Brittany Carter Jasmine Nicholsfigueiredo English 2116:001 25 September 2014 Life Is Fleeting: A Close Reading of Beowulf (1758-1760) 1758 “O flower of warriors‚ beware of that trap. Choose‚ dear Beowulf‚ the better part‚ 1760 eternal rewards…” This excerpt from Beowulf is part of a speech which Hrothgar gives after Beowulf fulfills his promise and defeats the monsters that terrorized the Danes; those monsters being Grendel and Grendel’s mother. In this speech‚ Hrothgar praises Beowulf and contrasts
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English 121 Assignments 2‚ Close Reading Nick Aitken Nicholas Carr’s essay‚ ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ proposes the idea that the human mind is undergoing another big change. He ponders how the intake and response to information we collect and how we process that information is changing‚ which he leads to question how will it eventually lead to an impact on us as individuals. Irony however is not lost on the author as this work was published on the Internet and does not conform to what he
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This excerpt from Malory’s Morte D’Arthur illustrates the greatness of King Arthur and the importance of following the rules of war and chivalry. King Arthur is betrayed by his close friend Lancelot‚ his most favored knight‚ and by his queen Guinevere. Upon being betrayed‚ Arthur is forced to follow the rules of the time‚ and do as he is expected. When Arthur discovers that Lancelot and Guinevere have traveled to Joyous Garde‚ he swoons in sadness due to the loss of the many other knights lost
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Jasmine Tsai E. McCarthy Fourth Period AP Lang 25 September 2011 Close Reading: Visual Advertisement In this eye-catching print advertisement for Mentos Gum‚ marketers successfully captured the attention of their intended market: those who are interested in bold flavors with natural origins (as I am among them.) This is achieved through the texture and style of the text‚ the meaning the text bears‚ as well as the brightness of the ad itself. Accompanying the extensive usage of the color green
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| Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Agamemnon | Close Reading Essay| | | “Now you pass judgment! Exile from this land‚ the hatred of the people‚ public curses. But him! What charges did you ever bring against him? For all he cared he might as well have been killing an animal. Oh‚ he had plenty of sheep to choose from‚ but he sacrificed his own child‚ my labor of love‚ to charm away the cruel storm-winds of Thrace. He was the one you should have banished from this land‚ as punishment
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American Literature‚ Volume 2 : 1865 to the Present. Shorter Seventh ed. Vol. 2. Boston: W. W. Norton & Company‚ Incorporated‚ 2007. 135-36. Selected Text: "The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there ’s a reward out for him—three dollars. And there ’s a reward out for old Finn‚ too—two hundred dollars. You see‚ he come to town the morning after the murder‚ and told about it‚ and was out with ’em on the ferryboat hunt‚ and right away after he up and left. Before night they
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Close Reading: Bartleby the Scrivener Herman Melville wrote the short story‚ Bartleby The Scrivener‚ in 1853 at the age of thirty-four. Melville writes this short story during the Industrial Revolution era‚ where Wall Street was booming and the economy was changing and shifting rapidly. At this particular time‚ Herman Melville had just finished writing another short story that was astonishingly criticized by fellow writers and critics. Melville felt that humanity had mistreated him just for
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The Song of Roland An epic poem estimated to have been written between 1130 and 1170‚ The Song of Roland relates the latter part of Charlemagne ’s conquest of Spain from a Christianized point of view reminicent of the Crusades. The author ’s (or copyist ’s‚ as some argue) name is given at the end of the epic as Turoldus‚ most likely a monk or member of the clergy‚ though no one knows for sure (Roland‚ pg 14). Translated by Glenn Burgess‚ this verion of the poem contains 298 stanzas. It gives
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The Yellow Wallpaper Close Reading The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman discovers that the woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper is really herself and reflects that there are countless other women trapped and oppressed by society just as she is. Through her descent into madness‚ the narrator is able to finally free herself‚ but not without losing her sanity in the process. When the narrator states: “I pulled and she shook‚ I shook and she pulled” (Gilman 517)‚ this
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sense and discretion. Prefers to keep her troubles secret‚ as she is always trying to make sure that her mother and sisters are untroubled by her private woes. She knew very well what the chances were of Robert and Lucy getting married and from the reading it felt like she had come to terms with it. Although when it confirmed the readers see a different side of Elinor. 3. This is a very interesting segment of this paragraph. She told herself this was going to happen and so did her mind. This is
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