...Perception People are self-centered, but deep down no one wants to admit it because it’s offensive and looked down upon in today’s modern society. For that reason, people tend to ignore it, do not question, or stop to have second thoughts of what is around them. Ernest Hemingway in his short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” has exposed readers to be queried to how people treat one another within a society. Hemingway generates thought-provoking individuals in his short story to show how people tend to be in their natural default-setting, and how apprehensive they are to their surroundings. In fact, David Foster Wallace in “This is Water” discloses that people do not stop and think about who, and what to pay attention to. Which results...
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...In her 1926 short story “Sweat” Zora Neale Hurston crafts an exploration of the strength of African-American femininity. This concept of hers is the beating heart of her story, yet it is so low profile that it is hardly heard. It is whispering when it could rightly yell, it is working for peace when it seemingly ought to rage. Yet, through her take on the archetype of the battered-yet-loyal wife, an archetype present in the mediums of literature, theater, and film, Hurston achieves a depiction of strength without violence. Hurston’s “Delia” is a giver, not a taker, and though at times caught between the conflict the two roles, Hurston endows her with the moral strength to be true to herself. However, Hurston does not make this an easy task....
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...freestanding structure in the world, highest number of stories in the world, highest occupied floor in the world, highest outdoor observation deck in the world, elevator with longest travel distance in the world, and tallest service elevator in the world.3. It is said that the weight of concrete used to build the skyscraper is equivalent to 100,000 elephants and the steel used to construct the frame is equal to that of 5 Airbus 380 aircrafts.4. The building design takes after the Greek flower, Hymenocallis. The name is translated as Beautiful Membrane in Greek.5. The building was constructed by a South Korean Company called South Korean company, Samsung Engineering and Construction.6. Burj Khalifa was built at a cost of $1.5 billion, It is supplied with about 250,000 gallons of water daily, and its electricity needs can go up to 360,000 100-watt bulbs burning at once.7. During the peak of construction, atleast 12,000 workers worked on the construction site per day.8. The tip of the sphere of Burj Khalifa can be seen from 95 kilometers away.9. The tower was to be called Burj Dubai but this was changed at the last minute to honor Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi for bailing out Dubai's bankrupt sovereign wealth fund with a $10 billion in 2009.10. Burj Khalifa has 54 elevators which have a speed of up to 40 miles per hour.Burj Khalifa is Dubai's pride. It signifies how far the desert country has come in short 50-years. If you are ever in Dubai, your first point...
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...describes the story Araby by James Joyce as “preserving a central episode in Joyce's life, an episode he will endlessly recapitulate. The boy in "Araby," like the youthful Joyce himself, must begin to free himself from the nets and trammels of society. That beginning involves painful farewells and disturbing dislocations” (349). The story “Araby” is a short memoir of James Joyce’s life as a young boy. Growing up in a predominantly Catholic republic in Dublin Ireland, the unreliable narrator somehow felt alienated, introspective, and at times disappointed. Being a part of a community where there is one religion can have influence the way one sees the world. Corresponding to the unreliable narrator in “Araby”, Abraham Rodriguez from “The Boy without a Flag” is affected by the environment he lives in. Overcome with defiance, the two characters become resistant: one resisting being a part of a bizarre place and the other resisting to conforming to an American tradition. In the two short stories, hypocrisy, disappointment, and religion and beliefs are themes that successfully illustrate their resistance. False hopes and discovering actuality through personal caused the young narrators to resist and resent; Resisting being a part of the atmospheres they dwelled in. James Joyce refers to religion throughout “Araby” to indicate his animosity towards the Catholic Church and Catholicism entirely. The narrator’s standpoint on hypocrisy in religion becomes vivid throughout the story. The story...
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...The Lais of Marie de France The Lais of Marie de France are a compilation of short stories that delineate situations where love arises. Love is presented as a complex emotion and is portrayed as positive, while at other times it is portrayed as negative. The author fluctuates on whether love is favorable or not as is described by the outcomes by some of the lovers in the story, such as lovers dying or becoming banished The author constructs stories that exhibit binaries of love to demonstrate. In the book, the author describes two distinct types of love, selfish and selfless. Selfish love occurs when a lover leaves their current love to be with another person for selfish reasons, while selfless love occurs when a lover leaves to be in a better...
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...King describes, as Bambara tells a short story expressing how a group of children living in poverty view the richer lifestyle, but some of King‟s categories of dealing with oppression can be seen in how Bambara‟s characters react to what they are observing. At the start of Bambara‟s “The Lesson,” Sylvia expresses her dislike and almost hatred for Miss Moore. This is made obvious by many of the statements she makes when introducing the characters and story: “I‟m really hating this nappy-head bitch and her goddamn college degree,” and “though I never talk to her . . . I wouldn‟t give the bitch that satisfaction.” Hatred is often the first step in acting violently, one of King‟s ways of meeting oppression. While Sylvia, or anyone else at any time during the story, does not actually act violently, their thoughts and feelings show signs of possible violence in the future. Not only do Sylvia and the children show a tendency of hatred towards Miss Moore, but to each other as well—especially aimed at Mercedes. The reader can gather that Mercedes‟s family has a little more money than the rest of them and Mercedes has no problem rubbing that fact in. When standing outside the store, Mercedes brags that her father would buy her the expensive toy boat if she wanted it, and Rosie responds by showing her some hostility: “Your father, my ass.” While the little disputes between the children are very likely just immaturity and they will grow out of it, the story also is able to show what the children...
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...Vipp The Danish entrepreneur company ! % * ( ( # # ! & ' ( # ) " # ! $ 1 “I never knew it was possible to spend so much money on a bathroom pedal bin. I’d been to the supermarket to return two bags full of recyclable bottles and cans, and, nosing around a few shops on the very short walk home, having extracted some cash from the bankautomat, and having purchased a photo-frame for my wife, I wandered into “liro”, a designer furnishings boutique and art gallery. Amongst their beautifully overdesigned and overpriced stock were a number of exceedingly smart looking Vipp pedal-bins. I imagined one such in our bathroom, in place of the small blue plastic bucket-shaped bin we’d been using for the past year and a half. I sensed an impulsebuy coming on, but then looked at the price, which startled me and made me think twice, until, very shortly after, having thought about it a third time, I bought one anyway.” Giornale Nuovo, January 2003 – a Swedish customer tells his Vipp-story Perception of the Brand A waste bin becomes an object of desire. “Less is more” seems to be slogan of Scandinavian design in general: Luxury is rather an understatement than a flashy interior and like furniture and kitchen equipment it takes a lot of decoding to translate the desirable brands into a pretty posh lifestyle. Only if you are sufficiently posh yourself you can decode for instance the Vipp pedal-bin as a desirable object – and then you become a member of this sequestered club...
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...Vipp The Danish entrepreneur company ! % * ( ( # # ! & ' ( # ) " # ! $ 1 “I never knew it was possible to spend so much money on a bathroom pedal bin. I’d been to the supermarket to return two bags full of recyclable bottles and cans, and, nosing around a few shops on the very short walk home, having extracted some cash from the bankautomat, and having purchased a photo-frame for my wife, I wandered into “liro”, a designer furnishings boutique and art gallery. Amongst their beautifully overdesigned and overpriced stock were a number of exceedingly smart looking Vipp pedal-bins. I imagined one such in our bathroom, in place of the small blue plastic bucket-shaped bin we’d been using for the past year and a half. I sensed an impulsebuy coming on, but then looked at the price, which startled me and made me think twice, until, very shortly after, having thought about it a third time, I bought one anyway.” Giornale Nuovo, January 2003 – a Swedish customer tells his Vipp-story Perception of the Brand A waste bin becomes an object of desire. “Less is more” seems to be slogan of Scandinavian design in general: Luxury is rather an understatement than a flashy interior and like furniture and kitchen equipment it takes a lot of decoding to translate the desirable brands into a pretty posh lifestyle. Only if you are sufficiently posh yourself you can decode for instance the Vipp pedal-bin as a desirable object – and then you become a member of this sequestered club...
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...shines a light on the inequality that resides within schools (Tatum). Tatum uses as an example of a Black student who, although she attends a thirty-five percent Black school, is one of the few Black students in her Honor classes(). Schools like this transfer over a blemished image of African Americans to the broader public. This is so ingrained in the epistemology that when a minority tries to perform well they are ridiculed for “acting white.”() Acting white is the social pressure that a group inflicts upon themself when they step outside of their social box(dee) The ridicule may condemn the ideal that they can be equal to White people constantly shown as above them. If this is the case than resisting the ways of white people may provide short term comfort. Tatum discusses how the black...
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...The family about which the novel The Makioka Sisters is written about is split between two houses; the main branch, which is the family home, is located in Osaka and the stem branch resides in Ashiya, an affluent suburb between Osaka and Kobe. The eldest sister, Tsuruko, her husband, Tatsuo, and their six children live in the main branch. Yukiko and Taeko, the third and fourth eldest sisters respectively, are both unmarried and bounce back and forth between the main and stem branches because of their disliking of their oldest sister’s husband. Despite the fact that they spend a majority of their time at the stem branch in Ashiya, Yukiko and Taeko technically belong to the main branch family in Osaka. The second eldest sister, Sachiko, lives in the Ashiya branch with her husband, Teinosuke, and their daughter, Etsuko. Both Tatsuo and Teinosuke are mukoyoshis, or husbands that have adopted the family name of their wives. The husbands did the because of the high social and financial status that accompanies the Makioka surname coupled with the fact that the sisters do not have brother to carry on the Makioka name. The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichiro blends century-old Japanese traditions with more modern, westernized lifestyles. “The three were not monotonously alike, however. Each had her special beauties, and they set one another off most effectively, still they had an unmistakable something in common…Yukiko was the most Japanese in appearance and dress, Taeko the most Western...
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...Research Paper On Destructive love In relationships why are the women so controlling and want to wear the trousers in the relationship? Well in the four stories, Macbeth, My Last Duchess, Pride & Prejudice, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you will learn how all four of these stories are related to today’s time relationships compared back in the medieval or renaissance romans era. In this essay I will discuss and point out key terms about today’s current relationships and what they lack in order to have a strong stable relationship versus back in the old ages where it was more related to today’s, but more complicated and dishonored. My goal in this research paper is to explain how destructive love affects the relationships in Macbeth, My Last Duchesses’ and Pride and Prejudice. Who wears the pants in the relationship? In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth wore the pants in the relationship. In the...
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...narrative essay, the purpose of which is the serve as evidence for the position you have taken on an issue. The issue in the sample essay is how the writer lost his teeth. The essay must be a minimum of 380 words and no more than 400 words. You will superscript the number of the comma rule that justifies it over each comma. When you turn in your final draft, you must turn in a minimum 100-word, process paragraph expressing what you learned as a result of this assignment. Learning Objectives • To format documents correctly in accordance with MLA; • To understand the structure of a narrative paragraph; • To understand your own unique voice (syntax and tone); • To eliminate sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices; • To eliminate point of view errors; • To eliminate verb tense errors; • To eliminate punctuation errors – commas; • To have fun. The Narrative Structure A narrative is a story, and like a story has a definite underlying structure. The parts of a narrative are the situation, conflict, struggle, outcome, and meaning. The situation informs the audience of when the story takes place and what is happening and who is involved at the beginning of the story. The conflict informs the audience of the tension that makes the story worth telling. All stories involve some sort of conflict. Following the explication of the conflict is the struggle which informs the audience of the...
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...banana leaf wasn't like anything on the menus ofMcDonald's, KFC or even Jollibee, the local burger chain. The flavors were distinctively Filipino, as was the earthy décor with wooden tables, handmade paper lamps and walls painted in orange, green and yellow. "We really wanted to create a new category in this business, one that wasn't influenced by American food," says Sia, 34, who's often referred to by his nickname, Injap. It's a winning recipe; Mang Inasal's affordable concoctions aimed at Filipino taste buds has made it the country's third-largest fastfood chain after Jollibee and Chowking, both owned by fellow lister Tony Tan Caktiong, whose expanding food empire has made him a billionaire. Sia's eight-year-old barbecue chain, with 380 outlets, has even overtaken McDonald's. And it has lately put him on the road to riches. Last October Jollibee, in a nod to its upstart rival, scooped up 70% of Mang Inasal for $68 million, valuing the outfit at nearly $100 million. The deal earned Sia a spot among the Philippines' wealthiest for the first time this year. With a net worth of $85 million, he's the youngest of the top 40. Sia isn't done yet. He retains a 30% stake in Mang Inasal through Injap Investment, a family holding company in which his brother Ferdinand and sister Rizza also own shares. He and...
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...In Isaac Asimov's ‘Book of Facts’ (1979), he claims there is an Assyrian clay tablet dated back to approximately 2800 BC, which was unearthed bearing these words, "Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery and corruption are common." The Romans in 634 BC had their own collective doomsday prediction and foresaw the demise of their City of Rome in its 120th year of founding. The first millennial French Bishop, Hilary of Poitiers had put his money on the world ending in 365 AD. His precognitions were soon superseded by North African Christians, The Donatists, who were said to be looking forward to the world ending in 380 AD. The list of historical doomsayers is lengthy and predominantly Christian, a majority all so far proved wrong but it only takes one to get it...
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...Media Literacy I have advocated for 30 years that, in order to preserve our democracy and protect ourselves against demagogues, we should have courses in schools on how to watch TV, how to read newspapers, how to analyze a speech – how to understand the limitations of each medium and make a judgment as to the accuracy or the motives involved. (Cronkite) Media’s influence on society is powerful and far-reaching because they introduce us to new and different images that affect our personalities and perceptions of the world we live in. A report by the Free Expression Policy Project has shown that media glamorize violence, sex, drugs, and alcohol; reinforce stereotypes about race, gender, and class; and prescribe the lifestyle to which one should aspire, and the products one must buy to attain it (Hines and Cho 2). If society wants to correct these negative influences of media, Walter Cronkite’s message on the need for media literacy is therefore imperative. Media literacy, defined by AMLA as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information in a variety of forms, will empower us to be both critical thinkers and creative producers of a wide range of messages using image, language, and sound (Center for Media Literacy). By becoming media literate, it is hope that we will have a better understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our diverse culture. To showcase the importance of media literacy, analyses of news and commercial media are...
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