Analysis of The Long Loneliness By: Alec Desch Joshua Lollar 12/15/14 As I ran my finger down the list of novels and memoirs‚ my mind was troubled because I was very unsure of which topic I should pick. I read the prompt beforehand‚ so I knew that the book I choose had to hit me at heart and really implement a message. So I did some research on a couple of books and their authors and my search was abruptly halted when I came across the memoir‚ The Long Loneliness
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Judith Butler and Performativity for Beginners (mostly in her own words) Film 165A 1. A central concept of the theory is that your gender is constructed through your own repetitive performance of gender. This is related to the idea that discourse creates subject positions for your self to occupy—linguistic structures construct the self. The structure or discourse of gender for Butler‚ however‚ is bodily and nonverbal. Butler’s theory does not accept stable and coherent gender identity. Gender
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Triad 8: "Pray" This passage is about meaningful prayer in order to form a spiritual bond with God. Often times people would use prayer as a means of receiving praise. They would purposely go out in public to draw attention to themselves so others would think highly of them. However‚ Jesus spoke against this‚ encouraging everyone to go somewhere private to pray and use prayer as a means of meditation and to strengthen ones relationship with God‚ not their social status. The original people hearing
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My Daughter Smokes" is a short story written by Alice Walker. Walker tells us about her experiences and knowledge with cigarettes‚ the effects it had on her father‚ sister and self‚ and relating them to her daughter’s problem with smoking. Furthermore Walker touches on history‚ describing her father’s terrible death due to cigarettes and also a brief description of the history of tobacco. In reference to her past experience with smoking and in an attempt to prevent a reoccurrence of these bygone
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Christians in the Byzantium Empire The Byzantine Empire was in fact the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantium was established in the year 395 and came to an end in 1453. During the Byzantine reign of power‚ we shall see imperial Christianity which was distinctive to Byzantium. This was a rule were the Pope was not the ruler over the Christians but it was effectively the Emperor who held control over the church. This included appointing prominent bishops and also appointed patriarchs.1 The religious aspect
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Symbolism of Lord of the Flies What would you do if your plane crashed on a deserted tropical island surrounded by the isolation of the ocean and strangers whom you’ve never met? In William Goldings Lord of the Flies‚ a group of boys‚ the oldest of them being twelve‚ crash among an inhabited‚ untamed island where they’re forced to adapt‚ survive‚ and make life altering choices. During the course of the story the author uses symbolism to express hidden emotions within the characters themselves‚ and
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The novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding was published in 1954. The publisher to this novel was Faber and Faber. This classic was created in Salisbury‚ England in the 1950’s and was written as an allegory that portrays a loss of innocence through an adventure story. Within the book‚ a group of kids get stranded on an island and have to fend for themselves without adult supervision. They struggle to keep civilized and start to lose their innocence through events that occur in the novel. In
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views from philosophers and scholars throughout history; among these is William Golding. In his novel Lord of the Flies‚ Golding writes about a group of schoolboys who are stranded on an uninhabited island in the midst of a world war. At first‚ the boys attempt to recreate society by establishing law and order‚ but over time‚ their civil values diminish as they turn to savagery and evil. Ultimately‚ through writing Lord of the Flies‚ Golding conveys
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William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies and Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People both contain societies with divergent sides. The sides are people who desire to have immediate gratification with short-term goals‚ and people who want what’s best for the society with long-term goals. The single most important factor in the downfall of human societies is the conflict between short-term and long-term goals. In Lord of the Flies and An Enemy of the People‚ both societies have a potential to
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has always chased authority and power. The same situation can be observed in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ a novel which shows its audience that under circumstances where no authority figure is present it is human nature to develop like forms of societies that exist in the 21st century. The situation and course of events directly relate to the time period in which Golding wrote his masterpiece. In his novel‚ William Golding portrays the story of a group of British boys governing themselves‚
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