"The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls‚ falling in heavy folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue". He uses the seventh room to symbolize the final stage of life‚ death. He sees the black velvet tapestries as blood flowing from the ceiling and walls to the floor. The relationship between blood and death is important because he wants the reader to have a visual image of the blood pouring down the walls as
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The story that I chose to write about was “One Big Happy Family‚” by Anndee Hochman. The story is about a young woman whose family life seemed to be the American dream‚ for those of us looking in from the outside. Her family owned a house in the city like most of us and a house on the beach. The house on the beach was unique with its architecture anomalies‚ which made the house more a mix and match of parts than like her normal home in the city. The whole family‚ including relatives
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A contemporary scientist‚ Edward O. Wilson‚ writes two argumentative passages‚ and places them next to each other to prove a major point. In these passages Wilson satirizes the language of two groups that are on two opposite sides when it comes to the environment. He makes these passages plum silly looking‚ just as two kids would fight over who receives the largest glass of milk. Wilson uses invective language as a satirical element in his two passages. The People-First Critics call the Environmentalists
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Commentary on Ambush by Tim O’Brien Contradiction in the mind‚ we struggle between decisions. Whether it is correct or not‚ it leaves an indelible memory. In Tim O’Brien’s confessional writing‚ Ambush‚ he creates a flashback and recalls his memory in Vietnam. With detail descriptions‚ Tim O’Brien expresses his guilt towards killing an innocent young man. Furthermore‚ reinforcing his opposition against war with the writing. In paragraph 2 and 3‚ Tim O’Brien has created a flashback to present his
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on Catholicism‚ which is extremely traditionalistic. As you would expect‚ the one who does not like change‚ or the one that you could argue represents the Catholic Church‚ is not very intelligent‚ angry‚ and not a very likable character. Even from her first work O’Connor was making it clear her feeling for the Catholic Church and its members. An online analysis of the story find that the theme of the story is control‚ they go into more detail on the subject‚ “Control‚ the story seems to say‚ is
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Profile: Maureen O’Neill It is the season of giving and Maureen O’Neill has been giving to her family and strangers her entire life. She has seen has seen many things throughout her life. O’Neill was witness to the beginning of organ donations in the North New Jersey area as well as been involved with open-heart surgeries when doctors and the technology could only perform one or two a week. “I really wanted to help people‚” Maureen O’Neill said. Which explains why she has worked in the medical
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Red Grief People use literary devices in their speech every day. However‚ few people know what they’re called. In his short story “The Whirligig of Life” O Henry demonstrates five common examples of literary devices. The first example of figurative language is in the very beginning of the excerpt‚ “The Ransom of Red Chief”. O Henry ironically uses the simile “as flat as a flannel cake” to describe the town of Summit. The irony is that the flat town of Summit doesn’t contain a single summit. The
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known. When she got to the age of 73‚ she decided to embark on a new journey in which her works depicted a view of the clouds above and river below. In 1976‚ she completed a biography of her life with the help of sculptor Juan Hamilton‚ a friend‚ and associate. A year later she participated in a movie about her life and
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directions of search for efficient algorithms. Big O notation In computer science‚ big O notation is used to classify algorithms by how they respond (e.g.‚ in their processing time or working space requirements) to changes in input size. Big O notation characterizes functions according to their growth rates: different functions with the same growth rate may be represented using the same O notation. A description of a function in terms of big O notation usually only provides an upper bound on the
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O Holy Night is a beloved Christmas carol that is almost 150 years old‚ and it is still sung widely around the world. It is a simple song with interesting origins. It originated as a poem. Then it was banned from the church only to be later revived on the radio and is now a song that many famous artists lend their voices to. O Holy Night was composed in Roquemaure‚ France in 1847 by writer‚ Placide Cappeau and composer Adolphe Adams. Placide Cappeau was asked by his parish priest to write a
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