structure. The Si-Ge system is an example. If strain accommodation is not possible then dislocation defects at the interface may form leading to relaxed epitaxy and the film returns to its original lattice structure above the interface. Lattice misfit is defined as: f = [a0 (s ) − a0 ( f )] a0 ( f ) where a0(s/f) are the lattice constants of the substrate and the film. Film Matched Substrate Film Strained Substrate Film Relaxed
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In Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” a woman who wishes to be of higher class borrows a necklace from a friend for an event; she then loses it and ends up replacing it. Only to find out that it was fake. In Flannery O’ Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a family finds themselves in a disastrous event, which they would not have been in had they stuck to the original plan. Both short stories have an event of irony within their themes. The theme in “The Necklace” says that
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values in the topics of grace, death, and her comments regarding the work, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Throughout this particular work, O’Connor presents the Catholic ideal of grace. This is demonstrated when the grandmother is pleading for the Misfit to spare her life. This reflects the Catholic notion that humans can either embrace or reject the grace of God (Galloway). The situation portrayed is a generalization about human sin in Catholicism. According to the Catholic faith, humans are given
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Societal Corruption in “The Lottery” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Societal corruption is found in both “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor. As illustrated in both short stories, societal corruption can take place in different forms. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary has one meaning for the word “corruption”: “impairment of integrity, virtue or moral principle”. In the “Lottery” capitalist society stands out as a form of societal corruption
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journal, the kids sitting on the floor, and the grandmother reading the newspaper. In the newspaper, the grandmother found an article that had her attention, and she wanted to show her son Baily. The article was about a man that called himself “The Misfit”, he got a loose from jail and was headed toward Florida. It bothered the grandmother more because the next morning they would be packing up, and on their way to Florida. The family was all packed up and ready to go the next morning. As they left
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In Flannery O’Connor’s literary works, it is clear that titles are given with deliberate intent. According to Mary Lienard in her article From Manners to Mystery: Flannery O'Connor's Titles, O’Connor’s titles contribute to a greater understanding of the symbolic meaning of the plot and characters, reveals each story to be a sort of parable, and “combines realism with symbolism.” The use of meaningful titles is not exclusive to O’Connor; rather, it is incorporated into the works of other Southern
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a self-absorbed, old fashioned, manipulating grandmother and her family taking a road trip to Florida. Immediately from the beginning of the story, you can feel some sense of misfortune and disaster. You see her obsession with the story about the Misfit, and begin to wonder almost instantaneously if during the
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Curiosity about the possibility and conditions of "change in identity" has been remarkably intense, in fiction and in psychology, during the last century. In talk about literature, this has led to the development of a crude but useful terminological distinction of two sorts of characterization: "static" and "dynamic." A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end as he or she was at the
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and 1976 had been floating around in various different guises in several cities during the previous few years: New York, Cleveland, Paris, and London to name but four. It was an international sense of boredom with the prevailing culture that saw misfits of all hues go back to maudit, maladjusted noise and try it on for size. Throw it at the wall, fuck you all: life stinks, it's shit, I don't care, oh woah oh. (Savage) People,
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the stage and reveal the grandmother’s manipulation skills. “Now look here, Bailey,”… “see here, read this,” and she stood with one hand on her then hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head. Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people. Just you read it. I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience
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