FOUL SHOTS Summary & Critical Response Draft We do have memories to recall from our past – good and bad. From these memories brings a part of who we are in a diverse nation and a lesson that changes our lives forever. This is evident to Regelio Gomez’ article entitled “Foul Shots”‚ that shares his memorable experience in playing basketball during his teenage years as both being his ghost and his teacher for almost 2 decades. His narration is a consequence of anyone who describes winning
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Compare and Contrast how Successfully the Composers of Rebecca and the Short Story The Tell- Tale Heart Convey Gothic themes The Gothic genre is a style of film and literature that expresses themes of madness‚ death‚ darkness‚ romance and obsession. Although Rebecca and The Tell- Tale Heart are fitted to the Gothic genre‚ the composers have conveyed similar themes in different ways. Obsession in Rebecca is that of Mrs Danvers‚ who is obsessed to the point it drives her mad. She would do anything
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discussion of language and poetic divices used in migrant hostel * Comparison simile: homing pigeon‚ * Darkness of the way that second stanza ends “partitioned of at night by memories of hunger and hate; just about the memories of being haunted by the trauma of war. * During the day the refugees are like homing pigeons‚ trying to find their own people but then they’re separation in the conclusion of the stanza * Emotional complexity in this poem is very much conveyed through the
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T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is a complex and fragmented poem that underwent major revisions before it was published in 1922. The published version we see and read today is actually shorter in comparison to what Eliot had originally written. According to James Torrens’s article “The Hidden Years if the Waste Land Manuscript‚” Eliot had mailed “54 pages of The Waste Land‚ including the unused parts” to John Quinn‚ a “corporation lawyer in New York City‚” which had shortly disappeared after Quinn’s
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Captain Brierly and Jim: Long Lost Brothers? In reading Conrad’s novel‚ the character of Captain Brierly is one whose story is minor in role but highly significant in the understanding and development of Jim. Shortly after the inquiry of the events that took place on the Patna‚ Brierly commits suicide‚ thus abandoning the ship of life. Even with his small and mysterious incorporation to the novel‚ I find that Captain Brierly not only helps me understand Jim much better‚ but more over I see a connection
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The house is haunted by the call for money and Paul asks his mother to explain why this is the case. She tells him that she has no luck and so the house is cursed by a shortage of money. As a result of this pivotal conversation Paul taps into a supernatural power‚ by
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When Mrs. Mallard finds out that her husband died‚ she ran upstairs to her room and “…she sank‚ pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul” (Paragraph 4)‚ the armchair symbolizes the rest from her oppressive life and the freedom from societal expectations that women from this time period were burdened with. Another situation in which Choplin
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Zora Neale Hurston Research Paper In the 1900’s it was bad enough to be colored‚ needless to say worse if you were a woman. Zora Neale Hurston had the misfortune of possessing both of these traits during this misogynistic‚ segregated era. Born in Nostulga‚ Alabama‚ on January 15th 1891‚ she experienced segregation at a young age living in Eatonville Florida for most of her childhood. After going through many hardships in her life‚ including the loss of her mother at age 13‚ she would be accepted
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While Aristotle’s work is centuries old‚ it is a testament to him as a philosopher that his work is still read‚ discussed‚ and debated to this day. In the field of philosophy of emotion‚ his work‚ called Aristotelian analyses‚ forms part of the fundamental foundation on which the field is built. Aristotle defines and gives several examples of this analysis of emotions in the second book of his work Rhetoric; however‚ he does not cover every emotion in those examples. After explaining what constitutes
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irrational because that shouldn’t “vex” people. The theme reality is different for everyone comes full circle when the man start to plot the death of the old man “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived‚ it haunted me day and night.” (Poe 2). No one who was emotional sound would kill someone simply because there eye bothered them. Truly reality is a frame of mind that can be altered by a number of reasons and impairments based on each individual’s life experience
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