Between the hundreds of acres of corn that make up Iowa lies a speck of flickering lights named Mount Vernon. Built in the shadows of Cedar Rapids‚ Mount Vernon is not unlike any other small Iowa town hoisted up by farmers with corn sprouting up on every possible plot of land‚ housing developments appearing overnight to appease the rich businessman‚ and of course‚ the best high school in the state. However‚ Mount Vernon is not nearly as nice and quaint as it may seem. In this sleepy town time appears to
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Timothée FERREOL Marvin ELLIE Bloc 6 16/04/13 EXPOSE LITTERATURE FIRE SERMON In this paper I will just briefly describe Eliot’s life‚ and the main sources of intertextuality of "The Fire Sermon"‚ which is the third part of "The Waste Land". Then I will try to analyze "The Fire Sermon" focusing on the role of nature in the poem. "It is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling" (T.S Eliott) T.S Elliot was born in 1888 in America he was a famous wiriter‚ poet and critics. He attended Harvard
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Mount Pleasant Louise Buxton’s Mount Pleasant is a very uniquely written short story‚ where we experience a normal day from a child perspective. It’s a modern story from 2005. The story is told in first person singular‚ where the narrator is a young girl whose name is Elizabeth. ”(…) like the glue wee peel off our hands after arts and crafts hour at school with Mrs Kelly.” (p.2‚ l.16-17) Based on the information we know that Elizabeth goes to school‚ but also that she cannot be more than 6 to
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writing stories and tales. Some of these authors write a type of story called a parable. A parable is a story that is used to show a moral or a religious lesson usually using people. Many authors will write parables to show that there are modern day problems and events that we can and need to change. Many parables are easily relatable to you. Others‚ you may not be able to compare to life experiences. An example of a parable is The Lorax by Dr. Suess. This story uses characters and events that teach
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building one day‚ and on the wall hung a picture infinitely more realistic than the reality around me? That would be weird. I realized the concept that we can’t see a whole intricate piece of our reality didn’t just appear in my mind from The Stanley Parable‚ but from earlier in my childhood. Superman‚ with his x-ray vision‚ could pick up signals a human eye couldn’t. Was it more confusing because of the overlay of sensory details? What if we could sense UV light‚ the way salmon‚ reindeer‚ and butterflies
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An African Sermon The short story “An African Sermon”‚ written by Damon Galgut‚ was a very fascinating piece. What the author is trying to do in this story is give us a synopsis of what his opinion of human nature is. Throughout the story he gives different examples of his views and errors that human beings are prone to do. One of the first things that the author shows is a man who is racist. It is true that racism has decreased over the past few years‚ but the racial “jokes” and rude remarks
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Many have attempted to derive a purely "social gospel" from the Gospel According to Matthew‚ that is‚ an account of the ethical teachings of Jesus that is stripped of all references to the divinity of Jesus Christ‚ or to a final judgement. It is not only coherent to derive a social ethic from the Gospel‚ but also is imperative in order to mitigate the differences among religions which have caused followers to believe in their own absolute truth and to judge others as misguided. At the same time
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Currently there are 14 World Heritage sites located in Japan. Of course‚ 11 are cultural properties and 3 are national properties. If you were a representative of Japan‚ what would you nominate as the next World Heritage site and why? Mount Fuji or‚ “Fuji-san” is Japan’s highest summit- rising to 3‚776 metres above sea level. Though it has already been denied the title of becoming a World Heritage site once before‚ there is still strong support from the Japanese population that it should be considered
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Mount Pleasant The parents are the most important cornerstone in the rearing of a child. They are the ones who lay the foundation for how the child will behave in the future. All parents wants their child to become a respectable and resourceful adult in society in the future. Therefore‚ the parents must strike a balance between being strict and soft‚ because there may be consequences if you are too much of one than the other. If you are too rigorous‚ the child may in the future be confined‚ or
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straps. Other sculptures have been created around a drawing. In one work‚ a large sweeping charcoal portrait is encased inside a glass vitrine (or rather‚ a vitrine is built around it)‚ subverting the inherent hierarchy of sculpture over drawing. Matthew Monahan uses unconventional pedestrian materials—whose surfaces are manipulated with glitter‚ wax and spray paint to achieve the effects of aged bronze and other metals—to create monumentally scaled figurative sculptures. The bodies of his sculptural
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