SPOTTTS Precise: Fundamentalism

How does the author's use of rhetorical and poetic devices emphasize the meaning of the work as a whole? Please do not forget to post and respond to two of your peers' SPOTTTS.

Fundamentalism

                        By Naomi Shihab Nye b. 1952

 

Because the eye has a short shadow or

it is hard to see over heads in the crowd?
 

If everyone else seems smarter   

but you need your own secret?
 

If mystery was never your friend?
 

If one way could satisfy

the infinite heart of the heavens?
 

If you liked the king on his golden throne

more than the villagers carrying baskets of lemons?
 

If you wanted to be sure

his guards would admit you to the party?
 

            The boy with the broken pencil   

            scrapes his little knife against the lead   

            turning and turning it as a point   

            emerges from the wood again

            If he would believe his life is like that   

            he would not follow his father into war

Precise SPOTTTS: Death in Viet Nam

 

 

 

How does the author's use of poetic devices--imagery and diction--and structure and syntax emphasize the meaning of the work as a whole? Please do not forget to post and respond to two of your peers' SPOTTTS.

 

Death in Viet Nam

               by Luis Omar Salinas

The ears of strangers

                                  listen

fighting men tarnish the ground

       death has whispered

                                    tales to the young

and now choir boys are ringing
                                          bells
      another sacrifice for America
                         a Mexican
      comes home
his beloved country

      gives homage

and mothers sleep
                             in cardboard houses
      let all anguish be futile

tomorrow it will rain

and the hills of Viet Nam

resume

       the sacrifice is not over

Pain, Suffering, and Experience

There are many themes reinforced in the Shakespearean drama Macbeth. Please answer the following question in a highly structured paragraph by 12:00 AM Sunday, March 17, 2013. Do not forget to post a meaningful response to one of your peers' posts.

If ghosts do not exist then what becomes of the pain, suffering, and experiences of people when we die?

Should or Should Not...

There are many themes reinforced in the Shakespearean drama Macbeth. Please answer the following question in a highly structured paragraph by 12:00 AM Sunday, March 17, 2013. Do not forget to post a meaningful response to one of your peers' posts.

If you thought that you were doing the right thing, but it turned out that you were doing something evil, then should you be punished?

Existence of Evil

There are many themes reinforced in the Shakespearean drama Macbeth.  Please answer the following question in a highly structured paragraph by 12:00 AM Sunday, March 17, 2013.  Do not forget to post a meaningful response to one of your peers' posts. 

 

How would you explain the existence of evil? If god is all powerful, and good, then why does evil exist at all?