...Rojano Mr. Belasco AP Literature 17 September 2015 Three Girls Plot Analysis The plot in “Three Girls” was very misleading. The narrator told a story of her and her friend’s encounter with Marilyn Monroe. What the story was really about, was the narrator's first kiss with her friend. This twist ending was an eye opener for the rest of the passage, as hidden clues became obvious signs. There were many clue pointing towards the twist ending that were identified after the plot had developed. We were lead to believe that it was story about how they have encountered Marilyn Monroe in their favorite bookstore. The significance of Marilyn to the real plot was that she was something that the two girls could bond over. Marilyn was their “thing” and they did not not want anyone else in on it. Scattered along the path of stalking and helping Marilyn, the narrator speaks affectionately about her friend. She comments on her body shape and monkey nimbleness which before seemed like meaningless comments. There were other clues like the use of “enchanted” several times to properly set the mood for the story. The way the plot and ending came together helped understand these clues. The surprise ending in “Three Girls” tied the entire passage together. It helped me understand that the story was one of a first kiss. The flashback transformed from a celebrity encounter to a romantic experience. It was a cute memory but it made sense of the “persevering author and married with kids” line. It revealed...
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...The Gift of the Magi Themes Love "Gift of the Magi" is the story of a poor, young couple whose love for each other is the most important thing in their lives. Such is their love that they're led to sacrifice their most valuable possessions to find Christmas gifts for each other. The warm home they make together contrasts with the drabness of their poverty and the dreary world outside. Their love seems to know no bounds, though Della (the wife) worries about how her sacrifice will affect her husband because of how it affects her looks. If ever there were a story with the message that all you need to be happy is love, this is it. Sacrifice The two main characters in "Gift of the Magi" are a husband and wife who give up their most precious possessions to be able to afford gifts for each other on Christmas Eve. The story seems to be all about sacrifice. We watch Della go through the process of deciding to make the sacrifice and going through with it, only to discover that her husband has made the same sacrifice. The story's narrator assures us that in their willingness to give up all they have, they have proven themselves the wisest of all gift-givers. It might remain unclear, though, exactly what their sacrifice has accomplished, or how it has affected them. Wealth In many ways, "Gift of the Magi" is a story about what it means for something to be valuable. Does something's value lie in how much money it is worth? Or are other things more valuable than money? The main characters...
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...meet each other due to the author says they only meet two to four times a month. Both stories are similarities and differences. First I want to talk about the of the similarities both stories are talking about love. Both the narrators suffer through some issues. all his life he have been a criminal and they are abuse each other verbally and physically like Aurora break everything the author own, yell at him like it might change something, slam the door on my fingers (Diaz page 52). But then they have happy endings he says "but right then, in that apartment, we seem like we were normal folks. Like maybe everything was fine." (Diaz, page 65) he could feel peace in the apartment with Aurora like a normal couples. In Karla Suarez of "Eye of the Night" The narrator said "I didn't need him any longer, so I could close my eyes and, smile, and sleep." (Suarez, page 14) from At the end of the story she was free from Jorge, who was only used her for sex. This the happy ending in the stories because she does not feel like a puppet anymore. And Suarez said "One night the miracle happened. My neighbor switched on the light, followed by a new woman. She came in, tossed her purse down and walked around the room looking at everything, making comments that didn't reach my ears." . Thanks to her neighbor that she does not have to suffer anymore. I think her surrounding also...
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...story “Happy Endings”, Margaret Atwood uses different literary techniques that can alter the interpretation of the story’s theme. The story starts off with a generic “fairy tale” ending in which a husband and a wife live a happy life together and eventually die. However, as the story progresses, Atwood’s style and tone of the alternate scenarios of John and Mary give off a sense of uncertainty of what main ideas she is trying to convey. Atwood displays her feelings about not only the art of creative writing, but also the equally artistic act of living one's life to the fullest. The unique manner the story is structure, a mixed-up summary of events, begins by saying, "If you want a happy ending, try A," Atwood seemingly gives the reader a choice. It is implied that Story A is the “happy ending and ahead await endings that are much more sinister. Following the first version of the “ending” are various endings, all of which seem to be quite depressing, but nevertheless end with "everything continues as in A." What is the meaning? There are five different adaptations of the “end”; however, all of the characters eventually end up at Story A. This shows Atwood’s cynical attitude about the insignificance of life and is evident in the third story when she explains that the reason John purchased a handgun is "the thin part of the plot and can be explained later" (396). Atwood does not place impact on the events leading to death but instead concentrates on the "happy ending" itself;...
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...Ending Poverty Ricardo Rodriguez Mrs. Leija English II 18 May 2015 Ricardo Rodriguez Mrs. Leija English II 18 May 2015 Ending Poverty Although some believe poverty is a non-important issue, I argue otherwise. Whether it is children or adults, poverty is everywhere from one side of our world to the other and there must be an end to it. How can us Americans citizens conjoin together to end poverty ? Studies show, the average American is able to gift one meal to a child in desperate need just by contributing $1 to any world hunger association. At that rate, just imagine how much meals you can gift to a child or even a family once you donate more than just a dollar. If Americans contribute time and money, then the decreasing poverty rate can come to a quicker end. Take the USAID organization for example, The USAID is an organization whose goal is to end poverty in our lifetime. What will it take to end poverty in our lifetime ? This will not be an easy task of course. We can get there but only if we come together as a global community. In support of this effort, “We must profit existing developments and priorities towards ending extreme poverty - Such as increasing food security, promoting child survival, expanding access to renewable energy, and improving education” (USAID) Most importantly, in order for all this to be possible, we must draw more attention to these kinds of organizations that support adults and families and most importantly the children. What...
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...A dying man lying in the bed is begging his relatives to stop his life. This scene in a movie remains in my brain for several years. There is a famous sentence from Seneca, a great Roman orator, “if I must suffer without hope or relief, I will depart, not through fear of the pain itself, but because it prevents all for which I would live.” Euthanasia is a cure rather than a poison, for it bringing life a peaceful ending. Firstly, euthanasia embodies the respect to life. Some people believe that euthanasia violates the right of living. However, life is not equal to living. “If old age leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or tottering edifice,” http://www.51lunwen.com/dxessay/ said Seneca. Life should be a condition of inner serenity and consciousness rather than a process of battling with uncured diseases with unbearable pain. As a result, when the ultimate end is as inevitable as it now appears to be, the individual should have the right to gain a peaceful ending. Secondly, euthanasia rescues not only the dying patients from pain, but also their relatives who are under serious mental and financial pressure. The opponents urge to stop the appliance of euthanasia to procrastinate death, when the dying patients who are suffering from unbearable pain may just feel the endless pain and torment. Francis Bacon used to say, “The duty of a doctor is not only to cure the patients, but also to ease their pain and sorrow.” On the other hand, the relatives...
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...Comparing Endings In ancient Greece plays were a big part of society. They had festivals to celebrate these plays and crown the best at each of these festivals. Many plays were written and, thus, many different types of endings were created for them. Sometimes this would entail a technique known as Deus ex Machina. This would involve a god coming in at the end of the play and settling all of the issues. To act this out they would have the actor come down from a crane like machine. Other playwrights chose to end the play with characters settling all of issues but leaving room for interpretation. Both of these styles have been used in the plays we have read in the second half of this class. In Philoctetes Sophocles chooses to use Deus ex Machina to end it while he chose to end it with his characters in Oedipus Rex. In this paper I will analyze the endings of both Philoctetes and Oedipus Rex and how effectively they close out their respective plays. In Philoctetes Odysseus and Neoptolemos are charged with the task of retrieving Philoctetes from the island he was left on by the Greek army. Once they get there they attempt to trick Philoctetes into giving them his bow, thinking this was all they needed to end the Trojan War. However after Philoctetes realizes it is Odysseus that is trying to trick him into going with them he refuses to go with them. Philoctetes tells them to go on without him and then begins to mope about his life. After arguing with Neoptolemos about going to...
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...Creative Problem Solving Fan Fiction is Fun! Focus on the ending, then move onward: imagine a probable journey back home to North Richmond Street that late Saturday evening for the boy. Do you think he would see again Mangan’s sister? In short, how do you see the boy after his trip to Araby? I dragged myself away from the darkest path that I had ever seen. Her reflection, while she turned a silver bracelet round and round her wrist, is what I only see in the way until I found myself standing in front of the only light that gives hope to my vanity. This luminous magical name that digs into my very existence pushed all the fantasies out of my head. I never realized that the journey I made would take me far from this naive feeling. The third class carriage I'm riding on is still the same as well as the view around me that I have seen for the second time today. But I know within me that there is something different already. Not noticing that I am now standing in the quiet street of North Richmond, the familiar breeze knocked my unconsciousness and I felt my feet bounce and my hands sway along while I made my way home. I found my uncle passed out in the dining room holding his favorite companion in one hand. A usual scene, I thought and grimaced that I will not let myself go in that way. The next morning, I decided to visit the garden behind the house and stare at the center apple-tree that I found glowing under the rays of the sun. Then I heard...
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...people are getting government funding help who, in reality, do not need it. I am not saying everyone who is receiving help does not actually need it, but there are people out there who if they put in more effort, they wouldn’t have to depend on government assisted help nor would be struggling day to day. I have not been in a situation where I myself needed help, however I do know some people who are truly needed help and received yet, as well as others who honestly did not need the help but did not want to work hard. I am hoping my paper shows both the good and bad of today’s situation with people struggling, and hopefully some readers will have changed opinions on this whether it be good or bad. My Paper is written in APA format. Ending Poverty One Meal at a Time After reading the article “On the Edge of Poverty” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg[->0], it’s realized that it was written from a point of view that shows the many down falls of a situation where a SNAP card is needed yet doesn’t point much at improving it. In many ways it supports the food stamp system, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as it is currently laid out. Stolberg starts off by phrasing Dustin Rigsby from Tennessee. She goes on to lay out that he is a struggling mechanic who reluctantly accepts food stamps as a way to feed his family of three. It goes on to say that while he is off work due to a knee injury his wife only works part time as a cashier at a local JC Penney. Having more than half...
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...Saving Sourdi “Don’t tell Ma I was here, O.K?” I begged Sourdi “ Nea got into the freezing car with Duke and upon driving home, she said to herself “maybe it’s time that I follow in my sister’s footsteps and find me man, and have a family.” Duke looked at her with agreement because secretly, Duke always had an attraction for Nea and would do anything for her and Nea knew this. Nea knew what Duke was thinking. Duke says to her “I’d be willing to start that adventure with you.” Nea sighs and thinks to herself, why not, Sourdi did it? Not knowing what exactly she was getting into. “What about my mother?” Nea asked. “We will go to your house, explain it to her and find a small court to be married.” Wow Nea thought. “Maybe we can get married and move close to Sourdi so that we can all be close again, we can even bring my mother with us.” Duke was a little skeptical about bringing their mother, however, he didn’t want to say anything that would change Nea’s mind about being with him. They arrived to Nea’s home early that morning. Duke dropped her off down the street so her mother would not hear her entering and awaken. Duke went home with plans to return that evening to explain to Nea’s mother what their plan was. Nea went to her bed and thought of how her mother would take this big movement. “Would she cry with joy?” Nea said to herself. “Or will she look at me like I am crazy?” Nea thought both sides through, but was fixed on following her sister and marrying a man. The cold day...
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...“Not So Happy Endings” In the unusually written short story, “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, Atwood gives the reader six very different possible storylines using many stereotypes and a good deal of cliché to propel a few main themes of the story. Atwood’s story is not only unusually written, it is also funny, thought provoking, and interesting despite the lack of detail and odd structure. After she has presented the six different storylines Atwood suddenly moves to the ending, which ironically, does not provoke any happy feelings as the title would indicate. The following literary analysis presented will discuss Atwood’s use of short scenarios, point of view, lack of detail, flat characters, and a flat tone which all together help to get one of her themes across. In “Happy Endings” Atwood uses theme to illustrate to the reader that everyone’s beginning and ending are the predictable skeleton of a story; the how and why you go through life to create your journey to the end are the important parts of life. Atwood’s six storylines, A through F, range from the stereotypical life in version A to the completely eccentric version F. In the first line of the story Atwood introduces John and Mary by simply stating that they meet (395). Atwood goes on to bring the reader into the story by asking the reader “What happens next?” (395), and then goes on to Version A. Version A is the “happy ending,” with John and Mary who live a flawless life. John and Mary are happy, healthy...
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...decides that the best was to do so was to disregard not regard these things as “unquestionably false” instead. He went as far as to pretend that his body did not exist and that averting that he had ever taught of was nothing more than a mere dream and did not exist in real life. Before he could even begin to imagine his non-existence, it occurred to him that fact that he could even think that everything was false proved that he existed. He stated “But no sooner had I embarked on this project than I noticed that while I was trying in this way to think everything to be false it had to be the case that I, who was thinking this, was something.” From this discovery he came up with his first principle “I think, therefore I am. The surprise ending came when Descartes concludes that his thoughts are proof that God exists. He explains because humans are imperfect and the sky, the earth, light, and other objects could be delusions, the idea of God could not be a delusion and thus God is real. Imperfect humans could not conceive of a perfect God...
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...Jamal L. James James 1 Instructor Fertig English 111 November 2, 2010 Never Ending Battle ------------------------------------------------- There was a time when having an education was not that high of an importance if you chose to enlist in the Armed Forces. Recruiter could have cared less if an individual were to gain any additional skills or education. Times have changed, recruiting of quality men and women for today's military plays an important role in today's society. Which regularly criticizes versus embracing and encouraging it. Allowing recruiting keeps America from a nightmare waiting to happen. A military draft, the results of recruitment produces productive contributors faster than college. The programs available in the military are miles ahead of the competition. ------------------------------------------------- Recruitment for the Armed Forces has built a powerful nation of the United States. Discouraging and limiting the access that recruiters need could eventually lead to the country going to shambles because it has been invaded so many times. This will then cause drastic measure such as a military draft is basically taking a person and having them to do something against their will. The drafting in previous conflicts were different due to the fact the Americans were more patriotic. Thomas Sowell explains best on what this will cause when he said, " We dare not destroy that institution or undermine its morale, by pouring into it very different...
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...The arguments that both sides have made are very reasonable, but ending child executions and life sentences outweighs all. What will happen to a child’s mental permanence if he or she is sentenced to serve life without parole? The Supreme Court and associations have mentioned over and over in their writing how we don’t usually seem to care about the mental stability of the child who has been charged for committing such horrendous crimes. Simply how all people really care to think about is whether or not a situation is morally right or wrong. They will frequently argue that if a child is capable of committing an adult crime then he or she should be charged as an adult. But should a situation only be judged over morality? Or should he or she...
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...Ending Prohibition of Marijuana Brian Egnor SOC 120 Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility Instructor. Linda Atkinson June 9, 2013 Ending Prohibition of Marijuana Marijuana should be legal for many reasons. Not only is marijuana been proven over and over through research and studies to help with many illnesses, but marijuana has never caused death by overdose like many legal drugs do year after year. I will also discuss how not only the marijuana plant can be used for medical, and recreational use, but the plant is also a relative of hemp which can be used to produce, rope, clothing, paper and many other resources . We can use nearly every part of the Cannabis Sativa, or marijuana plant. The plant grows rapidly and has been known to reach heights in excess of 20 feet. It is a plant that very few natural pests will attack or infest, and very few extremes in weather will hinder its growth. The leaves of the plant are narrow leaflets with usually in with at least 5 or more leaves. Each leaf connects to a slender stem that is attached to a thick, hollow stalk. The edge of the leaflets will resemble that of a serrated knife. The species does have male and female plants. The male plants tend to grow taller, and are topped with flowers covered in pollen. The female plant being shorter, has larger pollen catching flowers, and produces seeds and protects them with a sticky resin. The plant in turn has many uses. The stalk can be used to make fiber; the seeds can be...
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