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    Implying that there is no hope for existence‚ the speaker of “Alone with Everybody” embraces existential nihilism with his declaration of impossibility through the use of absolute diction and metaphors epistrophe‚ and asyndeton. Morosely‚ the speaker uses absolute diction coupled with the bleak metaphor‚ “flesh‚” to describe the human experience‚ lamenting that‚ “nobody finds the one… flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh” (Bukowski). Employing the use of the metaphor‚

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    In the novel‚ “Life of Pi” the author Yann Martel tells a story within a story about Piscine Molitor who is also known as Pi. He is the protagonist and the dynamic character of story. In the chapters that confine the main story Pi is a timid middle-aged man and is deeply spiritual after learning the teachings of Hinduism‚ Catholicism‚ and Islam. He tells us about his childhood growing up in India as a son of a zoo keeper. He’s a vegetarian and he expresses his love for animals. Pi is a student of

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    survival needs take over what is right in their religious beliefs? That is exactly what Pi is going to find out on a lifeboat with four animals. His family was on a boat headed to Canada when is sank do to a engine failure. Pi is the only human alive along with a Hyena‚ Zebra‚ Orangutan and a Tiger. There is a huge fight for survival in a little lifeboat. Pi’s actions are justified in the case of survival. Pi was pushed to the edge and would do anything to survive. Even though some of his beliefs

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    commonly used to decipher one’s personality. Those two are the psychoanalytic perspective and the existential/humanistic perspective. Both perspectives are equally important as they play a major role in understanding personality in different ways and explaining them as well. Freud’s psychoanalysis helps us to understand the individual’s personality from its early years right up to adulthood while existential and humanistic theorists postulate the interpretation that personality changes throughout the

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    ordinary life in Pondicherry‚ India. His father owns a zoo and he loves to help out and examine all the animals. Pi is very religious‚ therefore; he prays on his prayer rug almost every day. Pi was called to adventure when his family told him one day that they were moving to Canada. “We’ll sail like Columbus” (111). Pi’s father said this in relation because the Patel’s‚ themselves‚ were about to sail across the ocean. They will be traveling on the Tsimtsum across the Pacific Ocean. Pi was not

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    David torres Joe and Pi would have not lived without their will to survive‚ whether it was being lost in the Pacific ocean on a boat or a disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. Surviving takes logical thinking to where at some time you’ll realize it’s very hard to make it out. They were able to know their survival strategies‚ because without their survival knowledge Pi and Joe wouldn’t of made it out alive. In laurence Gonzales’ chapter in Deep survival

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    coast of Mexico. He survived 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pi and his family were moving from India to Canada. While they were on their way the Japanese ship named Tsimtsum sank due to engine failures. Pi describes that after the sinking of the cargo ship occurred he found himself swimming in the Pacific Ocean. He was swimming toward the lifeboat. Four people survived Pi’s mother‚ the French cook‚ the sailor and Pi. The sailor had broken his leg when he jumped off the ship and into the

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    Relevant I will be analyzing how one of Shakespeare themes In Romeo & Juliet are still evident in life today. The theme I will be focusing on is Love. Movies in today’s society are still revolving around Romeo and Juliet‚ for instance‚ The Lion King: Simba Pride‚ Gnomeo & Juliet. Arafat & Huda’s. A real life story of a Romeo and Juliet story‚ how feud is in Westside story. Ever since the play Romeo and Juliet a majority of movies and real life event and revolved around Romeo and Juliet. Many movies

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    PORTRAYING MEURSAULT FROM AN EXISTENTIAL EYE “Meursault is not a piece of social wreckage‚ but a poor and naked enamoured of the sun that leaves no shadow. Far from being bereft of all feeling‚ he is animated by passion that is deep because it is stubborn‚ a passion for the absolute‚ and for truth.” - Camus‚ “Preface” to “The Stranger”. Camus’s antihero‚ Meursault is condemned in a court of law‚ not necessarily for the crime of killing an Arab under a blinding North African sun‚ but rather he refuses

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    Pi Accepts his Superego An individual has conflicts within their minds of what is morally right and wrong. In the novel‚ Life of Pi‚ by Yann Martel‚ there is an Indian boy named Piscine Molitor Patel‚ otherwise known as Pi who faces these conflicts. Pi lives at Pondicherry with his father‚ mother‚ and a brother named Ravi. Their family runs a zoo with various kinds of animal that Pi fascinates. Pi and his family decided to move to Canada due to the political problems in India. However‚ on their

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