“Living in Two Worlds” by Marcus Mabry is a short story in which he writes about the discomfort he experiences traveling between the two worlds of poverty at home and richness at Stanford. Mabry goes to school with a full scholarship and lives a pretty decent life while his family live in poverty in New Jersey. Some of the things that the author compares are geographical differences between the two world, social differences, and his guilt feeling toward his family. The author writes about geographical differences between New Jersey and Stanford.…
The following book is called Infinity written by, Sherrilyn Kenyon. This book is about Nick, a fourteen year old High School Student who lives a normal poor kid life with him not old enough to get a job, wich leves his single mom to do the work and earn the money. (Wich is at a strip club BTW). Until things chenge; one man saves Nicks life and shows him the harsh truth and the secrets brhind life. From eleven-thousand year old demons, to flesh eating zombies.…
The Looking Glass Wars is a book about a girl named Alyss who lived a wonted life. She was en route to become a princess. But one day an evil queen named Redd came and slaughter her family. Alyss escaped through a Looking Glass that would take her to another place. Alice in Wonderland is a similar story. There's a girl named Alice who was reading a story to her sister. Then she saw a talking rabbit, who ran into a rabbit hole. She followed the rabbit and ended up in Wonderland. Alice then traveled through wonderland trying to find a way out. As the Queen of Hearts pursued Alice trying to kill her.…
In chapter 12 of John Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air, precise words were used to help the reader visualize with the text. John and his team are heading to their final camp on Mt. Everest and are going to make a summit attempt. One example of precise words is when John spots hoards of people ascending on ropes. He doesn’t want to be below them and get hit by something. John wants to avoid “stones whizzing down the face from above”. This helps me visualize how fast and how close to you rocks could be falling on a mountain. He could have used a word like falling but that wouldn’t make the reading experience as fascinating. Another example is when John stops to take a picture of other climbers. “Squinting through my camera’s telephoto lens”…
The Space Merchant is a science fiction novel written by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. The book displays the future of the city and society in a dystopia prospect. Dystopia is the future that we fear and want to avoid. It views the world as the place full of danger where oppression and human misery happen. (Cite) The Space Merchant addresses many possible problems that can happen in the future such as inadequate resources, privatization, and segregation. In the book, the advertising agencies overpower the government and serve as the most powerful and influential institution in the country. Even though the city has many innovative technology such as an express elevator, it is lack of the most basic elements of life like water and fuel. To escape the scarcity problem, Fowler Schocken advertising agency is trying to colonize the planet Venus, which has been proved for human settlement, and exploit its resources for human…
In the touching and hilarious 292-page- novel, The Status of all Things by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, a thirty-five-year-old woman named Kate tries to rewrite her destiny through online status posts, since she does not want her fiancé to be infatuated by her close friend and co-worker. Kate’s fiancé, Max, shows up at the rehearsal dinner and pulls Kate aside, then tells her that he can’t get married to her because he is in love with Courtney, her co-worker, leaving Kate devastated and in tears. Kate wishes that she had already seen the signs, she didn’t want to be emotionally rueful and embarrassed at the same time, by posting an online status, she types “... I wish I could do the past month over. Please DM me if you have access to a time…
Joshua Johnson All About Eve All About Eve is a story about the intricate parts that made up theater life in the mid nineteen hundreds. It is a story of a young girl's rise to fame due to her strong love and ambition to star in movies. An aspiring actress, Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter, climbs into and eventually replaces the life of Broadway star Margo Channing, played by Bette Davis.…
The art of literature will never die. Many people believe that there has been a decline in the reading and writing of literature, one of those people Dana Gioia wrote “Why Literature Matters” and she argues that the younger people of america although have had an increase in education their reading of literature has had a steep decline in recent years . Dana begins building her credibility with facts and sources, citing convincing facts and statistics, and successfully employing emotional appeal throughout the passage. Throughout the piece she uses many strong facts to strengthen her credibility and to appeal to logos, as well as build her argument.…
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In the essay “Living like Weasels”, the author Annie Dillard wrote about her first encounter after she saw a real wild weasel for the first time in her life. The story began when she went to Hollins Pond which is a remarkable place of shallowness where she likes to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. Dillard traced the motorcycle path in all gratitude through the wild rose up in to high grassy fields and while she was looking down, a weasel caught her eyes attention; he was looking up at her too. The weasel was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon, brown as fruitwood, soft-furred, and alert. His face was fierce, small, pointed as Lizard’s, and with two black eyes. They exchanged the glances as two lovers or deadly enemies. Dillard described the moment of seeing the weasel as “a sudden beating of brains, with all the charge and intimate grate of rubbed balloons”. But while all these ideas and thoughts were in Dillard’s mind, the weasel disappeared and Dillard felt like she was having a dream. But after one week she realized that she was not dreaming and she tried to memorize what she saw. She felt like she was in that weasel’s brain for sixty seconds and he was in her mind too. Dillard thought about the weasel’s behavior and the fact that weasels live in necessity and we live by choice, she felt that it would be interesting if she could live as weasels do and she missed her chance. She blamed herself “I should have gone for the throat. I should have lunged for the streak of white under the weasels chin and held on.” Finally, Dillard believed it would be well, proper, and obedient to grasp with your one necessity wherever it takes you as the weasels do.…
Topic #2: Why does John Galt go on strike when the Starnes heirs take over the Twentieth Century Motor Company? Do you think he is right or wrong to start a strike? Explain.…
Carole Firstman is a writing instructor at the colleges of the Sequoias and State University in Fresno California. Carole Firstman received her MFA in 2013 at the California State University of Fresno. Firstman’s work has been published in various magazines/review/newspaper. For example, in the Colorado Review, South Dakota Review, Watershed Review, Lifestyle Magazine, and The Valley Voice.…
In the last episode of professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe: “Messengers”. Cox explains the story of the universe through the latest 3D images from space and technology. He travels to different parts of the world and even takes us into a journey across the universe to show us how light is the key to understand the existence of the universe and the origins of humanity. In the episode Cox travels to Egypt, the desert sand, and the Victoria Falls.…
This year we have touched on the self and then focused on how technology could jeopardise our existence. Times are changing and so are we; Technology will keep changing us like it has always done throughout history, change does not necessarily mean take over, technology will advance as an extension of us to help us improve not to allow us to reach perfection.…
In Popular Mechanics the author, Raymond Carver, uses painstaking details, numerous symbols, and an unusual title to convey the universal theme that not all relationships end happily. Carver uses all these things to his advantage. He brings out the theme of this depressing, but truthful story. Many couples these days experience the same thing that this one in particular went through. "Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water." Carver starts off the story in this way. It is obvious that something bad is coming or has even already happened. The tone is grim from the very beginning and it also gives us an idea of what is to come. The weather outside is dark, "But it was getting dark on the inside too." This leads us to think that the relationship might already be doomed. The details Carver provides us bring to light so many images. These images help us piece together the big picture; this relationship is doomed. Both, the man and women's attitudes toward each other also make us think that they are not very happy. They just seem to not care, about each other but they do care about their child. One would think that they would be mature enough to not act like children for the sake of their own child. However, they do not seem to care. Their anger must be past the point of being rational. She won't even let him take the picture of his child. He wants the baby, but so does she. They argue and quarrel like children. The author wants us to know, that they are far from happy, as is the baby. Carver certainly lets us know this in extreme detail and without this his story would not be the same. Raymond Carver uses so many symbols in this story that it is tedious to name them all. The most important would have to be the baby itself, the picture of the baby, the flower pot, and the weather. All of these symbols provide a specific meaning to the story and its theme. The baby is something they both love but yet it is not the solution to all…