A Student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Olosunde Aderonke Oyindamola has written a research project on Funke Akindele’s English in Jenifa’s Diary. According to reports, Oyindamola analysed the bad english the actress spoke in the movie series and has been submitted two weeks ago. Jenifa’s diary is a comedy movie series which is starred and produced by Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele. In the series, the actress played ther role of Jenifa, Jenifa in the series is a village girl, who came to Lagos for a green pastures. Her grammatical blunders in English is what amuse the audience and the lessons learnt in the series.A Student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Olosunde Aderonke Oyindamola has written a research project on Funke Akindele’s English in Jenifa’s Diary. According to reports, Oyindamola analysed the bad english the actress spoke in the movie series and has been submitted two weeks ago. Jenifa’s diary is a comedy movie series which is starred ...
THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST John Ashbery’s Early Life By Karin Roffman Illustrated. 316 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. “My own autobiography has never interested me very much,” John Ashbery once told an interviewer. “Whenever I try to think about it, I seem to draw a complete blank.” Over the course of his long career as one of America’s most celebrated poets, Ashbery has fiercely defied a central premise of the lyric poetic tradition: that a poem should be a “song of myself,” an utterance that springs from the circumstances of the writer’s life and gives insight into the author’s mind and feelings. “I have always been averse to talking about myself and so I don’t write about my life the way the confessional poets do,” he has said. Instead, Ashbery aims to create “paradigms of common experience which I hope other peopl...
The Science Behind Pickle Rick’s Cockroach Brain Manipulation Posted by Michael Walsh on August 8, 2017 We all know that feeling when we suddenly realize we’ve bitten off more than we can chew, but rarely is the solution killing a cockroach with our teeth and controlling its brain with our tongues. When you happen to have turned yourself into a pickle, though, as Rick Sanchez did on this week’s Rick and Morty , this may just be the best way out. Rick and Morty ‘s latest dues ex machina wasn’t just absurdist cartoon mayhem–it was based on real science. (The part about controlling cockroach bodies by poking their brains, I mean. Not the part where a grown man turns himself into a pickle.) Following an unplanned trip into the sewer system, th...
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