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The language and narration of Montresor 's served as the bait that lures Fortunato into Montresor’s plan. Language is full of mystery. With the vast variety of meaning that even one word can take on, people can have various ways of interrupting the same line of words. In this story, Montresor manipulated Fortunato by using his language wisely. Montresor tells Fortunato that “[He has] received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and [he has his] doubts” (Poe117). Fortunato is immediately…

Wilfred Owen has numerous poems that have to do with showing the dark and dismal times soldiers have on the battlefield. Unlike poets that glorify war and make it seem like a heroic endeavor, Owen puts his real experiences into a poem and shows how unsavory war can really be. Before being in the military, he had attempted to get scholarships to further his education only to fail twice and join the Artist’s rifles, later to be commissioned into the Manchester Regiment as a lieutenant. Owen is…

then went on to carve their leaders' faces in the mountains of that land shows monumental excess on a grand scale. As opposed to the albatross of Mount Rushmore, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial shows that the subtle carving of names in a slab of black granite in the midst of a park can represent just as much, if not…

specifically in Thebes, Egypt (BBC, 2014a), also known as Upper Egypt or Ramesseum (The British Museum, 2017a) in the past. The statue was made with different colors, which are the two shades of brown (light and dark) and grey. Furthermore, red granite and granodiorite (The British Museum, 2017a) were materials of this statue. Overall, the Statue of Ramesses II resembled a look of a royal pharaoh; however, there are some broken and damage pieces, for instance,…

lithosphere is very rigid; it does not flow like the asthenosphere. The crust itself, which is contained in the lithosphere, can also be divided into two parts, the continental crust, and the oceanic crust. The continental crust is composed mostly of granite unlike the oceanic crust which consists of a volcanic lava rock called basalt. Basaltic rocks of the ocean plates are much denser and heavier than the granitic rock of the continental plates. Lying above the lithosphere is the liquid…

My life has been unexpectedly crazy and busy. My life become this way when I started a new job. I was hired on at Shoe Carnival. I began out as a part-time sales associate. I also had a second job at GameStop. I thrived at Shoe Carnival, I was the person they relied on. In roughly 3-4 months I was asked to move up two whole positions and become their assistant manager. At this point an opportunity to advance at GameStop was slim, but Shoe Carnival's was not. But I needed the promotion. So, I…

First paragraph of introduction 1 “The Scarlet Letter” is a historically based novel published in 1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2 The story is set in 17th-century Boston, a town heavily reliant upon Puritan doctrine and belief. 3 The year is 1642. Hester Prynne, a young spouse whose husband has been missing for more than a year, is convicted of adultery following the birth of her newborn daughter Pearl. As part of her punishment, Prynne is forced to wear a red patch…

As the nation observes Memorial Day this weekend, we should take a few minutes to reflect on the great number of American military cemeteries that span the far reaches of the planet, where boundless ranks of white stones stand silently at attention with few visitors to ever pay their respects. There were never any veterans’ reunions for them – not one. Well, at least not on this side of eternity’s threadlike veil. In what seems like a blink of the eyes, it was last summer that I was…

appearance of the windows that are continuous and horizontal bands, which is found in the Fisher Building. Looking that the building, the observers eyes travel up and down. The Fisher Building is finished in polished Minnesota pink marble and Oriental granite, but does not have the fine detail that other historical structures do. However, the height and massive appearance is impressive to the eye. Occasionally the simplest of the detail is better in expressing the significance of a…

Imagine the year 1853. It is March 30th, ten days into spring and a child has just been born. This child is quiet and thoughtful; he does not seem to be anything more than a regular boy. The thing that the eye cannot see, about him, is the way he looks at the world. This boy will live a life in which he will never truly be understood in the way he deserves, and in the end he will end up taking his own life. But that is a price of genius: to be denied in happiness while in the pursuit of…