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The phantom tollbooth vocabulary and definitions
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Dictionopolis is a make-believe world of Dictionopolis from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and is located near the “Foothills of Confusion.” It makes sense that a land of words and language would be located near a place of confusion because words can be very confusing, especially when you have gotten rid of pattern, sense and logic. Dictionaries are designed to help explain words however, without Rhyme and Reason words do not make sense and everything is confusing. The author points out some of the most confusing things in the English language in this part of the story such as synonyms, homonyms and idioms: words can have different means, two words can mean the same thing, words that sound alike can be spelled differently and mean
The Infortunate is an autobiography by William Moraley, an indentured servant who ventured from England to the America colonies in 1729. The book first includes an introduction and some notes from Susan E. Kelpp and Billy G. Smith. During editor’s introduction, William Moraley’s stories were confirmed with actual history. Klepp and Smith also gave a brief summary of Moraley’s life, and compared his lower class experiences in England and the colonies, to that fabulous success of Benjamin Franklin.
n the short story, Tunnel by Sarah Ellis, humour is used to reflect the struggles of adolescence and the overall theme of change, maturity and growth overtime. The first use of humour as a form of criticism of adolescents is when the protagonist realizes that he is not properly trained to babysit his new child, Elizabeth or lb. He is shocked at the drastic different styles of play from his previous child. “In my babysitting course at the community centre they taught us about first aid, diapering, nutritious snacks and how to jump your jollies out. They did not teach Barbies.” The author uses juxtaposition and humour to criticizes the inherent pride that the youth carry with them about their knowledge. For example, the protagonist is prideful
Typical stories of civil rights demonstrations by African Americans and civil rights workers in the south tell accounts of passive resistance and nonviolent protest. They tell accounts of African Americans being neglected and ignored in restaurants, verbally abused for being out of “their neighborhoods”, and beaten and arrested for speaking up or acting out against such grave injustices. They were further repressed by the fact that the police, prosecutors, judges, mayors, and even governors of southern areas not only turned a blind eye to newly enacted civil rights legislation but also actively participated in ensuring the continued suppression of African American acceptance. This complete segregation from society and lack of protection under the law naturally spawned groups of African Americans who decided that the only protection they were going to get was the protection they provided for themselves. They began to arm themselves, forming small bands that set out to protect civil rights demonstrators and retaliate against racist acts. One such group was the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Louisiana. In his book Crossing Border Street Peter Jan Honigsberg tells of his experiences with the Deacons while working as a civil rights worker in Louisiana. Becoming deeply immersed into African American culture Honigsberg learns what it means to be black and living in the south during the civil rights movement. Furthermore he reveals some of the motivations of white individuals who participated in the movement.
Thesis: The Roanoke colony proved to be an unsuccessful venture in the New World for England, since leaders of the expedition held the viewpoint that privateering would prove to be the most profitable aspect of founding the new settlements in the West. However future, still unsuccessful attempts to make a permanent colony at Roanoke, helped England understand how to build a prosperous one; and it became a building block for establishing future colonies for England and helped shape the ideas that would help launch their empire.
“I also knew that, while I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language. But how was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? Hunger-thirst-fear-transport-selection-fire-chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they meant something else” (p.
White Noise is a novel written by Don DeLillo in 1985. This novel is based around the life of the main character, Jack Gladney and his family. At the beginning of the novel, Jack’s life is very dull and at a standpoint until one day due to an accident, a toxic gas has been released into the air. This situation changes the way his family lives and thinks and several secrets are revealed. Throughout the book, Jack faces many conflicts with himself that contribute to the way he thinks and reacts to things around him. Jack, who is also the narrator, occasionally finds deep meaning in random happenings and objects in order to understand his world better. This is caused by the obsessive age with social media, which he finds meaningless and tries
Rob Romeyn started composing at a very young age- his first band piece was published when he was only 19 years old. The music he writes is mainly for wind bands, but he has also composed many pieces for marching band and jazz ensemble. Mr. Romeyn’s music has been featured across the globe in events, schools and programs, including during the 2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. He received his M.M. Ed. Degree from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Besides being a brilliant music composer for ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), Rob Romeyn has also served as a performer, educator, conductor and arranger, most notably known for being the staff arranger of the “Sound of Today” marching band at the University of Louisiana at Monroe for 3 years, as well as conducting their concert band and basketball pep band.
“In Appalachia the country is beautiful and the society is broken.” Williamson argues many aspects varying from misery to poverty to criminal activity to the “drawing” of welfare checks to survive. Although poverty doesn’t tie into the paper directly it’s the foundation to where the crime starts. Williamson is not from the Appalachia region, but he does a good job delivering the information in way that many can visual what he is talking without feeling he is trying to make you feel one way or another about Appalachian poverty and crime (Williamson, 2014).
Most times when a reader truly gets into a story they will imagine everything that is happening in their head. They will watch the story unfold in their mind's eye and some will stop to examine what they have read. Reader-response criticism is used when a reader decided to stop and try to explain what is going through their mind at certain intervals throughout a story. Jorge Luis Borges story, “The Garden of Forking Paths”, is a complex short story about a military man who travels on a mission that only he knows about. While reading this story many readers must stop and try to unravel the secrecy that is slowly revealed by the main character, Yu Tsun. Reader-response criticism is one literary element that can be used throughout this story and
After Adolph Hitler became Germany's leader, he started killing Jews and destroying many of their values. Jewish families were concerned about their children because their children were getting sent on a train somewhere around Great Britain. People in Britain and other European countries responded by taking in Jewish kids as there own or by putting the in orphanages. As a result, many Jewish children were saved from Hitler and the Nazis, and after the war, some even found one or both of their parents. Jewish parents worked with people in other countries by going to the House of Commons strongly asking for the train to take the Jewish children away so they could be saved this is one of many things that happened for the children.
In the novel The Bridges At Toko-Ri by James Michener, the main character Harry Brubaker is a voluntary man. This novel is set during the Korean War, which took place in the early 1950s. Harry Brubaker is a lawyer from Colorado who is called back into service, as a pilot against his will. Despite the fact that he doesn’t want to be there, however, Brubaker does his job to the best of his ability.
Diction is another word for language or word choice. The diction Crane uses helps him reach his writing purpose which is to have the reader draw their own conclusions. Berryman says, “The diction is amazingly simple and fine for so young a writer. Some of the words illuminate like flashes of light. Mr. Crane is only twenty-one years of age, and yet he has met and grapples with the actualities of the street in almost unequalled grace and strength. . . .” A direct example of how Crane’s diction relates to his purpose is presented in “An Episode of War,” when he says “He had winced like a man stung, swayed dangerously, and then straightened. The sound of his hoarse breathing was plainly audible. He looked sadly, mystically, over the breast-work at the green face of a wood, where now were many little puffs of white smoke.” This description leaves the reader’s imagination able to put in his or her own ideas. Crane gives us just enough information to understand what’s going on and visually stimulate our minds. It is quite obvious Stephen Crane is an author of diction to help a reader see his description and formulate their
Steven Johnson is an accomplished author who tells a compelling, well written and informative book, The Ghost Map, which tells an intriguing story of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London while at the same time provides a wide array of information surrounding the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of the current society.
Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.
According to the textbook malapropism,” Confusion of one word or phrase for another that sounds similar.” Word confusion is very common in especially in different contexts and if you do not use proper grammar or know the meaning of the word. One of my friends mom’s gave a children story up front at church and confused the word, “focused” with the word with the swear word “fuckus”. This lady is a very sweet lady and I began to laugh at the malapropism that was taking place in front