In Gerard Jones’ “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” found in our text‚ Practical Argument‚ Jones argues that children should not be sheltered from violence. Gerard Jones discusses his own experiences growing up in a home that banned any violent media. He was a scared‚ introverted child in desperate need of help understanding the feelings he was taught to bottle up. When a few Incredible Hulk comics somehow made it past his parents and right into his eager hands he was a child reformed. The stories
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Abstract: The Wreck of the Deutschland was Hopkins’s‚ ‘first major poem written in ‘sprung rhythm’. Herein is contained a brief analysis of this heart moving poem and the impact it has created in the minds of many readers down the ages. The authors in the opening paragraphs of this article have made a concerted attempt to bring out some parallelism from the Book of Psalms and also the theological aspect of innocent suffering. This concept of human suffering seems deeply embedded in this particular
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environmental change‚ experienced an astounding shift in poetic style‚ in which many based their work on the ‘beauty’ of their surroundings‚ and how mankind affected this. Of this period‚ two of the leading nature poets in British literary history‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth became known‚ renowned as great figures in British literary history. Both adopted a ‘sacramental’ view of nature‚ that is they saw beyond the obvious features commonly associated with the natural world such as
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that there is something to be learned from the land.’ Compare and contrast at least two poems in the light of this statement. Two poems that indeed suggest that “there is something to be learned from the land” are ‘Binsey Poplars’ and ‘Nutting‚’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth respectively. In ‘Binsey Poplars’ Hopkins advocates preservation -recognizing the significance of natural things and the wider implications of destroying them. In ‘Nutting’ a similar lesson is presented‚ almost
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The piece of Art‚ Smiling Girl‚ a Courtesan Holding an Obscene Image‚ painted by Gerrit van Honthorst in 1625 can be seen at the Saint Louis Art Museum. I was initially drawn to this image from across the gallery mostly due to the subject’s bright red dress with gold sleeves‚ it was one of the brightest colored images in the gallery. It is about three feet tall and two feet wide‚ it is an oil on canvas painting. As I approached the image‚ I was still intrigued as the image she is holding is of a
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Professor Emily Kobayashi English 2000 5 February 2012 Violent Media is Good for Kids Gerard Jones‚ in “Violent Media is Good for Kids‚” expresses personal experiences about how violent comic books can often help children break through their shells of self-isolation. Because Jones largely discusses his own opinions‚ I feel the essay should provide more statistical evidence to support his thoughts. Although I agree with his point that children do need to have an outlet to express their underlying
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Area of Study Essay- Journeys The Oxford Dictionary defines Journey as “an act of travelling from one place to another”; this could‚ of course‚ be taken literally. Instead‚ why not think of “places” as emotional or mental situations? So you take a journey between different emotional states. “The journey‚ not the arrival‚ matters.” This statement is correct for all four texts I will be discussing. The journey is more important than the arrival because it is the journey that makes people who they
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The Poet Gerald Manley Hopkins was a Jesuit Priest. The Poem was written in 1880.He was an English man. He was a 19th century Poet. He got Fame after his death. According to Poet Spring is a sign of fresh life or new birth and Fall means biblical fall of man from grace which led to his mortality. In “Spring and Fall‚" Hopkins explains to a child that we all age and die. That Margaret‚ like all of us‚ must deal with this fact and not let the knowledge of it hold her back from life. This is a message
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“In literature there can be great admiration for a skilled individual” Lots of authors and poets in Literature like to write about skilled individuals and there works. This is exemplified by Seamus Heaney and Gerald Manley Hopkins in their respective poems “The Forge” and “Felix Randall”. Gerald Manley Hopkins’s poem “Felix Randall” does show great admiration for skilled individuals and it does in many different ways. Firstly the poem itself is about a priest and Hopkins almost glorifies this
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Theme for English B- Langston Hughes By Dania Dobbs in CSEC Revision Stuff (Files) · Edit Doc In his poem “Theme for English B‚” a response to an assignment given by his class instructor‚ Langston Hughes writes about the differences between himself and his instructor’s race. He talks about being the only “colored” person in his class and expresses the feeling of being similar to other races‚ primarily “white”‚ and yet different throughout the poem. Although he details the commonalities between
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