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    Walter Benjamin was born in 1892. He had a premature death from fleeing the Nazis in the 1940’s‚ but his work still reflects on today’s thinking about technology. In his argument in “Work of Art” Benjamin argues about the traditional aesthetic values of art and the technology affecting it. He talks about modern technology reproducing replicas of the artwork and the loss of aesthetic authority. He talks about the concept of graphic design‚ the emergence of cinema‚ and the effects of it with art.

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    Changes in Walter Payton’s Life by Konnor Balon There are a few changes to Walter Payton’s life that I would change. First‚ I would change is for Walter not to grow up in segregated times. During this portion of his life‚ the blacks lived on one side of the town and the whites lived on another side of the town. I would make him grow up in a non-segregated time. The next thing I would change is in Super Bowl XX‚ he did not score a touchdown. Mike Ditka‚ his coach said that was one of his

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    Walter Mitty is initially a character with a very regular routine‚ not participating in much activity out of work having not done or “been anywhere noteworthy or mentionable” a fact confirmed by his empty travel journal. He lives a routine lifestyle‚ striving to maintain his record of “no mistakes.” Another aspect of his character is his fearful nature: not even considering the prospect of asking his coworker Cheryl out on a date‚ being only think to himself “I can’t.” To escape his reality‚ Walter

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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is nothing more than a man named Walter Mitty going about his daily life doing everyday things. What makes it so special is the secret life he’s living‚ which is actually his imagination. This secret life is inspired by what he sees in real life. The author wants to show that although in real life Walter Mitty is bored‚ stuck living a normal life of getting up‚ driving his wife to places‚ buying things‚ and completing everyday chores‚ he can get away from all that

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    Walter Mitty Identity

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    This quote stresses identity as a crucial aspect of a person’s legacy and its perception‚ which is also emphasized in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ “Young Goodman Brown”‚ and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Walter Mitty’s‚ Goodman Brown’s‚ and the Misfit’s behaviors all raise the question: how much is identity shaped by other’s opinions versus by our own? Walter Mitty expresses the side of shaping his own identity in order to go against

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    ENGL 2342.MS1 27 May 2014 The Psychoanalysis of Walter Mitty In James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ the character Walter Mitty suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. He is continuously imagining himself in alternate realities throughout the story‚ most of which are reflected around war. The different fantasies that he imagines himself in are driving a Navy hydroplane‚ performing an intense medical operation‚ being put on trial in a courtroom‚ flying an Air Force jet‚ and

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    Meaning of life The movie “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” encourages and gives the viewers hope. Hope to find themselves in adventures and to explore the true meaning of what it is to be alive. In the movie‚ Walter Mitty the main character is struck that he has never actually explored the world‚ like (the magazine he prints the photos for‚ they send him pictures from the world and he puts them in the magazine and the whole world sees the beauty.) his job does‚ because he works for the magazine

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    Life of Walter Mitty By Derek Pruestel Have you ever daydreamed about being a pilot or doctor‚ or anything more exciting than what you were doing? The titular protagonist of James Thurber’s short story‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” sure has. The story is about a man who is bored with the dull tasks of his average life. He runs errands‚ brings his wife to salons‚ and reads newspapers. He tries to escape his boring reality by daydreaming of more intense and dangerous situations. Walter Mitty’s

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    THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (2013) The second adaptation of a 1939 short story and re-released by the late Samuel Goldwyn junior in 2013‚ The secret life of Walter Mitty is an adventure romance film. This movie is set in the dot com era where internet is available to almost every facet of society. Losses on the print version of magazines have resulted in some of the publications scrambling to the online platform to capture the internet market. This gives rise to the last printed issue of LIFE

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    In life there is an abundance of mediocre things‚ and love should not be one of them. I believe Sir Walter Raleigh intends to reveal this to us in “Her Reply.” In this poem‚ a woman rejects a shepherd’s romantic but naïve proposal. This poem is a superior selection because it contains great connotation‚ and the alliteration is deep which gives insight to the woman’s philosophy on life and love. The connotation in this poem is a combination of negative and hypothetical words. The woman first of all

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