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    I am going to summarize and analyze the novel named ‘’The Crying a Lot’’. This novel belongs to Thomas Pynchon who is one of the best in postmodernist literature. I will explain 1960s period, short summarize of book and communication problem in the novel. Firstly I want to start with short entrance about the period when Thomas Pynchon wrote this novel. He is an American postmodern novelist. His novels contains lots of question. It was written in the 1960s. In this decade there were lots of…

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    I learned that when it seems like babies are copying what you are doing, an example being sticking out their tongue, they are copying you but they do not know they are doing it. That is called unconscious mimicry. Crying is the key to a baby’s survival. It is the only way they can get someone’s attention to do something for them since they cannot do things for themselves. An interesting fact was that at three weeks old baby’s most active muscles are the ones that control their eye, however they…

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    Shaylee Kading Hour 5 12-04-17 Crying on Mars “So that boy’s and girl’s is why planet Mars is so hot.” Mrs.Phillips explained. As I raised my hand I wondered if I could go to mars. Mrs.Phillips called on me but I didn’t bare to ask. So I replied with. “never mind”. Once, I returned home I asked my beautiful, brown hair, brown eye mother Shelly, “if I could go to Mars”. My Mom replied with “ Aidan your a twelve year old, handsome boy with brown hair and.gl brown eyes”. “But mom even…

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    How are the different perspectives of parents and children explored in the two poems? In ‘Girl’ and in ‘Little Boy Crying’, Jamaica Kincaid and Mervyn Morris both poems use the perspective of the parents in the poem to convey the message that they are giving. Both the mother and the father are giving advice to their children under different conditions. Kincaid’s mother gives her practical and helpful advice that will help her daughter keep her own house, while Morris talks about the emotions…

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    to go there, (d)challenges and trials en route, and (e) a real person to go there.” (Chapter 1) He highlights that “the real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge” (Chapter 1), and the discovery process. The author analyzes the storyline of Crying of Lot 49, a twentieth-century novel by…

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    I was rocking back and forth on the floor at my middle school. Crying and stressing out. I’ve never experienced anything like this. I was panicking and slowing losing my breath. With every breath my fear accelerated, my stress and fear took over me. In that moment my friends saw me. “What's wrong?” they all asked “Oh I’m just sick, I don’t feel good” My tears were puffing my eyes out,“Stop crying, don’t worry about it. You’ll feel better, relax and don’t think about it.” I just wanted the day…

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    chosen an article entitled “Social Reactions to Adult Crying: The Help-Soliciting Function of Tears”, which I felt would mirror well with this week’s chapter on social psychology. Description of the rational for the study To gain a better understanding into the functions of adult crying and the general social reactions of those who are around the affected individual by comparing how people respond to an adult who is crying as opposed to non-crying individuals and which situational factors can…

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    uneasy. Given that, some other attitude toward contingency should be possible, other than the commence of chance or the conspiracy theory. I would like speak to one of Darren Aronofsky’s film called Pi. This film takes the same tactics as The Crying of Lot 49, which keeps the reader away from the truth about a certain connectivity. The protagonist of this film, Max, is a man of prodigious mathematical ability, which he…

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    How To Chop An Onion Without Crying , Tested Ways Onion is one vegetable that does not only gives a yummy taste but even makes you cry. You just count the number of times you have cried while cutting onions. No matter what you do they just can't stop bringing tears to your eyes. The scientific reason behind why onions bring tears is that onion absorbs sulphur from the earth and form a group of amino acid sulfoxides. When you cut the onions it releases sulfenic acids that cause an irritation to…

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    that she’s a whole person.” Pg. 5 As Foster previously states in this chapter, quests are for self-discovery and solving an unanswered and potentially unknown mystery that lies deeply within you. In his example of Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49 he describes the unpleasant and perhaps overwhelming voyage that one must go on to come to terms with the fact that a person that you once relied upon heavily for emotional/ spiritual/ physical/ financial/ fill-in-the-blank support…

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