...The Horror of Technology A week before classes started I went to the bookstore to purchase my books required by classes. For my English Composition class two books were necessary, The Norton’s Field Guide to Writing and Alone Together by Sherry Turkle. I thought to myself, “Great! Not only do we have to write in this class, but we also have to read a book.” I read the cover of the book to get an idea of what this book was all about. “Why we expect more for technology and less from each other”. It seemed slightly interesting. People always hear from their older relatives, “Back in my day…” These statements usually shocked us. Like, how did they do that, or how did they survive? It intrigued me to learn how technology has affected us. We were first assigned to read the Author’s Notes and the Introduction. From this I found out Sherry Turkle was actually a creditable source, not just some random person ranting. She is a teacher at MIT, and also psychoanalytically trained psychologist (Turkle ix-xvii). Likewise, I found out Turkle used various methods to collect data for her book: clinical trials, interviews, research, studying certain age groups, and immersing herself in the environment. We will go more in depth on these methods later. She seemed like an amazingly laid back writing in these sections being very open, throwing in a few comical lines, and telling many stories. “Maybe this was not going to be a boring book after all,” I considered to myself with relief. During the...
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...Johnnie Milton Blythe KNOB LICK - Johnnie Milton Blythe, formerly of Cumberland County, Kentucky, passed away on Friday, January 12, 2018 at his home, having attained the age of 82 years, 6 months, and 10 days. He was born in Turkey Neck Bend (Monroe County), Kentucky on Tuesday, July 2, 1935, the son of Cleveland “Cleve” and Molly (Logan) Blythe. He was of Baptist faith and attended Cornerstone Community Church. He was a ferry boat operator, a farmer, a gospel, and a talented musician. He is survived by his children, Judy (Jerry) Spears of Summer Shade, Peggy (Harold) Spears of Louisville, and Wayne (Tammy) Blythe of Edmonton; one half-brother, Billy Blythe of Burkesville; three half-sisters, Lela Guess of Burkesville, Madie Capps of Burkesville,...
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...James Harold Doolittle Edmond Pukaj Spartan College of Aeronautics Abstract James Doolittle was a man with an outstanding resume in the American Air Force and one of Americas most well-known aviation pilots whose contributions in the Second World War was extremely crucial to increasing American morale. Doolittle also played a major role in creating new instrumentations to improve night flying and flying in hazardous weather. Doolittle broke and set many records in the aviation world and made the impossible possible with his extraordinary flying skills. Made himself a role model for upcoming generations of pilots. General James “Jimmy” Harold Doolittle was a very important individual in American aviation history. Many recognize Jimmy Doolittle as the individual responsible for coordinating the planes that took off on the aircraft carrier The Hornet, for the raid on Japan in the Second World War. James Doolittle was placed in charge of defining which plane to use for this mission. He decided on the B-25 plane determining that it had the highest potential to make the short take-off of the Hornet. Doolittle was known as being a daredevil, scholar, pilot and General. Doolittle’s particular expertise and passion was for flying. He is considered to be the American aviation pioneer. Although his flying expertise is what he is most commonly credited for his accomplishments far exceed this criterion (Daso, 2003) James Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896 in Alameda, California...
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...like losing. A lot of people, when they lose, say that the important reasons were having fun and competing. They are lying. You feel disappointed and angry. As a matter of fact you are not happy just playing, because you could play whenever you want, you need to win. Let’s face it, competition is natural, without it we would be mediocre and we would not get better ever. You never finish satisfied when you lose. Nobody wants to lose. You never go to a competition saying “I don’t want to win”. Ok, it’s true, you probably won some experience for the next time, but you didn’t like losing. I bet that everyone will prefer winning the competition than just winning experience. You feel disappointed about yourself because you wanted to win. As Eliza Dushku said “Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?” Competition is a normal thing, without it everyone would be mediocre. Imagine if nobody wanted to win. You won’t even practice, you would not have the desire to be better, and furthermore you would not have anything to fight for. In your life you will compete eventually, at school grades, at college admissions, at job opportunities, you will always find competition. It doesn´t mean that competition is bad, it’s probably bad if you give it too much importance, but normally it’s good. As they say “No Pain, No Gain”. You are not happy just competing, moreover you need to win! Participating in a competition its fun. But you are not entirely happy if you don’t...
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...Dubliners Joyce, James Published: 1914 1 About Joyce: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish Séamus Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish expatriate writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939), the short story collection Dubliners (1914) and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Although his adult life was largely spent outside the country, Joyce's fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and provide the settings and much of the subject matter for all his fiction. In particular, his tempestuous early relationship with the Irish Roman Catholic Church is reflected through a similar inner conflict in his recurrent alter ego Stephen Dedalus. As the result of his minute attentiveness to a personal locale and his self-imposed exile and influence throughout Europe, Joyce became simultaneously one of the most cosmopolitan and one of the most local of all the great English language writers. Source: Wikipedia 2 Chapter 1 The Sisters There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind, for I knew that two candles...
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...The Life of Edgar Allan Poe Does grief benefit writers? The idea is that sadness, despair, and heartache may be channeled and applied for creativity as emotional inspiration. A well known example is Edgar Allan Poe, who suffered from poverty, was orphaned before age three, and fought alcoholism during most of his life. After meeting and falling in love with his cousin, Virginia, Poe was not aware he’d have to endure the pain of losing her like so many of his loved ones before. He once stated, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." (citation?) If it had not been for the tragic illness and death of Virginia, Poes' work may not have been as good or memorable, and we may not have gained some of the most influential works in literature. Poe was born in January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and he was the middle child of Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe Jr. He had an older brother named Henry and a younger sister named Rosalie. Unfortunately, he only lived with his family for two years due to the unexpected departure of his father and the tragical death of his mother from tuberculosis. The three children were divided into separate residences, but only Poe was adopted by John and Frances Allan from Richmond, Virginia. Soon after his adoption, he decided to add his foster family's name to his own to become Edgar Allan Poe. Initially, Poe had a positive relationship with his new family, and rapidly became attached to his foster...
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...Edgar Allen Poe thought of women as angelic figures and was an athletic little fellow. His father, David Poe Jr., had left him and his mother when he was just one year old. His mother, Elizabeth Poe, had died of tuberculosis when he was just 2 years old. Mr. and Mrs. John Allen adopted Edgar when he was three years old. Edgar Allen Poe thought women should be treated with respect and courtesy and while Mrs. Allen was on her death bed, Mr. John Allen was having affairs with other women right in his house. Mrs. Allen had died in 1829 when Edgar was eighteen years old and John Allen had abandoned Edgar. Edgar was a young genius and had listed in the army under the name of Edgar A. Perry in 1827. He did reasonably well and attained the rank of...
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...In life there are many ups and downs. During the loss of a loved one, you are faced with many emotions. In “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, it talks about a man who has suffered a tragic loss of his loved one Lenore. As he was sitting in his house one night he heard a tapping on his door. The man was very frightened, when he opened the door a savage raven flew in. The sorrowful narrator asks the bird many questions and in hopes he will leave soon. In the story the symbol of the raven can be interpreted in many different ways such as: a sign of evil, loneliness, and sorrow. Ravens are known to be a sign of bad luck and evil. When the raven showed up it put out a great sense of evil. In the writing it says ,“What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore (Poe 71).” These words the man uses to describe the bird such as ghastly, gaunt, and ominous all trigger an emotion of fright and fear, and the feeling of evil. With the author using repetition of the letter “g” it created a more suspenseful and intense feeling. The raven as if tormented the man. In some cases when you experience heartbreak it almost makes it easier of being afraid, afraid of living, living without the person you thought you would never live without. The raven’s eyes could pierce or burn any weak man’s soul and he did just that, (to the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core (74).” Eyes can show a thousand things and can show someone something they have never seen or felt for themself...
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...The Raven, perhaps Edgar Allen Poe’s most successful and popular piece, tells the story of a lonely man’s interactions with a raven. The man, who is most likely Poe, is missing his wife, Lenore and when an unlikely talking raven appears in his room, he begins to ask it certain questions about his wife. Each answer from the raven drives him closer and closer to insanity. Due to the use of a number of various literary devices, the poem is deeply haunting. Poe used repetition, personification, and juxtaposition to progress the plot and increase the overall effectiveness and depth of the poem. The first, and most prevalent literary device that Poe used, was repetition. Throughout the poem, every stanza is ended with “nothing more” or “nevermore”. These usually came in response to Poe’s questions, which are mostly about his lost love, Lenore. Since the raven’s every response was “nevermore”, this showed us how hopeless Poe is in the poem. We are able to understand, through the raven’s repetition, that Poe’s situation will forever be bleak and his pain will not be alleviated. This makes the poem feel much more effective and powerful. Knowing that Poe will always be in a state of deep depression and pain makes the reader feel for him, therefore, increasing the overall emotional impact of the poem. Poe’s second literary device, was personification. One of the most important parts of the poem is the Raven’s response to Poe’s rants and questions. He responds to all of them by simply...
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...Edgar Allan Poe uses diction in his poem “The Raven” to create an eerie, chilling, and dark mood. To start, in the first stanza when Poe is setting the scene, he says: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” (st. 1). He uses “midnight dreary” and “weak and weary” specifically to create a dark, foreboding mood throughout the poem. The second example of Poe using diction to create a chilling mood comes after the narrator hears a knock at his door: “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” (st. 2). Poe is using examples of death to create his dark mood here, using “bleak December” and a “ghost”, to relate to dead trees and dark skies. Next, Poe enhances his dark mood when the narrator asks the raven what its name is: “Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore- / Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” (st. 8). Poe here is referring to the Devil and describes the raven as “grim and ancient”, which deepens the eerie darkness Poe is trying to create. Another example of Poe using diction to create an eerie mood is when the narrator is beginning to lose his mind, saying “Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore” (st. 11). His use of “dirges”, or funeral songs, and “melancholy burden bore” adds to his overall mood of chilling darkness and the eerie mood in “The Raven”. Later, when the narrator is losing his mind, he says...
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...As Poe’s life crumbled around him, he would write his most successful and famous writing piece. Poe’s life gradually took a toll on him, as the women in his life succumbed to death until he was brought to insanity. In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” the the narrator is a reflection of Poe life. The narrator connects to Poe with Lenore representing his love Virginia, and Poe’s mental deterioration to insanity. The Story pits the narrator against his misery and sorrow for his love Lenore. Lenore to the narrator is a reflection of Poe’s relationship with his wife Virginia. In the beginning of “The Raven” the narrator refers to his wife as “the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” This is similar to how Poe perceived his wife Virginia as such a source of joy and beauty (11). In his recent biography of Poe, Peter Ackroyd maintains that "in his art and in his life, [Poe] fell in love with dying women" (Scraba). Poe can directly relate to the narrator’s “sorrow for the lost Lenore,” it serves as a reference to Poe’s misery from the loss of his wife Virginia (10). Poe reacted very severely to the death of Virginia. Her death can be directly associated to Poe being “an alcoholic, a drug addict, a manic-depressive, and a misogynist, and therefore his works reflect his diseased mind” (Scraba). As “The Raven” progresses, the narrator mentally grows more and more insane, similar to Poe throughout his life. As the narrator sees the raven he presumes to himself that “on...
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...Edgar Allan Poe creates an extremely bleak and ominous setting by simply using sound devices. Every creepy story can tell about an old hag in a barn that eats people, but it does really sound scary unless you say it in a certain way. “The Raven,” for example, is a story about a man who goes insane while talking to a raven that has entered his house. It starts out by setting the scene, and already uses a specific meter to aid the mood. The most obvious device he uses is the repetition of “-ore” at the end of every second, fourth, fifth, and sixth line in every stanza. He ends the first stanza with “‘Tis some visitor,’ I muttered, ‘Tapping at my chamber door.’/Only this, and nothing more”(st.1). He repeats this “-ore” sound throughout the entire poem even at the end when the narrator is going insane at the very end, there is “Leave my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my door!/ Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” (st. 17). This continuation of “-ore” through the poem, darkens the entire story. Similarly, he uses an internal rhyme scheme to increase the repetition in the story. To prove that the man is going insane, he repeats the same sounds over and over inside of each stanza. After all, the definition of insanity is repeating something the exact same way and expecting a change. Poe even brings this into his first stanza when he seemingly whispers the words “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly, there came a tapping,/as of some one...
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...A plethora of writers have left their marks on the literary world. Many of them developed a unique writing style, but one of them stands out over the rest. This peculiar man was one of the first to put a new and more sinister approach to his writing. His stories have become synonymous with evil, death, mystery, and revenge. Edgar Allan Poe, a world renowned author, was a rather misunderstood man with many obstacles in his life such as alcoholism, opium abuse, and his wife’s premature death. Poe was born January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts ( “Edgar Allan Poe”). Poe’s early life was very traumatizing. When Poe was a year old, his father ran out on him and the new mother of three, sadly only a year later his mother died of tuberculosis (“Edgar Allan Poe”). Poe was separated from his brother and sister afterwards he was sent to live with John and Frances Allan. By the age of 13, Poe was a prolific poet, but his literary talents were discouraged by his headmaster and John Allan, who preferred that Poe follow him in the family business (“Edgar Allan Poe”). Preferring poetry over profits, Poe reportedly wrote poems on the back of some business papers. Edgar and Frances seemed to form a bond, but he had a more difficult relationship with John Allan. So, Money was also an issue between Poe and John Allan (“Edgar Allan Poe”). Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826, where he excelled in his classes (Schoell 24). However he didn’t receive enough funds from Allan to cover...
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... Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” uses a dismal tone to compliment the story’s melancholic theme. In the poem, the narrator mourns the death of his wife, Lenore, which eventually leads to his demise. Moreover, as the narrator enters the beginning stages of the dying process, swinging in and out of reality, he explains the dreadful experience. To enhance this story even further Edgar made strategic use of the following figurative languages: symbolism, repetition, and rhythms. When the narrator began to drift in and out of reality, the first stage of death, he describes the noises of something knocking on his chamber door, and anxiously he asked who it was but received no answer. “ Tis some visitor; tapping at my chamber door- only this and nothing more.” The sounds of apparently something knocking at his door symbolized the angel of death coming to retrieve his soul. However, to further increase the use of symbolism, Edgar applies a visual aid and so introduces the raven, which is often used as a symbol of death. “Open I flung the shutters, when, with many a flirt a flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.” As the raven sat in the chamber above the door, the narrator asked for its name. However, the answer the bird gave was “Nevermore.” The raven continued to reply “ Nevermore” and so makes this an example of the figurative language, repetition. “Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian Shore!” Quoth the raven “ Nevermore...
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...Ashley Davis Mrs. Gunulfsen October 30, 2015 “The Raven” is the poem I have chosen for my analysis that was constructed by Edgar Alllen Poe.It includes several stanzas of despair and depression, symbolized by the bird it was named for. It was first published in 1845 and was noted for its “supernatural atmosphere”. He writes of a talking bird, the black as ink raven, that pays a visit to a student mourning the loss of his lover, Lenore. As it sits on a bust above the student’s chamber door, the raven seems to interrogate the lover with its constant repeating of the word “Nevermore”. Edgar said that he wrote the poem with mostly logical and methodical intent in order to construct a story that would appeal to both critics and the public, as he stated in his 1846 essay “The Philosophy of Composition” that speaks of his illustration of the raven. The raven itself was the main symbol of the entire poem and was partially inspired by the talking raven in Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. Though the poem’s publication made Mr. Poe very popular throughout his life, it did not bring in much money. Soon thereafter, it was recreated and illustrated as well as parodied by several other people. Regardless of the critical opinion being selected as the poem’s literary status, it still remains one of the most, if not the most, famous poem written by anyone. "The Raven" describes the unnamed student on a sad and lonely night in December as he reads “forgotten lore” to forget the loss of his...
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