Meanings Signs & Symbols

QUESTIONS:
1. Please describe three examples of symbols you encounter in your life.

• traffic symbols

• Cross

• Flags

2. Please describe two possible meanings of the green light at the end of Daisy's dock in The Great Gatsby.

• The green light at the end of Daisy's dock could possibly be a warning sign.

• It can also mean that its a reflection of what one feels.
3. What are some ways people are similar to animals?

We both are living organisms and we both need food and water to survive.
4. What is the one major way people are different from every other animal, including other hominid species?

We are much more intelligent, which is what brought us to where we are now.

5. How does telling stories -- and inventing symbols -- empower people to organize in large numbers?

A symbol empower people to organize in large numbers, because the symbol could be representation of what they believe and they want to stand for it, but they cant as one but together they can. And it is the symbol that unites them and spreads their message across.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Young Goodman Brown

QUESTIONS: 1.What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story? To show that what you believe isn't always what it seems. 2.Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her? Yes, faith does fit her personality. Brown does have faith in her, well he did until the end where he started questioning her. 3.What do you think the pink ribbons signify? I think signify a young girl. 4.Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream?  Support your answer with passages from the text. It was a dream. "Be it so, if you will. But, alas! it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream." 5.Who do you think the old man really is?  What tex...
Read more

OCTOBER IS FOR WINNERS

  What really challenged me last semester was me. I was my own struggle, trying to convince myself to do my assignments was quite difficult believe it or not. The lack of motivation I had, terrible. Even though I myself knew what I was doing was dangerous to my grade, I proceeded not too. I don't really know why? I'd tell myself "do your work" over and over and yet after 20 minuets nothing's change. The self lack of discipline I have within me needs to change. Then maybe I wouldn't be in the situation I am. What would I do for October to better succeed? Well I'm ashamed to say that I repeated the same thing I did last semester. I'm here trying to finish all my assignment of the past few weeks the day before grades. Not to o well, so its not what I'm going to do this October to better succeed but what i will be doing to succeed next month. First ill need to built a schedule and be organized. Then built discipline within myself and from then on turn ...
Read more