Fountain pen

who did things not everyone could. And Walter Mitty was that in his daydreams: despite being a good guy or a bad guy, in his dreams he had the guts to be a ‘man’ of his time. "Give me a fountain pen!" he snapped. Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled a faulty piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in its place. "That will hold for ten minutes," he said. "Get on with the operation. […] - If you would take over, Mitty?" Mitty [...] "If you wish," he said” (Paragraph 6). Walter…

Most tragedies are focused on either external or internal conflicts of the protagonists. However with more modern tragedies, other characters also influence on how the protagonist come to his or her own downfall. In the play Death of a Salesman, the author Arthur Miller displayed the main protagonist Willy as a man struggling to survive in a hostile society while dealing with his mental health. Despite that, there is another cause to Willy’s suffering which he did to himself; he put all his…

Walter Mitty is getting older, and technology is starting to become too complicated for him. He tells the story of him trying to remove his car’s snow chains. He recalls that he could not take them off correctly and he managed to get them “wound around the axles” (722) and “a young, grinning, garageman” (722) had to do the chore for him. Walter Mitty is getting so old that the simple task of removing tire chains, which only requires a very basic knowledge of technology, is too complicated for…

the alphabet made by the Phoenicians to create a method called the boustrophedon. Another example is that the Romans took the Greek alphabet and modified it to become the Latin language. During the 19th century European calligraphy, the fountain pen and steel pen was invented. In European calligraphy, there is such a vast history due to all the events and production of different styles and fonts. There are fonts like Gothic script and italics are…

as a way to display the flaw of obsession and the moral of its destructive capacity. Similarly in Hawthorne’s Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Hawthorne uses human shortcomings, but this time the flaw is not of the scientist but rather his subjects. He pens, “Mr. Gascoigne's mind seemed to run on political topics... now he muttered some perilous stuff or other, in a sly and doubtful whisper...ringing his glass in symphony with the chorus, while his eyes wandered toward the buxom figure of the Widow…

The Miserable Life of Willy Loman Like everything that exists, technology has its pros and cons. Technology, especially recent technology, has been a growing sensation throughout the world within the last half-century. Technology enables us to do things much quicker and easier than before. For example, “communication has been changed dramatically since the telephone” (2). Before the telephone, you had to travel in order to talk to a long-distance relative. With the telephone, you only have to…

As Arabs were travelers and tradesmen they carried their ideas, inventions and enormous amounts of freights to where ever they travelled to. They got the idea from India, China, Ancient Egypt etc. Some say the knowledge gap was occurred due to deliberate conspiracies. This was mainly because they never wanted their offspring to know what Muslims have contributed to their advancement and just wanted to show the European superiority. After the industrialization, secularization started to exist in…

Willy initially presents Biff as being a “lazy bum” as he has rejected his father’s ideals of the American dream. However Willy instantly contradicts himself by stating “There’s one thing about Biff-he’s not lazy”. Perhaps Willy is grasping onto the little hope he has of Biff succeeding where he has failed. This is later reinforced by Willy stating “I’ll get him a job selling”. This is in a way tragic as it is apparent that Biff does not want to follow in his father’s footsteps; however Willy…

I was at a FFA completion for soil judging the day you found out. When I got to school, the water smelled like a pig pen, and people were talking about fecal matter in the water and I was pretty confused. So, I went to History with 15 minutes left and I found out that the water so was bad I shouldn’t drink it. Later that day after practice, we were carving pumpkins for FFA and I wanted something to drink so I went to the vending machine and put in my money in, and when I pressed the button it…

constantly re-contextualised and interpreted without his declared ownership. This one such work is his simple soup can; labelled Cambell's Condensed Tomato Soup. These cans have been recreated by dozens of artists and students alike from contrasted pen drawings to full scale models of redesigned and revamped cans. Another appropriation artist was Marcel Duchamp, a French, naturalized American painter [Wikipedia, 2015]. Duchamp was made famous for his work of the ‘Readymades’. These Readymades…