...Not Without a Smile The novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley reveals the irony in human life through traces of the agonizing life of a miserable scientist, Victor Frankenstein. Ever since Victor was a little boy, he had always been interested in the topic of natural science. Through innovation and guidance, as well as great effort, Victor made the extraordinary discovery of the “elixir of life” where he brought life upon an inanimate being. Such discovery, however, only resulted in everlasting remorse and vengeance that followed Victor to his grave. Victor’s smile left on his motionless body answered many questions proposed throughout the story, yet more questions were left unanswered through the medium of irony. The smile that irradiates from Victor’s cold body shows a sense of satisfaction, but also a sense of regret as he was not able to speak his last words, which emits a sense of irony. The satisfaction yet remorseful smile left on the lips of Victor shadows the ironic behavior throughout the story. It is through these ironies that the story uncovers the ironic events that challenge us every day. The last emotion left on the face of Victor Frankenstein displayed the satisfaction that Victor had longed for. Since the murder of his loved ones by the monster, Victor had only been feeling miserable, guilty and above all, ferocious. After learning that the monster was the murderer of his youngest brother William, Victor narrated that, “no one can conceive the anguish...
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...The story under analysis is “The Smile” by Ray Bradbury. Setting: The story is set in a city in the future after a nuclear war: in particular in the city square. Content : The main character of this story is Tom, a little boy who joins a group of people who are quering in front of a museum to spit on an oil painting belonging to the past, called the "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci. People live a hard, difficult life and hate every aspect of the past of the past civilization which caused the nuclear war to break out destroyed their lawful haritage of progress and welfare. Tom is curious and he is quering up to see the portrait because they say it smiles. Tom likes going to festivals where remnants of the past are destroyed, concerning art, science, culture, and technology, but he is not so enraged with hate as the others are. When Tom sees the painting he finds the woman beautiful and he cannot take his eyes away from her smile. Suddenly, the people start destroying the painting and rip it into small pieces of canvas, behaving in a beastly, violent and wild manner. Tom gets a piece of canvas: the Mona Lisa's smile to preserve it from destruction. It was beautiful, warm and gentle and it produced in Tom feelings of affection, beauty and quietness. The secondary characters are Grigsby, Tom's father, his mother and his brother, and other unknown people. The smile is personified because it's the only expression of humanity in Tom's life. Point of view: Third -person...
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...Migi Moreno, one can mistake him for a total nerd with his rectangular glasses and happy-to-serve smile always gracing his usual appearance. He is a man of average height, but not of average dreams. His main vision for the academic year is for the USG to “refocus on its role as representatives of the students.” Migi Moreno does not believe in the role of a student leader as a person who only commands a group of people. He believes that he, as a student leader, is there to represent his followers. Jose Miguel “Migi” V. Moreno, a senior PSM-LMG (Bachelor of Arts major in Psychology and Bachelor of Science in Legal Management) student, is this year's De La Salle University Manila University Student Government President. But before his presidency, he has had a lot of leadership experience not just in the University Student Government, but also in his other affiliations. He was a FAST2010 Batch Student Government President during his first year, Vice President for Alliances of the Samahan ng mga Mag-Aaral ng Sikolohiya during his second year, and President of the LaSallian Scholars Society during his third year. Also, he was an exchange student at the National University of Singapore in 2012. As he entered Starbucks, he greeted me with a smile. Immediately after his arrival, we started the interview. He willingly answered all my questions which were mainly about campus politics. There was an awkward vibe to the interview at first, as I was stuttering when I asked him questions...
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...looked at the professor again to see the video finally playing something about Fibonacci. I already know the basics of it. I turn back to my best friend and ask her what note. She laughs and shakes her head. "You probably get it already, smart ass." "Well thank you for your honesty." I smile at her and she smiles back. Nira and I have been best friends since freshman year of high school which was four years ago. When I asked her her first reaction of me was, she told me she was scared of me. I didn't get it, I mean at least I think I am a nice person. I don't push people around, I'm always writing or drawing, I'm not that social. Maybe it's my height, I believe I'm abnormally tall for my age since everyone else seems to be shorter than me. The classroom gets louder as everyone starts to pack up. I close my notebook and slide it inside of my bag. I stand up with Nira...
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...Nighthawks Interpretation Nighthawks has inspired many illustrators to write and inspire. The characters present in the painting form a sort of interplay, but still give the feeling of isolation and loneliness. The painting offers a viewer a series of tantalizing series of mysteries, and urges them get creative and solve them. Every fiction inspired from this painting has evolved around the four pivotal characters present in the painting, so does my interpretation. A fan of science fictions and fantasy novels, I have modeled my interpretation while taking inspiration from them. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words, here is my nearly thousand words inspired by Hooper’s Nighthawks. September 11, 2016 I still remember this night like yesterday, as I passed by the corner of a Subway that used to be one of my favorite diners in Greenwich village+. The one with the big curved window, it’s not there anymore, of course. But back in 1972 it was a diner, one of the best in the whole of New York, well in my opinion, and an unforgettable monument of my mysterious memory. It was a usual late night working at the Gazette, and as always Phillies was open all night long. I was sitting in my usual seat finishing my cup of coffee and waiting for Phil to come up with my slice of ham and cheese quiche. Phil made good coffee and decent subs, but boy, did he make the best pie. It was just me and Phil, late on a Tuesday night when this couple walked in. The fella was wearing a dark...
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...I nodded not trusting myself to speak. A smile appeared as she spoke, “Amanda I am so proud that you got in. I knew that you would do it.” I stared in shock until a grin broke out and I went to hug her before pulling my hands back awkwardly. “Mother I didn’t know that I would get in. I never expected since I didn’t plan it well and it was a split moment decision,” I rambled until she cut me off. “Amanda you have been preparing for this since you entered school. Your father and I have known this was your life and school. All those classes of science, math, and language paid off. No matter how much you wanted to quit now you see it was worth it.” She beamed as she said that, as she spoke my smile faded and a sinking feeling appeared in my chest. I looked at her and said quietly, “Can I see the letter.” She took it out from behind her back and handed it to me. I fumbled in opening it and took out the letter shakily my heart sinking as I read it. I was accepted into Harvard. Tears stung my face and my mother misinterpreted them for tears of joy and she reached over and patted my...
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...the list and he read them aloud: “Two ghouls were seen dancing down Main Street in their housecoats and underwear. One phone call to Miss Simms on the afternoon that she saw something in a Willaston place window.” “The callers voice was disguised,” I added. “They doesn’t make any sense,” Seth said. “Ghosts can’t dance.” “You’re correct, Twist agreed. “Let’s questions the witness. Maybe she can provide us with a logic explanation.” We follow him inside and cornered, I mean found Miss Simms —her long blond hair piled high atop her head— at a checkout stand scanning groceries. She saw us and waved. I think she was trying to shoe us away but we were persistent it was part of the job. I grabbed a candy and jumped in line the boys were right behind me. “Miss Simms we just a few questions we’ll make it quick,” I promised. “I’m kind of busy.” she said scanning the bar. A bagger asked, paper or...
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...and then, as if I had been teleported, onstage. I froze, standing as still as a dead man, in the middle of the colossal stage. My knees nearly buckled under my own weight, and my frail, 3’9’ frame shook. As my 8-year-old brain frantically calculated the benefits of staying or leaving, my gaze shifted to my mother. She sat in the front row, wearing her finest outfit, a pale blue dress and a smile. With grace—something so inherent of her— she opened her mouth. “Breathe in, Chelsea. It will all be okay. Just breathe.” Just breathe. As I walked towards the black and white instrument, I repeated that mantra to myself over and over again: Just breathe, just breathe, it will all be okay, just breathe. By the time I reached the piano any trace of fear had been curbed. I stood before the piano, physically dwarfed by the size of the instrument, but towering with confidence. I played that piece perfectly. On July 20, 2069, at the ripe age of 35, I became the first person to travel backwards in time. Chances are I would’ve travelled back in time months sooner, but the head scientist, being the science history geek she was, pushed back the travel date so that I would departure one hundred years after the famous moon landing. It was to be “mankind’s greatest leap”. A few scientists strapped me into what reporters had dubbed the “titanium coffin,” a plain-looking box, hooked up to a rainbow-coloured web of wires. I went through the details of the trip in my head. At 1015 I would enter the Time...
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...corrections, by options market participants.[3]:751 Many empirical tests have shown that the Black–Scholes price is "fairly close" to the observed prices, although there are well-known discrepancies such as the "option smile".[3]:770–771 The Black–Scholes was first published by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in their 1973 paper, "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities", published in the Journal of Political Economy. They derived a stochastic partial differential equation, now called the Black–Scholes equation, which estimates the price of the option over time. The key idea behind the model is to hedge the option by buying and selling the underlying asset in just the right way, and consequently "eliminate risk". This hedge is called delta hedging and is the basis of more complicated hedging strategies such as those engaged in by investment banks and hedge funds. The hedge implies that there is a unique price for the option and this is given by the Black–Scholes formula. Robert C. Merton was the first to publish a paper expanding the mathematical understanding of the options pricing model, and coined the term Black–Scholes options pricing model. Merton and Scholes received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for their work. Though ineligible for the prize because...
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...The top one of course is rocket science. Physical changes is referred to as well as the scientific method that use all of our lives applying and testing science. The way Homer in this movie uses science is by using physics to prove many of different things to do with the rocket. For an example that the fire did not start because of his rocket he launched, which he proved through physics. The other example is when Quentin discusses how the DeLaval nozzle works within the rocket’s engine. The action is the burning and expansion of the gas and its movement out of the nozzle at high speeds and the opposite reaction is the propelling of the rocket (“Newtons Laws”). The way this movie portrays fake physics is how their first rocket ends up shooting towards the mines. There is no way boys of that age could build a homemade rocket with that high of velocity and acquiring the knowledge of rockets (“Newtons Laws”). Another example of fake physics is when Homer places the rocket on a fence. When it launches it throws the boys backward. In real life, a rocket being that small would not cause the boys to go backwards like the way they did (“Newtons Laws”). The science used in this movie is correct and incorrect at points. Homer and his friends show true physics by how the rockets shoots up and the engineering behind it. Other times there is more so dramatic scenes being a movie. So when the boys go flying backwards from...
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...YAQI NING Professor Sikorski International Writing Workshop The Letter Dear Jenny: It has been nearly a month since last time we met. How’s college life for you so far? Recently, I’ve encountered a maze. It was already late night. My room was so quiet after my roommates went to sleep. I, wide-wake, turned on my table lamp and opened the Allsen’s book “Mongol Cuisine”. The first page was about the office of ba’urchi, which translated as “cook” in the Mongolian. Staring at the strange letters that consisted the exotic, weird word-ba’urchi, I envisaged a bustle image of the cooks, wearing gowns that cut out from wolf skins, prepare food with horseflesh, mutton and cheese. I was also amazed by how they respect food, in distinctive and extreme ways, nothing like other cultures. The mutton is preserved by drying, freezing, jerking, and smoking. When they kill an animal by making an incision in the chest, they “squeezing the heart” and thereby “retaining the blood in the carcass for later use”. I definitely saw myself there also, standing right next to yurts on the grassland, watched local people making fire and rounding up the sheep or cattle, preserving food in a persistent and faithful way. But, I, strived to put myself inside the picture to understand why, still failed to get close. Eye ache, cervical bitter, I closed the book filled with disappointment and pushed it away. Lay inside the blanket with the mild moonlight through the window and curtain, I, felt so unsure...
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...Courtney McNeill Lisa Proctor English 1100 March 27, 2015 Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl The February 2015 issue of Us Weekly magazine features a Covergirl advertisement with the actress Sofia Vergara. The target audience of the Us Weekly Magazine is persons falling in the age category of 18-49. In the Covergirl advertisement, Sofia has a very illuminating smile, flashing her perfectly straight teeth and her complimenting magenta lipstick. Her hazel brown eyes are seductively gazing towards the camera. Her long, vivacious eyelashes allow her eyes to pop and shine dramatically. Her honey blonde hair lies loose and curled around her flawless face. A silky magenta cloth is draped behind and around her, emphasizing her alluring eyes and inviting smile. Her hand is strategically placed upon her shoulder revealing her black bra strap. The word “Covergirl” is written at the top of the ad across the actress’s forehead in all capital letters and white font. Under the title is the famous Covergirl slogan, “easy, breezy, beautiful.” This text however, is fairly small and is all lowercase letters. Slightly below the slogan, is the actress’ name, Sofia Vergara written in capital letters, in a magenta pink color. There are several groups of text on this ad as well. The first piece of text provocatively sits upon the shoulder of actress. It is a bolded, in all capital text that reads “SMOOTH IS THE NEW SEXY”. Slightly under the listed text is a persuading line that says “New UltraSmooth...
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...1. What elements of satire did you notice upon your first read of the article? The main elements of satire in the essay are sarcasm and exaggeration. It is written with light Horatian humor that makes the reader smile. The essay is intended to be an advertisement for MagnaSoles, yet the humor and clever diction clearly make it a parody. The author is mocking the fact that the advertising world is fooling the consumer into thinking they need a product that is actually useless. By including impressive catch-phrases, the author makes his point that advertisers can make people believe anything, no matter how ridiculous. The gullible, ridiculous, satisfied, patients help communicate that shoe inserts are no substitute for scientific medical treatment. 2. What rhetorical strategies contribute to the satire? How are they effectively used? Humor, tone, diction, puns, exaggeration, and appeals to authority are all rhetorical strategies in the essay that contribute to satire. The author refers to “psudoscience”, “science-sounding literature”, and “an intelligent-looking man in a white lab coat” to point out that the research behind shoe inserts is not scientifically valid. These mocking descriptions make it clear that the author feels that the public is being fooled by advertisers who claim to know facts, but in reality they are not speaking words that make any sense, such as “converting pain-nuclei into pleasing comfortrons.” Humorous puns such as “go several steps further”...
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... ‘Aditi! You cannot wear jeans and t-shirt for visitors! Put your new sari on. Pradeep and his parents are coming soon.’ ‘Mmm…’ ‘Aditi, you are not listening!’ Aunty is angry now. She turns to Aditi’s father. Ravi is watching the Saturday sport on the television. ‘Ravi, tell Aditi to wear her sari. I want her to look pretty.’ Aditi’s father winks at his daughter. ‘Aditi looks very pretty to me,’ he smiles. Aunty is upset. ‘I try to help Aditi to meet nice young men but she’s not the same as her sisters,’ she sighs. ‘You help us all,’ Ravi told her firmly. ‘You are the mother to my four girls Yasmin.’ Ravi looks sad. He remembers the death of his dear wife Aruna. ‘We are grateful to you Aunty Yasmin.’ He pats her on the arm. Aditi puts her book on the sofa. She jumps up. She puts 1 her arms round Aunty Yasmin and she hugs her. I’m sorry Aunty. I want to finish my book before the visitors come. I like wearing jeans but I can change my clothes for you. What do you want me to wear?’ Aunty gives a little smile. She loves Aditi and her sisters very much. You wear those jeans and a t-shirt all the time. They are not very...
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...“I’m 24 years old. I have just completed by bachelor’s degree and graduated from one of Singapore’s finest universities. I’m looking for a job. No, not just any job. No way am I going to work as a maintenance technician or as a MacDonald’s employee. That’s way beneath my abilities.” Unfortunately, that’s the way society works in the 21st century. It’s shocking how narrow our perception of success is. Ever wonder why people toil through the hardships of school? Ever wonder why they sacrifice sleep, their social life, and maybe even quality family time just to study for their examinations? And why they get that bank loan just to get through university? Definitely, it’s because you’ve always had your eye on that “white-collar job”. To gain all the public recognition and praise you could ever hope for. The reality is inescapable; Our society criminally glamorizes white-collar professions at the expense of their blue-collar counterparts. The job we have instantly defines our image in our society. Our social status, our reputation, depends on our job. People associate office jobs with wealth and success, and bue-collar jobs with “menial”, “unimportant” and “uneducated”. Waiters will never be likened to a Lawyer. Sad as it may sound, everyone dreams to be the latter while they look down on the former. You cannot deny it; we dread imagining ourselves being cleaners at a mall. We look down upon construction workers who toil hours in the sun. Society has taught us that the money is...
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