In his poem “Consolation‚” Billy Collins attempts to comfort himself after not being able to visit Italy in the following summer. He creates a “consolation” for himself by listing all of the downsides to travelling to another country so filled with history and culture. However‚ his tone makes it seem as though he is unsuccessful at convincing himself that staying at home is actually a good thing. The reader can tell that he is actually disconsolate‚ that his efforts were in vain. Collins
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Anthony Scaramucci Mr. Baird English 1 9/11/14 UNBROKEN ESSAY _Unbroken_ by Laura Hillenbrand is by far the most interesting book that I have read in my young life. I was enthralled by the story and it forced me to think about my own life. The clear message of the book is to never give up and don’t let anger or bitterness get in the way of a great life. For without the raw evil of Watanabe Louis’ post war life couldn’t be so powerful and redeeming. There are so many great plot lines in this book:
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Luck is known for being heavily involved with America’s pastime‚ but the way the game is being recently evolved is challenging whether that theory is really true. In the last couple of decades‚ advanced statistics‚ also known as sabermetrics‚ are gaining traction and importance in the game of baseball. Sabermetrics have boomed‚ in the recent era allowing teams to calculate more situations. However‚ if they are taken out of context‚ these complicated measurements can lead to confusion and the misleading
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Introduction James Marshall Hendrix aka Jimi Hendrix‚ was a guitarist‚ singer‚ and songwriter. Jimi Hendrix delighted audiences in the 1960s with his outrageous electric guitar playing skills and his experimental sound. He was widely recognized as one of the most creative and musical talented musicians in the early 20th century. Hendrix was a pioneer genius who exploded many possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix’s style of combining fuzz‚ feedback‚ and controlled distortion created a new
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Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis‚ is the true story of Oakland Athletics‚ an American professional baseball team‚ as they try to build a competitive team with a limited financial budget. The General Manager of the Oakland Athletics‚ Billy Beane‚ realizes that his team can never compete in free agency against teams with twice as large budgets and begins to implement a sabermetric approach. Sabermetrics is identifying and exploiting market inefficiencies in baseball by finding players
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The Black widows Film noir is about lies told by the criminal. Film noir is referred to black film. According to Christopher Wehnern‚ Noir films were lit differently‚ filmed differently‚ and told much different kinds of stories than what the French had last seen before the war‚ the mood and theme of these films were very dark‚ and narratives were cold‚ gloomy‚ and caliginous. Double Indemnity was written by James M. Cain in 1936‚ Edmund Wilson states‚ that Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view
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Treasure Island is more for the older children. The fact that there are many adults in it describes it well. Jim is both the narrator and the central character of the story‚ which means that we follow his personal view of events from his encounter with Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow Inn to his departure from Treasure Island on the Hispaniola (Which is the ship). The only exception is Chapters 16 through 18‚ when Doctor Livesey takes over as narrator to fill us in on events that Jim isn’t present to
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wealthy Wisconsin senator and his wife‚ Harriet. Mitchell. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell grew up on an estate near Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin. Alexander Mitchell‚ his grandfather‚ was one of the wealthiest people in Wisconsin for his generation and established what became the Milwaukee Road along with Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. Mitchell Park and the street Mitchell Boulevard were named in honor of Alexander. Billy Mitchell was the eldest of ten‚ and coming from a wealthy family he attended
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Double Indemnity and Memento Double Indemnity‚ directed by Billy Wilder‚ and Memento‚ directed by Christopher Nolan are films that make use of femme fatale concept. According to Dictionary.com‚ a femme fatale is “an irresistibly attractive woman‚ one who leads men into difficult‚ dangerous‚ or disastrous situations”; a woman with the ability to control men with their charm and beauty that they posses. The woman tend to satisfy their needs which having the men committing a crime or by inspiring
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Goodnight Saigon is a song written by an American musician‚ Billy Joel. The song was written sometime around 1982 in response to the harsh treatment of the Vietnam War veterans. Joel tried to paint a picture of what it is like to go through the war in this song. The main theme of the song‚ the struggles of men in war‚ is depicted through simile‚ antithesis In this song‚ simile is used to compare the men drafted into war to other things with word such as “as” or “than”. To show the struggle of the
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