songs during their musical career. One song‚ however‚ captures the essence of Victor Frankenstein’s creation. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. The Beatles wrote a song off their The White Album entitled Blackbird in 1968. Generations apart from each other‚ these two artistic masterpieces are more similar than one may deem. Although the era during which Blackbird came out most likely suggests it was written for the African American race to associate with‚ it very much correlates to Shelley’s
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Alyssa-Jean Yokota Fleming English 4‚ Period 5 12 March 2015 Shelley’s Reflection Seen in the Eyes of the Creature In the era in which Frankenstein was written‚ the role of women was strictly submissive. Although written by a female author‚ Mary Shelley identified every female character as an objectified‚ used‚ abused‚ and easily discarded being. Characters such as Elizabeth and Justine are passive and gentle women who are placed in the story as more of a supporting role for men instead of
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Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan – Analysis Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan by Moniza Alvi depicts an Afghani girl trying to find her cultural identity and explores the issue of being torn between two cultures. This is through the poet’s experience of receiving ethnic clothing from her relatives in Pakistan‚ her culture and race is mixed making her feel like she does not belong in the community. The traditional clothes are described carefully in order to express their difference from British
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The death leading to the remorse and illusion of present life in Joseph Conrad’s the Lagoon The big issues that appear in “The Lagoon” are: 1. The death as the trigger of remorse. Death is inescapable. No one in the world can avoid from the death. In this story the Diamelen’s death has trigger of Arsat’s remorse. His remorse of past event leads to the illusion of his life in the present. His regret for leaving his brother to the rajah’s men haunts Arsat like the ghosts. He lives in the illusion
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Did you know that some deep-sea creatures adapt to their environment to survive? There are a variety of ways that deep-sea creatures are similar and different from one another. With over three fifths of our earth being covered by water‚ the deep-sea has not fully been explored as of yet. Creatures such as‚ the giant squid‚ zombie worms‚ jellyfish‚ and yeti crabs adapted to their environment which allows them to survive. Due to the extreme conditions‚ deep-sea creatures’ adaption transpires to their
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The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal‚ Volume 13(3)‚ 2008‚ article 14. 1 Book Review Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan. The Impact of the Highly Improbable. New York: Random House‚ 2007. Reviewed by James Iain Gow Université de Montréal‚ Canada This book has had quite an impact since it was published in 2007. According to Wikipedia‚ it has sold over 270‚ 000 copies in its first year‚ was on the New York Times best-seller list for 17 week and had been translated into
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In Black is… Black Ain’t‚ the main character use this film to address issues of race‚ sexuality‚ racism‚ and tradition‚ while dealing with his own personal issue of having AIDS. Many prominent figures in the black community in the past and today have been known to address the matters of other no matter what they have going on personally. In the film‚ black tradition and black masculinity are two themes that stood out to me the most. Tradition and masculinity were two things in targeting the blacks
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The Black Cat The Black Cat‚ by Edgar Allen Poe‚ is a story about a man whose love for animals is overcome by an extreme hatred toward the creatures. What goes around comes around is a saying that would most effectively convey the message of this story because Poe implies that people will inevitably suffer the consequences of their actions. Through the careful construction of plot‚ the ongoing use of irony‚ and the rapid development of character‚ Poe captures the reader’s undivided attention
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When the plague first reached Europe‚ people panicked. In hopes of survival‚ many began to abandon what they had and moved to villages and country sides in hope of fleeing from the disease. “Children abandoned the father‚ husband abandoned the wife‚ wife the husband‚ one brother the other‚ one sister the other…. Some fled to villas‚ others to villages in order to get a change in air. Where there had been no [plague]‚ there they carried it; if it was already there‚ they caused it to increase” (Zahler
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Peer-review ID: E501 Measuring the black body spectrum emitted from a tungsten filament as a function of the filament’s temperature John Greavu Partner: Nicholas Souhleris School of Physics and Astronomy‚ University of Minnesota‚ Minneapolis‚ Minnesota 55455 9 May 2014 The black body spectrum emitted from a standard incandescent lamp was measured as a function of its temperature. Using a miniature spectrometer set‚ we have experimentally verified the Stefan-Boltzmann law to 2 in addition
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