in the whole damn world is scared of each other” (Steinbeck 35). Not many people travel together during the Great Depression thus creating many examples of isolation and loneliness. John Steinbeck demonstrates loneliness and the need for companionship through the characters Crooks‚ Candy‚ and Curly’s wife in his novel Of Mice and Men. In this novel‚ Steinbeck uses his character Crooks to show loneliness. Character dialogue was one way Steinbeck showed loneliness in his novel. Crooks says to Lennie
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The story "Flight Patterns" by Sherman Alexie begins as the main character‚ William‚ wakes up to the sound of his alarm and prepares for his day of travels. It is in the first few paragraphs of this short story that I initially question why this literary work is entitled "Flight Patterns". As I turned the page‚ my question is later answered. Although‚ it was not answered before reading seemingly pointless information about Williams life‚ such as: his taste in music‚ his weekly exercise regimen‚ he
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Every day‚ thousands of planes take to the skies‚ transporting people all over the world. In the process though‚ these huge planes use massive amounts of fuel and greatly add to global warming and pollution. Discouraging non-essential flights is a good idea‚ but not at the expense of limiting the use of cars. Surely we can cut back on both. Travelling by plans has truly made our world feel a lot smaller‚ but not all travel is necessary. For example‚ already‚ technology and the Internet in
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I woke up on the cold morning of September 9‚ 2001 I had to get ready for a flight to San Francisco for a chorus competition. I took a shower the night before‚ so I got dressed in a blue polo shirt with the chorus symbol on the top right‚ jet black dress pants ‚and black little flats with a black bow on the front top. I went downstairs to have breakfast I cooked eggs‚toast‚and beacon as I waited for my dad to wake up so he can take me to the Atlanta airport‚ I watch some YouTube on our 74inch TV
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1. What is the old man doing in the opening paragraph? In the opening paragraph‚ we can find out that the old man does three main activities: catching the homing pigeon‚ resting with the bird and looking at the granddaughter’s movement. In the first activity‚ we know he stands under the dovecote through the preposition ‘above’ in “Above the old man’s head was the dovecote” and the action of watching pigeons are described by a series of phrases such as “full of strutting (walk proudly with head
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In the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator Zits says‚ “Yes‚ I am Irish and Indian‚ which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they’re not here and haven’t been for years‚ so I’m not really Irish and Indian. I’m a blank sky‚ a human solar eclipse” (Alexie 5). In my opinion this quote could mean‚ since his parents died or left there is no one to help him learn his background or his culture. He is a sky without clouds
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he can never return to his homeland for fear he and his family would be killed. Perhaps Alexie is trying to provide a gateway into his own thoughts on terrorism having shown the reader his changing opinion what a real terrorist is. Having written Flight Patterns in a post 9/11 world perhaps Alexie is trying to convey to the reader that not all terrorists are the same. That there is a possibility that they are simply doing what they have been ordered to do to save their families and
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Throughout the first half of Sherman Alexie’s Flight‚ Alexie introduces us to how a young half-white‚ half-Indian boy perceives himself and the world around him. It is evident that Zits struggles with himself as a person. He does not feel confident in his heritage or in his actions. He constantly feels ashamed and the need to act out to attract attention. These cries for help support my theory that Zits‚ a lost unloved confused 15-year-old boy‚ does not have any sense of identity‚ or idea of who
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|Flight 5390 was a British Airways flight between Birmingham International Airport in England and Málaga‚ Spain. On June 10‚ 1990 there | |was an improperly installed windshield and failed in mid-flight. The plane had climbed to 17‚300 feet over Didcot‚ Oxfordshire‚ A few | |minutes later there was a loud bang‚ and the fuselage quickly filled with condensation. The left windscreen‚ on the captain’s side of | |the cockpit‚ had failed. Lancaster‚ the captain‚ was pulled out of his seat by the
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individual’s emotional state. The fight or flight response is one of the most commonly talked about emotional reactions to a dangerous or frightening situation. Fight or flight response works together with the nervous system and the individual’s emotions by producing an emotional and physical response to the situation in the individual. These responses are created through the nervous system and the individual’s own emotions reactions to the fight or flight response being activated. Human emotions
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