their identity. For example‚ catastrophes are monsters because of all the devastation and destruction they cause. Asma implies‚ “Sometimes the monster is a display of God’s wrath” (Asma 13). The tsunami and earthquake of Japan‚ for example is a recent manifestation of God’s wrath. Because of this catastrophic monster‚ countless people lost their lives‚ homes‚ cars‚ and face strenuous work to clean and restore what was once there. God doesn’t just conjure up a catastrophe whenever he pleases; although
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American radio host and political commentator‚ Tammy Bruce‚ in her article‚ Why Gun Control Wont End Mass Murder‚ describes many statistics of gun violence. Bruce’s purpose is to make her readers aware of gun violence and the many factors contributing to it as well as how it is statistically unlikely that gun control will help. She adopts an aggressive tone in order to support those that agree with her. The main ideas expressed throughout this article are that politicians use shootings and gun violence
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1. Before you read‚ decide which of three explanations for the extinction of the dinosaurs you like best. Write an explanation of why you like it. Sex: Testes function only in a narrow range of temperature. (Those of mammals hang externally in a scrotal sac because internal body temperatures are too high for their proper function.) A worldwide rise in temperature at the close of the Cretaceous period caused the testes of dinosaurs to stop functioning and led to their extinction by sterilization
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* Hero is engaged in a conflict * Hero experiences great suffering * Hero is defeated and dies Tragedies involve… * A faulty or corrupt society * Tragic hero * Tragic flaw * Mistaken choice of action * Catastrophe * Discovery Tragedy arouses in the audience the emotions of pity and fear * Producing in the audience an catharsis of emotion Tragedy reaffirms the fundamental order of the universe Faulty or corrupt society * Characters that
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When reading the essay Controlling Irrational Fears After 9/11‚ the first argument to catch my eye was directed around the strong reaction to the number of deaths‚ 2800‚ on 9/11. Americans immediately began to react to the catastrophe of that day. The supposed reason behind this reaction is the number of deaths in the single day when not so much as one bullet was discharged to cause one of the deaths. The author of the essay used two premises to prove the conclusion that the number of deaths was
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Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury‚ Ray describes a house that "[stands] alone in a city of rubble and ashes" (167). It used to be a magnificent city but now‚ "the ruined city [gives]
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of Venice is Piazza San Marco with its magnificent church. There are many museums‚ palaces‚ and churches to visit and wandering along Venice’s canals is interesting. Venice is in the northeast of Italy and historically was a bridge between East and West. 3. Florence - Firenze Ponte Vecchio © by Martha Bakerjian‚ licensed to About.com Florence is one of the most important Renaissance architectural and art centers. Its Duomo and Baptistery are magnificent but crowded with tourists as is their large
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buildings in the Ottoman empire. All mosques were built in a grand monumental style to emphasis their significance to the society. Primary Source Possibly Mimar Sinan (left) at the tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent‚ 1566 Primary Source Possibly Mimar Sinan (left) at the tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent‚ 1566 Visual This painting is of Mimar Sinan. He was the great Ottoman architect renowned for the building of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne. Visual This painting is of Mimar Sinan. He was the
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pursued power and fame. The Greek city states warred with each other endlessly‚ constantly making and breaking alliances in order to gain the upper hand in the name of their respective god or gods. The two gods who were the cause of the greatest of catastrophes were Athena and Ares. Which were the gods of the city states of Sparta and Athens. Both of the city states believed that their god was superior and that they should in turn rule over the other Greek city states and all the other lesser gods. This
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In Joan Didion’s "Los Angeles Notebook" her portrayal of the Santa Ana winds includes a unique‚ "Twilight Zone" tone. Her utilization of foreboding vocabulary made an uneasy tone and complexity of the Santa Ana’s with regular life. Didion’s utilization of complex components‚ for example‚ parallelism‚ difference‚ and imagery passes on that by and large‚ the robotic Santa Ana winds speak to differentiation of a regular‚ normal existence with the stress that accompanies the Santa Ana winds. The movement
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