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    The poem “Happiness” by Raymond Carver is written in short stanzas‚ a mixture of quatrains and tercets. Raymond Carver uses short lines without a particular poem pattern. He exposes a casual and peaceful tone. The tone enables the reader to understand the poem by creating imagery through the stanzas. It creates images of peacefulness and love. In addition to the tone and imagery‚ he also uses diction to show the source of his happiness. The first stanza explains the writer’s approach towards the

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    Professional life of Betty Comden Betty Comden was born in the big city of New York on May 3‚ 1917. She attended New York University where she studied Drama. After Graduating College with a degree in science‚ she became an actress‚ and was later introduced to aspiring actor Adolph Green. The two made a great team‚ becoming the longest running creative collaboration in theatre history‚ forming a group called the Revuers‚ in which they started performing and writing their own funny comics

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    In the short story “Cathedral‚” by Raymond Carver‚ the narrator draws a cathedral with his blind guest and transforms from a narrow-minded‚ materialistic‚ and superficial individual to an individual who acknowledges the spiritual aspects of life and the lives of those around him. Before the egoist narrator meets the blind man‚ Bub is so closed-minded‚ jealous‚ and materialistic that he does not want to help someone in need and he does not empathize with the hardships others endure. However‚ after

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    I fear this essay may come off a bit choppy due to the fact that while reading “The Cathedral” by Raymond Carver I had a lot of different questions and thoughts running through my head. The first thing I noticed was that the narrator never really uses names and that confused me. Making the story difficult to navigate and raising the question‚ why leave character names a mystery until later? What purpose does it serve? We never learn the names of the narrator‚ the wife or the officer‚ most of the

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    the tools required to act ethically. When an individual is asked to do something that they may even suspect would be detrimental to their livelihood‚ then they have all the rights given to them to not follow through with that action. In the case of Betty Vinson of WorldCom‚ while she had the clear understanding that her actions were wrong‚ she clearly kept personal financial safety ahead of her moral and ethical standards. This eventually translated into an even more detrimental result‚ which was jail

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    descriptive words with negative connotation; “This blind man was late forties‚ a heavy-set‚ balding man with stooped shoulders‚ as if he carried a great weight there. He wore brown slacks‚ brown shoes‚ a light-brown shirt‚ a tie‚ a sports coat. Spiffy” (Carver‚ 5). The narrator’s description‚ not only subconsciously affects his feelings towards Robert‚ but also affects the opinions of the readers. Instead of allowing the readers to develop an opinion of their own‚ the narrator’s bias has created one. The

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    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.

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    The Betty Crocker products arose from the Washburn Crosby Company‚ in partner with General Mills. According to the Betty Crocker website‚ the idea of “Betty Crocker” arose in 1920 when General Mills published a puzzle in an article; if you sent in a completed puzzle you would receive a prize. Not only were completed puzzles sent in‚ but a plethora of letters asking cooking questions were sent too. In response‚ General Mills made “Betty Crocker” to reply to the questions in a personal manner. But

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    Fat by Raymond Carver This story illustrates my own confusion about theme and plot. The physical actions of taking his order and bringing him his food elicit information in the story which I may be confusing with plot. For example: She brings him his soup and he has completely finished his large salad and two slices of bread. So we learn he eats a lot of food and quickly (which is why he is fat). As she moves between table and kitchen our storyteller defends the fat man to her colleagues. This shows

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    As one feminist wrote‚ "The women’s movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally (Napikoski). But women such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem were the most famous influences from this time period. Friedan is the author of The Feminine Mystique (1963) and the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). In her book Friedan explores the

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