Essays on Metaphor

This Obama Campaign ad, “The Choice” is a political advertisement that was paid for by “Obama for America” and authorized by President Barack Obama for the 2012 Presidential Campaign. This one-minute video was directed to the American voters regarding President Obama and United States Governor...

The word ‘metaphor’ is originally a Greek work. This word could be literally translated as ‘transport’, where we can transport some features of one thing to another thing. Metaphor has firstly gained attention by the well-known philosopher Aristotle. In the 4th century in his work...

Art has many different forms and styles, all unique to the artist who is holding their chosen medium to the canvas. In Henri Rousseau’s painting Women Walking in an Exotic Forest, there can be multiple interpretations of the image, because of first glance and after...

Nowadays, technology plays an very important place. It makes people able to shop at home, keep connection with our friends easier. Long story short, people now cannot live without technology. The family in the story bought a high-technology nursery infantalized them and kill them all....

In the book titled The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, by James Weldon Johnson, the topic of race and identity are discussed through the experience of a biracial American. When this man, the protagonist, is introduced the concept of race does not seem to affect...

‘Her reality is magical. She has a heightened awareness of the natural world, of smells and sounds, of colour and light. And she renders palpable this world, at once strange and familiar, in prose of sinuous beauty… A small wonder of style and compassion.’ (Jason...

Poets such as Adrienne Rich and Muriel Rukeyser wrote with the firm belief that poetry had the power to create change, both in individual people and within society as a whole. While they wrote for different political reasons (Adrienne Rich was more concerned with women’s...