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...

 An excerpt from MLK's "A Knock at Midnight" Sermon. And there is the deep longing for the bread of love. Everybody wishes to love and be loved. He who feels that he is not loved feels that he does not count. Much has happened in the modern world to make men feel that they do not belong. Living in a world which has become oppressively impersonal, many of us have come to feel that we are little more than numbers. Ralph Borsodi in an arresting picture of a world wherein numbers have replaced persons writes that the modern mother is often maternity case No. 8434 and her child, after being fingerprinted and footprinted, becomes No. 8003, and that a funeral in a large city is an event in Parlor B with Class B flowers and decorations at which Preacher No. 14 officiates and Musician No. 84 sings Selection No. 174. Bewildered by this tendency to reduce man to a card in a vast index, man desperately searches for the bread of love. When the man in the parable knocked on his friend’...