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clear, I spent my summer devouring tons of other books, but there's something about a "required" read that did little to motivate me. I skimmed through the novel a few days before classes resumed and survived our minimal discussions mostly unscathed. Flash forward to today. I've made it a point to try to consume more classic literature to both appreciate the great works of our culture and to counterbalance my otherwise populist tastes. After finally reading Fahrenheit 451, I realize that this…

remembered the Thunderbolt from the Atom Bomb exactly and she also could still feel the hot heat on her face, as if it would happen again. Chizuko reminded her that she was still a baby and it isn’t possible to remember it at all. Quote: “There was the flash of a million suns. Then the heat pickled my eyes like needles.“ p18.…

little kid in Afghanistan. Both the movie and the book show this, but the movie itself has this scene longer as the man is shown with a wife and a new published book then gets a call. The book just starts off as the man talking over the phone then the flash back happens to show the past and even that has events scattered (jumbled) around where the book had events a, b and c but the movie has b, c, a and e. The movie skips event d because in the book it talks of Baba’s leg and how it is twisted,…

Diction is extremely prevalent in this excerpt from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. In this text about the violent storming of the Bastille, Dickens uses diction to help the reader visualize the transition from the anticipation of the mob to the chaos and anarchy of the battle. During the beginning of the passage when people were gathering around the streets in preparation for the ensuing violence, Dickens uses language such as “vast dusky mass (1)” , “forest of naked arms (5)”, and “…

Economics: When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, they had to stop oil production, this resulted in a chain reaction throughtout the whole event. The distribution of gas was much slower, and prices sky-rocketed. Grocery stores, Supermarkets and Convenience Stores were cleared out because of Harvey. Eventually because of this, water and foods ran out of stock, leaving a lot of people with no resources to get through the Hurricane. Supply and Demand, prices went up, and the need for it went up even…

Popcorn syndrome is entertainments that don’t require much thought or engagement, such as, watching a television show, reading a book or listening to music. If something is considered popcorn syndrome there is no desire to think it is for pleasure only. Unlike popcorn syndrome, popcorn hangover is when you actually watched the movie or television show and its mind boggling. You actually think about what happened and you begin to process those thoughts to form an actual opinion on what you…

come back to the sky. He did not want Maryam know much about him. Knowing the truth Maryam was very disappointed and felt so depressed. Maryam held the young man's hand tightly. She did not want to be separated from him. Suddenly there was a blinding flash of light and the young man disappeared. Maryam was afraid when she knew that the man disappeared and he left his hand on Maryam’s. Maryam ran to her house and buried the man's hand in her garden. Soon, she saw a weird plant growing where she…

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Greetings classmates, Wow! "The woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window" is about a woman who feels nonexistent hanging from a nonexistent floor. She feels like she doesn't exist. What a powerful poem that has a lot of meaning for women and for the men in their lives. The sixth lines sets the tone. "She thinks she will be set free" (6). The theme that stuck out to me was a celebration feminism by showing the brutality of the emotional impact on her life by her environment. This seemed…

To begin the first lesson, we were presented with a definition of “trauma.” Trauma happens when an external threat overwhelms a person’s internal and external positive coping skills. Any given person can experience trauma in his or her own way and through a variety of different happenings. Through this lesson we learned that there are three E’s that stand for the three categories in which a traumatic event can be described - events, experiences, and effects. It is assumed that there must be a…