Moreover, the arena for that very transformation could, because of the inherent nature of technological advancement, achieve something that is beyond the sum of its parts. Cyberspace in Neuromancer becomes more than an expression of human consciousness, it eventually becomes consciousness.
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enedikt, Michael, "Cyberspace, First Steps," the Cybercultures Reader. Eds. David ell, arbara M. Kennedy. NY: Routledge, 2000.
Punday, Daniel. "The narrative construction of cyberspace: Reading Neuromancer, reading cyberspace debates." College English 63 (2000): 194-213.
Lemley Mark a. "Place and Cyberspace." California Law Review, 91 (2003): 521-542.
Marshall, David P, New Media Cultures, Oxford University Press, NY, 2004.
Niu, G.. "Techno-Orientalism, Nanotechnology, Posthumans, and Post-Posthumans in Neal Stephenson's and Linda Nagata's Science Fiction." MELUS 33 (2008): 73-97.
Olsen, Lance. "Virtual termites: A hypotextual technomutuant explo…...
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Bibliography
Adams, Paul C. "Cyberspace and Virtual Places." Geographical Review, 87 (1997): 155-171.
Bell, David, an Introduction to Cybercultures, NY; Routledge, 2001.
Bell, David and Barbara M. Kennedy, the Cybercultures Reader, NY: Routledge, 2000.
Benedikt, Michael, "Cyberspace, First Steps," the Cybercultures Reader. Eds. David Bell, Barbara M. Kennedy. NY: Routledge, 2000.
The spider's patient web spinning during the winter shows how it is necessary for Dillard to become dependant on the natural world, rather than upon humans alone or upon chemicals and tools that tamper with nature in a human fashion. To survive the winter physically and psychologically, she must trust her instinctual place in the larger animal firmament. As she observes the spiders that keep her own home insect-free, their work becomes a metaphor for Dillard. They lead her to her spiritual musings about the perfect symmetries that exist in nature. "Because the light just happened to be such that I couldn't see the web at all. I had read that spiders lay their major straight lines with fluid that isn't sticky, and then lays a non-sticky spiral. Then they walk along" the thread, weaving until the major lines are complete, then moving on to the minor lines of…...
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Works Cited (Dillard, Annie. A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998)
Grade: This lesson is designed for 7th Grade Language Arts
Students should be able to interpret similes and metaphors. Students should be able to create and write their own examples.
Materials: Selected written examples from various sources. Books, poetry, media etc..
Discussion Questions: What are the purposes of similes and metaphors? Why is description necessary in communication ? What are the artistic implications of these literary tools ? How can they be used in everyday life for advantage ?
Activities:
Display literary examples of similes and metaphors.
Have students identify each type.
Have students exchange the two types.
Practice in groups.
Have each student create their own.
Evaluation
Not graded activity, practice only.
Lesson Plan Reflection
The lesson plan that was planned and discussed in dealing with similes and metaphors was a successful effort where much learning took place. Examples of each kind of literary tool were used to highlight and describe their intent. Similes and metaphors can be…...
Janus" has its quirks, its metaphors, and its symbolism. This paper will thus aim to answer two questions in regards to Ann Beattie's short story. The first question will relate to the significance of the title, and the second will describe the marriage of Andrea and her husband.
In order to put the questions into context it is important to provide some background on the work. In the short story, Beattie examines the connection between Andrea, a successful real-estate agent, and a simple bowl. Andrea utilizes this glazed bowl when she shows houses, thinking it provides both simplicity and elegance. According to Andrea, the bowl is "both subtle and noticeable - a paradox of a bowl."[footnoteRef:1] The bowl is very special to Andrea, and later the reader finds out that this is because Andrea received it from a former lover, which prompts the question of whether she is dissatisfied with…...
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Now, with regards to the title, a simple search reveals the fact that Janus is the name of a Roman god. More specifically, Janus is the god of "gates and doors, of beginnings and endings," according to one blogger. He is represented as "a head with two faces looking in opposite directions." [footnoteRef:2] When one looks at the story this way, one can see that perhaps the title has some significance in Andrea's life. In a way, this could be interpreted as the fact that the woman is being pulled in two directions. One is the direction of her own life, her safe life, with her husband, and the other direction is that she is being pulled into the past, by the bowl and its association with a former lover. [2: "Janus" by Ann Beattie." This to Say about That. Web. 23 Oct. 2011. .]
In that which concerns Andrea's marriage this is not exactly a bed of roses either and is described when she looks at the bowl and calls it "still and safe, unilluminated."[footnoteRef:3] It seems that the story does, as aforementioned, reflect Andrea's condition and her inability to connect with her current life, demonstrating some sort of disappointment that the author feels her generation also feels. [3: Edwards, Thomas R. "A Glazed Bowl of One's Own." New York Times. 12 Oct. 1986. Web. 23 Oct. 2011. .]
According to a critic, "Ms. Beattie's people suffer emotional and moral disconnection in a world that has yet been rather generous to them in material ways. They live comfortably enough in New York, the suburbs, the country; they work at business, finance, editing, modeling, writing, the law; they have been to college and sometimes graduate school, and now, as they approach 40, they miss what they remember as the innocence and intimacy of student community."[footnoteRef:4] It is, thus, probably that the story examines this feeling of loss of a time gone by, and this most certainly coincides with the duality of the title as well. [4: Edwards, Thomas R. "A Glazed Bowl of One's Own." New York Times. 12 Oct. 1986. Web. 23 Oct. 2011. .]
Billy Collins' poem is a lyric poem because mainly it expresses highly personal emotions and feelings. Many lyric poems involve musical themes or tones, and in fact in Shakespeare's era the word "lyric" meant that the poem was accompanied by a musical instrument (a lyre). But while Collins' poem doesn't give off a musical idea or theme (unless the sound of a fork scratching across a granite table is music), it does use metaphor and achieves a dramatic impact.
The metaphor has two people, presumably married and in a love partnership who have divorced. (It is known that although un-married couples who have been together for a long time and break up are also involved essentially in a "divorce" of their partnership.) The metaphor of "two spoons" shows two people locked together, snuggling would be a good word, in a warm bed. "Tined" means prongs on a fork -- or it…...
To operationalize the Rubik's cube as a unit of analysis for an idea let's break down the various components of the cube. The original cube has nine tiles per face, six faces (like a die), and six colors per side. There are exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations that the cube can take. To create the metaphor of the Rubik's cube as the root of an idea, we can imagine each permutation having its own total absolute meaning.
Each color could have a symbolic meaning assigned to it, thus any combination of colors would create a new meaning. If you remove the restriction of fixed colors, but leave each tile as its own 'container' of which meaning could be assigned by differing colors representing ideas, you would be left with a container (the Rubik's cube) containing faces (more containers) containing tiles (more containers) that aggregately come up with a meaning for an idea. Then…...
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A comparative study on the theme of fascination with and repulsion from Otherness in Song of Kali by Dan Simmons and in the City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
ABSACT
In this chapter, I examine similarities and differences between The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre (1985) and Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1985) with regard to the themes of the Western journalistic observer of the Oriental Other, and the fascination-repulsion that inspires the Occidental spatial imaginary of Calcutta. By comparing and contrasting these two popular novels, both describing white men's journey into the space of the Other, the chapter seeks to achieve a two-fold objective: (a) to provide insight into the authors with respect to alterity (otherness), and (b) to examine the discursive practices of these novels in terms of contrasting spatial metaphors of Calcutta as "The City of Dreadful Night" or "The City of Joy." The chapter…...
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References
Barbiani, E. (2005). Kalighat, the home of goddess Kali: The place where Calcutta is imagined twice: A visual investigation into the dark metropolis. Sociological Research Online, 10 (1). Retrieved from http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/1/barbiani.html
Barbiani, E. (2002). Kali e Calcutta: immagini della dea, immagini della metropoli. Urbino: University of Urbino.
Cameron, J. (1987). An Indian summer. New York, NY: Penguin Travel Library.
Douglas, M. (1966). Purity and danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo. New York, NY: Routledge & K. Paul.
This suspicion becomes even more ironically clear as we read further. As we progress with the analysis of the protagonist's description of his love we find even more apparently negative comparisons. For example, he states that that in comparison to perfumes his "mistress reeks" and that music has a much more "pleasing sound" than her voice. He also states that she is no goddess in the lines,
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground
However in the final couplet of the sonnet there is a dramatic change of tone and a radical change in our perception of the loved one. The final two lines read as follows.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
These two lines should be carefully considered as they ironically overturn the meaning and intention of the metaphorical comparisons that have been…...
As they will determine what road they will travel (the journey), while the stage is how they are achieving their objectives in life. The problem arises, when someone is not willing to use the stage to help benefit themselves. This can have an impact upon the lives of individual and their family, as their actions could have ripple effects. This is significant, because it is highlighting the ethical challenges of giving everyone the freedom to determine what they want to do with their lives. At the same time, there needs to be a way to prevent the negative actions that someone is taking, from having an effect on the general public. In this aspect, there more than likely will be a balance between: the journey that someone is taking, the stage and the laws that guide these actions. As they are helping to provide everyone with some kind of…...
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Bibliography
Brereton, Natasha. "Concrete Figures on to Big to Fail." Wall Street Journal 19 October 2010. Web.
Forceville, Charles. "A Case Study." Multimodal Metaphor. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. 139. Print.
Lee, Don. "Recessions Over." LA Times 21 September 2010. Web.
Marquard, Steven. "Introduction." The Distortion Theory of Macroeconomic Forecasting. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1994. 3 -- 4. Print.
Nature in Troilus and Cressida
Both Troilus and Cressida and The inter's Tale deal with nature as an allegory for human nature. Many kinds of metaphors are used, from the classically romantic, to the dirty joke, to positive and negative portrayals of personalities. Many of the most powerful metaphors are in the initial portion of the play.
In Act I, Scene I, of Troilus and Cressida, Troilus compares being observed by his father and Hector to "as when the sun doth light a storm" (line 31). Presumably his inner turmoil over his love for Cressida is the storm, and his false good humor is the light in the storm. This implies that nature can be false, as well. Later in the same discussion, Troilus says his hopes are drowned, again using the depths of the ocean as an expression of his emotions (line 37). Later he compares Cressida to a pearl of…...
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Works Cited
Rubinstein, F. (1995). A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
The physical structure of the poem is also interesting with these two poems. Naturally, as Raleigh's nymph is turning Marlowe's shepherd's letter of its ear, the same structure is used for the second poem, along with the same metaphors. The imperfect rhyming is also consistent between the two poems. It is unclear what the purpose of the imperfect rhyming ("love" and "move") might be, unless pronunciations were different when these poems were written. If the pronunciations where not different, they could perhaps indicate that the shepherd is not the most literate, and is guided more by passion than by impeccable verse.
The response is effective in part because it contradicts the heavily romantic imagery that the shepherd is using -- madrigals, beds of roses, fragrant flowers. That these are directly argued against in the nymph's reply ("flowers do fade," for example) makes the point that no matter how glorious romance might…...
What is the nature of memory and how does it relate to experience? Which metaphor for memory is the most appropriate or applicable? In the endeavor to answer these questions and more, the paper presents a metaphor that combines a few of the suggested metaphors into one. The paper provides an interpretation on the nature of memory from a practical perspective, relating contemporary and historical media representations of memory as support. The paper supports the dynamism and flexibility of memory as well as its power of humans in the past, present, and future.
Interpretations of Memory
Memory functions as all of the metaphors listed in the guidelines. There is no one way memory works. That is one of the great and convenient traits of memory is that humans can approach access to their memories from so many angles. At some point every person has had an experience of trying to recall…...
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References:
Reyna, V. (1996) Meaning, Memory and the Interpretation of Metaphors. J. Mio & A. Katz (eds) Metaphor: Pragmatics and Applications. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
The argument being advanced is that since, the Muslim extremists were responsible for the 9/11 disaster, the construction of the Muslim religious center would inculcate the jihad teachings and dishonor to the memory of the 9/11 victims. The question one would ask is this, what about the strip clubs, bars and other activities that are zero blocks away from the hallowed ground, do they honor the victims of the attacks. Consequently, it can be argued that Politicians and anti-Muslim groups found an easier way to agitate the crowds by exploitation of their Islamophobic instincts with the aid of the media framing of the issue. In same the interview, what comes out clearly is that Pamela fights against what she perceives as Islamization of America as opposed to Americanization of Islam. he later describes the center, which she refers to as ground zero mosque as a war memorial against the…...
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Stone, D.A. (2002). Policy paradox: The art of political decision making. New York: Norton.
Payser, a (May 13, 2010).Mosque madness at Ground Zero.
The Lord will lead one to safety always. One can simply believe in something higher to get the meaning of this; it doesn't have to be Jesus. Psalm 127, contrarily is confusing because it states that unless the Lord builds the house, it is built in vain. This seems to be more literal, but I do get the idea. Unless the people building the house are doing it with the love of the Lord in their hearts, or building it for him, then what is the point?
Didactic poetry can be quite comforting as seen in Psalm 23 or it can be much too literal and seen as both confusing and condescending. Psalm 127 isn't very instructive spiritually speaking, unlike Psalm 23.
Updated Proverb: A broken toe can hurt, but a broken heart can kill.
Metaphors: Obscure or Illuminate? Didactic literature with its use of metaphors can sometimes obscure the message, as…...
Hyperlinked tables of contents and indexes are tremendous time-savers as well as navigational aides. The non-linear presentation of digital texts appeals to learners adept at spatial relations, or those who appreciate metaphors. Hypertext allows learners to create and understand conceptual links between current course material and new or prior knowledge.
The multimedia presentation of digital text appeals to learners who rely on multiple senses including sight and hearing. Many students do not respond to purely verbal course material. The greatest strength of digital course materials may be its interactivity. Learners take an active role in their education when they can control the reading experience. Therefore, online texts replete with hyperlinks and multimedia content provide a wealth of opportunity for enhanced learning. The addition of instant messaging and related forms of digital communications make feedback and assessment methods more…...
1. The Power of Language: The Influence of Titles in Shaping Narratives
Explore the ways in which titles can predetermine the interpretation of literary works. Analyze how titles create expectations and bias the reader's perspective. Discuss the ethical implications of using manipulative or deceptive titles.
2. Titles as Mirrors: Reflecting the Complexity of Literary Characters
Examine how titles can reveal the inner nature and motivations of characters. Analyze the use of irony, paradox, and symbolism in titles to create complex character portraits. Discuss the impact of character-based titles on the reader's understanding of the narrative.
1000-Word Brainstorming Session for Catchy Thanksgiving Family Tradition Titles
Introduction
Thanksgiving, a widely celebrated holiday, is not only about feasting and giving thanks but also about family traditions that create lasting memories. Whether it's a unique dish, a festive game, or a heartfelt ritual, these traditions add a special touch to the Thanksgiving celebration. To capture the essence of your family's treasured tradition, a catchy title is essential. Here's a comprehensive brainstorming session to guide you in crafting the perfect title.
Section 1: The Essence of the Tradition
Begin by considering the core element of your family tradition. What makes it special and unique?....
1. The Role of Visual Metaphors in Shaping Brand Identity
Explore the ways in which visual metaphors can create powerful and memorable brand identities. Analyze case studies to demonstrate how metaphors can convey brand values, connect with target audiences, and differentiate brands in competitive markets.
2. The Ethics of Image Manipulation in Advertising
Examine the ethical implications of image manipulation in advertising. Discuss the impact of altered images on consumer trust, body image, and societal norms. Consider the role of regulations and industry guidelines in balancing creative freedom with the need for transparency.
3. The Power of Data Visualization in Storytelling
Analyze the role of....
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