Invisible Empire: The Power of Language and Metaphor in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities by Sara Beth Seay Departmental Honors Thesis The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga English Project Director: Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examination Date: 5 May 2007 Dr. Craig Barrow‚ Dr. Matthew Guy‚ Dr. Robert Marlowe‚ Dr. Gregory O’Dea Examining Committee Signatures: _________________________________________________________ Project Director _________________________________________________________
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Circuit City Circuit City Stores‚ Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol CC) was an American multinational consumer electronics corporation. It was founded in 1949 and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. By 2000‚ many Circuit City stores were out of date and in bad locations‚ unable to compete with the competition from newer Best Buy stores. In 2000‚ Circuit City abandoned the large appliance business and introduced a more self-serve format called "Horizon". This was controversial
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The tale of Mexico City ’s founding is almost as interesting as the current city itself. The city has been controlled by a number of different rulers and nations. Not only is Mexico City the oldest city (founded in 1325) on the North American continent but also the highest‚ at 7‚350 feet (NY Times). With estimated 25million inhabitants‚ it is also the most populous city in the western hemisphere. A lot of actions have strung themselves together‚ to get the second largest city in the world‚ in the
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role as one of the main personality in discovering the mystery of the “City of Ember”‚ and lead the story in an act of escape from the underworld with her friend doon. Doon- plays another major character in the story‚ whereas‚ he and his friendship as messenger with the people of the city of ember‚ lead to discovering clues in which he himself was surprised to discover the mystery behind the 200 plus years old underground city. Other Characters 7th Mayor- significantly acted to be guilty
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[pic] Description: Mexico City is the country’s largest city as well as its most important political‚ cultural‚ educational and financial center. This city was built on an island of lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325. And it was almost destroyed in 1521 but then it was rebuilt by the Spanish. [pic] [pic] [pic] This graph show as that in June it is a high temperature that reaches the 25°C‚ and also that on January and December the temperature it
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Mad City” arrives with the last thing a movie about journalism needs--last year’s news. It’s about the media feeding frenzy that erupts when a museum guard takes hostages. A TV newsman is one of them‚ the news channels carry the story around the clock‚ the museum is ringed with cops and cameras‚ and we get lots of scenes showing the vanity and hypocrisy of anchormen. This is not news. It’s time to admit the obvious: The public enjoys sensational journalism‚ and the media are only giving them what
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Sex and the City When television shows first came about‚ sex was a subject that was hardly ever brought up. Shows would not even make the viewer come to the idea that the shows characters had sex. Today‚ television shows rarely go one episode without showing some kind of sexual act. Sex plays a major role in television. Many people believe that sex sells and the more sex there is the higher the ratings along with more viewers. One television show that changed women around the country and the way
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Vatican City is a self-governing country inside of Rome. It is a city-state that is its own country. It is also the smallest country in terms of population and area. The pope functions as the head of state in Vatican City‚ but he actually has no real power. The population of Vatican city is 900; this seemingly low number is due to the lack of private residence. The Swiss guard and the pope himself are the only people who live in the city. When we visited Vatican City we saw many of the world’s greatest
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The migration of people to cities is one the biggest problems facing the world’s cities today. Discuss the main causes. What solutions could be used to tackle the situation? Nowadays‚ the issue of urbanization is more frequently discussed than ever before due to its increasing impacts on lives and on the environment. Most people will not argue the fact that living in a city is easier overall than living in the country. Despite that fact‚ many generations have lived in rural settings by choice over
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other Broadacre cities (Nelson‚ 1995). Using the modern rule of thumb for a family - oriented household size of three‚ the present population base of Broadacre city would be about
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