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The film Blue Velvet and the novel White Noise revolve around capturing the different accounts of American lifestyle that is outside the scope of perceived reality. Blue Velvet is a tale of concealed evils and perversion under a traditional American town. It is an exploration of things between the serene American residential and the dark deception that lies underneath, conscious and subconscious, and good and evil. The novel White Noise portrays a version of an American family that tries to cope…

First, there was the “tracheal mite that came in from Europe”. This was followed by the “varroa mite from Asia” and “the small hive beetle from Africa”. However, the biggest danger has been from “colony collapse” because otherwise healthy hives are simply disappearing with no known cause (“Donate”). One day they are healthy and thriving, the next they are gone. This frightening problem…

Mateschitz. [Economist, 2002] The company’s brand strategies are based on pushing their limit and generating ideas that are quirky, innovative and beneficial. When Mateschitz first launched the company he asked students to drive around in Minis and Beetles with a Red Bull can strapped on top and persuaded students to throw Red Bull parties with weird and wonderful themes. The only other way he promoted Red Bull was through a series of whimsical TV cartoons. [Economist, 2002] Currently,…

In life everyone has journeys to travel filled with numerous obstacles. For those who have goals that they want to achieve, they will deal with extra obstacles throughout their journeys in the story worn path, Ms. Phoenix is one of these people. In order for her to accomplish her goals of obtaining the medicine, she had to travel though paths filled with numerous obstacles and endure many challenges. In the beginning of the story, Ms. Phoenix had to endure the cold weather in order to arrive…

Walt Whitman& Emily Dickinson Points of View Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are one of the most famous poets in the American literature. Walt Whitman in his poem shows that he does not have any religion to follow, he creates his own one, and in some point it shows that he believes in God, but he does not follow the religion. Another point is that in “Song of Myself” he is celebrating himself and the doctor’s opinions are the spiritual relationship. Additionally, he describes his and the…

Moment (Page #) 2 Quotations (Pages #s) Literary Device Connection/Significance Chapter 6 – Pages 85-97 – (34-38%) This chapter basically goes into detail about the forbidden daughter of Hester whose name is Pearl. The first quotation is not from a scene, but rather just the author introducing you a bit more to Pearl. The author uses a metaphor in this first quotation on page 87 by comparing Pearl to a flower. The second quote is from an actual scene. During this time from on…

interpret that the time perhaps symbolized the incoming death of the old man. The narrator mentions “He was still sitting up in the bed listening; – just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall” (death watches or beetles, their clicking was thought to be an omen of death) (Backpack Literature 43). This further supports the interpretation, that indeed time was foreshadowing the incoming death of the old man.The bedroom and the bed is another great symbol…

Do dreams come true? “DAVID!” GET OVER HERE AND MAKE ME SOME COFFEE!” Mrs. Gradell yelled. She was enormous, cheeks lined with folds of fat flopping around as she spoke. Lying on the shabby sofa groaning under her weight, she stuffed mounds of chocolate into her mouth, lips and hands stained brown and sticky, her small piggy eyes firmly fixed on the TV screen. “HURRY UP, WOULD YOU?” David slowly shuffled into the kitchen, spine bent, a slight limp on one foot. He heated up the water, hands…

Having said all of this, before drawing any conclusions based on Céu’s multilayered evocations of the virtual and its oscillations between the “no longer” and the “not yet,” I would like to turn to the other two films and to the notion of the ordinary, which, along with the virtual, is central to contemporary documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world…

silkworms have been domesticated for a very long time because of their by-products and they can also be eaten. Others include the house cricket, the palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), the giant water bug (Lethocerus indicus) in Thailand, and water beetles in China that are commercially farmed for human…