Butting Out Scorched and burned with nothing left but cold ash‚ Raymond Carver`s short story‚ “A Serious Talk” is that of an empty‚ broken relationship. The relationship between Burt and Vera could be compared to the way in which Burt smokes his cigarette and deals with a dirty ashtray‚ found at Vera`s house containing cigarette butts of Vera`s and those of someone else. This cigarette and ashtray could symbolize how the relationship between Burt and Vera has deteriorated to a lifeless point
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ANTHONY-BASSEY FRANCIS PROFESSOR BARRY POMEROY ENGL 1310- LITERARY TOPICS 23RD OF OCTOBER 2012 SUMMARY OF “MUNITIONS” BY JESSIE GEORGINA SIME The text “Munitions” by Georgina Sime talks about the position of women and how they too can make a different or change in the society. Sime uses a character (Bertha Martin) to stress the idea and show actually how she strived and made decisions to be able to attain a sense of self-worth. The general image of women was said to be unpleasant “loud
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M.C Soleh: Welcome to ……show. How are you today?? I hope you are fine. As we know‚ obesity has become our nightmare as statistic shows that recently‚ obesity has increased among us‚ either children‚ teenagers or adults!!! Obesity do not only caused harm by itself‚ but also invites invasion of other dangerous diseases in our body. So‚ today we have invited three special guests to discuss about this interesting topic. Please welcome our special guests!!! (audience clap)
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Chris Crutcher uses many forms of characterization focused mainly at the beginning of Whale Talk‚ and it’s spread throughout the rest of it to help the readers get a better‚ established‚ understanding of the characters‚ to further develop his story. The characters in Whale Talk are believable‚ and realistic which helps the reader to connect their knowledge to the story‚ and to comprehend the story better. The main character is a round character‚ and his name is The Tao Jones‚ but he prefers the
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“when is it too good to be true.” In the story “How to Talk to a Hunter‚” a woman is fed with endless conversations of the love a hunter has for her. He lets her hear everything she needs to hear in order to open herself up to him. Little does she know that when goes away‚ he is meeting with other woman and gives them the same love and affection that he expressed to her at one time. And
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Assignment Instructions In this Ted Talk by Jason Pointin‚ he mentioned of how technology have been invested and advanced in the past‚ so he compared to our current technology to the last generation. In the video‚ Pointin listed the all the important events which highlighted the America technology history‚ it was started from 1901 the Assembly line till 1969 the crew of Apollo 10 flew at 250000 miles per hour in the space towards the moon. It is useful during that time because the country tends
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In her Ted Talk Sherry Turkle Made it clear that our technological devices are becoming more poisonous to us than what we think. According to her as she is entitled it we are “connected‚ but alone”. We rely too much on our devices that they keep us from having real relations with people‚ real conversations with people. Our technology is limiting us to live under the threat of giving to our devices the places Human being are supposed to have. She Advance that conversation through Social media or Text
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Arnold Schoenberg was born September 13‚1874 in Vienna. He used the spelling Schonberg until he moved to the United States in 1934. He began violin lessons when he was eight and almost immediately started composing. He had no formal training until he was in his late teens‚ when Zemlinsky became his teacher and friend. Arnold later befriended and married Zemlinsky’s sister in 1910. This Austrian and later American composer fell into the expressionist movement in German poetry and art. He was known
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The Face of Evil Doesn’t Always Look the Part The short story “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ and its adaptation Smooth Talk by Joyce Chopra both portray Arnold Friend as evil. Although he appears very differently in both texts‚ his intentions are the same and eventually gets Connie out of that house. In the movie‚ Joyce Chopra is trying to tell the audience who has read the story that evil comes in all different shapes and sizes through her casting of Treat
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Comparing and Contrasting Spontaneous and Scripted Talk – Harry McDowell Matthew McConaughey’s scripted Oscar acceptance speech took place on main stage at the eighty-sixth Oscar award ceremony in Hollywood whereas his press interview was held backstage afterwards. The form of McConaughey’s acceptance speech is scripted with very well prepared sentence sequencing which is the opposite to his backstage interview that has a spontaneous form which shows that he was giving non-scripted responses to
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