Raymond Carver’s "Popular Mechanics" is a Post-Modern story that is also categorized as Dirty Realism. This story gives readers a glimpse into the life of a contemporary couple; It is a vision that is once disheartening and‚ perhaps‚ disturbingly realistic. "Popular Mechanics" can be read as exhibiting the Post-Modern attribute of hopelessness. Through his revision of myth‚ specifically through his adaptation of a parable from the Bible‚ Carver is showing readers that love has become selfish instead
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dramatic monologue which depicts a passive woman who‚ it would appear‚ cannot cope without a man‚ and believes she lacks purpose. The poem concerns the decay of the world Mariana lives in‚ such as ‘the lonely grange’ and the moss crusting over the flowerpots‚ as well as her own psychological decay as she anticipates and yearns for her absent lover. Her own decay is apparent through the repetition of the same phrase at the end of each stanza ‘I am aweary‚ aweary‚ I would that I were dead!’ insinuating
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In Popular Mechanics the author‚ Raymond Carver‚ uses painstaking details‚ numerous symbols‚ and an unusual title to convey the universal theme that not all relationships end happily. Carver uses all these things to his advantage. He brings out the theme of this depressing‚ but truthful story. Many couples these days experience the same thing that this one in particular went through. "Early that day the weather turned and the snow was melting into dirty water." Carver starts off the story in this
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Pregnancy and Zika Virus Disease Zika virus disease‚ or Zika‚ is an illness that can spread to people from mosquitoes that carry the virus. It may also spread from person to person through infected body fluids. Zika first occurred in Africa‚ but it has recently spread to new areas. The virus occurs in tropical climates. The location of Zika continues to change. Most people who become infected with the Zika virus do not have serious illness. However‚ Zika may cause birth defects in an unborn baby
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Duty and Desire People could not live without desires for their life. To have a happy life‚ first of all it has to be desired. There is another aspect of life that opposite desire‚ duty. Both of them create life. Jasmine is the main character of the same name novel of Bharati Mukherjee who struggle about what she should act to‚ desire or duty. She was born in a very traditional culture that supports duty while she really want to live a life that she can choose. The story begins with the appearance
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humans (host) through the bites of the female striped Aedes aegypti mosquito (vector). This variety of mosquito breeds easily during the rainy seasons but can flourish in peridomestic fresh water‚ e.g. water that is stored in plastic bags‚ cans‚ flowerpots and old tires. The dengue virus is transmitted to its host during probing and blood feeding. The mosquito may carry the virus from one host to another host and the mosquito is most active in the early morning and later afternoon. A mosquito bite
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2.3.2. Categories of containers found around human habitations The breeding containers for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus can be found in and around human habitations (Nazri et al.‚ 2013). Water quality is the key aspect for larval breeding habitat (Nazri et al.‚ 2013). As a result‚ it can be found in variability of habitations either with fresh water‚ salty water or any clear water‚ muddled or unclean except in marine habitat life which has high concentrations of salt (Saleeza & Azirun‚ 2011). Therefore
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made from Terracotta (Terracotta‚ Terra cotta or Terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth"‚ from the Latin terra cotta)‚ a type of earthenware‚ is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. Its uses include vessels (notably flowerpots)‚ and Greek terracotta figurines. The term is used to refer to items made out of this material and to its natural‚ brownish orange color‚ which varies considerably. In archaeology and art history‚ "terracotta" is often used of objects not made on
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The Juggler ”Here I thought I had done all the letting go‚ had prepared myself for it since the day Zoe took her first uncertain step away from me‚ but it never occurred to me that I would turn her over to someone who’d need her this much.” (ll. 30 – 33) This quote goes directly to the core of the story. The theme in this short is separation and letting go. The protagonist of the story is a middle-aged single mother who has difficulties letting go of her daughter‚ Zoe is in a relationship with
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more morning sun‚ transplanting another to the shade. Jun carefully carried the Emperor’s seed home‚ sealing it securely in his hands so it wouldn’t fall‚ but not so tightly that it might crush. At home‚ he spread the bottom of a flowerpot with large stones‚ covered the stones with pebbles‚ then filled the pot with rich black moist soil. He pressed the seed about an inch below the surface and covered it with light soil. Over the next few days Jun‚ along with every boy he knew and hundreds
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