...Professor Perdiue English 1302 21 March 2011 Rabbithead I found the symbol of the flower to be used sparingly and dramatically by our heroine Rabbithead. I noticed it used sparingly in the comic and for dramatic prose when Rabbithead places it at the grave in the beginning of the story. This is a comic that has many symbolic characters and events that can be interpreted any number of ways, but one single event struck me as odd at the beginning of the story. People generally place flowers at the tombstones of their loved ones for symbolic reasons of mourning. Rabbithead places the flower after she fills the grave herself and then rides away on her horse. To many this would mean she is mourning someone recently deceased close to her but this story can lead many to believe the flower is a different type of symbol. If you look further you will notice different flowers take on different roles throughout the comic. You see the one flower grow and get eaten by a pig while another grows and eats the head off another creature. In this regard it seems that flowers and plants signal impending death and retribution. A small unstoppable force against what initially appears as overwhelming odds. This story in generally carries a very strong 'circle of life' type theme and I found the flower to be symbolic of Rabbithead's understood fate, as if she was saying to the graveyard that she will soon be returning, maybe even digging her grave with the task she is about to embark upon. She does in fact...
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...societies, people didn't know that veterans got PTSD and did not know how to treat it either, but as society evolved, they learned about how much the vets go through and found an effective way to treat them. When vets came home in earlier societies, people spit on them and showed disrespect, after they had just risked their lives for them and their country. The people didn't know anything they had been through and just added more pain and suffering to the soldier. The soldiers expected appreciation for their service but instead were given disappointment. Even after the war had been over for a while, they...
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... both contrasting characters function as an important mechanism by which the play’s predominate theme of the importance of freedom of thought are emphasized. The ability to think, or exercise free thought is, philosophically, the foundation of our existence. You can not become all that God created you to be until you embrace your identity — the unmistakably unique and flawed you that God intentionally made for a purpose. The high and almighty Brady was even flawed, he showed a great deal of love towards the public. Before the time of radio and television, if he controlled the media, he controlled the masses. He became who the community wanted to hear, dependant of the flock of followers he had created behind him. Lavished with all their praise and glory Brady built up an ample amount of confidence in himself. The power he had gained made him feel secure and he was always seeking for more, this becomes evident when he runs for president in three consecutive elections but never succeeded. Brady’s immeasurable sense of pride finally led him to his downfall. The town of Hillsboro named Brady as an Honorary Colonel in the State Militia, “‘Colonel Brady.’ I like the sound of that!” (page 22) While Brady seems to be a very principled man, we learn public adoration and high titles keep him going. Conjointly, Brady is familiar with communicating with the...
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...trying to get baby Joey back to his opulent lifestyle and away from Blaze. Eventually, the FBI tracks down Blaze and baby Joey and barely gets baby Joey out safely but killing Blaze. While reading this novel, I questioned some characters upbringing, evaluated some characters lives, and made connections to Blaze. Throughout this novel it was clear that Blazes friend George shared numerous traits with me. One way I felt connected to George was that we both are aggressive. He did not believe in taking the nice route, he thought intimidation was key. Blaze would talk to George, or more his figment of George for help and advice with baby Joey and George would usually be upset with blaze, especially when in came to the baby. “I’m not talking about taking him back!” “What do you think he is, a fuckin’ returnable bottle? I’m talking...
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...c HIGHWAY TO HELL HIGHWAY TO HELL Highway To Hell (1979) SINGLE: Highway To Hell/If You Want Blood (1979) Live (1992) (Young, Young, Scott) Living easy, living free Season ticket on a one-way ride Asking nothing, leave me be Taking everything in my stride Don't need reason, don't need rhyme Ain't nothing I would rather do Going down, party time My friends are gonna be there too I'm on the highway to hell No stop signs, speed limit Nobody's gonna slow me down Like a wheel, gonna spin it Nobody's gonna mess me round Hey Satan, payed my dues Playing in a rocking band Hey Momma, look at me I'm on my way to the promised land I'm on the highway to hell (Don't stop me) And I'm going down, all the way down I'm on the highway to hell GIRLS GOT RHYTHM Highway To Hell (1979) SINGLE: Girls Got Rhythm/Get It Hot (1979) SINGLE: Girls Got Rhythm-If You Want Blood/ Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be(live)-Rock'N'Roll Damnation(live) (1979) (Young, Young, Scott) I've been around the world I've seen a million girls Ain't one of them got What my lady she's got She steals the spotlight Knocks me off my feet She's enough to start a landslide Just a walkin' down the street Wearing dresses so tight And looking dynamite Enough to blow me out No doubt about it can't live without it CHORUS: The girl's got rhythm The girl's got rhythm She's got the backseat rhythm The girl's got rhythm She's like a lethal brand Too much for any man She gives me first degree She really satisfies me Love me till I'm...
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...George even says in act two “Ma, I don’t want to grow old. Why’s everybody pushing me so?” (Wilder Act 2). He loves being a kid and playing baseball for school, but he doesn’t realize that everyone has to grow up at one point. The people in this play and in real life do not truly understand how much they take their life for granted and do not understand that. Emily says in act three in the graveyard “Do human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?” (Wilder Act 3) Thornton Wilder’s interpretation of the American Dream is that people need to be accepted, loved, appreciated, and valued by other people before they can achieve the American dream. This is universal because even though it is called the American dream people from different countries...
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...David Bustamante He smiled down at her. She was so silly sometimes. She was picking up important things from the floor. Her date was in 20 minutes. He moved slightly to the side to see her face. Still beautiful as ever. He sighed. I got rather lonely when no one was able to see you. She smiled slightly at the man in front of her. Her eyes glowed lightly, emptily. She was starting to date again. She sat in the café with him as the man chattered away. Her red hair glistened slightly with the lighting. Hector sighed. It hurt him slightly to see her with another man, but then again, it would hurt anyone who loved her the way he did. He wanted her happy though, and he promised that no matter what, he’d watch after her. But she wasn’t happy, she was suffering and in need. So he stayed seated next to her, admiring the way her rosy lips moved as she smoothly spoke. He wanted to burst out crying. She was there standing in front of the grave. His eyes were already rolling down. He’d give up his soul just to hold her once; he might have never stood up for his country’s freedom if he could still be with her. But he couldn’t, and he stood there in silent agony as the courageous woman he gave his heart to started crying silently at the name imprinted upon that tomb. A hole stretched into his being, and once again he wanted to hold her and tell her everything would be all right. But no matter how close he was to her, he wouldn’t be able to touch her. They both cried because of that flaw...
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...an even fifty (Vancouver Sun). This showcases the sick mind of the pig farmer killer. He then stated that the only reason he was caught was because he was sloppy and then said, “I made my own grave. Now in going to sleep in it for the rest of my life”(Vancouver Sun). It was also stated that by the end of 2003 the investigation had totalled to a sum of an astonishing seventy million dollars (Vancouver Sun). With the DNA evidence in hand and the excavations coming to a halt, the crown and the Vancouver Police Department were urging towards the begging of Picktons trial. A fact contributing to the uniqueness and controversy over this trial was the final number of murders that Pickton was convicted on, which concluded to be only a mere six. Robert Picktons trial began on January 30, 2006 in New Westminster where he plead not guilty to the twenty seven counts of first degree murder he was convicted on (Blanco). The sheer amount of victims would result in the trial being extremely drawn-out and would put an immense amount of strain on the jury. In response to this problem, Justice James Williams spit the now twenty six charges, due to a lack of evidence, into two separate groups with one consisting of six cases and the other containing twenty (Blanco). Judge Williams stated the following before the trial; “I think this trial may expose jurors to evidence that will be as bad as a horror movie, and you won’t have to option of shutting off the TV” (MacQueen). The trial concerning the...
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...A new consciousness is dawning upon us as a nation. Incredible India campaign has just released a television advertisement that shows Amir Khan urging Indians not to litter the public places, not to spit on roads and not to pee in public places. This is a welcome, timely and much needed initiative. As we travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari or Gandhinagar to Guwahati, we find the roadsides or public places littered with garbage, people spitting and peeing in public places. This leaves us with a feeling that the whole country has been turned into a garbage dump. How have we allowed this state of affairs as a nation? It is truly a matter of concern. This has happened when India has been rising at unprecedented economic growth rates during the past decade. We Indians are personally very clean people. We brush our teeth and take a bath everyday and wash our hands before eating. We keep our houses speck clean. But when it comes to public places, as people we are simply unable to keep our streets, our railway stations, hospitals, or places of worship clean. This is the state of affairs everywhere in India including hundreds and thousands of villages, towns, mega-cities as well as in the streets of the national capital New Delhi. We simply have very poor civic sense or social ethics. What is Civic Sense? Civic Sense encompasses unspoken norms of society that help it run smoothly without someone tripping on somebody else’s toes. Civic Sense is all about having consideration for a...
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... What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? One three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved, Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, What is Africa to me? So I lie, who all day long Want no sound except the song Sung by wild barbaric birds Goading massive jungle herds, Juggernauts of flesh that pass Trampling tall defiant grass Where young forest lovers lie, Plighting troth beneath the sky, So I lie, who always hear, Though I cram against my ear Both my thumbs, and keep them there, Great drums throbbing through the air, So I lie, whose fount of pride, Dear distress and joy allied, Is my somber flesh and skin, With the dark blood dammed within Like great pulsing tides of wine That, I fear, must burst the fine Channels of the chafing net Where they surge and form and fret. Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes, Unremembered are the bats Circling through the night, her cats Crouching in the river reeds, Stalking gentle flesh that feeds, By the river brink; no more Does the bugle throated roar Cry that monarch claws have leapt From the scabbards where they slept, Silver snakes that once a year Doff the lovely coats you wear, Seek no covert in your fear Lest a mortal eye should see; What’s you nakedness to me? Here no leprous flower rear Fierce corollas in the air; Here no bodies’ sleek...
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...Battle Is For Your Future Shaborn Vail Genesis 37:5-37:8 “And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more. And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: For, Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.” Genesis 37:5-8 Joseph’s brothers already hated him because he was the favorite son of their father. But once Joseph began to talk about his dreams, once he began to talk about his future, their hatred for him increased and they began to question him by asking him “Shalt you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed have dominion over us?” Josephs brothers were not so concerned about who he was, as a seventeen year old dreamer. Their concern was over who he was going to become. They were not afraid of his present, they were afraid of his future. And they wanted to stop him from becoming who God said he would become and going where God said he would go. They wanted to stop him from entering into his destiny. If there is anything Satan desires to do today it is to keep you from entering into your destiny. He wants to keep you from your future! Satan does not care if you live in your past. It is...
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...(anger) * 1.4.9 Lear does not recognize Kent in disguise and employs him again (shortsightedness) * 1.4.200 Lear asks “Where are his eyes?” (confusion) * 1.4.204 “Lear’s shadow” is fool’s answer to Lear question about how he is (fool wise words) * 1.5.20-21 “To keep one’s eyes of either side’s nose, that what a man cannot smell out he may spy into” (Fool wise word) * 1.5.36-37 “If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’d have thee beaten for being old before your time.” (Fool) * 3.2.1-13 “Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphorous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the think rotundity o’th’world! Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!” (rage) * 3.2.14-24 “Rumble they bellyful! Spit fire! Spout rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. I tax not you,...
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...Montgomery, James E. "Ibn Fadlan and the Rusiyyah". Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies vol. 3 (2000) pp. 1-25. ISSN: 0806-198X. Ibn Faḍlān's account of the caliphal embassy from Baghdad to the King of the Volga Bulghārs in the early fourth/tenth century is one of our principal, textual sources for the history, ethnogenesis and polity formation of a number of tribes and peoples who populated Inner Asia. Of especial significance is his description of a people whom he calls the Rūsiyyah. Attempts to identify this people have been the stuff of controversy for almost two centuries and have largely focused on how this description can be made to contribute to the Normanist Controversy (the principal, but by no means the only, controversy concerns the extent of Viking involvement in the creation of Russia). This article provides a fresh, annotated translation of Ibn Faḍlān's passage and considers a multiplicity of identities for the Rūsiyyah. Ibn Faḍlān’s account of his participation in the deputation sent by the Caliph al-Muqtadir in the year 921 A.D. to the King of the Bulghārs of the Volga, in response to his request for help, has proved to be an invaluable source of information for modern scholars interested in, among other subjects, the birth and formation of the Russian state, in the Viking involvement in northern and eastern Europe, in the Slavs and the Khazars. It has been analyzed and commented upon frequently and forms the substance of many observations on the study...
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...stories and plays. Chubak’s first collection of short stories is called Kheymeh ShabBazi (The Puppet Show). Unlike Jamalzadeh’s first work of fiction, when the collection appeared in 1945, it was received quite favorably by critics. Kheymeh Shab Bazi is indicative of Chubak’s keen insight into the inner motives of human behavior. In 1949, Chubak published his second collection called, Antari Ke Lutiyash Murdeh Bod (The baboon whose buffoon was dead). The collected stories Puppet Show and The baboon whose buffoon was dead have exerted profound influence on modern Persian literature. Then there was a gap of some fifteen years before Ruze Avvale Qabr (The First Night in the Grave) and (The Last Alms) were published in 1965 and 1966, respectively. After the publication of The Last Alms and The First Night of the Grave, Chubak wrote his novel The Patient Stone, which is a great modern novel in the Persian literature. Chubak also translated Shakespear’s Othello, Roland’s La Fin du Voyage, and Balzac’s Le P Gorio Goriot, Pinokio (the wooden dummy) the work of Carlo, ‘‘Carlo Kuludy’’, Lewis Carroll’s book ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’, the poetry of raven and (work of Edgar Allen poet), and Maah pareh; a Hindis love story into Persian. In his works, Chubak studies the lives of downtrodden people of the society who were victimized by iniquities and natural deterministic forces. Sympathetic to the sorrows and miseries of such people, he dispenses one single solution, combating corruption and injustice...
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...Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare homepage | Romeo and Juliet | Entire play | ACT I PROLOGUE Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. SCENE I. Verona. A public place. Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet, armed with swords and bucklers SAMPSON Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers. SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw. GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar. SAMPSON I strike quickly, being moved. GREGORY But thou art not quickly moved to strike. SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me. GREGORY To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away. SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. GREGORY That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the...
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