Poor Richard's Almanack Poor Richard's Almanack by
Benjamin Franklin consists of several sayings that Franklin wanted
people to follow. The book was very popular during Franklin's time,
since thousands of copies were sold. Many of these aphorisms are
morals that people can learn a great deal from. Therefore, "Tart words
make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a
gallon of vinegar," can be found in the bible, in history, and in
personal experiences.
The story of the Good Samaritan shows how this aphorism exists in the
Bible. In this parable, a group of robbers walk by a man and strike
him to the ground. Furthermore, they then take his clothes and leave
him for dead. Two people, separately, walk by and ignore the injured
man.
Throughout the historic course of literature, one story known as “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Cornell has incorporated specific types of irony for multiple differing and fundamental reasons. Situational irony is the first use of ironic elements that will be discussed in regards to the story. Situational irony is defined as “an incongruity that appears between the expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead ” (literarydevices.net). The story’s climax offers a unique twist to the plot as it includes an unexpected discovery, ultimately incorporating situational irony into the sequence of events. The story starts out with the introduction of the legendary hunter Bob Rainsford as he is shipwrecked and trapped on a deserted island. While staying on the island, Rainsford is introduced to the eccentric General Zaroff, who is a self proclaimed expert hunter as well. In short, the General turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who forces Rainsford into a game of “cat and mouse”, which causes Rainsford to fight for his life. This state of affair is considered to be situational irony because Zaroff defies the expectations of being a hunter to the audience. This is specifically shown in the text when Rainsford confronts General Zaroff in regards to what he is hunting:
Ernest J. Gaines's Gathering of Old Men In A Gathering of Old Men, by Ernest J. Gaines, racism plays a huge part in life in the south. When a white man is found dead his family and friends start to gather to find the man who did this. After time these men start to drink and make a plan to kill the man who just happened to be black. This just shows how even though the Civil War brought freedom to blacks, there is still hate towards them because of their skin color.
There is a deep connection between the environment and Western Apache people. The connection between the two is so strong that it's embedded in their culture and history. Keith Basso is the author of wisdom Sits in Places, expanded on this theory by divulging himself into Western Apaches life. He spent many years living with the Apache people learning their relationship with the environment, specifically focused on ‘Place names. After Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn the names, ‘because they held a specific meaning with the community. Place-names are special names given to a specific area where an event took place that was significant in history and crucial in shaping morals and beliefs. Through environment of place-names, the surroundings became a teaching tool for Apache people.
Tookey is an example of The Wise Elder stereotype, because he knew what was going on in Jerusalem's lot, that shows that he has been around a time or two and he knows what he is talking about. The story started off in Maine, a man named Gerald Lumley and his wife and Daughter had been going to an unknown location, Mr. Lumley had gotten off the main road, and had driven into a snowbank, so left went off looking for help. He had found the help he needed, but returning to his car to find something wrong. Tookey had said while on the way, If they’re in the car, we're going to turn around and drive back to Falmouth Center and whistle for the sheriff. Tookey was right about it and they should’ve gone back. Tookey through and through was the wise
Thomas Corwin, former U.S. Senator and governor of Ohio, opposed the Mexican- American war. As a legislator, he spoke a speech as it is written in this document. In the beginning, he is questioning the president about whether the land they are fighting for has a right to be theirs. He claims that if they continue with the war, it is treason, and that the north and the south would collide. The irony of this is that he believes it was treason for going through with the war; however, most people believed he was committing treason for not going through with the war.
The Critic, an animated sitcom satire created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, should be watched because the comedy is original, the plot is perfect, and the dialogue is stupendous. I watched one episode of this show and I greatly enjoyed it. The title of this episode is called “A Pig Boy and His Dog”.
In this quote, it talks about what happened when the nuclear bomb was dropped as most the Earth was destroyed and many animals including owls got extinct. This tells us how devastating this nuclear bomb was as it destroyed most of the Earth, resulting a rebuild of society somewhere else like Mars. Here, Dick uses a stylistic device of a metaphor as he is comparing two things without using the words like or as. He is comparing the dust to the nuclear radiation from the nuclear bomb that was dropped on the Earth and destroyed most of the planet. This is a good comparison as nuclear radiation looks like dust and uses this term to describe all of the planet’s surface got filled with dust. This connects back to the thesis of Philip K. Dick presenting
Richard Halliburton was born on January 9, 1900 in Brownsville, Tennessee. He was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Halliburton attended Memphis University and Lawrenceville school during his childhood. Upon graduating Lawrenceville school, Halliburton was the chief editor of The Lawrence. Princeton University was his post secondary choice. In 1919, Halliburton left college temporarily to travel to England and explore historic places around the area. Arriving back to the United States to finish school, he desired to investigate the world and what it had to offer. In 1921, Halliburton graduated from Princeton University and rejected the regular steps a person would take--marriage, family, and a steady job. He liked the ways of bachelorhood,
Jared Diamond makes the argument that when humans decided 10,000 years ago to no longer be hunter-gatherers and made the decision to become sedentary and start domesticating their animals and crops, the result is that the human race has experienced a steady downfall. Diamond makes the point that “with agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality, the disease and despotism that curse our existence,” (Diamond). While the present system certainly is far from being perfected, Diamond’s various complaints and solutions certainly would not be of much use in the present time either.
In the 17th century Britain a ’new wave’ of poets emerged, the one that would later be labelled the metaphysical poets. They had a very unique style that is very energetic, paradoxical, often enough to completely boggle the reader, and in a way entertaining for the way they hid their real point at times. How many times have we thought of them innocent, often thinking them to be saints and such? Certainly, in a way they are, but to enjoy reading them we have to be fully aware of the possible peiorativeness of their poems. But it’s not the only thing they wrote about. They also criticized the society although less likely. In my contrastive analysis I chose to analyse Richard Lovelace’s works, and make an attempt to assess what he was.
In Christy Wampole’s “How to Live Without Irony” and Richard Taylor’s “The Meaning of Human Existence” both authors argue how humans ought to live a meaningful life. Wampole tackles the argument in a different way than Taylor but they both have similar positions on the meaning. I agree with both authors in some of the ways that we should dictate our lives to justify meaningfulness but I also believe that meaningfulness can differ from person to person. Life is very precious to us; since humans have had the ability to consciously think, we have always questioning our existence. No other animal on the planet has had the luxury of pondering whether or not their life is meaningful.
I shall keep my eyes open, as I keep these clouds above my head. 2nd
Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, made a significant contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel. His birth took place in an affluent family with his father holding the post of Professor of Architectural Sculpture at the Bombay School of Art and his mother coming from a family of accomplished women. He spent his early childhood in India where an "aya" took care of him and where under her influence he came in direct contact with the Indian culture and traditions. His parents decided to send him to England for education and so at the young age of five he started living in England with Madam Rosa, the landlady of the lodge he lived in, where for the next six years he lived a life of misery due to the mistreatment - beatings and general victimization - he faced there. Due to this sudden change in environment and the evil treatment he received, he suffered from insomnia for the rest of his life. This played an important part in his literary imagination. His parents removed him from the Calvinistic foster home and placed him in a private school at the age of twelve. The English schoolboy code of honor and duty affected his views in later life, especially when it involved loyalty to a group or a team.
The poem, "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson is the classic pity-the-star story. It has been rumored that some people worshipped by the public eye are just regular people with regular problems, but honestly how big could their problems be? Richard Cory seems to be one of those heart-stopping, rolex-wearing famous people who had a regular problem or two. In scanning the poem line by line, its is easier to uncover meaning.
"What tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove" is the sentence which concludes a short speech delivered by Henry Bolingbroke to King Richard II (1.1.6). These words are but the first demonstration of the marked difference between the above-mentioned characters in The Tragedy of Richard II. The line presents a man intent on action, a foil to the title character, a man of words.