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    The Smile by Ray Bradbury is a story set in the future. Warfare from the past has eliminated nearly all civilizations and has made the beauty and peace of the society turn into hatred and destruction. Cities have been lowered to junk lands, and cornfields and crops glow and bloom due to radioactivity from the horrid warfare of the past. The unfortunate survivors of this dreadful bloodshed wear soiled and poor clothing and have dwellings that consist of caves. Grigsby and Tom, the two core…

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    “The Yellow Wallpaper” Point of View “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman writes in a first-person point of view with the narrator being a main character. The unnamed narrator is speaking as though the story is her journal where she describes the estate rented for the summer. She writes in hopes of keeping her mind occupied from the illness that lingers inside of her. The point of view of “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives an overall understanding of how…

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    men at the tomb of Christ did (Cook 32). The prophet Isaiah said that, “He will swallow up death in victory.” By rising from the “dead”, Madeline symbolizes how God will defeat death and make the “dead men live together with their dead bodies…that dwell in the dust (Isaiah 25:8, 26:19)” (Cook…

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    in drastically different situations from everyone else. Steinbeck uses them to comment on society. Society tends to shun individuals that are in different situations from the crowd, and those individuals feel isolated from everyone else Steinbeck dwells on the theme of loneliness throughout the story, as most characters feel lonely in some way. The most obviously lonely characters are Curley's wife and Crooks. Curley's…

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    In three literary works above talking about the same topic, that is DEATH. The word death in Because I Could Not For Death interprets as positive thing which refers to respect and reverence. It indicates from the word kindly and civility in poem. Dickinson in her poem in the first line of the first stanza states that she could not stop for the death. It means that she has no choice when she will die. Everyone will die but in different times and different ways. Death is not described as…

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    is impossible to classify these organisms and they “escape” the margins of our coherent epistemological system of classification (Cohen 6). The fourth thesis is the theory that “The monster dwells at the gates of difference”. The monster is an incorporation of the, “Outside, the beyond”(Cohen 7). Thus, it dwells “outside” or “beyond” the social, political, racial, economic, and sexual norms established by society. The fifth thesis is “the monster policies the borders of the possible”. Monsters…

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    House On Mango Street

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    The definition of a home is where one dwells amongst their family members. In The House on Mango Street, Cisneros employ an exclusive motif of home which plays a crucial role in the advancement of Esperanza. Despite the fact that the two stories are totally different, it is still conceivable to draw parallels to each other. I think that this poem by Eric Hanson insinuates to how Esperanza is weary with her house and aspires to attain a new one. The lines “maybe it’s got some broken windows, and…

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    heroes. The character Gilgamesh has traits of a typical hero and should be recognized as one. One reason Gilgamesh should be in the typical heroic rank is because he was called to go on a quest. For instance in the book The Epic of Gilgamesh, “There dwells in the forest a fierce monster Humbaba [You and I shall] kill [him] [And] wipe out [something evil from the land]. The haunt of Humbaba is a hopeless quest”…

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    Smoke Signals Themes

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    Women as life givers in the Sherman Alexie's film Smoke Signals Reveals the idea of Making peace with the past. All the stories in the film rewind to the past, but always goes back to the importance of the present. In the film they take it back a lot to times while arnold was still in Victor's life, But goes back to the present when it's just him and his mother. It relates to the theme by showing that even with how the past ended up Victor's mother and victor were still able to move forward…

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    Cassidy is performing a contemporary dance to the electro-soul song “Worry” by Jack Garratt. I started by looking at the word “worry” and what it means. Worry is defined as to give way to anxiety or unease; allowing one’s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles. It is someone who has lost interest in doing things they normally enjoy, feeling hopeless, their movements are restless. When listening to this unique song - the tone, emotional lyrics, and beat, I tried to set the frame of mind the…

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