If these are your choices, then C. The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess. is the answer.
A. I just love it when my baby brother wakes me up crying at all hours of the night!
B. I was so excited about the news that I screamed for hours!
C. The full scholarship I received for college is O.K., I guess.
D. My sister first met her husband in Africa, even though he grew up a block away from us in Cleveland.
True when labeling the part of speech...hope I helped
Answer:
C. Expressing criticism or contempt.
Explanation:
The word "opprobrious" means to criticize or say a bad word about a particular thing. It contains a negative meaning for the given word and is used as a means of expressing scorn or derogatory word about the thing.
In the given passage from <em>The Open Boat</em> by Stephen Crane, the four survivors of the shipwreck were on a lifeboat, hoping and looking for the sight of any help, land or people to be saved. And in their eagerness to be found, they were oblivious to the fact that there was no lifesaving station nearby. And as a result, they blamed the <em>"nation's lifesavers"</em> for their poor eyesight and their inability to see them struggle out in the sea. The author used the word <em>"opprobrious"</em> to state how the four men<u> criticized and expressed their negative feelings</u> about the inability of the men supposed to be out working to save any survivors out at sea.
Douglass was separated from his Harriet Bailey, his mother, soon after he was born as he tells us through his writings.
- ¨Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of [my mother’s] death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger¨
In Chapter I of the Narrative, Douglass explains that his master separates him from his mother soon after his birth. This separation ensured that Douglass did not develop a family bond toward his mother. Douglass talks about how a slave is “shaped,” beginning at birth. He explains the ways by which slave owners alter social bonds and the natural processes of life in order to transform men into slaves. This process begins at birth. Slave traders first remove a child from his family, and Douglass shows how this destroys the child’s support and sense of a personal history.
In this quotation, Douglass uses adjectives like “soothing” and “tender” to re-create the childhood he would have known if his mother had been present. Douglass often recreates this assertion in his narrative in order to contrast normal stages of childhood development with the quality of development that he knew as a child.
His focus on the family structure and the awful moment of his mother’s death is typical of the conventions of nineteenth-century sentimental narratives. The destruction of family structure would have saddened readers and appeared to be a signal of the larger moral illnesses of the culture. Douglass, like many nineteenth-century authors, shows how social injustice can be expressed through the breakdown of a family structure. Douglass became deeply engaged with the abolitionist movement as both a writer and an orator.
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A three paragraph essay about the best and worst times in Vincent Van Gogh’s life:
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Vincent Van Gogh was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. For him, colours were the medium of expression. Born in Holland in March, 1853, this son of a pastor was very emotional, had zero self-confidence and always faced a struggle with his own identity and direction. He believed that preaching the gospel was the aim of his life but it took him years to realise the true calling – that he would be an artist. During this phase, he had experienced two unhappy romances and had worked as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman unsuccessfully. He even worked as a preacher in the Borinage where he was dismissed for being fanatical.
He stayed in Belgium and studied art, his aim being delivering happiness through the creation of beauty. His early works are sharply lit, sombre-toned, genre paintings. The most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). Two years later, he went to South Arles along with Gauguin to establish a school of art but the results are disastrous. Van’s nervous temperament and his night-long discussions along with painting all day affected his health. At the end of the year, Van pursued Gauguin with an open razor and a portion of his own ear lobe was cut off. Due to his fits of madness and lucidity, he was sent to Saint-Remy for treatment. In May 1890, he was better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Vincent Van Gogh had a brief career where he sold only one painting. He was poor, malnourished and overworked. Whatever money he got from his brother was spent on art supplies, coffee and cigarettes. His finest work was produced in less than three years in a technique which was a powerful fusion of form and content. It had the dramatic elements which were lyrically rhythmic, emotional and imaginative. Either Vincent wanted to explain his struggle against madness or wanted to show the spiritual essence of man and nature. Though his success was short-lived, his legacy still has an impact in the arena of art .
