[pic] BJTU’s Course Thesis for English Fiction Reading A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place – A Social Historical Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place | |Institute: |School of LACS | | | |Major: |English | | | |Student: |Yubing
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able to find a skull of a women‚ “This is a 9000 year old skull...studies of her skeleton show that she was 4’ 10” and was 20-25 years of age.” So make sure if you ever visit La Brea‚ you watch your step. There are a lot of findings with animals as well‚ such as “The saber tooth cat could open its jaws to allow its fangs to penetrate…” There have been over 2000 saber tooth cats found in the pits. Scientists have dug into solidified tar to recover extremely
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A Clean and Well-Lighted Place A Clean and Well-Lighted Place is a story about a lonely‚ but dignified older gentleman who‚ basically‚ has insomnia and can’t sleep. He is not like other men who go to bodegas and bars. He goes to escape the darkness and to have a drink. During this essay I’ve chosen to focus on themes and symbols. It’s clear that Hemingway suggest that life has no bigger and it’s every man for him self. Man is just an insignificant speck in a great pile of nothingness. The older
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When the Sleeper Wakes by Herbert George Wells First of all I chose this book not only because it was the first book I found that had 100 pages or more‚ but because the title interested me. I would say this book is a fiction story because no one can sleep for decades and then wake up. The story “When the Sleeper Wakes” is about a man that lives in London and has insomnia. Graham then falls into a strange sleep while he was at a friend’s house. When he wakes up 200 years later‚ he is immediately
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"A Clean Well-lighted Place"‚ takes place at a cafe very late at night. Two waiters are watching their last‚ lingering customer‚ an old man‚ who is by now very drunk. The younger waiter’s impatience and the older waiter’s understanding toward the old man carry out the theme of the story: "It [life] was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too."(114) Man must consequently find something to distract himself from his horrible truth. For the old man and the older waiter‚ "a clean and well-lighted"
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According to Smalarz and Wells (2014)‚ the leading cause of wrongful convictions is eyewitness misidentification. Smalarz and Wells described a unique case where a rape victim‚ JT‚ had the opportunity to correctly identify her attacker. JT’s lawyer had received reports of her attacker bragging about getting away with the rape while he was in prison for another crime. The victim‚ JT‚ incorrectly identified the attacker‚ she actually choose the same person she choose in her first line up after the
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The Time Machine (by H.G Wells) Summary The narrator recounts the explanation of two difficult ideas by a man he refers to as the Time Traveller to an after-dinner group. The group includes a Psychologist‚ a Medical Man‚ a Provincial Mayor‚ and a few other men. The Time Traveller shows them a smaller prototype of the time machine‚ and when he pulls a lever‚ it disappears--into the future‚ he claims. At the next week’s dinner‚ the Time Traveller comes in midway through the meal‚ haggard and limping
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Importance of doing well in school As kids we all saw the excitement about high school on TV‚ The drinking‚ driving‚ partying etc. But no one told us that TV and reality were to different things. There are many consequences for those actions. Many teens think its okay to mess up their first or second year in high school not understanding it can hurt you from the very beginning. Doing poorly in school can hurt you when it’s time to graduate‚ it also can affect you when applying to colleges.
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Unlike Independence Day‚ which had several "main" characters and just as many story lines‚ the audience had to settle as more of an omniscient observer than a participant. This also contributes to the pacing of the movie. War of the Worlds stays well paced with action and exposition‚ until a slow spot when Robbins’s character is introduced. In ID4‚ because of all those characters and story set up‚ that film goes forty-five minutes before any real action scene‚ where the first action sequence
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Was IPL Well Marketed? Krishna Prakash Singh FT-13341 Introduction The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket championship in India. It was initiated by the ‘Board of Control for Cricket in India’ (BCCI)‚ headquartered in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra and is supervised by BCCI. Admits all the controversies & scandals‚ IPL stands as the most glamorous and the most well-known cricket league in the world. The success of such leagues in the game of football
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