There is one delicious article on The Globe and Mail published yesterday. It is about desserts with lots of strawberries on them and placed in the front of food and wine section with eye-catching photography. The writer of this article certainly wants readers to notice and read immediately when readers grab a newspaper at the very first time. First, as we can see, this article’s headline is located at the upper left in the photo. And the writer chose “sweet nothings” as her headline. This word means the act of whispering into ear of a loved person. When readers see this headline at the first time, it can easily catch the eyes of readers because it sounds very romantic. We can guess the writer is probably a enthusiast of a strawberry. Second, …show more content…
Looking closer below of the picture, she used foreign languages such as panna cotta and ganche. Do you know what panna catta and ganche mean? These are ltalian and French words, and panna is cream and ganache is chocolate cream. So why did she use these words instead of English words? she wanted to look like an expert, because she wants to be credible to readers and these words are little bit sounds fancy rather than English. Fourth, to review the overall story, the writer is a strawberry lover, referring to it is little beauty, little ruby and perfect. Also the writer had a strong opinion about in enjoying strawberries, which was having them fresh. She said "It is almost a crime to smother berries at the peak of perfection with heavy sauces." But it is only for summer strawberries, one thing we want to clarify right here is the writer hates winter strawberry. Finally, we should talk about this writer. Whole information was introduced by only one person, ms Stephanie eddy. She did not include another person 's view or comments, just wrote it herself. She created lot of bias by using positive terms, so it is very subjective and personal. Besides, there was no information about her at all. We do not know who she is, what she does, we are not sure if we can trust her or not. Therefore it is important that we need to have critical thinking whenever we read stories newspaper provides
1. What was your personal reaction to the text? Did you find the reading persuasive? Why or why not?
The young boy wanted to give the lady an orange in trade for the chocolate, which shows another representation of how the oranges are shown as a symbol of love. In the last stanza, the girl eats the chocolate while he peels his orange. The poet
There are most definitely some parts in this book that take things to the extreme but they are examples of two different sides of the 'pendulum'. On one side you have a community of people whose only purpose is to serve the collective and never think or do anything for themselves. But on the other side, you have a singular person that puts themselves above everyone else and talks all about me, me, me. This book doesn't need to be something that everyone reads but it also doesn't need to be taken away never to be read again, it should be an example to anyone who reads
Those Who Don't is about the stereotypes about certain neighborhoods. The neighborhood around mango street is kind of like a latino "hood" area. She talks a lot about how people are typically scared to be around their neighborhood that bad things will happen. That everyone who lives in not so nice neighborhoods is poor and unsuccessful. My mother and I have had a few conversations about our own neighborhood.
In the story, Stephen come visits Sachi and she shows him something in her garden. There are these beautiful blue-purple flowers sprouting between two rocks. She tells him it used to remind her of her lost beauty but now she feels differently about them. She says,”And now, Stephen-san, I am thankful of any kind of beauty that may find its way to Yamaguchi.
Just because she wasn't herself that night doesn’t give you the right to take advantage of her. In the article, "Getting to 'No' " by Susan Dominus talks about sexual assault and how it affects everyone. Although Dominus talks about her experience and others as well, but she lacks facts to back her up. Young women that are in college are sexual assaulted on campus. Susan Dominus is one of the victims, but she doesn't consider herself one.
It is a text that really shows its ambiguity in several ways generating confusion for the reader. However there is always some inclination towards a certain theory, which is my case, is the mentally unstable
The Strawberry Statement is based on the riots that occurred at Columbia State University in 1968. The writer, James Simon Kunen, was in fact one of the main participants in these riots that happened due to the fact of the injustices of the world. The black community had an uproar about the certain actions that the university decided to take, which led to them taking over one-hundred buildings and starting riots. Kunen wrote The Strawberry Statement when he was a nineteen-year-old sophomore in college. He mentions that he wrote the book on napkins, hitchhiking sings, and cigarette packs, since he forgot things easily.
American journalist and politician, Clare Boothe Luce, in her opening speech at the 1960 Women’s National Press Club meeting, prepares her audience, qualifying and defending her forthcoming criticism. Luce’s purpose is to provoke thought in the journalist’s minds on what journalism is really about at its core. She adopts a frank and humorous tone to best capture the attention of her intended audience of female journalists. Through, appealing to the ethos, logos, and pathos with flattery, syllogism, and rhetorical questioning to prepare the audience for her message: “the tendency of the American press to sacrifice journalistic integrity in favor of the perceived public demand for sensationalist stories.” In the first paragraph of her speech, Luce assures the audience that “[she is] happy and flattered to be a guest of honor…”
The authors were just completely worried about their opinion and how weaponized narratives are dangerous. It would have been interesting to know what people with opposing views would have to say about the
She applies a mixture of English and Spanish along with quotation in both languages . On the first page, she writes “El Anglo con cara de incocente nos arranco la lengua. Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.” (Anzaldua, 497) This mixing language use can also be seemed in subtitle and quotation.
She later said that she wrote the book for herself and "ignored all the situations and accents that were then generally thought to be necessary"(Woodress 81). There are a number of elements in
Personally, I can fully agree that her observations are correct, there is a sort of generalized view that many individuals, myself included, have that can result in many detrimental results and is caused by this presentation of only a single story. I have both
Thus, the hostility towards zoot suits continued and the anti-zooter sentiment was expressed stronger in 1943. One of the most notable forms of cultural propaganda during the war was the Warner Brothers, Disney cartoons. A YouTube video broadcasts the cartoon episode: “Spirit of ‘43” (1943) which displays the associations that the media created of the zoot suits. In this episode, Donald Duck, depicted in a sailor uniform, contemplates what to do with his paycheck. An elderly patriotic duck dressed in a kilt and with a Scottish brogue encourages him to save the money to support the war.