[Formal Paper September 11‚ 2001 marked a catastrophic day in United States’ history. Nineteen militants in the terrorist group‚ Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger airplanes‚ crashing two of them into the World Trade Centres in New York City resulting in deaths of over 3‚000 innocent people (9/11). The aftermath and the coping of the citizens of New York City set as the backdrop of the novel‚ Falling Man written by Don DeLillo. As a native New Yorker‚ DeLillo has made references to the World Trade
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Vanitas Vanitas‚ found in many recent pieces‚ is a style of painting begun in the 17th Century by Dutch artists. Artists involved in this movement include Pieter Claesz‚ Domenico Fetti and Bernardo Strozzi . Using still-life as their milieu‚ those artists and others like them provide the viewer with ideas regarding the brevity of life. The artists are giving us a taste of the swiftness with which life can fade and death overtakes us all. Some late 20th Century examples were shown recently at the
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TITLE | SUMMARY | KEY QUOTES | The Bloody Chamber | A young girl travels on a train to her husband- the Marquis. While at his French castle‚ she learns that he takes enjoyment in her embarrassment. She is a pianist- a blind piano tuner hears her playing and falls in love with her. The Marquis tells her that he is leaving on business‚ forbidding her to enter one particular room. She enters the perverse room‚ encountering all the dead bodies of his previous wives. The girl realises that the Marquis
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After the events that transpired during 9/11 and with war looming no one thought trouble would come from within our country again‚ John Allen Muhammad made that possible by terrorizing the Washington D.C. area in 2002 with his protégé Lee Boyd Malvo. With nothing in his life and with his family gone‚ for some odd reason‚ John Allen Muhammad thought the answer to his dilemma would be to have him and his protégé kill random people. They murdered ten people and wounded a few others from John’s make
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“Gryphon” is a short story about women. Author showed two types of women. The first type represented by the teacher‚ and the second type represented by the narrator’s mother. The teacher represents women who are free and not restricted by family. She was not married‚ she traveled in order to explore the world‚ and she was well educated‚ while narrator’s mother was a typically housewife dependent on her husband and predestined to “full- time mothering at home” (Rich‚ 1996) In the first paragraph
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Separating Boys from Men There is much more to the world than meets the eye. In the short stories “How to Talk to Girls at Parties” by Neil Gaiman and “Gryphon” by Charles Baxter‚ two young boys have experiences that will change the way they view life forever. Enn‚ from the story by Gaiman‚ is an awkward teenager who afraid of girls but is talked into attending a party anyway by his friend Vic. Tommy‚ from “Gryphon‚” is a typical fourth grader in a very atypical situation. In both stories‚ eccentric
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Tyler D. Gifford Mr. Rauh Academy AP English Language 12 9 September 2012 Eliot’s Guide to Cultural and Personal Redemption T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land has by far been the most challenging poem I have ever read. He uses vague and confusing imagery with a variety of sentence structures which almost comes off as gibberish. Although it is incredibly difficult to follow‚ the rather morbid tone of the poem is blatant. The overall idea of the poem is centered on an apocalyptic-like path that mankind
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They say that pictures say a million words. This painting called the Café Fortune Teller by Mary Hoover Aiken on page 170 in the 12th edition. The painting is about a woman centered and has some playing cards on table. She is in a cafe where she is alone surrounded by many men.The painting is painted on a Black and White colors which makes me think it’s very old painting done many years ago. The woman seems very calm and concentrated on the cards she chooses to place them in a pile. The painting
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Running head: THE CATHOLIC RELIGION The Catholic Religion Karen Paterno Axia of University of Phoenix The Catholic Religion The Catholic religion is very different from my Pentecostal religion. I have never really understood this religion until I did some research on it. I found that the word Catholic (katholios from katholu – meaning ‘throughout the whole‚ universal’) occurs in the Greek classics‚ e.g.‚ in Aristotle and Polybius‚ and was freely used by the earlier catholic writers (www
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A Teacher‚ A Substitute‚ and a Student American‚ Charles Baxter‚ wrote the contemporary short story‚ “Gryphon‚” in the United States‚ in 1985. The time represented in the story is roughly‚ the 1960s; during which there is a moral and philosophical upheaval occurring throughout the nation. The country (USA)‚ is in the midst of the Vietnam War‚ the “cold-war‚” a sexual revolution‚ and experiences a huge spasm and clash of ideals between parents and children of the “baby-boomer” generation. The action
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