M’ic Land by compass. So, there were few people would take the risk to travel to there. However, M’icians whom were the native civilians lived on the island took three days to sail to FONG 2 the mainland, but they did not necessary go to the mainland too often unless they wanted to acquire new knowledge and techniques. So, most of them never left the island for their whole life. The unique climate made M’ic M’ic Land have abundant of resources; accordingly, their living habit was shaped .
Early Imperial China INTRODUCTION Go to http://www.ancientcivilisations.co.uk/home_set.html After the lengthy introduction, click on the small globe at the bottom of the page. This will bring up a list of “A-Z Cultures.” Choose “Imperial China.” Read the introduction on the left hand side of the page: o What reforms did Qin Shihuangdi bring to China? Old defensive walls in the North were joined to make the Great Wall, this was done to prevent invasion of Northern barbarians. A single currency and uniform measures were introduced. Canal building and a road network made trade and travel much easier.
In this poem there is more distinctive visual than, ‘the lady feeding the cats’ because Stewart uses more adjectives to describe the moths also he uses water and weather imagery, he also uses dramatic use of violent adjective. Stewart uses adjectives throughout the entire poem, in line one he uses, “Such a blaze of snow, such a smoke of sleet, such a fume of moths in the air. Stewart also uses violent adjectives to describe the moths, he makes the moths sound like they’re bigger than everything. Both Stewart and McCubbin use distinctive visual in their texts to explore how the Australian Environment can be unique and they also show the audience, the depth of the visual used in the texts. In the poem the moths Stewart uses different imagery to describe the moths and how they have power, Stewart uses a lot of weather imagery in his poem like, snow, sleet, wind, gust, storm which describes the moths being “snow-white”.
Running Head: The Effects of Pop Music on the Image of Race and Gender The Effects of Pop Music: the Image of Race and Gender Cameron Gates 1/6/2014 The Effects of Pop Music on the Image of Race and Gender It was a warm summer’s evening in San Diego, but my hands were shaking like they never had before. It wasn’t because I was sitting next to the air conditioner, nor was it due to the ice-cold Aqua Fina water bottle I was holding, though neither of those could gave been helping the situation. My hands were trembling because I was about to step out in front of one of the biggest audiences I’d ever performed for at one of the most idolized music venues in America, The San Diego House of Blues. As the crowd filed in, I heard the murmuring and conversation grow into thundering applause as the opening band struck their first chord. Back stage, I could see teenaged girls pressed up against the railing awaiting their favorite band, but as I looked around at the other band members, who were anxiously waiting to perform, I realized that this group of musicians contained no women.