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Rudyard Kipling once said, Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. This statement is so very true within all aspects of life especially in the advertising industry. Creators of advertisements use powerful words in unusual combinations, sometimes with visuals, to inhabit and manipulate the readers/viewers minds. Consumers need to be aware…

Throughout Stone Cold, slang and very harsh, angry, even violent language is used: Link is very upset through all his ordeals. Also with the book being based in London most of the character are written in the cockney dialect. Humour is used in Swindells ‘Stone Cold’ for Shelter. He jokes, ‘Link the Stink’ and ‘The…

Steven Allan Spielberg was born December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to parents Arnold, an electrical engineer, and Leah, a former concert pianist. Spielberg was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where his love for film and business savvy were always apparent. At age 12, he used the money he earned from his tree-planting business to fund…

Three Perspectives on When Life BeginsSubject: Where does life begin? That is the age-old question. The decision that legalized the right to an abortion in all 50 states and sparked a political debate that remains charged to this day. Topic: Many questions surround abortion. What really makes someone human’sub Topics: a) Some suggest life begins…

Christian De ChurchProfessor ZeckMicro-EconomicsWhen President John F. Kennedy said Americans would be the first to walk on the moon, incompetent people said it could not be done. NASA’s technology lagged years behind Russia’s and the Russians never did put a man on the moon. But Neil Armstrong’s one small step made the dream reality. When…

Gwen Harwood: Gender AnalysisThe patriarchy of the society within the context of which poet Gwen Harwood constructed her poetry, is observed, sometimes criticized and often challenged in the collection of poems found in the text ‘Gwen Harwood, Selected Poems’. The representation of the images of men, women and gender differences to which a society consciously…

The poem Discourse on the Logic of Language by Marlene Nourbese Phillip critiques colonialism, racism, and sexism in order to express a marginalized subjectivity. Through the unconventional structure, the integration of multiple texts into the poem, and the spatial arrangement of these texts onto the page, Phillip exposes the ways in which language, through the…

A Doll’s House: Full of Tidy EndingsIt has been said that great works of drama have a universality about them, a timelessness all their own. Many important plays have similarities to one another regardless of the time in which they were written because of this fact. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Harvey Fierstein’s On…

W. H. Auden’s poem “Muse des Beaux Arts”, which is “Museum of Beautiful Arts” when translated into English, is more about death and it’s normal, spontaneous occurrence than it is about a museum. The poem speaks of “old Masters” and refers to artists: writers, poets, and painters who understood the act of death as a…

To my knowledge, there were really only two individuals in history, and these are Jesus ND Aristotle. But they were seen as insane fools in their times. So why do we want to be individuals anyway;ay? However, many people nowadays conform without realizing it. An example of this is shown in the novel, “The Wave”…