LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                                   EYES OF BLUE DOG                                                                         GABREIL GARCIA The basic plot of ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' follows the relationship between a man and a woman, but the setting is not at all what might be expected. The relationship takes place solely in the dream world; both people meet and interact while dreaming, never able to connect in their waking lives. The p...

                                  WORD POWER: CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION  Connotations and Denotations The denotation of a word or phrase is its direct meaning. Another way to think of it is as the associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience. A Connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that the same word means literally. The direct meaning is its denotation. The connotation of a word or phrase is the associated or secondary meaning. It is the idea that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal meaning. In other words, the connotation of a word is an idea or feeling suggested by a particular word though it is not the direct meaning. It can be something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or des...

                                                                       USING VISUAL AIDS The Importance of Having the Right Attitude in Life        Our attitude is what influences all our actions. It is only the right attitude, which gets us good results. All the smiles and hand-shakes are not going to get you far, if  you do not have the attitude to help others, without any selfish expectations in return. If you expect something in return, then it is not help, it is only a favor, and you are only interested in your own selfish desires.      It has been said that Opportunity ‘knocks’ at every door. If we utilize it, it leads to success. Otherwise, we just complain about the ‘noise’. Every problem that we face is nothing but an opportunity, to success, by learning h...

  THE SPECTATOR CLUB                                                                                                -RICHARD STEELE INTRODUCTION      The Spectator, arguably one of the most important periodicals ever published, had a two-series run from March 1, 1711, through December 6, 1712, for a total of 635 issues. It was edited (written) by two masters of the essay, Richard Steele and Joseph Addison. For the most part, Richard Steele wrote the first series of 555 issues, and Joseph Addison the second series of 79 issues. True to its billing as a periodical, it resembled most eighteenth-century London newspapers in size and layout. Although the editorship was anonymous, many readers...

                                                        SPREADING THE NEWS                                                                                                          - LADY GREGORY      Spreading the News is a short one-act comic play by Lady Gregory, which she wrote for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, on 27 Dec. 1904. It was performed as part of a triple bill alongside William Butler Yeats's "On Baile's Strand" and a revival of the Yeats and Gregory collaborative one-act "Cathleen Ni Houlihan" (1902).  Audiences may have dozed through Ye...