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‘’I felt so lonesome, all of the sudden. I almost wished I was dead,’’ a quote from the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger which relates to how some teens felt at one point in their life.The novel was published to attract adult readers and has become popular for its themes, motifs, and connections an individual has with the main character, Holden Caulfield.We tend to feel a connection to the struggles of Holden Caulfield as we put ourselves in his shoes and see life through…

majestic temples and shrines, and, of course, with its delicious food. Bangkok, widely known as “The City of Angels” is so same and so different at the same time. It welcomes visitors with its hot and wet climate, many colors, smells and sounds – a good cocktail that makes you feel like an alien, especially the very first time in the city. Bangkok is nothing but exciting! More and more travelers from around the world choose Bangkok as their sought-after holiday destination, unforgettable…

success, and they are caught in a double-standard between being a boss and being bossy. The treatment of women is discussed in Casino Women in several chapters, but specifically 3 and 6. In chapter 3, the reader is introduced to Heidi Abrahamson, a cocktail waitress at a Reno casino. Initially, Abrahamson took the job so she could catch up on her bills. She despised the idea of casinos and casino employees and was sure she would leave as soon as possible. But by the time of the interview,…

In John Collier’s “The Chaser,” differing view of Alan Austen and the old man about "true love" are conveyed through motivate, perspective, and foreshadowing. Alan Austen is a young and naive man with his biased views on life while the unnamed old man has experience through his age and occupation. In the short story "true love" has contrasting meaning dependent on the point of view. Mr. Austen's motive can be seen as soon as he enters the old man's domain. He enters with his intention in hand,…

Death Penalty When Joseph Rudolph Wood gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half after his execution and was finally pronounced dead one hour and fifty-seven minutes later, his lawyers immediately filed an emergency appeal, demanding it be stopped. It was too late. He had “gasped 600 times before he was pronounced dead”, according to (The Associated Press). This is just one of the many botched executions and a main reason why the death penalty needs to be abolished. The death penalty…

In recent years the field of virology has seen substantial growth as virus have now become a more widely researched subject. It was not too long ago relatively speaking that viruses were more or less an unknown entity, as many facts about viruses were unknown to the days researchers. Now however much more is known about what viruses are and how they work; more importantly it is known that viral agents are one of the leading causes of disease. Once it was established that they did in fact…

Nick explains what he sees when he says”The lights grew brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music , and the opera of voices pitches a key higher” (40; Ch. 3). This shows that he was trying to make it obvious that he was throwing a party so that people who know Daisy would tell her how great the parties are or she would see for herself.…

The 1920’s society in America displayed many different concerns, these concerns are highlighted in the novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to use the different characters to represent the different problems going on in America going on in this time. Tom represents the Greed going on in America, Jay Gatsby represents the corrupt social hierarchy, Myrtle represents gender inequality and Daisy represents the importance of Social Class. The 1920’s in America was a time of great…

There are many interesting things about the book breakfast of champions, a distinctive way of author writing style that defies fictional conventions, social commentaries and the exploration of relations between the fictional and the determinate. But these ideas are held by a very weak history, making everything less than its parts separately. The story unfolds around a science fiction writer called Kilgore Trout, and a car salesman named Dwayne Hoover. Away from where we are given to understand…

In his memoir With The Old Breed, E.B Sledge grants his readers access into his mind, where the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa continue to wage on in memory. Sledge gives a first-hand account of how 'child innocence is lost(156), when boys between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five are collectively crafted by war1. The purpose of this discussion is to analyze With The Old Breed, and comment on the nature of war in terms of the Pacific theatre, specifically Peleliu and Okinawa. Although war was…