...The Turning Point of Love Barbara Lawson AUNENG125 Instructor Sarah Lahue January 20, 2014 Turning Point of Love Even though in a short story and poems there different components that that make up the short story and poems, in the poem of “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and the short story “A Father’s Short Story” by Andre Dubus, these two are about the love that one have for the other. “Do Not Go into That Good Night” this poem is about a son’s love for his father not to go, stay and fight, a man who didn’t have much but 30 horses and stables, who worked so hard to have a name for himself, but he hasn’t accomplished them yet. Dylan who was having trouble with his sight at the age of 44 he was blind. “A Father’s Story” This short story is about a father who wanted to protect his daughter from a crime that she committed that he covered up and keep a secret. Even though there are twists in these two scenes there is ethics that plays a part in them; in the time of need and despair when it comes down to family some are not concern about what the consequences of their decisions are; some of their choices may not be the right ones; some will go to different lengths to protect those they love. First, in the time of need and despair because, when it comes to family some aren’t concern about the consequences of their actions all they know is that they are protecting the one that they love. In “Do Not...
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...Boy by Richard Wright The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Having Our Say by Sarah L. and Elizabeth Delany The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Coming of Age The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros A Separate Peace by John Knowles Detective/Thriller Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries The “A is for…” series by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz Fantasy The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony Any Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling Historical/Social Issues The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Of Mice and Men and The Grapes ofWrath by John Steinbeck Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd White Teeth by Zadie Smith Inspirational/Spiritual Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For by Rick Warren A Simple Path by Mother Theresa The Tao of...
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...A Comparison of “Dog’s Death” and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Tammy McGee ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Jessica Dennis August 12, 2013 The theme I have chosen to write about is death and impermanence, and the two literary works I have chosen to compare and contrast are Dog’s Death by John Updike and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. How we are affected by death, and how we accept that it is inevitable seems to be a theme for many short stories and poems. Death brings a struggle between the dying and the family and friends of the dying. All the loved ones of the dying want them to do is fight, to encourage them to stay positive, even when there is no chance of survival. We want to be selfish and want to spend as much time as we can with them before they die. Just as the two poets in these poems do. In Dog’s Death by John Updike, the dog wants to lie down, to hide so she can die peacefully but the family rushes her to the vet to try and save her. And in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas the father is being begged to fight against the inevitable death. I am going to show how loved ones want the dying to fight death, whereas the dying would like to come to peace with death and rest. Both Dog’s Death and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night are poems, however they are structured differently. Dog’s Death is not a set structure, meaning to say it is not a certain type of poem. It has five stanzas...
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...,July 21st 2009 ENC 1102 M,W, 7:45am Term Paper “The Theme of Human Struggle in the Works of Ernest Hemingway” In my research paper I will show how elements of life and death, folklore/fables, myths, and rites of passage support the theme of human struggle against nature in the stories "The Old Man and the Sea," "Indian Camp," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway. Through comparative analysis of these stories' underlying themes I will address the initiation experiences of his heroes. Human dignity, morality, and the formation of human individuality through mental strife and the struggle against nature are often themes of Hemingway. Humans cope with the complexity of the world by developing simple mental models based on opposite parts. Life and death are together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the active force and death is the inactive force, but they cannot be separated. Thus, they are two aspects of one reality. When people are reading about living beings and mythological beings or those who are dead, they view the word of the dead as a living world. The dead eat, sleep and move. In the book “The Hero in Hemingway's short stories”, J. DeFalco points out that: " in the Myth there are usually three dominant movements which are cyclic in pattern. They are the departure of the hero, the initiation, and the return from heroic adventure." (17). The movements of the hero to the world where...
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...The opportunities Gannet seized in launching USA Today was that he knew his audience were readers with very short attention spans and a growing hunger for more information. The newspaper’s primary mission was to provide more news to their readers in less time. This was done by writing "in shorter pieces an sprinkled with eye-catching, color photos, graphs and charts." (Ferrell, O., & Hartline, M.,2014.). One of the new things that set apart the newspaper was that it was broken into four sections "News, Money, Life, and Sports" thus allowing the reader to jump into whichever section of their choosing the quickest. Gannet solved the early problems of encouraging advertisers to buy ad space by launching a "Partnership Plan", where advertising companies who purchased 6 months of ads in the paper received another 6 months for free. This allowed the advertisers to test the waters for newspaper ads and with the increase of popularity or the paper, more companies wanted to join. USAToday.com, the on-line version of the printed newspaper, is formatted in the same way the printed edition is with bright colors and snippets of news. It was developed to keep up with the growing technology and in response to the slight decline in profits to the printed version. Also, like the printed version, the on-line version strives to create a partnership with its readers. The reason why I believe USA Today is so successful is it keeps capitalizing its marketing opportunities by listening to their...
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...egyptian king ninety nine percent of the time they will spout out the name king Tutankhamun or king Tut for short with out really even thinking about it. Why is that so many automatically associate an egyptian casket with the one that was unearthed in Tut's tomb? Maybe it has something to do with the kings appointment at such a young age and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death or murder at the tender age of eighteen. Maybe it has something to do with the highly publicized discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun's is the only royal tomb in Egypt to have escaped the discovery of looters. In addition to the royal sarcophagus discovered by archeologist Howard Carter, there were also vast quantities of beautiful furniture in the tomb, including a golden throne that dates from the early kings rule (Sayre, H. M., 2011). This makes us curious about what really happened to king Tut there are many accounts but they have not been proven so for now they are just theories that add to the mystery of king Tut's demise. The most controversial theory of what happened to tutankhamun is that he was murdered by someone in his inner circle whom he trusted maybe even a family member. In his international bestseller The Murder of Tutankhamun paleontologist Bob Brier accuses Aye, Tutankhamun's administrator of assassinating him. The villain of the piece is Aye (pronounced "I"), the commoner who ruled Egypt as regent while Tutankhamen grew up, said Egyptologist Bob Brier of Long...
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...play The Shoe Horn Sonata, Kevin McDonalds docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters, Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play, Misto was concerned that the pain and suffering that many women endured at the hands of their Japanese captors after the fall of Singapore had been forgotten. Both army nurses and civilians were the victims of terrible mistreatment and cruelty during the war, yet their stories were not widely known, nor had successive Australian governments acknowledged them. The play serves as a tribute to those victims of the atrocities of war, and looks at the effects such horrendous experiences can have on those who experience them. By the use of distinctively visual elements, Misto has created a compelling play. Whilst projected images of the celebrations at Martin Place are projected behind the actors, the women struggling to live at Belalau are still fighting through the war. During this scene, the women struggle to ascend up a hill thinking it will be the last moment of their lives. Dialogue used to reveal the weakness is quoted “The sick and the dying were left behind” and “the old and frail began to die”. As the lucky women succeeded to ascend the hill, an orchestra performing the beautiful piece “The Blue Danube” is set out for the prisoners. The music creates the effect of the...
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...further rites practiced. In Japan, funeral rites are much more ritualized and not only deal with death, they also deal with life after death. The lack of funeral and death rites in contemporary Western society can lead to disenfranchised grief as they may be insufficient in helping people cope with the loss of a loved one. Japanese culture marks aging with milestone birthdays that are celebrated to map the progression of aging to the final destination of death. In this paper I will be examining funeral and death rites and if they adequately help with the grieving process and the acceptance of death. I will be examining the funeral and death rites in the United States from an etic perspective and contrasting this examination with an emic perspective of the same rituals as they are practiced in Japan, to show that my cultures rituals are lacking in the tools to deal with grief and acceptance of death. I will be examining funeral and death rites in my own culture from an etic perspective. In order to do this I will have to step outside my culture and my belief system. According to Crapo (2013), "An etic description or analysis…..creates a model of a culture by using cross-culturally valid categories, which anthropologists have found to be generally...
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...Reading report of the Adventure of Tom Sawyer I think that every young person used to have the dream of travelling around the world and trying to find the treasure, but most of them just hold it as a dream ,not take it into action. In the book The adventure of Tom Sawyer you can see a very exciting and mind-blowing story,which shows a young boy’s adventure life. It is one of the best-written novels of Mark Twain, which brings the fresh recollections of Mark Twain’s memory of his childhood. Tom Sawyer ,who is always causing mischief and troubles, but sets a new and original image which is totally different from the other children. In the novel, Tom Sawyer with Huck Finn leads a typical American-style life with innocence and happiness. In order to get rid of the usual life and the control of contemporary moral values, Tom and Huck make chances for adventures and have fun in realizing their dream with naughtiness and heroic justice to eradicate evil. childhood which is the best time for me, and maybe the best time for most people. That’s the reason why Tom Sawyer has become one of the most impressive images in world literature which enjoys lots of reputation and popularity. It also should be one of the most memorable time for Mark Twain himself, and we can dig out his values for kids and his past childhood. I ‘m a faithful reader of Mark Twain, , I have covered almost all of his short stories, most of his novels. So I think I understand and know his values and judgment to some...
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...the 19th century was a widely misunderstood illness that by its very nature created some of the most dramatic writings. Poets, authors, and playwrights alike all used consumption as a form of expression in their writings. They found a certain dignity within the disease that probably affected everybody in one fashion or another. Poets like Edgar Allen Poe and Henry David Thoreau were influenced by the people in their lives that were close to them who contracted the disease. Others, like John Keats and RL Stevenson, had a direct connection as they themselves dealt with the deadly, predetermined path on which they must walk. Authors Victor Hugo, Puccini, and Verdi all used consumption as a catalyst to some greater, higher meaning in their stories. It was delicately embellished in some writings, while others it was shown with deep, dark metaphors. “Consumption was the leading cause of death in the 19th century, a scourge that affected men, women, and children of all ages, classes and geographic locations. A chronic malady characterized by a harrowing cough...
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...The Poe(t) Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 as Edgar Poe. He was the second son of David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, both whom were actors. In 1810, shortly after Poe’s birth his father deserted the family. The subsequent death of his twenty-four year old mother on December 8, 1811 in Richmond, Virginia, left Poe an orphan at the young age of three. After his mother’s death, John, a strict unemotional tobacco merchant, and Frances Allan, a weak woman due to health problems, took in Poe; his paternal grandparents took in his brother William Henry; and foster parents cared for his sister Rosalie. Poe was educated with the Allan’s aid, in private academies, excelling in Latin, in writing verse, and declamation. However, despite his education, he was looked down upon and regarded as an outsider by the upper class of Richmond’s society; perhaps because the Allan’s never legally adopted Poe. Also, the culture of Richmond during Poe’s young adulthood did not regard actors in a high manner. This could have attributed to his reputation since his biological parents were actors. The loss of his mother at an early age definitely affected Poe. “The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of ‘Mother’” Poe wrote that in To My Mother. In Tamerlane, he not only wrote about his father, but he wrote about his mother as well; he had more respect for his mother than he did for his father. This respect can be found in...
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...THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS The observations I could do when I watched the movie The Last of the Mohicans, the 1992 historical epic film set are that: as regards the historical and physical characterization of the story were well-founded, the director had the job of trying to report in a visual descriptive what happened in the Time of 1757, during the French and Indian War. All the characters have their role and development of their part in the story that is well supported, clothes, geographical location, vocabulary, it seems that was not spared anything in relation to research historical construction of the film. Of course we cannot forget that much of the film depicts the fictional part of the story between the hero and heroine, they end up together in the end despite all the tragedies that happened, but either way the historical basis on which this novel was created could be closer to the reality of American colonial epoch 1757. The film shows what happened in the French and Indian War from the viewpoint of the colonists who were eventually recruited as militia under the imposition of the British Empire who fought against French forces , who ended up getting support from certain Indian tribes , is not that settlers willingly accept that they needed to defend the British Colony against the Frenchmen invaders, but rather , a matter of imposition of British government that required the mobilization of these militia to reinforce the power of their troops that existed on American...
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...Alden Character Qualities or Flaws Bethel University Week 5 12A30 Abstract Samuel Clemens is a well know author from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. He wrote many books as well as short stories. Two of his most well-known books are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin. These books and the characters were based on what was occurring at time of the writings, example; the end to the Civil War, and his own life experiences. Some of these characters he admired and some he did not. Still, all of them make these two books a great read to all people. Let us look at some of these characters he portrays in the story of Huckleberry Finn. The novel of Huckleberry Finn was written at the end of the Civil War, at the time slavery was coming to an end. The southerners did not want to give up slavery as they needed these men and women to attend to their farmland, as this was their main source of income in the south during this time. After this war, Congress amended the Constitution to abolish slavery but this did not hold up in all of the states. This book is written from this time period. The first character to be discussed is Huck himself. Twain has portrayed Huck to be an intelligent and thoughtful individual. A young boy of 13, whose father is a drunk and leaves for months on end, eventually dying, leaving Huck homeless, dirty and hungry. An elder widow takes Huck into her home and tries to reform him; gives him schooling and religious training that he never got with his father...
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...making the audience experience the end of the world. While 2012 enthusiasts point to Nostradamus’ Lost Book, Bible codes, the WebBot computer project, the Hopi and Cherokee Indians, the I Ching (Chinese Book of Changes) and Mother Shipton to 1 Md. Mahmudul Hoque is an alumnus (Batch-54) of the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He is currently working as an Assistant Commissioner and Executive Magistrate to the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He can be reached at mhmoni24@yahoo.com Page 1 of 8 support their theory, it all ultimately goes back to the Mayans. The theory suggests that the world shall come to an end on December 21, 2012 through a mega natural disaster (Hitchcock, 2009). Ronald utilized this fashionable chronicle as the plot of the movie, and came out immensely successful to draw the interest of the audiences across the world. The character of the American President played by Danny Glover interested me to read the film from ‘good guy bad guy’2 perspective. This short piece shall examine the act, the text and the image of the American President in the film, and shall try to value the representation of the American President in International Society. Most of the audiences are aware of the belief of a dooms-day in 2012 and I suppose, they have watched the film with a view to...
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...earth. If I were in Wolf’s place I think I would respond in a relativist way. I would try to see these actions from the father’s point of view. I agree with Wolf’s decision in the end, her father lived a full life and did not want to die a slow painful, torturing death. If I were ever put in the position to give advice or even assist with a suicide or euthanasia, I would weigh the outcome for the family member or friend that I am acting for. If this person were as bad off as Wolf’s father, yes I would do everything in my power to help them stay comfortable. I would want them to live long and I would probably be a bit selfish about the decision at first. If I knew it was what my loved one wished for, I think I would do anything in my power to help them get their “dying” wish. If a person is in that bad of shape and cannot eat on their own or perform most daily task, isn’t it almost like being comatose? If the life will never have any real value and they will end up in pain for the rest of their time on earth, isn’t that the same as being cruel to animals and making them suffer? Why would any loved one want to see someone they love suffer through any more pain than they have to? If the quality of life has been diminished and the real ability to do almost anything is gone, would you want to be kept alive in pain? In my personal will, it states that if I am comatose with less than 40% brain activity, unplug the machine. If I have cancer and they cannot cure it, if I am in so...
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