------------------------------------------------- Time and Space Metaphors in LI Bai’s “Shu-dao Nan” (Risky Road to Sichuan) ------------------------------------------------- Vanessa Cai Course：Psychological‚ Mythological and Archetypal Approaches to Literature Date: 2012/5/10 Generally acknowledged that LI Bai created “Shu-dao Nan” approximately in 742-744 BC‚ Changan‚ the capital city of Tang Dynasty‚ for his friend WANG Yan who prepared to go to Sichuan. LI Bai warned his friend to
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The Black Death Plague The Black Death plague‚ also known as the Bubonic plague‚ attacked Europe in 1347. The Bubonic plague was one of the many pestilences that would attack almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The last plague attacked a European city‚ Marseilles in 1722. On 1347‚ the name âBlack Deathâ‚ or the âBubonic Plagueâ was not used. During that time‚ they called the plague the Pestilence‚ or the Great Mortality. As we can see‚ the Black Death Plague has been in existence
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In 1947‚ The Plague was published by renown philosopher‚ war journalist‚ and novelist Albert Camus. Taking place in the Algerian town of Oran during the 1940s‚ The Plague is a gripping novel narrated by one of the town’s doctors‚ Bernard Rieux. The town has an outbreak of the bubonic plague‚ followed by an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The citizens of the town die in droves‚ yet the government denies that there is anything wrong. That is until over a thousand citizens die every‚ single‚ day. The
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David Sedaris “A Plague of Tics” Summary: In this autobiography of David Sedaris‚ he describes‚ in a vivid and humorous detail‚ the obsessive compulsive behavior that plagued his life from grade school into college. The autobiography starts off with his teacher scolding him because he is licking her light switch. He also includes some of his “tics” of having to count and touch everything he does. David tells that a person had to do these things because nothing was worse than the anguish of not doing
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The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague occurred in the fourteenth century and caused an enormous death rate across Europe‚ Africa and China. The Bubonic Plague is a pandemic that that took more lives than any other known disease (“Black Death”). People during the fourteenth century had never experienced a disease that was as serious as the Bubonic Plague and were unable to comprehend the cause of this disease or how to treat it. The plague began killing at an incredible speed that wiped out many countries
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that nothing could be compared to‚ the black death. During this time period the Black Death was a major factor in Europe from when it swept threw from 1300 to 1450. Many people said it was the end of the world because of the plague’s effects on the European people and Europe in general. The plague was brought to Europe by cargo from China. In this cargo there were rats that had flea’s on them that carried this plague‚ and this little flea’s caused one of the most devastating
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"Neutral Tones" by Thomas Hardy is very neutral in tone; its melancholic note is created by a narrator reflecting on the termination of a relationship. Throughout‚ a soothing yet depressing language illustrates this duality. Hardy uses a variety of techniques to highlight sadness and emotions in the narrator. In the first stanza the scene and atmosphere is set‚ "we stood by a pond that winter day".No harsh sounds are present and the sentence epitomises the tranquillity yet disheartening nature of
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The Ten Plagues – Exodus THO111 – MWF; 3:00-4:00 PM Submitted By: Eloisa Grace D. Divinoto BSARCH-1 Block C The 10 plagues of Egypt are the supernatural acts that YHWH‚ the God of the Israelites‚ did through Moses (and Aaron) against the Pharaoh of Egypt‚ as recorded in the book of Exodus. The plagues occurred because of Pharaoh’s refusal to free the Israelites and to demonstrate YHWH’s superiority of the gods of Egypt‚ including Pharaoh. The plagues are often seen as increasingly in intensity
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June 27‚ 2012 Book Critique of Albert Camus’ THE PLAGUE In reading Camus’ The Plague‚ I found myself easily attaching personal significance to the many symbolic references and themes alluded to in this allegorical work. Some of the most powerful messages woven throughout the novel seem to all speak to conflict or imbalance between two ends of a spectrum. The ideas of apathy vs. concern‚ solidarity vs. isolation‚ freedom vs. imprisonment (intellectually and physically)‚ individual moral
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14Th Century Europe was a period of chaos and turmoil. The Great Famine of 1315-1317 produced the worst famine in the Middle Ages that killed millions of people all over Europe. The onset of the Bubonic Plague (“Black Death”) only made things worse. The Black Death swept throughout Europe and killed as much as two fifths of the already diminished European population. The Black Death effected Europe politically‚ socially‚ and economically. Europeans responded to the Black Death differently. We got
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