...felt, and the effect the war had on him. When Gene first came to Devon School, the boarding school that he spent his entire high school career in, he quickly discovered himself and his true identity. In the beginning of the story Gene looked back on his days in this phantom school, and he relived...
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...The Kite Runner Practice Questions Explore the ways in which Hosseini portrays Ali: During the novel Ali is portrayed as a victim, First off, Baba has an affair with Ali's wife and fathers Hassan. Then, Amir forces Ali and Hassan to leave Baba's house. Finally, in the random violence now so common in war, Ali steps on a land mine and dies. However, like Hassan and Sohrab, Ali is a kind and good person. He has a beautiful voice and Amir and Hassan love to hear him sing. He remains faithful to Baba even though Baba dishonored Ali by sleeping with Sanaubar. Ali is also devout – his humble, constant faith perhaps influences Amir's own religious awakening later in the novel. Ali makes much fewer appearances in the novel compared to the other characters but his speeches are very important. Some of the main ones are: [...] Ali had congenital paralysis of his lower face muscles, a condition that rendered him unable to smile and left him perpetually grim-faced. (2.20) But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle. [...]. I watched him [Ali] swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right every time he planted that foot. It seemed a minor miracle he didn't tip over with each step. [...]. Ali's face frightened some of the younger children in the neighborhood. [...]. Some had taken to calling him Babalu, or Boogeyman. (2.22) From these it...
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...the process in which a duplicate sculpture (in this case bronze) is cast from an original sculpture of wax. The wax is put into a mold and then melted back out. Then bronze is deposited into the mold. This means that the statue is hollow on the inside. It was made in several different part and pieced together. As the body was seen as very beautiful, Donatello kept his sculpture nude except for a hat and boots. The hat and boots were extremely detailed and decorated. There were leaves and flowers along the brim of the hat. The boots had great details carved into them, too. David’s left foot is resting on Goliath’s head. Goliath’s beard hair is wrapped between David’s toes. There is a very war-like helmet on Goliath’s head, with a group of feather coming out of it. These feathers wrap back up the leg of David, creating a sense of visual flow. The negative space forms triangular shapes, which keeps your eyes moving around the piece. This statue, though, doesn’t really use the space around it; it is just its own space. Donatello had his statue portraying the scene as he had already killed Goliath. The figure had a contrapposto, natural, S-curve stance. His left foot was resting on Goliath’s head, which was lying on the ground since he had cut it off. He was looking down at his left foot, like he was admiring his work. His facial expression seems to be subtle smirk. His lip is slightly upturned almost as if he is proud of what he did. He looks as if he is an adolescent boy. Even though...
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...Emira Hoxha National Honor Society Sept. 25, 2017 Application Essay The qualities people possess and what they do with those qualities is what makes up someone's character. I have got to be honest, there have been many essays I have had to write where they asked me “Who am I”, but none have made me think as deeply as this one. How do I morally and mentally line up with the world? People have told me that I am reliable, observant, and hard-working, but finding moments where these characteristics were shown were difficult. There was a moment during a very stressful time at my workplace where we had many orders coming in. The organization for said orders was nonexistent. They were all noted down in different places depending on who took what...
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...death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others” and the person’s response involved “intense fear, hopelessness, or horror” (American Psychiatric Association [DSM-IV- TR], 2000). It is considered PTSD if the symptoms, such as avoidance of any stimuli that reminds the person of the traumatic event or sleeplessness, last for more than a month and causes problems in important areas of functioning. PTSD is considered an invisible wound of war, mainly because for the soldiers overseas, there is no typical enemy (Tanielian & Jaycox, 2008). Christopher was in the Spec Ops of the US Army. He was a staff sergeant that was in charge of a squad. He has been stationed all around Europe and Southeast Asia. After he was injured, Christopher was transferred back to the States. He has shrapnel in his left leg from a tour of duty and the hospitals said that they could remove it but if they did, they might as well amputate his leg. Refusing to lose his leg, Christopher decided on the answer that most military Cause 3 veterans or even active duty soldiers decide on. They would “soldier on” and finish their job no matter what. This...
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...and early 20th century, immigrants moved to the United States from many different European and Asian countries. To begin, immigrants moved due to reasons at their home countries like religious persecution, wars and political revolutions. When they arrived in the United States, immigrants’ experiences were already negative. Some may argue that America gave immigrants freedom and a chance at a golden life, but most of the immigrants that arrived went into poverty and that percent only increased. Not only were they in poverty, but the jobs they worked in were extremely dangerous. Ultimately, the overall experience of immigration was negative because of the low paying jobs and dangerous jobs that could kill them. Immigrants...
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...artifacts, and DNA analysis. By understanding these clues and exploring the data it is clear how much we are evolved from one period to the next. In the exbiht Human Origins at the Natural History Museum fossils and DNA gave clues about the earliest members of the human family. Humans were thought to be most related to chimpanzees and bonobos. But the DNA of humans and chimpanzees is 98% the same and 2% different. Many scientists believed the 2% occurred when hominids evolved from living in trees to adapted living on the ground. DNA is considered the identifying mark of a living system such as the human evolution tree. The DNA code is complex in its basic structure. DNA is a double helix structure molecule. It’s like a long ladder and twisted into a spiral structure. DNA molecules are sugar and phosphate forms the sides of the ladder. DNA has four bases: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine that makes up various sequences. Only one out of every thousand bits of DNA information differs between any two people. This information shapes the development and function of nearly everything about the human body. A few million years ago, scientists found a half ape known as Lucy appeared in Africa. Lucy was an Australopithecus afarensis, a species that evolved from...
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...Are we being censored in America? Today we have to be careful what we say because someone will take it the wrong way and be offended. In America, we have the right to say what we want, but to what cost? People don’t have the right to tell them what is okay to say and what is not. Where are the boundaries for what we say? This is where social media and laws don’t help us today. Wounds and wars are beginning because of something someone said. Does social media help us? Today, most everyone uses social media. It helps us get the information we need, but does it help us? People can be rude. Events can be escalated into a big misunderstanding. The stories can be changed to what people want them to be. Someone's words can be twisted and turned around to make them a big ordeal. It can make a small two car accident into a semi-driver ran into six other cars. People also instagram, tweet, and post rude comments that will make someone mad, upset, and heartbroken to see those comments a friend or a complete stranger said about them. Today people say what they want and they don’t care if it hurts somebody’s feelings, but who gets to decide whether it is rude or harmful....
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...WAKARA VASE (CH 2) In ancient Mesopotamia, around 4000 BCE, humans began to domesticate plants and animals allowing them to organize communities rather than live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Because they had the basic components of a civilization with a stable food supply, people began to specialize in areas such as trade, manufacturing, administration, and art. Sumerian art was one of the first evidences of narrative art as seen by the Wakara Vase, from the Inanna temple complex in Uruk. The alabaster vessel, roughly three feet tall, is divided into registers to tell the story of a religious ceremony honoring the goddess Inanna. The vase’s reliefs are divided into registers to tell a story. The first register depicts water as a wavy line with a crop above. The next register is of ewes and rams depicted in strict profile, which was characteristic of the time. The crops and animals were necessities in the daily life of all Sumerians. The next band is of naked men carrying overflowing baskets and jars to present as a votive offering and the top band depicts a female in a horned headdress symbolizing the goddess Inanna. Inanna is depicted much larger than the man, signifying her importance. This is one of the first examples of hierarchy of scale, where greater size is used to emphasize power or importance. The layout of the bands signifies Sumerian society: Inanna has blessed the people with abundant crops and herds and in return they give votive offerings. The Wakara vase is...
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...that there is a total lack of respect for generals or for people in positions of power/ authority. If this happens in war then there is a breakdown in the chain of command, therefore making it difficult to win the war itself. Glossary Compile a comprehensive list of words/ terms/ phrases/ places from the text and from the period in which the novel is set in. These words and terms should then feature in your coursework and text responses. * Trench warfare * Western Front * Alliance * Mother Country * Over the top * No mans land * Parapet * Sniper * Artillery * Shell Shock * Shrapnel * Minewerfer – mine throwing trench mortars * Parados – the wall of the trench * Blighty – England * Bosch/ Heine – derogatory term for a German * Estaminet – French café * Propaganda – exaggerating the truth * Lice/ louse – small parasitic insect * Funk-hole – a cavity carved out of the inside of the trench * Raid * Interrogation Quotes Choose at least 3 quotes per chapter and attach who said it and a page number. Chapter 1 - Recruits Major events and observations: * A final night of booze and sex with prostitutes before going to war * Anderson’s pleas to the men to stop misusing/ abusing their bodies * The 17 year old recruit vomiting * The euphoric fanfare of war * The narrator considering fleeing with the girl he has just met Quotes 1. “…God...
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...Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2007 368 pages To consider a story about the Holocaust to be lovely appears grotesque and ironic. However, Diane Ackerman’s non-fiction work The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, begs to differ. Ackerman presents the true story of compassion and its polar opposite very wisely, and in an manner that manages to be both grim and exuberant. The tale to be told set Ackerman up for greatness, and she executes its telling impeccably. The story begins in the summer of 1935 in Warsaw, Poland, where we are introduced to a young couple, Antonina and Jan Zabinski. Antonina and Jan were the directors of Warsaw’s lush, fecund zoo in which the animals not only inhabited cages, but in habitats (engineered by the couple) to recreate the animals’ natural habitats. Both Antonina and Jan’s backgrounds were far from the norm; Antonina being a Russian-born Pole whose parents were murdered by the Bolsheviks during the early stages of the Russian Revolution and Jan, born a Polish Catholic, but raised atheistically by his father in a working-class Jewish neighborhood. It was these unique and differing foundations that made the Zabinski household almost a madcap bohemia, constantly hosting artists and intellectuals, and not to mention a seemingly never ending rotation of non-human companions, ranging anywhere from muskrats to lion cubs (all of whom had names). From this information, it is evident that Jan...
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...styles between them, they both represent the different view of the perfect female form. The most widely known female figurine, the Venus of Willendorf, with only 11cm in height, is possibly the smallest female nude sculpture we know. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary. The Venus of Willendorf can be dated back to approximately the Paleolithic period, around 28,000 to 25,000 BCE. According to some analysis, it was obvious that it had once been “painted with red ochre”, a symbolic substance commonly found in connection with burials and grave goods from the same time period. It was made of Oolitic limestone. Her thighs are also large and pressed together down on the knees. The thin arms rest on the breasts, legs that end in knobs below the knee and the feet appear to be broken off. Further, the sculpture has no facial features - the head being almost completely covered by a braided pattern. There is a theory that the figurine's hair is braided in seven concentric circles, seven in later times being regarded as a magic number used...
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...Mesopotamia between 2350 – 2150 B.C. The regime of the Akkadian empire ruled based on political domination, taxation, and literacy. The Akkadian Empire was birthed after Sargon I conquered the Sumerian city-states and founded the empire in the capital city of Akkad. Absolute monarchy and the idea of divine kingship originated in the Akkadian empire; as a result, influenced many civilizations to come. Akkadian kings were portrayed to be glamorous in art due to their high influence and stature in Akkadian society. However, Naram-Sin, great grandson of Sargon I and Akkadian king between 2254 and 2218 BC, was responsible for introducing the idea of divine kingship by portraying himself to be divine on a relief sculpture dedicated to one of his war victories. The relief is called the Stele of Naram-Sin (2254-2218 B.C.E) and the purpose was to exemplify Naram-Sin as a supernatural figure. The Stele of Naram-Sin is carved into pink sandstone and stands a staggering 6 feet and 7 inches tall. It was discovered by French archaeologists slightly before 1900 on the Iranian site of Susa and it’s currently in the Louvre Museum. The human figures depicted on the stele are carved in a way that they are popping out of the flat pink sandstone surface. The relief illustrates Naram-Sin and his soldiers marching up a mountain conquering the Lullubi people who lived on the mountains in the eastern region of Mesopotamia. The battle event on the relief was illustrated by the use of one overall dramatic...
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...Dwight David Eisenhower was not just a president; he was a husband, father, and a war hero. His actions change the outcome of World War II and during his presidency he changed American history. Dwight David Eisenhower “Ike” was born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, to a poor family of David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, Dwight was only the third of seven sons. The family moved back to Abilene when David received the opportunity to work at his brother-in-law’s creamery. Tragedy struck the family, when Dwight was just four-years-old; diphtheria took the life of his ten-month-old brother Paul (“Dwight D. Eisenhower”1). Dwight and his brother worked for the family taking care of chickens, ducks, pigs, rabbits, a horse, and two cows, they also handpicked fruits from their orchard. Occasionally, Dwight would work alongside his father at the creamery. Dwight never actually knew his family was poor due to the community’s respect for the family. Ida taught her boys discipline and how to cook and clean the house. Growing up Dwight’s reputation was shaped by his ability to fight and his...
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...out of pulling his leg, even if one did it by accident” (65). The boys are blatantly unkind to Piggy without any regrets. As discussed by the psychologist Kohlberg, elementary age boys are not known for their strong morals, and in an unregulated environment, they slowly lose any qualms about making fun of other boys. Piggy takes the brunt of the boys’ jeers- reflecting Golding’s beliefs about the role of logic and reason in society. The author recognizes that unguided, humanity can easily become evil, and the first targets are those that are weak or different. As a result of his constant mockery, Piggy longs to be accepted or at least tolerated by the other boys. For the majority of the book, Piggy is unaccepted by everyone, but when Jack breaks away, Ralph begins to treat Piggy more kindly. To his delight, Ralph confides in Piggy and increases his feeling of acceptance: “When he understood how far Ralph had gone toward accepting him he flushed pinkly with pride” (140). This is a turning point, and a success for Piggy. In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, acceptance (level 3) follows safety (level 2). Piggy mostly resides on level 2, though following the murder of Simon, his sense of safety is threatened, and he retreats to level 1. According to Maslow, a person will always strive to achieve the next level of need until they reach self-fulfillment (level 5), which rarely occurs. Piggy’s goal of being accepted shows Golding’s belief that in times of crisis, be it war or stranded, intellectual...
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