...Retired track and field athlete and three-time Olympic champion Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis portrays what this quote expresses with his determination to never give up, even in a time of major crisis. In the beginning of Hillenbrand’s book, she described Louie as a delinquent child. He stole from others in his free time; however, he often gave anything he stole away, hinting that Louie might not be all that others claimed:...
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...-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eat Your Heart Out | Paper Magazine Does a Super (Duper) Market Culture, Food By JANE HERMANJuly 13, 2012, 1:30 pm 2 Comments Paper Magazine's Super (Duper) Market Atisha Paulson Brucie Atisha Paulson Scribe Winery Atisha Paulson 123Loading “I’m crying. And dying,” Paper magazine’s Kim Hastreiter says halfway through the tour of her Super (Duper) Market, which will be open Friday through the weekend in Manhattan’s meatpacking district. She is completely elated and, more important, satiated, by what’s in store: “The best ice cream (Humphry Slocombe), the best cornbread (Red Rooster), the best olive oil (Sciabica’s),” she says. Here, at what is a smorgasbord of carefully procured and exquisitely packaged food stuff, all the stars of Hastreiter’s bicoastal culinary-craft world collide. The vendors hail mostly from Brooklyn (Empire Mayonnaise, Morris Kitchen, Mile End) and California’s Bay Area (Boulettes Larder, Modern Appealing Clothing, Tartine Bakery and Cafe). “I’m kind of a maven, and these are really my favorite things,” says Hastreiter pointing to the Tang Brothers noodle stand. “Those are, like, the best noodles.” Walk through the mart and you might sample homemade mozzarella on honey-drizzled toast from the Cobble Hill restaurant Brucie, buy a Sol LeWitt star bowl (Hastreiter’s pick) at...
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...running, and before he knew it, he was off to the Olympics.“Unbroken” written by Laura Hillenbrand, demonstrates how resilient and determined Louie was through his actions throughout his lifetime. To begin, the first paragraph of the book reveals Louie’s determination. For instance, when Louie was in the raft and jumped out he was determined to live through the Japanese attack. The first quote from this section shows how Louie is determined by jumping...
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...was a child he was often getting into fights, drinking alcohol, to smoking, not to mention Louie was resilient towards stopping being a troubled child until Louie’s brother, Pete, got Louie into running Throughout the whole book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand the reader learns that Louis (Louie) Zamperini is both courageous and rebellious Throughout the book, the reader can obviously see that Zamperini is a rebellious child and even a rebellious adult One example of Zamperini being rebellious is, “Shaving the Weasel’s forehead, he thinned...
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...against because of their race or religion. In the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel, they are in an oppressive state because they were taken and put into a camp where they get treated poorly. In the passage Farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, there is a girl who lives in an unjust time with World War II happening as a Japanese American family. Unbroken, a non-fiction book written by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie crashes into the Pacific Ocean and is stranded, then “rescued” by the POW and put into Japanese POW camps. They all keep going and stay strong even...
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...Dignity is universally essential to one's sense of self-worth, and is gained through the respect of peers, as well as one’s self. When a human is emotionally and physically stripped of their pride, it weakens his will to live. Dignity proves to the characters in both the Nazi concentration camps in Elie Wiesel’s Night, and the Japanese prison camps in Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, to be the main source in which they use to rebound from a terrible situation. The central theme shared by both novels is the struggle to preserve one’s dignity in the face of severe adversity, trying to weaken their will to live. Mistreatment of the captives in the camps physiologically scar the men, leading to the loss of respect for others and themselves. In...
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...The thought of being made invisible, and being isolated and dehumanized is absurd. In Unbroken by Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini is treated as if he is invisible. During WWII Louie is taken as a POW and is humbled, tortured, starved, and beaten daily. He is being dehumanized and isolated from the outside world. In The Life of Miné Okubo Miné is a Japanese-American living in America during WWII. During this time she is informed that she must move out of her apartment and be sent to a relocation camp as a result of the war against the Japanese and the fear that the Japanese-Americans living in the Americas will attempt to sabotage the United States. Louie and Miné are treated as if they are invisible. There are many pieces of evidence to illustrate...
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...The Importance of Hope and Perseverance These three pieces of literature are not only meant to entertain, but they also bring to light the importance of retaining hope and perseverance through even the most arduous times. Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken. Random House, 2010. Print. Unbroken, the true story of Louis Zamperini, know by his friends as Louie, and how he goes from a troubled child, to an Olympic athlete, to being stranded at sea. As a young child Louie was very mischievous; he was drinking, smoking, and stealing all before he was 10 years old. To keep him out of trouble, Louie’s brother got him to join the track team. Little did he know, Louie had the potential to be a tremendous runner. After countless hours of strenuous practice...
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...Zamperini and the Mutsuhiro Watanabe, a.k.a. the Bird, are two men who lived during the World War II era. Louie was a Second Lieutenant, and later a Captain, for the U.S. Air Force, who served as a bombardier. His plane crashed in the ocean where he was stranded for over a month until the Japanese found and imprisoned him in camps. The Bird, however, was a Corporal, then a Sergeant, in the Japanese military, and was in charge of certain prison camps. The Bird was corrupted by the craving for power, while Louie violated his character in the course of serving his country during a war of power hungry people. For both of them, the coming of the war brought out the worst in them. Laura Hillenbrand uses them as character evidence in her book Unbroken, to support the theme: war is an extreme event that can sometimes bring out the worst in people. Watanabe, later known as the Bird, was raised in a rich home and received an exceptional education. He was accustomed to being at the top of the social ladder, yet he also wished that he were something more, someone, with even more power. Therefore when his application to become a military officer was rejected, along with this opportunity for power, he became unstable and almost deranged. Also, if someone was famous or an officer like Louie, he hated them with exceptional vigor. Using The Bird, Laura Hillenbrand conveys that war often brings out the dark side in people. After targeting Louie, The Bird, “Jerked his belt off. Grasping the...
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...two stories share two conflicts, a struggle for survival. In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” the main character, not named, thinks in his head, “Without doubt he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face…” (London 703). In the same manner, the main character, named Rainsford, kills a dog and the “bad guy” says to him “… I’ll see what you can do against my whole pack” (Connell 28). However, the two stories differ in what they struggle against. In “To Build A Fire” the conflict is person versus nature. For example the guy builds a fire and from the spruce tree falls some snow and puts out the fire; to quote “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree” (London 700). Meanwhile, in “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is person versus person which is Rainsford being hunted down by General Zaroff-the “bad guy”- in the middle of a baron island. To quote from General Zaroff “Your strength and stamina against mine” (Connell 24). Secondly, literary item number two is setting. In both stories the setting is set in isolated places. Like in “To Build A Fire” its set in the Yukon in the middle of winter. To validate that “The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice” (London 694). Also in “The Most Dangerous Game” the setting is in the Caribbean on an island. To go with that from the story “… even you can’t see four miles or so through a moonless Caribbean night” (Connell 14). Also in contrast with the stories is temperature. In “To...
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...the beauty in the world" can be viewed as a paradox because it provokes the thought of how mystery and beauty can both be seen in the same idea (68). This quote is often thought of as a paradox because it causes the reader to think of how a place can be mysterious and beautiful at the same time. Often times, a place or object is either mysterious or beautiful, but there are several things that can contain both of these traits. One thing that contains both traits of being mysterious and beautiful is one's future. On page 69, Nick says, "anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge ... anything at...
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...of is it unethical to hunt. This conflict shows that hunting can be unethical on so many levels.Some authors such as ,Rena Korb, feel that this story has created an unrealistic setting, she states that “Connell’s careful work turns a plot that could be deemed unrealistic into a story that compels the reader to breathlessly share Rainsford’s life or death struggle (Korb,164). Another literary example that relates to the human condition statement is imagery. Imagery played a very big role in “The Most Dangerous game”. Imagery is used several times in the story. ON page four it states “An unbroken front of snarled and ragged jungle fringed the shore”(Connell 4).This quote supports the ethics of hunting stated in the human condition statement. Another example of imagery is on page 20 “The gloomy grey stone of the chateau, the sea rumbled and hissed” (Connell 20). This quote relates to the quote by Rena Korb , the imagery in this makes the setting unrealistic. A final example of imagery in this story is on page 3, “It came out of the darkness,a high screaming sound , the sound of an animal in extreme anguish and terror”(Connell...
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...Most Influential and Bold Woman There is a one quotation “a resolution kept for only three days.” This quote shows well that it is really hard to do something continuously that people decide to do for a better future. However, there is a one constant woman who is always trying to keep her words and behavior for 15 years. She is Angelina Jolie, who is well known as global movie star, Brad pitt’s wife, director and Goodwill ambassador for U.N. since she started to find her way into acting, she got a huge fame and popularity as a worldwide actress. Even though she can enjoy a comfortable life more than anyone, she has never stopped charity for refugees in 15 years. Her humanitarian activity in the world is very remarkable and enough to make me feel that she really deserves to receive a tribute and to be admired by all people. While she went to the Cambodia for taking a film...
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...There were two types of imagery mainly used in chapter 7 of the Great gatsby and they were, Tactile imagery, and Visual imagery. Tactile imagery is imagery that appeals to touch. “A waiter knocked and came in with crushed mint and ice, but the silence was unbroken by his 'thank you' and the soft closing of the door."(S.Scott Fitzgerald,pg.129) This is appeals to to touch because we think about crushing ice and closing the door and about how it would feel to actually do that. Visual imagery appeals to us visually. "Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky." (S.Scott Fitzgerald, pg. 118) This quote from the great gatsby chapter 7 is a perfect example of what a visual imagery is. It makes you vision the boat going further away near the end of the sky. S.Scott Fitzgerald used imagery to help us the audience imagine the story better through our...
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...As the sun rises each morning, so does the world keep spinning without the living. While some are missed when they leave the realm of the living, all have a time to leave. This is the way of life. Some must die so that others may live. While reading The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver characterizes life, both human and animal, in her passage with a tone of frailty and poisonousness, which suggests an adverse environment. This is in sharp contrast of the tone of peace Kingsolver gives the mother by the Okapi in the final paragraph. The struggle of life and death is an eternal endeavor. Survival is a natural thing and all thing participate in it. In this story the forest is a great example of the struggle of survival. Kingsolver uses phrases such...
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