...In the book All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr writes, on pages 112-116, a specific point in style and meaning on how Werner breaks through his pre destined life to work in the mines, to go to a school were he could become great. Werner is an orphan who lives in Zollverien Germany, a mining town. He is expected to work there in the mines, but his expertise in working with radios gives him a chance to go somewhere different with his life when a Nazi official recommends him to try for the National Political Institute of Education at Schulpforta. Werner has a chance to get out of the mines, but at one cost, committing his work for Nazi cause. Doerr uses many techniques to describe Werner’s self doubt and his desire to get out of Zollverien. In the beginning of the passage Doerr brings an immediate impression that Werner is doubtful because he says, “all but two are taller than he is” and the instructor brings up that Werner is “attempting to enter the most elite school in the world.” Doerr brings us this mental acknowledgment that getting into this school will be hard and they will test Werner and other competitors to their limits. Werner expresses this doubt when he realizes he is the...
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...People have been telling stories and legends for as long as anyone can remember, but whether or not they believe that any of it actually happened is entirely up to them. Anything can be seen in a new perspective and thought of in a different way. It is almost only based on how a person wants the story to be instead of what actually might have happened. There is a legend about a tiny little diamond in the novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr where it brings eternal safety to whomever has it but it brings the very opposite to anyone that person may care about or love. The story takes place between the years 1934 and 2014, but mainly focuses on only the first twelve of those years. It follows a young boy who becomes a German solider, a young teenage girl who happens to be blind, and a sergeant throughout some of the ups and downs that they face during the...
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...According to Steph Cha, a Los Angeles Times writer, the novel All the Light We Cannot See, “required a lot of work to rise above emotional manipulation” (Cha 1). Cha explains why he describes the novel this way is because it is written about two characters with heartbreaking backstories during a hardship of World War II. Cha acknowledges one of Anthony Doerr, author of the novel, strengths of how his book captured, ‘‘reflections on the meaning of life, the universe and everything” (Cha 2). This can be difficult to achieve because it only has one theme. Cha describes Werner (the orphan boy) as the “most compelling part of the book” (Cha 8). Because his characteristics in the novel makes him more complex compared to the other characters, it is difficult to be defined as either “good or bad.” (Cha 9)....
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...Anthony Doerr uses many different perspectives in his novel All the Light we Cannot See to convey how different people are affected by the current ongoing war, World War II. Doerr focuses on 2 characters perspectives in his novel; Werner, a intelligent boy enlisted into a nazi training camp and later sent onto the field and Marie-Laure, a blind girl with a passion for knowledge. Werner’s perspective is focused around survival and he does what he is told because he fears for his life. Contrary to this, Marie-Laure has a hopeful perspective because her hope creates her reality in her mind. Doerr uses different perspectives to show how focusing too much on one point of view can obscure reality and make a person blind to the reality of some situations. Werner has a very fearful perspective....
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...explaining the effects of sight and how it is interpreted through darkness and lightness. Darkness, in particular, refers less to the physical absence of light, and more to human’s inability to think with clarity. Darkness clouds the capacity to see until, “only tatters of clearness through a pervading obscurity,” are visible. The “obscurity” is the dark unknown that hides the visible “clearness.” The “clearness” is our coherence, and yet we are unable to fully experience it because there will always be the unknown that fogs our field of comprehension. Dillard also uses darkness as a motif to repeatedly call attention...
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...accident in Malaysia is higher compare the year before from 6,706 to 7,125. From this statistic, we can conclude that every year the accident in the road will increase for each year. First of all, what is the meaning of road accident? The road accident means when the automobile crash with the other automobile in the road. So, I want to ask you all, does anyone heard about the cases of accident that killed a technician last month in Penang? Of course you already know it right because this is the first cases of wrong way accident for this year that involves six vehicles in highway. This accident was classifying as not an ordinary accident by the Law Lecturer...
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...The Darkness in Nostromo “The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” – John 1:5. Light and darkness are always inverses to one another; both cannot occupy the same place at the same time, and yet neither can be defined without the other. To know the light is to have known the darkness, if one is missing, the other is lost. Darkness is unable to comprehend light, it is unable to understand, it lacks to knowledge. Light in most religions and cultures stemming back thousands of years ago is seen as something that breeds knowledge while darkness destroys all understandings we hold. Nostromo is a modernist novel that enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a fictional South American territory. Throughout Nostromo, the author Joseph Conrad continuously brings up the theme of darkness in many variations within the text, from the physical darkness cast over all of Costaguana, which is created by the setting sun and lack of light, to the psychological aspect of darkness within character’s hearts and minds, as we see within Nostromo himself when he chooses to forsake his ideology and steal the silver. Conrad was able to use an intangible element of darkness, which has the ability to conceal and destroy knowledge, as a tool to portray human consciousness when you believe that no one is able to discern your actions. A brief history of Joseph Conrad and his writing will help give way to understanding his intent behind Nostromo. Conrad was a British...
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...scientific method is a process to ask question and answer scientific problem solving by making observation and doing experiments. We can follow the below steps to solve our problem scientifically: Observation This is the first part of scientific method is discovered upon direct observation of what is around us. As a scientist we have to look critically and attempt to avoid all kind if sources and bias in this observation. Ask question The second step in the scientific method is formulated by questions. Ask as many questions as we need to answer. Science can answer many questions, but there are some which cannot be answered by science. Hypothesis The next part of our scientific method is to form a hypothesis. This is simply an educated guess as to the answer for the question. Prediction The prediction is an official way to put a hypothesis to a test. If the test works most likely we are on a right track to solve our problem. If we have carefully designed our hypothesis to be sure it is falsifiable, then we know precisely what to predict. The prediction has three parts such as if, then and when. Experiment This is where we practice hands-on part of the test. Here we will carry out our manipulation and compare the results with results from a control setting. To be an experiment, we must compare all the results of many manipulations. Not everything we do in science...
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...before the birth of Christ. Yet it is just as relevant today as it bears witness to the complexity of human life and sheds light on the human condition—certainly a timeless topic for exploration. Plato’s writing depicts how we, as human beings, view, understand, and experience life and the things around us in our own unique way, and how we all struggle to make the right choices for ourselves, as it’s often easier to take the path of least resistance. When we see the sun, do we all see the same sun or see the same color? When we dream, do we all experience the same dream and give it the same meaning? These thoughts and feelings require us to look at our existence in a metacognitive way. As the story begins, there are prisoners living in a cave, bound by chains, and surrounded by fire. They can only see what is right in front of them. There is an opening in the front of cave that allows the light in. The prisoners can choose to see the light outside and yearn to be out of the cave, although most of them believe it is easier to ignore the light than to acknowledge its existence. Those who choose to look at the light or even break free from their chains have to endure immense pain and hardship before they feel free. Plato states: “At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will...
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...The time-lag argument is an argument in the philosophy of perception whose conclusion is that we never (directly) perceive physical things of any sort expect our own inner experiences in our brains. The author of the time lag argument assumes that by simply appealing to facts from the uncontestable laws of physics, one will realize that the common belief about objects of vision are mistaken. However, in this paper, I will show that the author has failed to realize that the key to the argument is the notion that we perceive things happen when they happen, and not later; and we perceive things in the states in which they are, at the time when we perceive them. I argue that the argument pivots on the ordinary use of the word “perceive”. There...
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...Anh Nguyen PHI 111-112 Assignment #2 Essay 1: What is your belief about ultimate reality? In this position paper, the worldview that I find the most persuasive is metaphysical naturalism. I realized that I am a naturalist that believes the nature is all that exist. Therefore, that all things supernatural (including God, spirits, souls and non-natural values) do not exist. Naturalists hold that all minds, the contents, powers, and effect of minds that are entirely constructed from or caused by natural phenomena. Following to argument from physical minds, scientists have many evidences that the human mind is a product of a functioning brain, which is entirely constructed from different interacting physical systems that evolved over time through the animal kingdom. In addition, mental and physical have a close relationship, so it means there is no mental happens that does not go with physical. Therefore, it is impossible to say that there are some souls and God exist. And, this argument is what we would expect if naturalism is true. According to argument from history of science, there is a single theme unifying the history of science, it is that naturalistic (non-supernatural) explanation work. The history of science has many examples of naturalistic explanations; however, there is no example’s supernatural explanations about naturalistic. Luckily, the naturalistic explanation is so successful that even these explanations also make scientific theists have to accept. Therefore...
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...“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:14-16 (English Standard Version Study Bible) The Lamp on a Stand is a short two verse parable in the Gospel of Matthew, part of Jesus’ famous Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is the first of five major discourses in the Gospel of Matthew (English Standard Version Study Bible). During this Sermon, Jesus is talking to His disciples (5:1) about the Kingdom of Life and how it applies to their everyday world. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus expounds on how a Christian, who believes in Christ as their Lord and Savior, ought to live in this life. These teachings are challenging, but they are also practical and ethical; providing a framework for His followers. In the beginning of the Sermon, Jesus provides His disciples with the beatitudes, following with a commission, which includes the Lamp on a Stand parable. Before the Lamp parable is the comparison with salt (5:13); Jesus says that his disciples are the salt of the earth. He uses salt because salt is beneficial for many different things, which is how the disciples are going to influence the world. Jesus says that salt that becomes dull is useless except to be thrown out and trampled down...
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...means a lot to me, I cannot limit my art and expression to 500 words. The darkness is never ending. It is constant and thus its absence is comfortingly permanent. It will always be there, in its complete and utter lack of presence. The darkness is addicting. It is empty and devoid of all life. It is also by definition devoid of all pain. There is no pain in the darkness. There is no happiness in the darkness. There is no anger in the darkness. There is no love in the darkness. There is nothing in the darkness. The darkness can become a home to you. It can hold you in its black tendrils and swear to keep you safe for all eternity. All you have to do is give up your emotions. Just give them up and everything will be gone. Well, everything except boredom that is. The darkness is empty. Nothing happens in the darkness. It is merely an absent, silent guard that surrounds you and keeps you in its grasp. Don't get me wrong...I don't hate the darkness. It saved me when I was so angry i felt I could explode, when i was so sad I thought I would shatter into a billion pieces. But it...
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...really trying to be expressed through this novel. Ort’s father, Sam, went into a come as a result of a car accident. Ort looked up to his father as some kind of God like figure and now that he’s gone, Ort has looked to the sky for help. The sky and the light play an important role in understanding and what is happening. The light above Ort’s house that only Ort can see is representing religion. Ort perceives the sky to be the eye of God, creator of all things and the source of light in human beings. This same light is also represented in the sheep seen over his house which further enhances the fact that he is being watched day and night. Winton is trying to emphasise faith in God in this novel by sending his message using the story of an innocent boy’s life to further support the fact that faith is around us all the time in the simplest forms. The simplest, yet most powerful message is shown in how Ort looks up to the bright sky as if it is God. The light that the sky gives off is also portrayed in the sheep, as if they were some kind of fluffy white cloud, that are above Ort’s house, which develops the idea of the fact that Ort is being watched over by God day and night. This also leads to a religious symbolism as this small light could be equivalent to the Star of Bethlehem shining over the birth of Jesus in stables. The cloud is some kind of protective halo which represents a potential new beginning, rebirth or even a baptizing. This same cloud is what possibly led Henry Warburton...
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...Are the side – emitting fibers with reflecting core more luminous? Answer- If a side emitting light guide has a center reflecting core it would appear that it would issue more light directionally, this is to say: if the light guide was suspended in mid-air and viewed from any angle. The problem with that argument is that those optics are, normally attached to a support and viewed from fixed angles. The opaque centerpiece, in this case, would impede the passage of light from behind the core and hence the optic would have less light available to the viewer. Side-emitting light guides are sheathed in a transparent cover and the viewer, by transparency, has the benefit of the light escaping not only from the individual fibers placed directly in front of his line of vision but also from the ones behind. If we take a glass tube filled with a colored liquid and light it up from one end, we could view the whole of the mass as a lit-up cylinder. If we then place a concentric opaque core, from a given direction we would have less vision of the cylinder mass. The same would hold true with any transparent...
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