Langston Hughes is represented in Black Voices by the Tales of Simple. Hughes first presents his character Jessie B. Simple in the Forward: Who is Simple? In this tale the reader is given its first look at the character Jessie B. Simple who is a black man that represents almost the "anybody or everybody" of black society. Simple is a man who needs to drink‚ to numb the pain of living life. "Usually over a glass of beer‚ he tells me his tales... with a pain in his soul... sometimes as the old blues
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Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else.” “What stories can do‚ I guess‚ is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. ’Daddy‚ tell the truth‚ ’Kathleen can say‚ ’did you ever kill anybody? ’ And I can say‚ honest‚ ’Of course not
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Many people think that most of the teenagers in our generation are very confident and happy‚ especially because we believe that they don’t have anything to worry about. For Zits things are very different‚ due to the fact that shame is a painful feeling that plays a big role in his life. Zits says “I’m dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame. I’m ashamed of being fifteen years old. And being tall. And skinny. And ugly. I’m ashamed that I look like a bag of zits tied to a broomstick” (4). In a
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Balancing the four humors The Greeks and Romans viewed madness and sickness as an affliction from the gods. Greek physicians‚ most notably Hippocrates‚ believed these afflictions we from an imbalance of what he called the four humors. These included blood‚ phlegm‚ black bile‚ and yellow bile. In many cases many treatments prescribed to balance the humors could be considered precursors to psychotherapy. Hippocrates had his patients’ discuss their dreams to gain insight into their ailments. From
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always remains‚ whose war are we fighting? In Tim O’Brien’s short story "The Things They Carried" there are many examples of the psychological loss of innocence of a young soldier. Similarly‚ in Louise Erdrich’s "The Red Convertible‚" the reader becomes acquainted with the effects of war after returning home. In both works the trauma that a young soldier experiences is made painfully real. In essence‚ each soldier "carried ghosts" (O’Brien 1107)‚ while painstakingly walking through the elephant grass
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modern medical research in the nineteenth century. The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Gk. melan chole)‚ yellow bile (Gk. chole)‚ phlegm (Gk. phlegma)‚ and blood (Gk. haima)‚ and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments. A humor is also referred to as a cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums). Essentially‚ this theory holds that the human body was filled with four basic substances‚ called humors‚ which are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and
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Vazquez ENC 1102 T-TH 12:30 – 1:45 11 February 2013 “Coping through what they carried ” Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” was set in the time of the Vietnam War‚ and portrayed that each of the soldiers had something they carried. These things that each of the men carried represented them and how they coped when they were in the war. They needed these things as a necessity. Sometimes the things would get in the way of their thoughts and cause them to be distracted from their duties
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Sense of Humor What do you know about sense of humor? Did you know that it helps you control human health and emotions? “Sense of humor is a way to produce and experience pleasure by provoking or being provoked to laugh. It is also a trait of appreciating the humorous‚ you can’t live without humor it is inexplicable” (McMahon). “Most people have it and are able to laugh at jokes or funny situations that people make. This is developed at a very early age‚ and it is considered vital part of human
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The Things They Carried‚ By Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ provides an incredible realization of what life was like for an American soldier who fought in Vietnam from perspectives before‚ during‚ and after the war. The story’s power draws you in. It makes the events in the story seem real and provides the reader with a sense of what it feels like to be one of the soldiers. O’Brien’s talent as a writer made a fictional story more than believable to the reader. When reading
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consequences for this war were grave and dire. Millions from both sides lost their lives for a seemingly unreasonable cause. In his novel "The Things They Carried"‚ Tim O’Brien changes the glorified way in which media and textbooks portray war‚ telling gruesome stories illustrating the irreparable damage war inflicts on the lives of young soldiers. The "things" the characters carry both concrete and emotional. Woefully‚ the ladder catapults the men into a lifetime of struggling to cope with the crushing
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