Message in a Bottle

break this cycle; a desire explicitly expressed in Sydney’s final speech. Sydney Carton was primarily portrayed as a drunken waste of potential. During the first one-on-one scene that he appears in, he sits hunched and silent at a table “with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand” (65). Carton uses these copious amounts of alcohol, however, to solve two sets of cases for a lawyer who would not so much as attempt to do them himself; yet he still claims to have “no chance for [his] life but in…

2. Introduction There are a wide variety in types of advertisements used in selling products or services and disseminating information. Among these, public service announcement (PSA), are messages in the public interest disseminated by the media with the objective of raising awareness, changing public attitudes and behaviour towards a social issue. For this essay, I have chosen a PSA as the subject of analysis mainly because I have found very interesting in terms of it design and…

Sheila has been staying at the La Quinta Inn since the domestic battery incident (16-58900) which took place on 08/03/2016. Next to Gerared’s bed there was an empty pill bottle of Phenobarbital (last filled on 11/27/2015 with 180 pills) and a bottle of vodka which was mostly empty. Pictures of these items were taken and added to this report. I asked if Gerared had ever been suicidal and she stated no. Sheila further advised when Gerared has trouble falling…

to others both the importance of sustainability, and how to achieve it in a community such as a college campus. We created a Facebook page titled Sustainability On Your Campus and shared it with our individual communities on campus to spread the message to as many Ramapo students as possible. Cassie, Ashley, Erin, and myself made the page and started by detailing its mission to promote…

In the Canterbury Tales, both The Pardoner’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale are filled with irony and displays a deep message at the end of each. When it comes to the theme, The Pardoner’s Tale explains that the desire and greed for money are roots of all evil. The moral in The Wife of Bath’s tale conveys to not a judge a woman by their physical and outer beauty and their sense of moralities deeply rooted inside them. To begin with, it is ironic that pardoner tells a story with his moral…

The song “Coming Down” by Five Finger Death Punch, off of the album American Capitalist, is an exemplary song that provides a provocative message when coupled with an intense visual stimulus. This song provides the listener with a seemingly dismal soundscape that appears hopeless, as it seems that the performer is alone, depressed, and agitated. Along with this, the music video for this song depects two individuals who are both experiencing emotional abuse and spend the video engaging in…

tipped over wine glass and snuffed out candle symbolises that even though life might be rich and full of pleasures, someday it will still end. Then the books and writing quill are symbols of knowledge, but when placed with the skull, conveys the message- education is worthless because you will die anyway. And lastly, the style of this artwork is called Vanitas where symbolism are used to remind the viewer of the brevity of life and the inevitability of death. This style of still life has also…

Botox is a very controversial drug, because of its side effects. It is a poison that stops nerve cells from sending messages to your body, which makes your muscles numb. It smoothens wrinkles, but is far from healthy if it is done too regularly or you have an allergic reaction. This is why many people are looking forward to identifying alternatives to such a treatment. A very popular one, that is probably the first to come up in civilization as a whole, is the medicine cream. Creams against…

ngemba ethnic groups in the South West and North West regions of Cameroon respectively. While the calabash Is typical to the bakossi and the horn to the ngemba, both are sometimes used together in some cases. To a stranger, the calabash is simply a bottle gourd or a calabash gourd which is a large vine fruit and a horn is a hard curved and pointed outgrowth on the head of some animals like the cow but to the indigenes of these two ethnic groups, these objects are valuable materials to their…

Both of these artworks, “The Cotton Bowl” by Hank Willis Thomas, and “Tightrope 9” by Elias Sime, are located in the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thomas’ piece was donated to this museum by the North Carolina Museum of Art Contemporaries in 2012. Hank Willis Thomas’ piece was from his series Strange Fruit, and he notes that it is a “visual and conceptual explanation of the black body as spectacle and souvenir in the American popular culture.” Contrastly, Sime’s…