just as juxtapositions like "candy-breathed" (a tricky coinage that visually invites misreading via the more familiar past-tense "breathed," with its voiced th) or "quick-acting, pesticidal" insist on a rhythm that disrupts the reader's own likely sense of the natural motion of sentences....
Lists in novels are frequently a bugbear of mine: I find them wearing and am often tempted to skip them. But Gorodischer and Le Guin’s lists engrossed me – masterclasses in rhythm and the subversion of expectations. There is subversion at the structural level too. Sometimes events are nar...
knolls far away. Distance seemed to soften them so they looked like watery billows. I longed to escape from this ocean and climb back on dry land again. But when the sun set and it turned chilly and the light left the strip, the sea suddenly died, and I was left like a stranded ...
Give them a class period to complete one of the following point of view activities: Point of View Manual –Students create review booklets where they demonstrate narration from a variety of perspectives and define each point of view term. Point of View Comic Strip Project ...
Studies have shown that people who are given a book to read in bed find it harder to go to sleep if they read it on a screen rather than on paper. This is probably because of the blue light that most screens emit, which throws off our circadian rhythm and _28 us into thinking it ...
Jackson packed her record with social commentary about racism, gun violence, sexuality, and poverty in addition to the romantic ballads fans and producers expected from her. As a result, seven of the singles from "Rhythm Nation" reached the ranks of the top five in the Billboard Hot 100 cha...
Rather than write a comprehensive survey of Palestinian history, I have chosen to focus on six turning points in the struggle over Palestine. These six events, from the 1917 issuance of the Balfour Declaration, which decided the fate of Palestine, to Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip and its...
For evaluating heart rhythm, lead II strip is examined. In case of frank arrhythmia, gross irregularities are obvious and can be detected even at first sight, while small irregularities need proper attention warranting measurement of “P-R” and “R-R” intervals. In normal sinus rhythms, ...
(Anzaldúa 1987: 25)The text depicts this border space as produced by theemotionalresidueof thisunnat-uralborder which is inhibited bytheprohibited,the undocumented,invisible,etc.:“Aborder is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vagueandundeterminedplacecreated...
It’s not unusual of course for me to go a week or two without a photo session somewhere or other; my rhythm, generally, calls for a photo shoot of a day or maybe two, followed by a week-plus of “clearing the deck.” (This involves transferring photos to a computer, which I then...