...About the Author: The author of this novel is Drew Magary. Magary is an Australian Americans columnist, book author and interviewer. His writes for GQ and even interviewed Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson for them. This article became widely covered for Robertson’s comment. Magary has also written for “Deadspin, NBC, Maxim magazine and the NFL Humor site Kissing Suzy Kolber (Wikipedia).” He has also published in “Rollin Stone magazine, Comedy Central, New York Magazine, ESPN, Yahoo!, Playboy magazine, The Wire, The Atlantic and Penthouse magazine (Wikipedia).” Summary: The Postmortal begins with whispers that a cure has been found for aging. The cure does not stop you from getting older but it halts your body from aging. A 30 year old that obtains the cure will have the same body and physical fitness until the day they die. The American government immediately bans it for three years, to give them time to study it and understand the implications. During this time, pro-death and pro-cure protestors are conducting more and more violent protests. Black market cures are going wild. The narrator of the story gets the cure at one of the black market deals. A week or two later, he takes his friend to get the cure. Thus, a series of tragic events occur that involved a mysterious woman that guided the narrator through the rest of the novel emotionally. Eventually, the cure becomes legal. The novel talks about how the world changed in areas of marriage, love, law, and government....
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... In Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyers, the human and the supernatural worlds meet, which changes the lives of the characters forever.Bellas starts her new Journey becoming a wife of the Cullens.We learn that she is nervous about her wedding day.Jacobs runs off when he gets her invitation.As Bella said “The WEDDING FLOWED INTO THE RECEPTION PARTY smoothly”which she means that the wedding was perfectly planned by Alice, Who is Edwards sister thats became good friends with Her through the books that's she picked out for Bella. As Bella and Edward left for their HoneyMoon: As we turned onto the black highway (Highway 101 Forks,Washington State) and edward really hit the accelerator,I heard a noise over the purr of the engine coming from the forest behind us.If i could hear it,then he certainly could. But he said nothing as the sound slowly faded in the distance.I said nothing,either.The piercing ,heartbroken howling grew fainter and then disappeared entirely(74). They went to Isle Esme.”A gift from Carlisle--Esme offered to let us borrow it(78.)” Jacob changes in the beginning of this book: To a very upset, angry werewolf because of Bella's mysterious illness and her sudden return from her honeymoon, he's convinced that Edward has turned her into a vampire already. Jacob acting against Sam’s orders, he decides to attack the Cullens in a blind rage.Werewolf imprinting is they bound to protect and please this person for the remainder of his life. He thinks it bella Later does...
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...One of the major themes in The Bald Soprano is the concept of time. Typically, time is thought about as a linear progression, but in this case, it is portrayed as an endless, cyclical process. The Bald Soprano’s skewed concept of time adds to the bizarre, chaotic nature of the play. Through the theme, Ionesco is able to emphasize the meaning of the play; the routineness of a person’s everyday life. One example of Ionesco’s skewed, cyclical sense of time is the scene where Mr. Smith is sitting, reading his newspaper and he brings up the topic of Bobby Watson’s death: MR. SMITH [still reading his paper]: Tsk, it says here that Bobby Watson died. MRS. SMITH: My God, the poor man! When did he die? MR. SMITH: Why do you pretend to be astonished?...
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...After reading the prologue and chapter one of “The Calculus Diaries”, my perspective on calculus and its concepts have changed. “The Calculus Diaries” describes the history of calculus, such as who discovered it, when it was discovered, and how it can be used in everyday life. It starts out by describing the story of Archimedes, who invented devices to help fend off the Roman Empire from invading Syracuse. He was considered to be the first person to describe calculus concepts. The author describes that the two main concepts that make up calculus are the derivative and the integral. The author also describes his personal conflicts with calculus in the past and what it took for him to overcome his hatred for calculus and math in general. The author continues by telling how two men actually co-created calculus. These men were Isaac Newton and Leibniz. They published papers at different times and there was a lot of mud-slinging when it came to who actually invented calculus, and it was not until years later that both were determined to be co-creators of calculus. However, the author tells of paradoxes that came with the invention of calculus. There can never really be a zero value when it comes to calculus because if you take a certain value and cut it in half infinitely, you will still have a number greater than zero. This paradox is known as Zeno’s paradox. Zeno’s paradox was later solved by mathematician Jean le Rond d’Alembert. He explained that an object that is in motion is...
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... The main character in Gone Girl, Nick Dunne, came home on the day of his fifth anniversary to find that his wife was missing. Everyone was curious to know what happened to her as it continues to spread throughout the press. Amy, Nick Dunne’s wife, is a well-known member of their community and people begin to speculate that that Nick took part in her sudden disappearance because of his awkwardness about the situation. Nick begins to have flashbacks of his marriage after his wife disappears. In the past, they both lost their jobs and moved from New York to Missouri. Nick’s behavior began to change and started to act lazy, distant, and unfaithful. Detective Rhonda Boney, who is trying to find out who murdered his wife, discovers evidence of financial issues and domestic conflicts. In addition, a report that was found indicated that Amy wanted to buy a gun and poorly hid the evidence of a struggle. She also finds a medical report that stated that Amy is pregnant, of which Nick denies being aware of. Through hints left by Amy for Nick , we gain knowledge that Amy had planned to frame Nick for her murder by associating herself into local life, faking her pregnancy, and lying about a diary that described her fear of her husband. She changed the way she looked and went into hiding in a campground that was far away, then hoped that Nick would be charged and executed for her murder. Tanner Bolt, a defense attorney who specializes in murder cases was hired by Nick to prove that he did...
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...When a cure is placed upon the Ulster army, only Cu Chulainn and his father are exempt from the curse and they go to seek out the other enemy. Cu Chulainn kills a hundred warriors and then makes an agreement with Medbh to fight a daily battle with a different warrior at a ford. After he defeats them, he returns to his territory to defend the brown bull. Lugh comes to Cu Chulainn’s aid by healing his as he sleeps over a period of 3 full days. During all of this the warriors of Ulster fight the army of Meadhbh, each having to kill 3 times their own number. There is a loss of 150 men from the Ulster Army. At the end Medha calls the foster brother of Cu Chulainn, Fer Diad, to have a single man battle with him. Every night Cu Chulainn sends herbs to heal his Foster brothers wounds.n on the fourth day Cu Chulainn chooses to fight with the “Gae Bolga” a terrible weapon that multiplies barbs from one to many once it has entered a person. Fer Diad is killed by the weapon and Cu Chulainn sings over his body. Cu Chulainn’s father shows up at the battle and Cu Chulainn sends his father you roused the men of Ulster. Conchobar, the king of the Ulster’s, comes out and fights the guide for the Connacht army Ferghus. Ferghus strikes Conchobar’s magic shield so hard it screams, alerting Cu Chulainn, who goes into a blind fury. Ferghus had taken a vow to never fight, Cu Chulainn retreats his army. Cu Chulainn goes and defeats the last of the armies and captures Medhah. He spares her and allows...
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...In Part One, Meursault works as a shipping clerk in Algiers, a city in North Africa. He learns of his mother’s death, and although he is somewhat ambivalent upon hearing the news, he travels to the nursing home to attend her funeral and sit in vigil over her body. At the funeral he displays little emotion and is not interested in viewing his mother’s body. The following day, back in Algiers, Meursault meets a young woman, Marie Cardona, and they go swimming together. Because of Meursault’s cheerful attitude, Marie is surprised to learn of his mother’s death. Later, in the evening, they see a comic film together and then return to Meursault’s apartment where they make love. Meursault spends the next day alone in his apartment, eating, and watching...
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... Kang Kyong-ae, author of “Salt” and “Darkness” is known for her melodramatic realism within her testimonial stories about Korean peasant life, violation of women’s rights, advocating for social realism and detailing the psychological aftereffects from incidents Koreans faced by both Japanese imperialists and Chinese Imperial Communist Army. Despite the oppression and censoring of political propaganda from Japanese and Chinese governments, she was still able to get her stories out through undertones of melodramatic realism, making it significant to this timeframe and women literature in general. In this article, I will be comparing Kang Kyong-ae’s work to other another colonial period Korean Literaturist, Myong-hui Cho’s Naktong River and analyzing the stylistic writing applied, the melodramatic realism used to emphasize the drastic measurements taken to survive due to an unbalanced hierarchy and political regime, as well as social realism and the negative psychological effects portrayed within her readings. Kang Kyong-aes book Salt and Myong-hui Cho’s Naktong River uses stylistic writing as a way of self reflection within the characters. To briefly summarize, Naktong River is analyzing the class conflicts and land being confiscated, as Korea was started to be exposed to a broader socialist world history. It also looks at the development of independent movements, organizations, unions and socialism while being taken away from their homeland. In Salt, it analyzes the consequences...
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...The novel I read was called Stung by Bethany Wiggins. This book is about a girl named Fiona who doesn’t remember going to sleepbut remembers being a thirteen-year-old . But when her slumber ends and she wakes up, the world she once knew does not look like the one that once exsited. She is a grown seventeen-year-old, her house is abandon and broken, the neighborhood barren and alone, and a tattoo imprinted on Fiona’s right hand, one she recalls not getting. However, she knows that she must conceal it at all cost because there is a reason why it is on her arm as well as why the world became to be destroyed. The protagonist of this book is Fiona. In the beginning of the book, Fiona wakes up with a strange tattoo on one of her hands, “an oval with ten legs. A mark”(pg. 4). She soon finds out that it is suppose to define that she is a beast, that she was tured into one due to a vaccionation given to her. But soon enough she is determine find her brother, Jonah, who also has that same tattoo as her, who is a beast himself and her sister Lissa who is inside the wall. In order to find them, she meets with Dreyden Bowen at the militia camp where she was captured and mistreated. Bowen was once scared of her due to being a level ten beast, where at one point “Bowen jumps, aiming the remote at (her), eyes widen with fear”(pg. 59) but he soon helps her escape once he has gotten accustomed to her and knowing the truth about her as well. One character trait of Fiona’s is that she...
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...In “Peanut’s Fortune”, the wealth of a person represents the good luck that they possess. Upon her meeting with the fortune-teller, Peanut chose her new husband to be prosperous and inherently endowed with riches. As Amy Tan describes, ‘Peanut bought a fortune that promised that within the year she would marry a man who would make both her parents happy. . . . Her future household would have enough riches that she would never desire anything else” (121). After changing her destiny, Peanut was satisfied with her new future, thinking that she escaped bad luck by evading her marriage with a local man from her small hometown. She paralleled wealth with luck, and saw good fortune in her new marriage simply because of her husband’s prosperity. Convinced that this man owned abundant riches to provide for the rest of her life, Peanut bonds this profuse amount of riches with her fortune, believing that she had just gained the best of luck and would want nothing more for her future. The traditional Chinese play for the New Year’s symbolized the inescapable misfortune of Peanut’s sister. The play depicted “landlords and merchants . . . always running after poor people, chasing them until dark. And the only safe place a poor person could go was to this play . . . As long as [the poor person] stood inside the roped-off area, nobody could demand payment” (124). Furthermore, once the New Year had begun, the debts were cancelled. Just as the poor people inside the area were locked away from...
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...Timothy Brook in his book Vermeer’s Hat demonstrates seventeenth-century trade and attributes the networks formed in its efforts, to the dawn of globalization. Brook strategically picks pieces done by the infamous Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer to depict the effects of trade on people. Brook gives compelling accounts of traders in their endeavors bringing the paintings alive in every story. The author chose to represent the changes in local values and customs of trade using seven paintings of Vermeer. Brook explains these issues using short stories that tell tales of brave merchants and great kingdoms that resolved to overcome these challenges for the sole purpose of trade also he talks about how certain commodities impacted a large amount of people everywhere around the world. certain commodities change local values and customs. Porcelain, tobacco, and silver were some of the most popular commodities being exchanged during that time periods. Values are effected by not only one or two people; it takes millions of people to change the value of life. Even the value in society. Brook expands on a commodity that changes the values of people all around the world. This commodity is porcelain. Starting in China. Porcelain was a product sold worldwide. Brook mentions,” As the global trade in ceramic expanded in the sixteenth century to Mexico, the Middle East, and Iberia, and to England and the Netherlands in the seventeenth…” (brook pg.62.) The demand for porcelain was growing tremendously...
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...HUMAN SEXUALITY. WHY WE LOVE. ZAINAB BALOGUN DR. DEBRA LAINO In the book why we love, author Helen Fisher attempts to understand the idea behind the human romantic love by studying the mating behavior of animals. Thus, she firmly believes that romantic love is a phenomenon arising from ‘human nature’. Which shows itself in the different forms in the animal kingdom. The book begins by presenting the results of a scientific study in which Fisher scanned the brains of people who had just fallen madly in love. She proves, at last, what researchers had only suspected: that when you fall in love, primordial areas of the brain "light up" with increased blood flow, creating romantic passion. Fisher uses this new research to show exactly what you experience when you fall in love, why you choose one person rather than another, and how romantic love affects your sex drive and your feelings of attachment to a partner. She argues that all animals feel romantic attraction, that love at first sight comes out of nature, and that human romance evolved for crucial reasons of survival. Lastly, she offers concrete suggestions on how to control this ancient passion, and she optimistically explores the future of romantic love in our chaotic modern world. In the first few chapters of why we love, Fisher talks about the methods used by human males and females in the process of courtship and their reproductive functions. She discusses the art of flirtation and how it is expressed by both sexes. Beginning...
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... When one thinks of the conquests where indigenous people are the losers, most assume that they were silenced by their oppressors with their culture lost in the wind. On the contrary, in Miguel Leon-Portilla’s Broken Spears, the Aztecs’ account of the events and their culture is well documented through manuscripts, codices, and written records of eyewitness accounts. The conquest is usually depicted as the Spaniards’ fight for land and resources, but Broken Spears shows that it was the Aztecs fight for the survival of their culture and way of life. Broken Spears uses written records of verbal accounts as its source on the conquest of Mexico. In the foreword, Klor de Alva addresses the quality of these sources by saying, “Eyewitness accounts of the events and sentiments depicted in these documents are more likely to be reliable if the texts were written within twenty years of the fall of Tenochtitlan, ..., before 1541” (xvi). To illustrate that point, eyewitness accounts are like the game of telephone with the players as the time passed and the message as the account: as the message travels from player to player, the inaccuracy of the message increases. In addition, Aztec culture emphasized strict memorization during their education in calmecac and telpochcalli which led to the preservation of literary works (xlvi). This strict memorization embedded in the culture makes the verbal accounts more reliable. Not only that, the Nahuatl language was written in the latin alphabet through...
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...decides the price of their commodity unlikely being a price taker as it dose as a seller in such a competitive industry. Alternatively, these monopolists are inclined to determine the quantity of goods and services sold at a profit-maximized price, leaving it to consumers to consider how many products are needed to purchase. Due to these monopolistic phenomena around the world, many arguments about the merits and harms to society have been caused. This critical review examines two sources which aim to introduce the concept of monopoly and the measurement of monopoly power. The first source is the chapter 12 of “Foundations of Economics” by Andrew Gillespie (24 Mar 2011); the second source is “SparkNote on Monopolies &Oligopolies” (http://www.sparknotes.com/economics/micro/monopolies/) by Sparknotes Editors. Whereas the book...
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...main character experiences his rise with the forbidden knowledge but this hero also is lead to a fatal damnation because of the journey he chooses. Faustus plan to learn the power of black magic also known as the forbidden knowledge leads the tragic hero to his path of corruption and soon to be damnation to hell. The decision for Faustus is merely based on Faustus own character flaw of pride. “Considers logic…but notes that disputing well seems to be the only good of logic…considers medicine…he has achieved great renown as a doctor already…considers law…but dismisses law Greenlee 2 as to petty…religion and theology seems to offer wider vistas and finds the Bible’s assertion ‘the reward of sin is death’ and unacceptable doctrine (sparknotes). After dismissing all these studies, he choose magic because he believe that this is a “world of profit and delight/ of power, of honor, and omnipotence,/ is promised to the studious artisan (Marlowe, Dr. Faustus 1.1) The use of forbidden knowledge in “Dr. Faustus” is used throughout the entire play. In the third scene of act one, you get and understanding of why...
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