book provides extensive study of these tropes relative to five key categories in human life: race, class, gender, the environment, and war. Readers are provided with analyses of the ways in which tropes work in particular texts, as well as the opportunity to engage in both analysis and composition of trope-laden discourse.B/I/B/UFor those interested in improving their critical thinking, reading and writingPB1. Figuring./BBRA Vignette.BRLiteral Language.BRFigurative Language and Worldviews.BRBack to the Vignette.BRFour Tropes: metaphor, analogy, synecdoche, irony.BRFlashpoints.BRGenres: expository essay, speech, poem, letter.BRPostmodernity.BRMetaphor.BRAnalogy.BRSynecdoche.BRIrony.BRA Preview.PB2. Figuring Race./BBRRace as Symbolic Construct and Material Reality.BRW.E.B. Du Bois and The Crisis.BRAnalysis: Du Bois on Education.PB3. Figuring Class./BBRClass as Symbolic Construct and Material Reality.BRThe American Catholic Bishops and Economic Justice for All.BRAnalysis: Economic Justice for All.PB4. Figuring Gender./BBRGender as Symbolic Construct and Material Reality.BRSojourner Truth and Ain't I a Woman?BRAnalysis: Ain't I a Woman.PB5. Figuring The Environment./BBRThe Environment as Symbolic Construct and Material Reality.BRGary Snyder and For All.BRAnalysis: For All and Breasts.PB6. Figuring War./BBRWar as Symbolic Construct and Material Reality.BRAbraham Lincoln'sBRSecond Inaugural Address.BRAnalysis: Abraham Lincoln'sBRSecond Inaugural Address.PBAPPENDIX A./BBRW.E.B. Du Bois Education. 1912.BR---Education. 1915.BR---Education. 1922.PBAPPENDIX B.?è  (less)

of American Jewry"--the arrival in 1654 of 23 Jewish refugees in New Amsterdam. Diamond initially envisaged an orchestral work but, realizing that he needed a "spokesman," added a narration compiled from biblical and historical sources, the poetry of Moses ibn Ezra and Yehuda Halevi, and the words of Rabbi Hillel, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. The result is a paean to ideals universally shared: justice, freedom, equality, civilization, truth, peace and faith. The orchestra supplies both background and interludes for the spoken words, as well as a turbulent Prologue that starts with a timpanum crash, and a serene, celestial Epilogue on shimmering high strings. The music is basically tonal, by turns dissonant, loud and...  (less)

Squadron battling the unpatriotic Noodles Romanoff and his ruthless organization N.A.S.T.Y. (The National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos), as well as the domestic problems that dog every superhero--clingy girlfriends and embarrassing mothers. With red, white and blue blood running through his veins and the strength of twenty atom bombs for 20 seconds in his Proton Energy Pill, Roger Ramjet is just the man to save the world from evil and tyranny--we'll just have to wait five seconds! What tickled you as a kid will have you howling as an adult!  (less)

Squadron battling the unpatriotic Noodles Romanoff and his ruthless organization N.A.S.T.Y. (The National Association of Spies, Traitors and Yahoos), as well as the domestic problems that dog every superhero--clingy girlfriends and embarrassing mothers. With red, white and blue blood running through his veins and the strength of twenty atom bombs for 20 seconds in his Proton Energy Pill, Roger Ramjet is just the man to save the world from evil and tyranny--we'll just have to wait five seconds! What tickled you as a kid will have you howling as an adult!  (less)