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Many sophisticated scientific journals are being published each year, presenting abstract information unknown to a lay audience, because of this, journalists are given the task to accommodate these journals for an audience unknown to science, some doing better than others. In Jeanne Fahnestock’s article “Accommodating Sciences: The Rhetorical Life of Science Facts, she describes accommodation as “…present a rather abstract scientific subject in a popular manner…” (Fahnestock 332). Before writing…

Lucid Dreaming: The Start of Great Possibility Baku, a dream eater in Japanese Legend, is a spirit animal that visits people’s homes and eats their nightmares. In Greek mythology, Morpheus is a messenger who has the ability to enter someone’s dream and deliver messages from the gods. His brother Phobetor, who is a shape shifter and is often found in the form of a snake, is the bringer of nightmares. The origin of the English word “nightmare,” is Mara, who is also an evil spirit that changes…

Although every room was exquisitely designed, each room represented one of the seven deadly sins. Greed, wrath, pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, and envy all “attended” the party through the guests and their oblivious actions. The infamously painted black room with window panes of “a deep blood color” was the most avoided (Poe 1). With red lighting, as well, this room was highly evaded throughout the night. What was special about this room was that it included a large ebony clock with a pendulum,…

Writing Assessment: The Masque of Red Death Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is a chilling story about a prince that tries to avoid the Red Death, a plague that sweeps his kingdom. He attempts to do this by locking himself and his friends in his castle and throwing a lavish party. Everything is fine until the Red Death visits the prince and his guests, and everyone dies. Throughout the story, Poe uses symbols such as the colors of the rooms in the party, the gigantic wall clock…

models of scholarship and to make materials open to the public, or open access. The UIC Library is facilitating changes in scholarly communication through an institutional repository (INIDIGO), an open access publishing fund, and an open access journal publishing platform. More information can be found at http://researchguides.uic.edu/content.php?pid=43156…

The Masque of the Red Death Can you dominate death? People believe that if they are rich they won’t die but if you are poor you will die. No matter if you are poor, rich, handsome or not everybody will die because death is a stage of life. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Poe uses as symbols seven rooms and a clock to represent death. Poe demonstrate his readers Prince Prospero running through all the rooms and the clock ticks slower every time he gets closer to the seventh room. The prince…

The Masque of the Red Death, written by Edgar Allan Poe, contains many symbols. All of the symbols affect Prince Prospero. Edgar Allan Poe makes it easy for the reader to find the symbols. Each symbols that Poe uses helps him convey his message. There are at least three symbols that are easy to identify. In Poe’s, The Masque of the Red Death, death is surrounding everyone because the Bubonic Plague, the clock striking a new hour, and the welded gate. The Bubonic Plague is a major symbol because…

of immigration. And so, I used various sources from journals, books, blogs and T.V. interviews to get information from a broad range and an insight of different perspectives about the subject of the impact immigration causes. Card, David. "Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?" The Economic Journal 115.507 (2005): F300-323. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Blackwell Publishers. 13 Nov. 2016. David Card writing for The Economic Journal acknowledges how in the recent times the public…

Edgar Allen Poe’s Gothic Fiction “Mask of the Red Death” takes place in a kingdom struck by plague in Prince Prospero's abbey. Prospero hosts his party in his isolated abbey to try and protect himself and his rich friends. Eventually a character known as the Red Death shows up and kills everyone. Within Prospero’s abbey there are seven colored rooms which are blue, purple, red, green, orange. white, and finally the black room representing death. The colors of the room’s represent the different…

techniques to trick their brain into lucid dreaming. The first is to stay in control; “Once someone loses a grip on what’s going on the dreamer will lose their ability to control the dream” (Tuccillo, Dylan, et al.). The second is to keep a dream journal; once someone starts to write down their dreams it helps the brain realize the difference between fantasy and reality. This is very important, once the dreamer starts to question reality it will soon become a habit and sooner or later the…