persuasive analysis
Getting a cat's bum mouth analysis. The genre of the text is an advertisement with the key purpose to persuade and inform the reader about the certain physical effects of smoking through the NHS, this is done primarily through the use of a written mode which imitates the effect of speech using an informal, colloquial register. The audience that this particular text is aimed at is early middle aged females who smoke, but at the same time, who take pride in their appearance. Throughout the text, an informal use of lexis, including colloquialisms, dominates the text. "Fags..." this is done repetitively throughout to give the impression of chatty language and also to give off a sense of repulse and not a nice association with the noun fags, but at the same time building an association with the reader about the subject of the text, to get the purpose across. The text is filled with deictic expressions to emphasize that the text is written but mimics speech. " they make your..." this can be associated to the readers by the way in which it is spoken as it maintains the flow of the text and the fact that speech itself is made up mainly of deictic expressions. The use of syllabics are also shown in the text as this is again is something in which the audience can associate with in informal speech yet still maintains the texts informative nature on a serious note. "you know all that
The social, cultural and economic influences on the learning and use of language
(1,512 words) The social, cultural and economic influences on the learning and use of language Introduction It is estimated that approximately one in five adults have low literacy skills. Low levels of literacy have been linked to poor acquisition of language skills at an early age and this in turn has been directly linked to social exclusion. This study will start by looking at the context in which we use language and how this shapes what we say and how we say it. It will also look at dialect and accent and examine their relationship with society. This raises questions about 'Standard English' and how attitudes to this have developed over time. The study will conclude by examining the direct link between poor literacy/language skills and social exclusion and how this impacts on society both in terms of the individual and the economy as a whole. The importance of context in language use The situation in which we find ourselves, who we are with, where we are, what we have to say and how we have to say it are all massive influences on our spoken and written language. This will differ enormously in any given situation. For example we are likely to adopt a far more relaxed informal use of language when chatting with friends as opposed to a more formal tone when attending an interview. Similarly when writing a note or email to a family member we are likely to use a chatty,
The Sound and the Fury
Jaclyn Markowitz 1-16-09 Question 1- Sexuality/Gender Faulkner concentrates on the internal lives of his characters, their memories, and their stream of consciousness, to draw the reader into the specific world the characters create for themselves. Although Faulkner does not give Caddy a voice in the novel, by conjuring her presence through memories, her brothers revel the depth and destructiveness of her sexuality on the family. Caddy's role in the novel is to disrupt the brothers' narratives and challenge the underlying southern social and gender constructs that imbue them. Faulkner uses Caddy to demonstrate the effects of female sexuality on the Compson brother's own sexuality. In this manner, even after Caddy leaves the house, Miss Quentin remains a physical reminder of Caddy's role in the family's demise. Consequently, Caddy remains inevitably connected to all the characters and her presence helped define the rest of these characters themselves. However, the void of her own narrative demonstrates how women's social existence was dependent on male acknowledgement. But to the reader, Caddy remains an elusive mystery whose enforced silence prevents her from ever being known. To her three brothers, she is a source of obsession and irritation that cannot be forgotten or overcome. Faulkner places Caddy at the center of the novel to demonstrate that it remains impossible to
thomas hardy
Comparisons of "I look into my glass" and "mirror". I have compared the two poems "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath and "I look into my glass" by Thomas Hardy. I believe "Mirror" is about a mirror describing an old woman's reflection, she can't accept they way that she looks "whatever I see I swallow immediately" and is sad. "I look into my glass" is about an old man who looks at himself and believes he is dieing, he knows he has grown old. "Mirror" is about an old woman's reflection and how the mirror thinks she looks unhappy and depressed. "In me she has drowned a young girl," here she says her young self has drowned, which implies it's died and only the old in her is left. Sylvia also says that the little girl who used to look into the mirror is gone and her old self rises to the mirror "like a terrible fish". This shows how much Sylvia hates her self. In the poem we get a sense of time like she has been sat looking at the mirror for a while as the poem says things like "over and over" and "day after day". While reading "Mirror" the audience considers the mental state Sylvia was in when she split up with her husband, Ted Hughes and how she was on the edge from her father's death as a child. This makes the reader believe that the poem is about Sylvia Plath's life. I believe that the beginning of the poem describes Sylvia as a young woman who is beautiful and popular. "unmisted
To what extent are beliefs, thoughts and knowledge restricted or helped by the language which can be used to express them?
TOK: To what extent are beliefs, thoughts and knowledge restricted or helped by the language which can be used to express them? Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (Language and Thought) "We cut nature up, organise it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organise it in this way - an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language" (Sapir-Whorf) This quote is showing that each thing in nature is divided up and given a name that everyone in the community needs to agree with. The fact that they have names emphasizes the use of language to allow an easier organisation of thoughts therefore allowing easier communication. This proves that thought is still dependant on language, as names are given to certain things, which enhances our memory and clarity of them. This idea can also be illustrated through imagery. For instance, I personally find it much easier to remember a phrase, in any language, if I have previously conjured an image so that I have something to relate it to when I think of it. This simply allows a more natural process, as I am able to match a name to an image. A person who is really interested in something or someone will have such passion for this thing that they will use as many positive and detailed descriptions as possible. This can be due to people's
Travel Writing
English Travel Writing Coursework Jake Scrace Truro- the busy epicentre of nothingness? Every year, hundreds of tourists flock to Cornwall for their summer holiday. Cornwall is famous for its rain, mud, rural ways and the freezing sea. So are these people insane? Jake Scrace goes to investigate... As a child of seven, I remember visiting Cornwall for my summer vacation; one word constantly dominates these memories. Rain. Every single year, without fail might I add, the heavens would release enough rain to refill the Atlantic Ocean if it ever dried up (don't ask me why it would). We would stay in small cottages; country homes that were situated near the coast (it would be hard to find one that wasn't), and we would go out walking and exploring Cornwall, over the moors and in the rain, leaving me feeling positively suicidal. It was only until we moved to the city of Truro in Cornwall when I was eleven that I really warmed up to the place. Yes, I know. A city in Cornwall! A small secret; Truro is more like a large town with a huge cathedral in the middle which allows it to be called a city, so it's nothing like the stereotypical city. Anyhow, it will be flooded within the next few hundred years according to researchers. In Truro, you will find signs of human life and civilization. It has been developed immensely over the past fifty years or so, and is now more thriving
Turn to Act Two Scene Two and remind yourself of the whole scene. This is a very unusual love scene. How effective do you find it and how does it relate to the main concerns of the play as a whole?
Turn to Act Two Scene Two and remind yourself of the whole scene. This is a very unusual love scene. How effective do you find it and how does it relate to the main concerns of the play as a whole? Act Two Scene Two is an unusual love scene. The main reason for this would be because of the lack of understanding between the characters due to the differences in their languages. Also the presentation of the scene moves away from the traditional perception of a love scene. The cliché formula has been applied for a romantic setting, such as the guitar music in the background, as well as the use of expressive language: "I love the sound of your speech", "How beautiful you are. However these attempts of Maire and Yolland remain unsuccessful and they therefore have to revert to using peculiar tactics, for instance using the place names as a means of communication "Lis na n Gall. . . Lis na nGradh". This scene could be said to be a microcosm of the play, although the apparent focus is on the love affair between Maire and Yolland, a hidden moral meaning can be recognised of when cultures clash. The voices of the characters perform a love duet, but this does not work as they have to resort to using place names in order to makes a connection. The themes and ideas which can be associated and emphasised on here include humour, physical movement, music, language, significance of being
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Daffodils/ I wandered lonely as a cloud - By William Wordsworth. I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. I will be speaking to you all about the poetic techniques in the poem Daffodils or as it is also called - I wandered lonely as a cloud. The poem is by a very successful author William Wordsworth . The title, 'Daffodils' is a simple word that reminds us about the arrival of the spring season, when the field is full of daffodils. Daffodils are yellow flowers, having an amazing shape and beautiful fragrance. A bunch of daffodils symbolize the joys and happiness of life. The theme of the
"...we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology." (Noam Chomsky). To what extent would you agree?
"...we will always learn more about human life and human personality from novels than from scientific psychology." (Noam Chomsky). To what extent would you agree? Everyday we, as human beings learn something new about ourselves. Especially through the advances in critical thinking and intellectual thought in psychology and literature. Noam Chomsky is undoubtedly an expert in this subject, a former Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and intellectual in the areas of psychology, politics and philosophy of language. Chomsky's naturalistic study's of language has affected the philosophy of language and mind, by influencing other intellectuals. We use knowledge and psychology to learn about human life and human personality. When approaching a statement concerning human psychology and literature, matters of human knowledge, human life and human personality arise. Both novels and scientific psychology allows us to understand and analyze human perception, emotion, reason and language. However there is ambiguity in the quote, as it assumes that humans will always learn new things. But will we achieve full knowledge and understanding of our humanity? Whether it is through novels or psychology? Human life and personality can be described as humanity in this context as it makes up what our lives are centered on, the ways of knowing. A novel is defined
writing to entertain
Kerry: Too Much Too Young THE NIGHT HAD BEGUN quite normally for us: in a pub. I'd just turned thirteen and had been living with Mum and her boyfriend Dave Wheat in London's East End for a couple of months. She'd been out all day 'kiting'. She'd taken orders from friends and neighbours, then gone to different shops using stolen credit cards to buy £50 to £100 worth of stuff in each one. Afterwards she'd sell everything on at half the price. While she 'worked', Dave would wait for her with a drink in a pub nearby. They'd had a good day and we'd gone to the Three Rabbits to round it off with their friend Barbara, who was a heroin addict at the time, her redhead husband Micky and their eight-year-old daughter Sharon. The Three Rabbits was a smoky old-fashioned pub on the Romford Road, in the heart of London's East End. In those days it was a real gangster haunt, where men carried guns or knives in their leather jackets and weren't afraid to use them. There were worn stools by the long wooden bar, a patterned carpet that had seen better days, tables covered in glass stains, beer mats and overflowing ashtrays, and two pool tables. Seeing the film Moulin Rouge when I was older reminded me of what it was like, because the guys who drank there were all such weird characters. There was the midget; the one who kept passing out; the one who was a bit of a lunatic; the funny one; the
