Crossing the Date Line: Adventures of a Traveling Geologist by John P. Sollo Travel along with John Sollo as he takes us to whole new worlds from the 1980s to the early 2000s. John is sometimes joined by his adventurous wife, Samantha, and other times traveling alone, often without knowing a word of the native language. He takes readers into the dense, danger-filled jungles of Venezuela and Indonesia to the dry lands of Algeria. John recounts tales of less-than-perfect living situations, stomaching
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I chose to do my journal on the essay "Life under the Chief Doublespeak Officer," written by William Lutz. The purpose of this article is to describe how in today's society, we use other words to hide the negative connotation of its real meaning. In the essay, the author uses a descriptive language in an attempt to make an emotional connection with his audience. The way the author uses descriptive language in his article is by using familiar words to compare with unknown words to help prove his point
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The main theme in the movie was based on the dangers of censorship. I think that the movie is honest in a very crude way. I think that the film is extremely honest because the film invades your mind with ideas and opinions that are not normally spoken about in society. The film leaves open the opinion that parents are not taking the responsibility for the actions of their children and trying to find blame in things such as the media. This was shown in the musical number Blame Canada, “We must blame
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The Iranian Nuclear Deal The United States has always had its hand involved in the Middle East; with this area of the world being a gold mine in fossil fuels for the country as well as a source of global tension for territory. But now the people in charge of this country are ready to make this area of the world an even scarier place. With President Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal, the country of Iran will be able to start using nuclear material. This controversial deal has had the media in a frenzy with
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Women As Lovers is a wild and untamable beast of a book. But when stripped of skin and fat, the meat is Brigitte and Paula’s pathetic situation supported by the bones and framework of society’s demand on women. In other words, the story of the two girls is built around the sad realities that Jelinek is trying to boldly highlight about women and men’s relationship in the world. The girls begin young and hard working, but still undesirable: Paula for her overwhelming and immature longing for romance
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on Mark Watney. The predicament that Mark gets into is that he gets stuck on Mars. The Martian is about Mark trying to get back to Earth and the people at NASA. The key things that strike the reader in The Martian are the great use of suspense and humor. Andy Weir also has an interesting backstory before he started writing The Martian. Andy Weir, the author of The Martian, is a very interesting person to research and is also a huge space nerd. “After briefly studying computer science at the
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early stages of the Renaissance, there was the theory of the Four Humors. It said that illnesses were caused when the Four Humors, or liquids in the body known as blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, were out of balance. Doctors tried to make the sick well by restoring the balance of the humors. This was done by bleeding or purging the patient to reduce the quantity of the humor believed to be overpowering the other humors. This theory was still thought to be true later on, but used different
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CMST 2060 34 11/26/2013 In October, I attended a comedy event at the LSU Union Theatre. T.J. Miller and his companions hosted a stand-up comedy event for the students of LSU and anyone was welcome to attend free of charge. Miller and his friends’ purpose were to entertain the audience; however, there were many elements such as structure, content, and delivery attributing to the efficacy, direction, and purpose of their performances. T.J. Miller did not adhere to a strict structural script within
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everyday life that way others can be aware of those who have handicaps and realize that they are just like everyone else. Mairs succeeds to get her point across by drawing in the reader with her strong diction as well as using personal experiences and humor in support of her statements. Mairs shocks the reader when she refers to herself as "crippled". Our culture shuns the use of this word when describing someone that is disabled because it is known to be disrespectful. Yet she chose this word,
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movie compared to the short story of the Monkey's Paw has many differences. The scenes, characters the humor and dialogue all altered. The director improved the story of the Monkey's Paw in the movie by adding more scenes and the characters had more personality. The music played in the movie added more suspense too. Specific scenes where different moods were set, created that suspense. The humor used with Herbert was not used in the short story. Herbert picked at Mr.White about the monkey paw being
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