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    A Hunger Artist - Notes

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    starvation. Narrative perspective and tone: * Third person‚ omniscient. * Reader knows the actions and thoughts of all the characters. Characters and salient aspects: * The Hunger Artist: devoted to fasting‚ weak‚ helpless‚ humble‚ depressed‚ ignored‚ expresses himself through his fasting‚ his art. * The impresario: organizes the public entertainment‚ is the artist’s partner‚ uses the Hunger Artist to gain profit‚ liar‚ actor. * Casual onlookers: elders are skeptical and think it’s

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    Ted Talk Summary

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    I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk by Dalia Mogahed. It was a beautiful speech The reading on Arab Families gave me a lot of insight about the Arab culture. The main two topics that interested me was language and family structure. I have a friend who is Muslim and he let me know how family is the main concern in the Arab societies. He also informed me that the men are allowed to have up to four wives if they desire to. However‚ he said if the men fear that they cannot be just to all then they should

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    A Hunger Artist Analysis

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    ENGL60 Franz Kafka is the author and writer of the poem “A Hunger Artist”. ‘‘The Hunger Artist’’ has fascinated about fasting and one of the main reasons is how less people have taken interest in participating in this weird act making it rare thing to do. While ‘‘The Hunger Artist’’ was fasting years ago‚ people were paying for admission to go and witness this wise and unique behavior. ‘‘The Hunger Artist’’ kept he himself concealed a cage and his priority was to be able go hungry more than 40

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    Five Pillars of Islam

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    ritual purity. One must prayer at least five times within a day. Muslims believe that doing so will bring them closer to God and they will be able to learn more about him. The third pillar is the fasting during Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar which is the Islamic month for fasting. Muslims have to avoid any type of drinking‚ eating and sexual relations from dawn until sunset. This is done in order for Muslims to learn about patience‚ humanity‚ and spirituality. The fourth

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    5 Pillars of Islam 3

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    Belief and witness The first pillar of Islam (the Shahadah) is believing and professing the unity of God and the messengership of Muhammad: “There is no god but God‚ and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” The Qur’an requires the faithful to tell others of Islam‚ so that they will have the information they need to make an intelligent choice. However‚ it rules out the use of coercion in spreading the message: Let there be [or: There is] no compulsion In religion: Truth stands out Clear from

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    First fasting for forty days and then being forced to eat would put an unhealthy strain on a person’s body. However‚ the manager was right about the hunger artist’s irritable behavior being because he was hungry from fasting. The hunger artist shows no common sense because he does not or cannot recognize the signs from his own body telling him that he needs to eat. Another way that everyone in the story lacked commonsense is that no one realized that the hunger artist was not just fasting because

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    Five Pillars of Islam

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    Islamic Relief society is funded by this; they help people all over the world after disasters and other problems. The fourth pillar is fasting‚ it is recommended that all Islamic people do frequent fasting; the time that it is required is during Ramadan‚ commemorating the first revelations of the Qur’an to Muhammad. (Fischer 2005). The fasting during Ramadan is done between dawn and dark every day during the month of Ramadan. The fifth pillar is the pilgrimage to Mecca‚ all Muslim people

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    lives for hundreds of years are represented in the backround theme of an otherwise black and white curse. In the Odyssey by Homer‚ every step of the journey is tainted by a prowess a mortal can not comprehend. For one moment a man may find himself feasting upon a succulent cow thigh‚ the next may very well be

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    Blood Sugar and Post Meal

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    Dianisidine Results Table 2: Glucose and Ketone Concentration in Blood Plasma Glucose (mmol/l) Ketones (μmol/l) Sub. 1 Sub. 2 Sub. 3 Average Sub. 1 Sub. 2 Sub. 3 Average Fasting 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.3 119 105 105 110 Immediately post meal [0 hour] 6.5 6.3 6.3 6.4 111 91 107 103 1 hr post meal 6.3 6.3 6.4 6.3 50 51 49 50 2 hr post meal 5.6 5.6 5.7 5.6 62 57 72 64 3 hr post meal 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7 45 53 74 57 Glucose Concentration

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    Beliefs of Islam

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    generous. Zakat is the required giving of a portion of one ’s savings to charity at the end of each year. The fourth Pillar is Sawm (Fasting). All Muslims are required to fast during Ramadan‚ the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. The purpose of fasting is always to cleanse the body and soul‚ and shift the attention from bodily needs to spiritual needs. During times of fasting‚ Muslims are prohibited from eating‚ drinking‚ smoking and engaging in sexual intercourse from sunrise to sunset. The fifth and

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