You may often get told to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes‚ but you may not know what can happen if you don’t wear them. Many people don’t realize how much damage the sun’s harsh rays really can do to their eyes‚ and sun damage to your eyes can show up immediately and later in life. Next time you plan to leave the house on a sunny day without your sunglasses‚ remember these ways you will be harming your eyes if you skip them. 1. You Can Get Sunburn on Your Corneas Now If someone told you that
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Jorge Luis Borges is a famous Spanish author‚ known best for his short stories. In this paper‚ I will discuss several short stories written by Mr. Borges‚ what influenced him in his writings‚ and a brief history of his place of origin‚ Argentina. Borges’ The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is visited by a stranger trying to sell a "holy book" called the Book of Sand. The narrator looks at the book and is unable to see the first or last pages of it because‚ as the stranger explains‚ the
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According to Mark‚ by Jorge Luis Borges by D.H. Darwin Created on: April 10‚ 2008 Last Updated: April 11‚ 2008 Nineteenth-century American poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes said "Men are idolaters‚ and want something to [] throw themselves down before; they always did‚ they always will" (Fitzgerald 391). This analysis of religion is consistent with Jorge Luis Borges ’ story The Gospel According to Mark ’s. It is evident from its title that Borges ’ story is related to the Bible ’s
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feel accepting somebody into your family and allowing them to preach to you when they are not a religious believer themselves? As we learn more in Jorge Luis Borges story ‘The Gospel according to Mark’ we find a unique message that there exists some greater power in the universe that punishes those that do preach what they do not believe. Borges uses irony in a setting to realize the importance of knowing what you teach and the potential‚ yet extreme dangers of not doing so. In 1914 his family moved
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In Jean Luis Borges’ short story "The Gospel According to Mark"‚ we see the main character Baltasar Espinosa in subtle yet powerful comparison to Jesus Christ. Borges uses the formal aspects of setting‚ symbolism‚ & tone to explore a main theme of Christianity and the influence it has on those who don’t fully understand it. He puts his main character in a setting that allows him to become Christ like in the eyes of the primitive Gutres family. There are many examples of the theme throughout
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theme of survival Survival‚ the act of staying alive. Often in tales of adventure survival plays a key role. This is true in the short story‚ The South by Argentinian author Luis Borges. Borges portrays the theme of survivalism as survival of the mind‚ veering away from traditional themes of physical survival. Borges accomplishes this by telling of Juan Dahlman‚ his head injury‚ and his admission to the sanitarium. In this story the main character‚ Juan Dahlman‚ acquires a copy of the book the
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1. Plot Summary: In the first section of the story‚ the narrator‚ a fictive version of Borges himself‚ became aware of the mysterious existence of a country called Uqbar from which he came across in a casual conversation with Borges’s friend‚ Bioy Casares. Casares told Borges that the name Uqbar came from the Anglo-American Cyclopedia‚ which was described as a reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1902. However‚ the name Uqbar never came up in the Encyclopedia Britannica‚ or in some copies of
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House of Asterion‚ written by Jorge Luis Borges‚ is a short story that takes a first person point of view of a Minotaur named Asterion. The story is about Asterion’s life style and how he occupies his time. However the reader doesn’t find out that Asterion is a Minotaur until the very end of the story. Without this key piece of information the reader cannot view Asterion as a regular person. Another important part of the story that is left out is how his house is labyrinth. This again makes it easier
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In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ figurative blindness possesses beauty‚ in that it allows the “blind” individual to construct their own unique world‚ all of which is created through the distinct perception of various experiences‚ not necessarily the actual sequence and nature of events. Blindness is essentially a‚ “social construction” (Batman‚ ThisAmericanLife)‚ in that society has created this disability‚ whether it be physical or mental‚ demonstrating the notion that beliefs and opinions towards
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Jorge Luis Borges uses diction in specific sections of his short stories‚ specifically the opening and closing scenes to affect the reader’s experience of these moments in the stories. Specifically looking at Death and the Compass and The South we‚ as readers‚ can have an improved perception of important events in these short stories. It is also easier to go back and read the stories and pick up on many elements of foreshadowing in specific sections of each story based on clues left behind by the
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