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    Life of Pi Analysis With How to Read Literature Like a Professor 1. Chapter 12: Is That a Symbol? A. Example one In the early stages of Life of Pi‚ Martel mentions a place that Pi and Ravi had gone to visit while on vacation. While looking aimlessly through the window‚ they noticed three hills. On top of one hill was a catholic church‚ another a Hindu temple‚ and the other a Muslim mosque. Each hill portrays each of the religions in Pi’s complex faith. The hills represent Pi’s struggles

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    (tiredness)‚ shortness of breath‚ or fainting. Severe arrhythmias can damage the body’s vital organs and may even cause loss of consciousness or death. Lesson learnt: Advancement in technology has improved people with diseases to live a healthier life. Adaptation: Pacemaker has a likeliness to fail. To solve this attach a heart rate sensor and a GPS monitoring system with it. By this doctors can monitor the patient’s heart. Also‚ when the pacemaker stops functioning‚ the heart rate sensor will

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    healthy‚ productive life and in the process become responsible members of Society. LMPC educates its members to earn and save the cooperative way. LMPC has recently sourced out an exclusive Systems Provider for healthy‚ nutritious and highly oxygenized Anti-Oxidant Pi Water originally researched and developed in Japan and enhanced in Korea. This newly structured Pi Water Systems Provider has upgraded its Pi Water System with US-made 16-stages Synergy machine that makes the Pi water an anti-oxidant

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    I was talking about time. It’s so hard for me to believe in it. Some things go. Pass on. Some things just stay. I used to think it was my rememory. You know. Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it’s not. Places‚ places are still there. If a house burns down‚ it’s gone‚ but the place - the picture of it - stays‚ and not just in my rememory‚ but out there‚ in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean‚ even if I don’t think it‚ even

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    Edward Taylor and The Metaphor The master of the metaphor‚ Edward Taylor‚ has captured the sense of the metaphor in such a way as too communicate his personal/ religious thoughts of God within his poems. Choosing his metaphors to enlighten the reader‚ Taylor has become an inspiration and a substance of resource to helping us understand God and his connection with our soul. Within Taylor’s poem “Huswifery”‚ he uses a spinning wheel and thread to create a metaphor between the relationship

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    Analysis of “Hollow at the core”: Deconstructing Yann Martel’s Life of Pi The author Florence Stratton’s main purpose of this analysis is to deconstruct Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. She argues various points attempting to dissect and make reason of Martel’s choices in the novel. Stratton also discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the novel’s claims. Stratton’s major claim is that Martel’s treatment of religion in the novel is not persuasive in making all its readers believe in God. It

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    Morals Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi and Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth reveal certain similarities‚ when juxtaposed. These two texts display the gradual loss of morals between the characters of Macbeth and Pi. This is conveyed through specific events within the two books‚ such as Macbeth and Pi’s lust to kill‚ their guilt and themselves going crazy‚ will articulate the loss of their morals. The following analysis will discuss these themes extensively. Macbeth and Pi Patel portray their gradual

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    The End of the Pius Wars Joseph Bottum Who‚ even among scholars in the field‚ could keep up with the flood of attacks on Pius XII that began in the late 1990s? John Cornwell gave us Hitler’s Pope‚ and Michael Phayer followed with The Catholic Church and the Holocaust. David Kertzer brought charges against Pius XII in The Popes Against the Jews‚ and Susan Zuccotti reversed her previous scholarship to pen Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy. Garry Wills used Pius as the

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    The German Symphony Gannon describes the German culture like a symphony. The Germans have a very rich history of symphonies and orchestras. They have produced some of the greatest conductors and composers of all time. Beethoven‚ Mozart‚ Bach‚ and Handel are some of the few composers Germany has provided the world. Germans frequent the symphony regularly and many Germans play musical instruments as a hobby to carry on tradition. “German music is not only integral‚ it is serious; it is not generally

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    Faith and Reason with a Slice of Life of Pi Life overflows with many kinds of distracting ideas‚ objects‚ and forms for the mind to wonder about. Humans made it their goal in life to determine which of these things have value and supply a meaning to this life. In Life of Pi‚ Yann Martel uses Pi stranded on a lifeboat‚ as a metaphor for life to show that reason alone cannot give meaning to life‚ and that survival is more than just living but living a better story. Martel uses many different characters

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