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- 22671: Is Your Body Clear
- ... local store. The ad also gives the Internet address for the company Neutrogena. In rhetorical terms, three appeals are used to attract the audience. By using logic, emotion, and reputation, the advertisement gets the consumerˇ¦s interest. Logos is the effectiveness of the message in the advertisement. The top of the page claims that by using this product you will have ˇ§Clear skin from head to toe.ˇ¨ The idea is that people will think that if they use this product they will improve their skinˇ¦s condition. In addition to their claim, the other elements that they tell us about the wash add to the effectiveness of the advertisement. It makes sense that if an acne fighting ingredient is dermatologist recommended ... It is inferred that she uses this product, has great skin, and is very attractive. She ties together the whole idea of looking better from this particular wash. Jennifer Love Hewitt also appeals to peopleˇ¦s emotional side. The pathos of the ad is because of her. People see a picture of a beautiful girl in a towel. This makes them excited and grabs their attention. Most people wish that ...
- 22672: Constellations
- ... up the sky into more manageable bits. They are used as mnemonics, or memory aids. For example, if you spot three bright stars in a row in the winter evening, you might realise, "Oh! That's part of Orion!" Suddenly, the rest of the constellation falls into place and you can declare: "There's Betelgeuse in Orion's left shoulder and Rigel is his foot." And once you recognise Orion, you can remember that Orion's Hunting Dogs are always nearby. Where did the constellations come from? OK, so we know the ...
- 22673: The Lottery: Setting, Atmosphere, and Mood
- ... plays a large role in this development. This careful selection of words, phrases and description to create a setting is clearly displayed in the essays The Lottery and The Ghosts. The setting of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery turns out to be the most effective element contained in the story. The plot starts off as Shirley describes the surrounding atmosphere. “It was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a ... town square, where family and friends are joined in tradition for the annual ‘lottery’. When given this setting, the ending of the story turns out to be a big surprise for the reader. The author’s diction in The Lottery also plays a large role in the atmosphere and mood of the story. Euphonic terms are used throughout the work, never foreshadowing the outcome of the story. Terms such as, “boisterous ... of setting plays an important role in the story. Keeping the reader in a scared frame of mind makes for an interesting ending and builds a climax for the reader. As was done in Jackson’s The Lottery, Dunsany’s diction is the most important element for creating his atmosphere and mood for the reader. The word ‘dark’ appears many times in the story, which gives the reader a sense ...
- 22674: Not Only Impeach, Remove from Office
- Not Only Impeach, Remove from Office Recently there have been many allegations and scandals surrounding our current president's name and office. Through recent investigations, of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, it has come into light that our nation's highest elected officer has lied under oath in an American courtroom. Granted, Bill Clinton's sexual activity is none of our business; however, when he is sworn under oath and under God, he must speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That he did not. Bill Clinton' ...
- 22675: Authur Miller
- With the Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists. He has also written other powerful, often mind-altering plays: The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, After the Fall, Incident at Vichy, and The Price. And who could forget the film The Misfits and the dramatic special Playing for Time. Death of a Salesman was not Arthur Miller's first success on Broadway. Two years before, when All My Sons opened at the Coronet Theater, Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote: "The theater has acquired a genuine new talent." The play also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Donaldson Award (voted upon by Billboard subscribers). Since the debut of All My Sons he has noted: "The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a ...
- 22676: Simon, Lord Of The Flies
- Simon Throughout William Golding s, Lord of the Flies, many of the characters go through changes in their personality traits. From beginning to end, Simon goes through the smallest amount of change than anyone in the novel. Despite the fact that Simon did not really fit in with the other boys, he tried his hardest to make a difference in his and the other s lives. In the beginning, Simon was described as a skinny, vivid little boy , (Golding 24) showing that he was undersized and possibly weaker than the others. He stuck around Ralph for a while, went exploring ... began to wander off by himself to that little place among the creepers. The other boys thought he was queer .funny. (55) because he was an outcast and rather strange. Towards the middle of Simon s stay on the island, he started to realize that he truly was different from the others. Every time he tried to talk to the other children, his effort fell about him in ruins; the ...
- 22677: Compare And Contrast College P
- ... will always take time out to talk to the student about the given subject, college matters, or even problems of life that do not even have bearing on the subject. Tests in the helpful professor's class are never difficult if one know the subject matter. The professor understands how stressful testing can be and is only interested in seeing whether or not the student grasped the facts presented to them. Good students receive good grades in the helpful professor's class. Those professors appreciate hard work and duly reward it. The best kind of teacher to get that first day is the helpful professor. The second type of professor one can get is the malicious ... the question feel incompetent for asking it. They are willing to talk with a student after class, but unlike the helpful professor, the malicious professor is only there to criticize. They will emphasize the student's faults but never point out their strengths, thus lowering the self-esteem of the student. The tests given by the malicious professor are vague, full of trickery, and composed of the most difficult material. ...
- 22678: The Roswell UFO Crash
- ... years. Now that more information has become available to the public, it is clear that something extraordinary happened. The town of Roswell, New Mexico was the location of many UFO sightings in the later 1940's and was supposedly the location of a secret military base. Most of the local people had a story or two to tell about their experiences with these sightings, but are now coming forward with stories ... the incidents that occurred. Some felt as though their life was endangered if they dared to speak of what they saw. One incident in particular which has sparked a craze in the study of UFO's is when a flying disk allegedly crashed in the deserts of New Mexico near Roswell on the night of July 8, 1947. According to Roswell expert Henry Ritson, many civilians arrived at the crash scene ... day of the crash and shown it to his family. His son was particularly interested in an object which seemingly contained alien writing. The objects were confiscated by the government and the life of Marcel's son was threatened. His mother was told not to speak of these things or suffer the consequences. If there was nothing but a mere weather balloon involved, the government would have no reason to ...
- 22679: One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich: Summary
- ... Ivan uses his intelligence to make his life easier so he can save up more energy to face the work load. He and the members of the 104th group manage to survive because of Ivan's personal attention to himself and his care about the others. More importantly, Ivan survives because his intelligence, his spirit, his deception and careful teamwork. Ivan has to be smarter than the guards in the camp ... and his pocket, and one guard also crushes the mitten that Ivan holds out which is the empty one. This was in the book as, He was about to pass him through when, for safety's sake, he crushed the mitten that Shukhov held out to him - the empty one. (Solzhenitsyn, Pg. 107) The smart move that he does is to place the empty mitten on top and take the risk ... to do, he thinks that they are chagelles. Ivan is careful about what he does in the camp, therefore he does what is appropriate to do in the camp. He does not take other person's left overs to eat even when he is extremely hungry. This reduce the chances of getting disease so he may live longer. When Ivan is sick, he goes to the sick bay and he ...
- 22680: Robert Frost
- ... but they have had a difficult time because his writing "romanticizes the rural simplicity that he loved while probing into the mysteries of the universe (Estep 2)." Three areas of criticism covered are: a speaker's decision in choosing, a poem broken down into three sections, and Frost's use of metaphors and style in his writing. Born in San Francisco, but raised in New England, many of Robert Frost's poems are representations of his experiences in the northeastern parts of America. He was unsuccessful in college never earning his degree, and for several years he supported his family by tending to a farm ...
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