...Hustvedt talks about this in “Living With Strangers” from 2002. In the essay Siri Hustvedt describes her experience when she moved from Minnesota to New York In 1978. The fact that it was brought in The New York Times might indicate that her essay presents the reality of the people of New York. The essay also appears like it was written to people who already have some knowledge about New York as an example she writes: “… was traveling uptown on the Second Avenue bus. At Twenty-Fourth Street …” (line 23-24 page 6). This would mean nothing to people who don’t know anything about the streets of New York and their bus system. During her essay Hustvedt reflects on the difference between her new home New York and her old home in Minnesota. She especially points out the fact, that in Minnesota everybody used to say “hi” to everybody, even people you didn’t know. Not even was it seen as being rude, but you could actually be looked at as a snob, which was the worst thing you could be looked at, but in New York it’s an entirely different story. Here it’s totally impossible to say hi to everybody, and nobody cares if you say hi to them because people don’t even acknowledge that you are there, they bump into you and elbow you as you walk through the streets. She also thinks that the urban life is lonely and hostile “Most of the time, we insulate ourselves out of necessity…” (line 107-108 page 8) this might be why the essay is called “Living With Strangers”. This might be caused by the unwritten...
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...Still in the Gilded Age There are many things in life that appear attractive on the outside, but turn out to be quite the opposite on the inside. The forgotten fruit that was left to rot on the kitchen counter, the empty promises of a government body, the two-faced colleague at work… there are many of examples of beauty being only skin deep. Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” and Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” explores this theme of the gilded side of humanity. Roethke opens “My Papa’s Waltz” through the eyes of a small boy, lending an initial tone of naivety and innocence. This mood is reinforced through his use of rhyme scheme, which adds to the childish effect. However, this feeling is quickly subverted, as a more sinister interpretation can be seen midway through the poem. The boy describes, “The hand that held my wrist/Was battered on one knuckle;/At every step you missed/My right ear scraped a buckle.” (9-13), leading the reader to question what the actual meaning behind this “waltz” is. The minor mentioning of the unhappy mother, as well as the phrase, “But I hung on like death:” (3) is suddenly relevant; it suggests that the father may be an abusive alcoholic, deviating from the prior assumption that he was simply a happy drunk spending time with his son. This shift in reader interpretation can also be attributed to Roethke’s unique word choice. Take for example the word “waltz,” which is used exclusively in the beginning and ending stanzas...
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...People are always in a relationship with others and the world around them. In Karen Armstrong’s essay “Homo religious”, and Robert Thurman’s essay “Wisdom”, they explore those relationships between religion, self, the universe, and knowledge. In Karen Armstrong’s essay “Homo religious”, religion is talked about through the entire essay. In the Stone Age, art was used as a form of religion. People were guided through caves that had walls full of decorated paintings. Some of the caves walls were decorated by the Paleolithic ancestors over seventeen thousand years ago. The paintings were of animals of few species. The pictures symbolized artistic gratitude of the common universe. One would have to be very careful when walking through the caves, because they were unsafe, tiresome, unreasonable, and tedious. The common agreement is that the caves were a holy place and that, as in any sanctuary, their images mirrored a perception that was entirely unlike the external universe. “Like art, religion is an attempt to construct meaning in the face of the relentless pain and injustice of life.” (Armstrong, p. 25) As determine and investigating individuals, humans decline freely into depression. Religion is a callous struggle. Its perception is not noticeable and has to be prepared in a similar form as an admiration of art, music, or poetry must be established. But, in Robert Thurman’s essay on “Wisdom”, he talks about Buddhism religion. Buddhism teaches one about “selflessness “and “voidness...
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...“I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet” (Hughes 348). In his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes covers many important points but his hook is one to mention. This hook focuses a lot on the main issue of the essay itself. The issue is that the negro poets want to write like the white poets implying that colored artists want to be white. This then leads to the fact that the white audiences turned to the artists of color and saw them as stereotypical entertainment mainly because these black artists were afraid of being themselves. Langston Hughes’s poem, “The Weary Blues” engages with themes of the Harlem Renaissance and the content of the poem expresses various issues Hughes discussed in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” The poem, “The Weary Blues” is a powerful poem because it highlights the cultural traditions of the African American descent during a time of the Harlem Renaissance. The audience is able to...
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...else”(Thurman 1). Robert Thurman is an internationally recognized scholar, translator and author, and the first Westerner to be ordained by the Dalai Lama as a Tibetan Buddhist monk (Thurman, 440). He is one of the most distinguished Tibetanists in the world. In his short essay, “Wisdom” taken from Infinite Life Thurman explains the Buddhist concept of selflessness. He says the purpose of realizing your own selflessness is not to feel like you are nobody, but rather to become enlightened. “After he became enlightened, the Buddha did not sit under a tree drooling, and saying ‘Oh wow! I’m nobody!’ Think about it: If he just became nobody, if he escaped from the world through self-obliteration, then he wouldn’t have been able to share so many teachings here on earth, to work for the good of all beings for years and years, long after he achieved nirvana. He would’ve just stayed in his nobody state and forgotten about all of us poor humans busy suffering through our miserable lives (Thurman 442).” In this quote, Thurman explains that selflessness does not mean that we are nobody and cease to exist, that there is no way you can ever not exist, just as you cannot become nothing. There is no way to become nobody;...
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...relations and love also exists between humans and other living beings such as animals. Therefore, nobody can deny the existence of love in this world. Sometimes you need to describe the love you have for someone in words. At that time, you are in need of appropriate style and words through which you can deliver your feelings of love in form of essay on love. The question that comes to your mind at that time is how to write an essay about love? To write an essay about love, you have to follow some general steps of writing an essay. You have to follow the pattern of introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. In the introduction part, you have the introduce the topic of your essay on love and also have to give some introduction of the person for whom you are going to write essay about love. It is not necessary that your essay about love is for some particular person; your essay about love can be a general essay for all the living beings of the earth just for showing your good feelings of love and harmony towards all the creation of God. If your essay about love is a general essay, you have to describe love in your own words; you have to answer the following questions: • What do you feel about love? • What is love? Describe it by your own criteria. • Does love exist? • Have you loved someone ever? • What is the difference between love and emotionalism? • Why are you writing essay on love? By giving the answers to the questions stated above, you will come to know about your...
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...There have been many events that have impacted society in the past several years. Marc Lamont Hill’s book Nobody, portrays the vulnerability of people who are considered at risk for misfortunes, all levels of violence, medical issues, and in some cases life’s ultimate downfall, death. The oppression of these people is detailed in the book Nobody. It analyzes the mechanisms by which disadvantaged individuals “those marked as immigrants, poor, black, brown, queer or trans, ” become the nobodies of this America. I have considered myself a nobody or if you will, an outcast looking in from the sidelines. However, now I am somebody. I use to look in the mirror and see a dysmorphic me. I was not like most of my peers. You see, they were white, but...
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...Shirin Bismillah M.A English (Prev.) IInd Semester One of the principal ideas of Catherine Gallagher’s essay The Novel and Other Discourses of Suspended Disbelief revolves around the ‘world outside the novel’ and how it got distinguished from other genres and previous forms of fiction. One of the most sophisticated explanation she develops across her Nobody’s Story. Gallagher argues that the condition for the emergence of the novel is the break from the scandal sheets which were scurrilous prose writings directed at real life figures. The female writers composing against the powerful patrons in the scandalous court chronicles of 1700s became the target of a degrading equation which was between a Writer and a Whore. The movement away from this degraded real life identity to the lofty observer of life changed their status from a whore to an intellectual. It is this observer who does not write of a real life personality but of a fictional Nobody who can fabricate stories and characters that are irreproducible and creations of sheer genius. Once the subject of a narrative is unrestrained from a real life identity, it eventually becomes a Nobody. This paper shall examine Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, who becomes a new citizen of England, with his status of a Foundling. According to Gallagher, ‘fiction can and does exist independent of the novel’, which was also a response to rise of individualism and middle class that made novel a dominant form. This brings into light the question...
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...Comparison of Odysseus and Athena as liars Deception, or the act of deceiving or defrauding, is a prominent theme in the Odyssey. Though inherently dishonest, deception can be used to gain information and knowledge. Different characters (and people) use it different ways. This essay will establish that, whereas Odysseus uses deception to help him progress from Nobody back to Odysseus, king of Ithaca, Athena does so to keep her identity secret when she disguises herself. Odysseus ensures his security and protects his identity while deceiving Polyphemus, thus displaying his true cleverness. Odysseus tells Polyphemus that “Nobody is his name,” (9,365) he uses this clever deception so the other Cyclopes do not go after him after he escapes. Also, if Polyphemos knew who Odysseus really was then Polyphemos would've treated him differently. Odysseus wouldn't had received the hospitality that he did. By being his witty self, Polyphemos stated “I will eat you last” because he liked his cleverness which was actually his decievence. Odysseus is in sense a nobody, no one cared if he was king of Ithaca. This was his lowest point as he started to lie more in order to reconstruct his identity. In order to restore his identity, he had to continue with his lies, with that he began his Cretan lies. These Cretan lies deceived Athena, Eumaois, and Penelope. Odysseus used his first Cretan lie to Athena, who was disguised as a Shepard boy, ........ He takes pains to establish a sound character:...
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...Princess Yorkenia and her journey to writing…. Once upon a time… Yorkenia a 17 years old adolescent in her way to college, was waiting for the train as her daily routine was of two hours to get to class… It was freezing that she thought that she was in the process of becoming Elsa… But, that wasn’t the only thoughts she had. She also, was thinking of an essay she must write for her class of creative writing which was “ Course goals.” Although it may seem an easy essay to write, she had a hard time writing it. She started the essay earlier to avoid procrastination, nothing came to her mind to write… Her mind was like a hurricane in the most arduous tropical times, taking all her time and energy thinking of her past. Searching how to write poetic, reading essays, reading articles but nothing worked. That day when the essay was due, that day when she was in the process of becoming Elsa, she had an idea of what creativity for her may be and what to write in her essay....
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...Guidance In today’s society many children have grown up to become emotionally stable and successful whether they had one or two parents to show them to get through the unsteady difficulties life brings to all human beings. The problem is that none of these children are being raised right nor given good advice that will help them succeed in life. Countless people believe that if a child grows up in an unstructured household, then he or she will not be instilled with the right morals, ethics, and values, which is untrue. But, today, the youth in our society is being inspired by the ignorance we see on social media and it is not heading in the direction of righteousness. In the essay “Advice to Youth” by Mark Twain, he offers some seemly good advice to the young people. The advice he offers is that “all young people are given rules or advice to guide them as they grow up and to keep them on the right path to live a good life”. Mark Twain states “Always obey your parents, when they are present”. Yes, you should obey your parents, but if they are not present, you cannot solely rely on their standing orders to make the best decision. Of course you should be respectful to your superiors, but if those same people are not respectful to you then you cannot be expected to continue the gesture of being respectful towards them. With a statement like that, society presumes children are more likely to have behavior problems because they would not believe in showing respect toward their...
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...Essay #1:Tech Ventures “If you aren’t making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting your time.” (Will Smith) Although this quote by Will Smith is only a few years old, its basic message can be traced back to the Greek and Roman philosophers. Even then these famous philosophers taught their scholars that helping other people accomplish their goals or generally helping or saving other people from their reality is the real essence of life. In my opinion this statement is true because helping other people in need makes you not only their savior but also helps you feel good about yourself. Trying to improve our world is something that is a vital part of our lives due to the fact that no one wants to leave this place without others remembering what you accomplished in life. At some point in life everyone comes across the question: “What did I do with my life? Was my life worth living? Will I be remembered or forgotten?” In this short essay I want to evaluate the relevance of this quote in our everyday life and afterwards focus on its influence on entrepreneurship before coming to my conclusion. The everyday decisions we make may seem small for that particular moment but they add up to the big picture called life. That is why every decision you take should be one that has a bigger meaning to you. Nobody will remember you for how many episodes of “House of Cards” you have watched the last few weeks or how many hours you spent partying or sleeping. People will always be...
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...relations and love also exists between humans and other living beings such as animals. Therefore, nobody can deny the existence of love in this world. Sometimes you need to describe the love you have for someone in words. At that time, you are in need of appropriate style and words through which you can deliver your feelings of love in form of essay on love. The question that comes to your mind at that time is how to write an essay about love? To write an essay about love, you have to follow some general steps of writing an essay. You have to follow the pattern of introduction, body paragraphs and conclusion. In the introduction part, you have the introduce the topic of your essay on love and also have to give some introduction of the person for whom you are going to write essay about love. It is not necessary that your essay about love is for some particular person; your essay about love can be a general essay for all the living beings of the earth just for showing your good feelings of love and harmony towards all the creation of God. If your essay about love is a general essay, you have to describe love in your own words; you have to answer the following questions: • What do you feel about love? • What is love? Describe it by your own criteria. • Does love exist? • Have you loved someone ever? • What is the difference between love and emotionalism? • Why are you writing essay on love? By giving the answers to the questions stated above, you will come to know about your...
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...Purpose The purpose of Dumas’s essay is to persuade readers to remain open-minded and respectful to unfamiliar languages and cultures. Audience The audience of the essay is anyone who has had experiences or had an interest with the relationship between the mixing of unfamiliar languages and cultures. Ethos Dumas appeals to ethos by stating that she was an immigrant and further appeals to it in each of her anecdotes regarding struggles she faced as an immigrant. She also appeals to ethos when she establishes that she graduated from Berkeley with honors. Pathos Dumas appeals to pathos when she mentions that temporary joy given to her when she decided to change her name. For example, she wrote “People actually remembered by name, which was an...
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...Heroic Traits Essay A hero is someone who demonstrates substantial quantities of courage or outstanding achievements. ulyses is a hero because he has come across huge dangers and worried about the safety of his crew before himself. Whenever he faces overwhelming obstacles and he still finds the strength to perservere and endure. This story is mainly about the stops ulysses faced and how he survives each one by being herioc and making smart deicions. The importance of the stops are how ulysses shows strength and heroic characteristics thoughout each obstacles. Ulysses reveeals countless admiriable traists the mkae kim deserving o fthe title”hero”.Ulyses characteric of heriosim is shown through his intelligence. When thy get stuck in a cave...
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