Denin Bieberitz 4747096 CSCL 1401W – Midterm Paper Humanism in The Atheist’s Mass Balzac was an authors who wrote about the French Revolutionary period as he experienced it. He wrote a large variety of material‚ and in the short stories that I have read and investigated there was a large amount of realism portrayed‚ especially in The Atheist’s Mass. The Atheist’s Mass is a short story about the life of a surgeon named Desplein who started off with no money for schooling. Balzac used realism in his
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Some things should just be left alone if it’s not your business‚ or it might just get worse. In the fictional book‚ Story Thieves‚ James Riley used Owen to demonstrate‚ how getting into other peoples business‚ and using them for things isn’t right‚ and it can affect people and cause many problems. In the beginning of the fictional book Story Thieves‚ Owen was very curious about what Bethany had been doing with her book‚ so he went to go find out .On page 10‚ Owen witnessed Bethany pulling herself
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Eleven Minutes is the story of a young girl named Maria who leaves her Brazilian home to go to Geneva‚ Switzerland‚ in hopes of great adventure and great love. Her situation does not prove to be what she had hoped and she pursues a career in prostitution in order to make money quickly in order to return home. During her time in Switzerland‚ Maria experiences pain‚ pleasure‚ and love and must decide the correct path for her life. Maria grows up in a small town in the interior of Brazil where folklore
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My psychoanalysis of “the White Rooster” story focus on three point. First I identify the characters and the conflicts‚ then I examine the psychological factors of motivation of these characters. Finally‚ I evaluate how these factors and conflict give meaning to the story. In “The White Rooster” story‚ the author presents different characters. Two of them are Morgan and his son Ernie‚ who were in conflict. Their conflict was about the death of Julia‚ Ernie’s first wife. The conflict between these
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In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band‚” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle portrayed hope for a young woman‚ Helen Stoner‚ as she attempted to determine the cause of her sister’s death. Helen was involuntarily courageous as she endured the death of her twin sister in the year of 1881. The cause of her death was still undiscovered; although‚ numerous professionals strived to explore the incident. Helen solicited assistance from two tremendously intelligent men‚ a detective and a doctor‚ to help her solve this
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In The Bone Sparrow‚ by Zana Fraillon‚ the worlds of Subhi and Jimmie are very different. In The Bone Sparrow‚ Jimmie and Subhi meet under different circumstances. Jimmie‚ who lives in a house‚ wants to see what on the other side of the hill and Subhi‚ who lives in a tent‚ wanting to get out of the detention centre. Subhi living an tent in an detention centre wants to break free from the detention centre‚ and Jimmie wants to learn about where she lives‚ exploring new places as she goes. When Subhi
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Lia Lee was the first of her siblings to be born in not only the United States‚ but also was the first to be born in a hospital. Her parents‚ Nao Kao and Foua‚ were Hmong immigrants who fled to the United States. This story is a journey of the family’s struggle‚ with their special daughter Lia‚ and also the doctors who played an important role in their lives. The biggest struggle‚ however‚ was the conflicting views and beliefs of these two parties. To understand this conflict the reader must first
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Do subjective ideas of liberty inevitably entail the marginalization of others? Herman Melville’s novella Benito Cereno and Greg Grandin’s manuscript Empire of Necessity illustrate the case of the San Dominick‚ a Spanish slave ship sailing through the wild Pacific Ocean near Chile‚ and its passengers to pose this question. At the turn of the 18th century‚ such tightly-packed multipurpose commercial ships pitted competing self-interests against each other. While slaves and foreigners derided captain
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Through the inspiration of many zombie films‚ books‚ and other forms of media combined with his influence of the literary genre Whitehead was so known for‚ we see a new form erupt in front of our eyes. This inspiration from other artists of the zombie genre has been picked and placed within different parts of his novel and then turned into something that in itself is no longer just a novel about zombies. Through the exploration of the zombie trope‚ I can reveal light on how this novel destroys the
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Emphasized through the Taoist idea of Wen‚ the cosmological importance of the Taoist body differentiates Wen from Wu. During the Zhou Dynasty‚ King Wu and King Wen relatively established power through the approaches of Wu and Wen. King Wu utilized violence to take over China‚ whereas‚ King Wen indirectly established rule by developing ritual‚ language‚ and order. As the founding figures of Chinese culture and civilization‚ King Wen and King Wu established this balance between Wen and Wu‚ which grounded
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