English Lang/Lit LPs

  For Sale? In the song "For Sale?" the main idea is that famous people are tempted into a very indulgent lifestyle. This is something to avoid and resist. The song approaches the topic from one of personal experience and also frames the dichotomy in a religious setting. The song’s tone is very personal and cautionary, as well as being quite stoic in its presentation. The song’s video is framed as a baptism, where Kendrick’s head is submerged underwater and he sees visions(?) of good looking women with their tops of that are trying to seduce him. This is an allegory of sorts for seduction and temptation. Kendrick remains stoic and unresponsive in these parts and ignores what’s going on. The video is a metaphor telling the audience to resist the seduction of the famous lifestyle. The video ends with Kendrick’s head emerging from the water.      Notable artistic choices linked to presentation are, among others, the fact that the “temptation scenes” are shot with red li...

Notes  Meaning: About new atomic clocks that might replace the old ones, how important is time? The text is fond of the old clocks but impressed with the new ones Purpose: Inform readers about the new clocks and to discuss time in British society. Context: Nature seems to be some kind of scientific journal, therefore readings of the text are more information-focused and less opinion wary. Audience: The wider British public, presumably subscribers. Authorial choices: list ways in which language is used and cite from the text, comment of effect.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The text in question for this analysis is an article from the academic journal Nature . It concerns the approaching replacement of atomic clocks, based on caesium with more accurate optical clocks, based on elements like strontium and ytterbium. The text holds a certain fondness for the atomic clock even though i...