Jackson Wipperfurth AP English Lit. & Comp. Mr. Groom 21 March, 2024. FRQ Essay 2: In the excerpt from Nisi Shawl’s novel “Everfair”, Lisette Toutournier’s overjoyed and exuberant reaction to riding her bicycle is depicted with compounding adjectives and visual imagery, which causes her to feel a sense of freedom and in turn self consciousness from the constricting French culture that she eventually is able to overcome and accept. As Lisette rides her bike through the streets and paths in rural France, she exhibits joyous and playful feelings, like many other kids that ride their bikes. Throughout the beginning the author uses descriptors like ‘marvelous air’, ‘intoxicating scent’, and where the road ‘laid itself out to her.’ These all imply that her experience of riding her bicycle is one that is addictive in a good way, it is something that allows her to feel the wind in her hair and face …show more content…
Along with that, the opening view of the landscape gives her a sense of accomplishment and grandeur where she is in control of her bike and her path, something that she may not have in normal society. This idea is further embedded into the story when her pedaling down the path is described as choppy and slippery, and that when she wobbles she catches herself and steers back on path, displaying yet again the command she seeks in her life. The excerpt also depicts Lisette’s flowing emotions from riding the bike, as depicted by the compounding adjectives that describe what she feels riding down. It talks about seeing “greenbrowngreengrey”, and feeling “coolwarmcoolwarm” and her being a “wild thing”. These images serve to show the fast and exciting nature of her bike ride as she
From 1754-1763, Britain fought the French and Indian war. Although Britain had won the war, they still had a lot of war debts to pay off. Britain turned to the colonies to pay off their debts by taxing them. The taxes angered the colonists because they believed it violated their rights. Benjamin Franklin had initially proposed the Albany plan of Union to unite the colonies, however this law was rejected by all of the colonial governments. It wasn't until after all of the British laws and taxes that the colonies would unite and write the Declaration of Independence.
While walking downtown with her girlfriend, the author describes as, “[her] heart began to skip every other beat, pounding, pounding, pounding … [as she stood] paralyzed like a frightened, little jackrabbit.” Repetition of the word “pounding” in the text develops a fast pace, indicating the urgency and panic felt by the author; terms such as paralyzed are utilized to emphasize the urgent, panicked mood. However, sanguine moods still persist throughout the narrative. For example, in the opening paragraph the author describes how she, “watch[ed] the golden dots of morning light glide across [her] ceiling, [and she] melted into a feeling of peace specific to the freedom of early summer.” Terms such as “golden,” “glide,” “peace,” and “early summer” help the reader detect a placid mood in the text, directing the reader towards the state of contentment the author feels surrounding her relationship. Mood differentiations in the text, from the urgency of the narrator’s walk downtown to the tranquil peace of the narrator’s relationship, indicate the contrasting aspects of the LGBT+ community, both in terms of the impending fear of violence, and the love that is the
...es her. The imageries of pink Mustang signifies her social class, while “Road” indicates her location as nowhere within a community. The commodification of her body means it can be touched in ways derogatory to her dignity whether she likes it or not because it is a saleable commodity that doesn’t belong to her. Her silver painted nipples identifies silver coins. Silver coins represent monetary value put on her body. Silver painted nipples also mean the attractive way in which a product is packaged. The poem also depicts the defiance of women against how she has been treated. She identifies man as the one that kisses away himself piece by piece till the last coin is spent. However, she cannot change the reality of her location, and temporal placement.
This use of similes and metaphors describe a scene where the author is carrying out her mission with an imaginative audience. This signifies the typical free-flying imagination of a child. And also in the line “I bask in the sun in my exalted position, almost sky-high, feeling as filly and nearly as pink as the bathers I am wearing.”, the use of adjectives and similes, the feeling of immense excitement is shown clearly to the responder. The mood and tone of the passage changes dramatically as the perspective changes in paragraph 6. The author... ...
Beginning of the 15th and 16th centuries, Europeans began to explore in the Atlantic Coast of Africa. They were mainly lured into the excessive trade in gold, spices and other goods without knowing about slaves in Africa. Nonetheless, Europeans had no success of taking over these African states to achieve all of these goods but later they did take over various regions in other areas. Africans seems to be willing to sell as many as 11 million people to the Atlantic slave trade to the Europeans. Thus, this makes them the first people to have slaves not the Europeans that forced them into this trade. Furthermore, at the start the Africans seems to have full control of the slave trade, but the Europeans came in and slowly dominated the trade without the Africans knowing. Later on, the trade was overturned and everything went back orderly.
In Francie’s youth, the reader learns that the small joyous things are the true elation
George Bilgere, an American Poet writes a touching but sad poem about his personal life. Bilgere who is the main character in the poem takes his readers on a journey about the survival of his struggles in life. Coming from a family with divorced parents, alcoholic father and mother who passed away lead him to be more open with his poetry. In the poem “ Like Riding a Bicycle” Bilgere informs his readers about the struggles he had to face throughout his childhood due to not having a mother or father figure around at a young age. Throughout the poem, Bilgere shows that even though you struggle in life, there is alway a way to find yourself as a successful individual.
Ride called life is a poem written by an anonymous writer about how life's a ride of emotions and feelings and how they change and move like a ride, and I think this poem does a good job of representing theses ideas through repetition and a simple format, I chose this poem because it is about something deep and it made you think because of the way it is written and the content of the poem. The poem tries to create a sense of you being on a roller coaster yourself but one of emotions, sad feelings, happy ones, serious, and not so serious, but they are all represented in the poem along with the feeling that your ride should never stop early but they all stop in the same way, the writer didn't use any rhymes in their poem probably to represent
One extracurricular activity that I am very passionate about would be the FFA. FFA has taught me so many things and it has brought me so many places. I 've learned how to be a great speaker from different events my advisor has challenged me to do. Public speaking has taken me so many places and I have attributed most of my success to FFA. When I was a freshmen I competed and received gold in the creed speaking competition. As a sophomore, I tried extemporaneous speaking and received a gold for that as well. As a junior I really wanted to challenge myself so I took up agricultural sales as my winter career development experience. I ended up being recognized as the state runner up individual agriculture salesman as well as the 15th best agricultural sales man in the nation. Now as a senior, I have been going around speaking at different school board meetings, advocating
The gestural and heavy working of the paint and the contrasting colors make the painting appear active yet are arduous to follow. The defining element of Woman and Bicycle is the presence of the black lines that do most of the work in terms of identifying the figure. Through the wild nature of the brushwork, color, and composition of the painting, it can be implied that the artist is making an implication towards the wild nature of even the most proper of women.
The poem is launched by a protracted introduction during which the speaker indulges in descriptions of landscape and local color, deferring until the fifth stanza the substantive statement regarding what is happening to whom: "a bus journeys west." This initial postponement and the leisurely accumulation of apparently trivial but realistic detail contribute to the atmospheric build-up heralding the unique occurrence of the journey. That event will take place as late as the middle of the twenty-second stanza, in the last third of the text. It is only in retrospect that one realizes the full import of that happening, and it is only with the last line of the final stanza that the reader gains the necessary distance to grasp entirely the functional role of the earlier descriptive parts.
When I found out I qualified to be a candidate for the NJHS, I knew I had to take this chance. This group is made up of people who depict leadership, character, citizenship, academic success, and service and I would love to join. These characteristics wouldn't just be valuable for a candidate to have, but for everyone to have to exceed in life. If I were to be in the National Junior Honor Society, it would give me an opportunity to ameliorate my future and motivate me to do better.
Futura is a highly popular font that is widely used across the world. It was even used out of this world – the first type to be used on the moon.
The air has a distinct sweetness as even the natural world seems to lead the couple down the road with ‘the honey breathing heather’ that lay to their left and right making it appear as though the air is thick with sweetness. While the repetition of the ‘h’ sound gives the poem an airy quality and reminds the reader of the alliteration of ‘west wind’, again drawing attention to the way the natural world appears to be encouraging the couple. ‘Her swift feet seem to float’, the soft alliteration of the ‘f ‘adds to the feeling of ease and floating while the repetition of the ‘t ‘sound at the end of each word adds to the quickness of the descent as the words are articulated cleanly and smoothly.
This case deals with Company Law and more specifically with share capital in relation to allotment of shares and transfer of shares. With reference to the Companies Act 2006 and appropriate case law it is hoped that a reasoned conclusion is reached for the issues put forward by Verity.