Ricky Grayson English Chadwick and Kelly 6/31/10 Journal Entry 1: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close pgs 1-75 Summary: In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ Jonathan Safran Foer writes of a nine year old boy‚ Oskar Schell‚ who is both inquisitive and humorous. You see‚ Oskar lost his father in the 9/11 terror attacks and cannot adjust to his new life. Oskar is both surprised and hurt that his mother‚ who he thinks should be grieving over his father’s death‚ is‚ in fact
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Appiah’s article we can see many key points dealing with not only religion‚ but also the culture globalization that engulfs a majority of our lives. I agree with Appiah‚ because I too believe that globalization is a generally a good thing. People may argue that these culture-to-culture integrations have the exact opposite effect of what Appiah mentioned in his article‚ stating that these culture-to-culture integrations would actually bring down diversity. The oppositions state that these integrations
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line up for a Nebraska Beef Festival in which the attendees stand and watch trucks of cattle drive up and unload to be slaughtered on “the World’s Largest Killing Floor.” His tinges of sarcasm work to help soften the blow of his pointed questions. Foer had to choose a more unusual approach because of the utter repugnance at the thought of eating the very animals we let sleep in our beds‚ ride in our cars‚ snuggle with on our sofas‚ and buy all sorts of pricey foods‚ toys‚ and other things to make
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Conversation has brought awareness and resolution to many different situations. As explained by Kwame Appiah in his two excerpts “Making Conversation” and “The Primacy of Practice”‚ he sees conversation and communication with one another as important tools to achieve this ideology of cosmopolitanism. Over the last few decades‚ the United States has started to accept homosexual couples due to conversations which have also led to the support of gay civil rights and some change in religious outlooks
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identity. Though Taylor’s references to identity are mostly to collective identity‚ Appiah’s aim is to draw a comparison or even find a connection between individual identity and collective identity. Identity A collective identity‚ explains Appiah‚ is the way an individual is recognized based on broad qualities of categorization such as gender‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ sexual orientation‚ etc. Whereas individual identity is born from personal characteristics such as wit‚ charm‚ grace‚ arrogance
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are in America. New York City has been referred to as a “melting pot” of different cultures. Kwame Appiah‚ a philosopher and writer‚ states in his work‚ “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers” that‚ “Because there are so many human possibilities worth exploring‚ we neither expect nor desire that every person or every society should converge on a single mode of life.” (Appiah 59) What Appiah is saying is that because everyone and every culture are different‚ we shouldn’t shun those differences
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numerous works of literature‚ a character that may not even appear at all in the course of the story carries a significant presence affecting the development of the plot throughout the novel. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ the author indicates that Oskar’s deceased father plays an eloquent role in the development of the plot. As a result of his father’s presence‚ Oskar goes on a trek throughout New York‚ eventually is able to connect and create a bond with his grandfather
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Although human beings are always hoping for answers often times there are none. In the novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer‚ it is shown that after a traumatic loss that one grasps onto anything that might give them closure‚ but in reality one may be searching for something that is not there. This is portrayed through the character Oskar Schell who after the devastating loss of his father in 9/11 discovers a key that his dad supposedly left for him. In order to find what
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Conversation” by Kwame Antony Appiah is a reflection on the term “cosmopolitanism” and the steps people in any nation have to take in order to achieve “cosmopolitanism” and “globalization”. He brings up the point of how all cultures have their similarities and differences and in most cases these differences are so different that it makes these cultures hard to connect with one another. He believes that conversation is the first and most important step to the understanding of others. Appiah explains how all cultures
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perihinal cortices and the amygdale have very important roles in our memories and emotions. First of all‚ the hippocampus‚ which is the most important area for memory in the brain‚ transmits information from short-term memory to long-term memory (Foer 2007). Information collected by the senses is received in various parts of the cortexes within milliseconds‚ and this process is called immediate memory. Then‚ the frontal cortex takes the information and keeps it to be able to use immediately.
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