Based off the three excerpts I chose from the book‚ "Stiff"‚ by Mary Roach‚ I decided to rename the title‚ "How to Use Your Cadaver". The passages I chose all relate to the title since they deal with the different uses of cadavers. My first passage from page 87 explains how cadavers have been used in car crash simulations to determine the force of impact during the crash. Most people‚ including myself‚ don’t realize this even though we ride in a car almost everyday. Because of these cadavers
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True Grit Favorite Passages My favorite passage from the beginning of True Grit is the very first passage of the book. “People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then‚ although I will say say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith‚ Arkansas‚ and robbed him of his life
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Homework 3 1. Find a passage in The War of the Worlds that was not discussed at all in class‚ or not discussed enough‚ and show how it conveys a major theme of the novel. Relate it to other passages relevant to the theme. [5] A major theme through out The War of the Worlds is the need to change the status quo of society. Wells used the Martian invasion as a catalyst to change how England’s society operated. When the Martians easily rendered England’s defenses useless‚ the country gave up. In the
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and A Passage to India by E. M. Forster are novels that both hold beliefs and prejudices‚ religion and culture‚ agreements and disagreements‚ which resultantly connect and divide characters. The novels primarily focus on the characters‚ Jane Eyre and Mrs. Moore‚ who both‚ consciously and unconsciously affect the lives of the men (Mr. Rochester and Dr. Aziz) they involve themselves with. There are several other characters that play significant roles in the novel as well
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The Middle Passage The Middle Passage was known as the long triangular journey from Europe to Africa‚ across the Atlantic Ocean to America‚ and back to Europe. The vast exploration of Europeans caused much expansion into Africa and many other places around the Middle Passage. When Christopher Columbus landed in America‚ this created the African Slave trade because the “New World” needed workers. I am writing on this topic because I feel that most people do not fully understand what every African
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(Ritual Thinking Tools‚ Eliade Mercia‚ Fried Martha‚ Gluckman Max‚ 2001). Rites of passage is organised by which the individual is moving on from one status to another. Rites of passage consists of 3 phases: the pre-liminal (separating from the previous life)‚ the liminal (transitioning from one stage to another) and the post-liminal (the new status or state of life). (Investigating
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Rite of Passage in America Today When someone says rite of passage‚ what they might think of is a child becoming a woman or a man. The dictionary says that the rite of passage is “a ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person’s life indicative of a transition from one stage to another‚ as from adolescence to adulthood.” (The American Heritage Dictionary‚ 2005) When an adolescence transition into adulthood several changes occur in this process slowly transforming them from a child‚ to a
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A Passage to India In this excerpt from the novel A Passage to India‚ the author explores several themes through the use of figurative language‚ linguistic features‚ and literary devices. One theme is the triviality and evanescence of mankind’s order and plans when juxtaposed with the splendor and immutability of the universe. This comparison draws attention to itself when the narrator begins his description of the sky: “Some kites hovered overhead‚ impartial‚ …and with an impartiality exceeding
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Frankenstein Passage Analysis To make a good story an author needs to add certain elements like imagery‚ tone and theme. Imagery is descriptive elements that give the story a time and setting that gives the reader an idea of what is happening in the story. Another element is tone‚ this is the attitude that the author is trying to give while reading. The last element is theme‚ authors use themes in books to discuss the main ideas of the books topic. We see all these elements in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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thin‚ “in their white sick faces there glowed the dawn of a new future‚ a perfect resurrection into a new life. Love had raised them from the dead‚ and the heart of each held endless springs of life for the heart of the other” (526). I found this passage intriguing because I think it is amazing how Sonya and Raskolnikov came into each other lives and saved each other‚ whether it be directly or indirectly. For instance‚ Sonya serves as Raskolnikov’s link to humanity. She provides him contact with the
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