Kate Chopin’s "The Storm" and John Steinbeck’s "The Chrysanthemums" are both stories portraying feminine sexuality and passion. Calixta and Elisa experience lust for men to whom they are not married to. Elisa seems to have a functional relationship with her husband Henry. She seems content with tending to the prized Chrysanthemums in her garden‚ while her husband tends to all the financial affairs. The observation that they have no children hints to the conclusion that obviously something is lacking
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Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel Author: Jared Diamond 1. Write a short half a page biography of the author; include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Mason Diamond was born on 10 September 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He earned an A.B degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a Ph.D. in physiology from Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1962 to 1966‚ at which point he became a professor of physiology at the UCLA
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The First World War erupted only a decade into the twentieth century‚ and it defined civilizations for many subsequent years. Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel both concern this war‚ however the two offer different perspectives of the war and its effects on societies and soldiers. The contrast between their accounts is seen in reactions to the enemy‚ feelings upon killing an “enemy” soldier‚ opinions of death in war‚ and reaction to the war
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After reading “Eye of the Storm” by Carolyn Rousse‚ it makes me question the diversity and quantity of the realities each of us perceive. In the beginning of the piece‚ there are two narratives provided that are quite different‚ yet about the same people. Both narratives include a black man and woman who survive a “terrible storm”. Yet‚ every other detail is different. In the first narrative‚ the couple sells drugs without explanation while in the other narrative the couple sells drugs because of
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Braving Storms by Shemaya Neupane It was a dark and stormy night. Hardly anything was seen‚ well one thing was seen. A little girl no older than 12 was braving the storm all by herself. She had long red hair and pale skin the color of paper. She was about 5’1. She had a white button up shirt and black skirt above her knees and black tap shoes. Her name is Blossom Sigamore and she is the first person to ever brave storms. ___________________________________________________________________
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Isaacs’ Storm The book Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson discusses the meteorologist Isaac Cline and his role in predicting the Galveston Hurricane of 1900‚ the deadliest hurricane in history. This was a time period where people believed that their technology had overcome the forces of nature. In their view‚ Galveston‚ Texas‚ a thriving city on the quiet waters of the gulf could not possibly be devastated by any storm. Meteorology as a science was still controversial; some people thought that the weather
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The Spokane ice storm occurred on November 19th‚ 1996 in Spokane Washington. Many people‚ I’m sure if they live near Spokane have experienced this. This storm was the worst storm in 60 years. The ice storm caused many damages to the city‚ like fallen trees‚ frozen power lines costing a lot of money. All these damages totaled $22 million in 1996 money‚ now costing $33 million dollars in 2013 money. It started when freezing rain started to drizzle with fog and cover all the roads‚ trees and power
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Inequality in the development of civilizations has long been a mystery. That is‚ until the book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel came out in 1997. This book revealed how geography determined that Europe was fortunate in agriculture‚ domesticated animals‚ germs and Papua New Guinea and Inca were not. Climate is determined by the latitude and longitude of a location. The latitude and longitude of Papua New Guinea causes it to have a hot tropical climate year-round and one of the only things they can grow is
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In the chapter The Storm of Kindred the slaves have turned husking corn into a enjoyable thing. And so Rufus gave them whiskey to help them with it. “There was no reason for me to join them‚ but they seemed to be making a party of the husking—Rufus gave them a little whiskey to help them along—and I needed a party‚ needed anything that would relieve my boredom‚ take my mind off myself”. So after work Rufus gave them a large amount of food which the slaves think is his way of thanking them. So things
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friend Yali asked why whites had been so successful and arrived with so much "cargo" compared to the locals. Diamond rephrases this question: why did white Eurasians dominate over other cultures by means of superior guns‚ population-destroying germs‚ steel‚ and food-producing capability? Diamond’s main thesis is that this occurred not because of racial differences in intelligence‚ etc. but rather because of environmental differences. He wishes to play down Eurocentric thinking and racist explanations
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