I’ve seen it all. The horrible facsimile of reality we live in is beginning to break down. Things aren’t right. I’ve seen things. Things that make me question my sanity. A recent trip to the grocery store turned into a Lovecraftian nightmare. I usually have to go to three different grocery stores because crème fraîche is impossible to find in this land of abundance and my fancy French cookbook calls for it in nearly every recipe. Grocery stores are demonic. The vast selection of yogurts alone should
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Krystal Giffen The Grapes of Wrath Part 1: Literary Analysis 1. A. “…‘What’s this call‚ this sperit?’ An’ I says‚ ‘It’s love…” (page 23‚ Chapter 4). This quote is an example of an metaphor. The use of this metaphor was to show the reader why the preacher doesn’t preach anymore. The effect the metaphor had on the reader was‚ for them to see how the preacher really viewed ‘the sperit’. B. “One cat’ takes and shoves ten families out. Cat’s all over hell now…” (pg. 8‚ Chapter 2). This quote is
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Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You In this article on Facebook‚ Jacquielynn Floyd brings up a very valid and interesting point on how we give out personal information without even thinking that we could be harming ourselves. The way the world is today we don’t even have to have face to face communication with people‚ all we have to do send the person a friend request. Until we take responsibility for our actions‚ the only person we can blame for our personal information being
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1 Lost in Translation or Gained in Creation: Classical Chinese Poetry Re-Created as English Poetry1 Roslyn Joy Ricci Centre for Asian Studies University of Adelaide Introduction The well-known Robert Frost2 witticism that poetry is what disappears in translation ’ is only valid if poetic translation aims to produce a perfect re-creation of the original‚ ’3 however‚ I suggest that successful translators re-create poetry in another language as opposed to translating it into a second language
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The Day You Were Born I was forty-one weeks and one day pregnant‚ lying in an uncomfortable hospital bed‚ wearing a hideous pink gown‚ and counting the minutes until my next contraction. Apparently‚ you were very comfortable in my tummy because there was no sign of you making your appearance any time soon. I was having plenty of contractions but was not dilating; our doctor was looking for a count of at least 60 on the room monitor‚ but I was only in the mid-20s. Before long she ordered that
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afternoon‚ I stood in a hotel parking lot with 200 of my closest friends‚ in an unfamiliar state. Charter buses sat in the background with window paint announcing our arrival in a loud‚ “JAGUAR PRIDE!” The sun rose on the horizon‚ scattering blues and pinks across our faces. We were divided into two groups‚ the larger stood not twenty feet away doing breathing exercises and stretches‚ the smaller divided into its own groups‚ both of which battling the wind and the sun; the elements acting against us.
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and beliefs. However‚ Paine’s characterization of America does not completely hold true to this day. To this day‚ America is challenged by the issues of racial inequality‚ which then has led to riots and protests. It was not too long ago that George Floyd‚ an African-American man‚ was killed under police custody for not being able to breathe‚ even though he had done nothing wrong. This led “Tens of thousands of people
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section‚ we meet Dr. Heywood Floyd as he is traveling to a space station that is orbiting earth‚ a pit stop on his way to the Clavius Base on the moon. He makes a phone call from the station to his daughter and then meets up with his friends‚ one named Elena‚ who is a Russian scientist‚ and one named Dr. Smyslov. They were asking him about “odd things” that were going on at the base on the moon. They were talking about a mysterious epidemic that was occurring there. Floyd says “He is not at liberty
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In the world we live in today this is quite evident‚ more now than ever. With the destabilization of another country‚ another is kept feeling safe‚ secure‚ happy and ignorant. On one side of the world one society lives very happy and ignores the other without a flinch the pain and suffering it’s costing another country. There is no “guilt” (Le guin 998)‚ quite “content merely” (Le Guin 999). Goodman Brown’s personal journey‚ like most of ours‚ which we all will experience at some point‚ made him
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