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In Ray Bradbury’s short story The Pedestrian, the portrayal of the main character Leonard Mead and his love for irrelevant, bygone practices, such as writing and going on walks, locked in conflict with the futuristic civilization that he lives in, who are all obsessed with anything that appears on their screens, symbolizes the unsightly truths of the corrupting nature of and flaws of society. Mead lives amongst a population that is solely focused upon the consumption of technology. Unimaginable…

Coincidence and the Poor Man’s Fate As his neighbor with a deteriorating mind is pursed by the local police for trespassing into the now-destroyed and abandoned, once-his-home, trailer park community of Times Beach, Missouri, the unnamed narrator “carefully considered both coincidence and fate” (26). The heart of “Book of Songs” by John Dalton struggles with the narrator’s contemplation: it was not a coincidence that detrimental waste oil ended up contaminating a trailer park, yet it was…

The Life of a Depression Era Baby (an interpretive essay on the life of Nancy Zabriskie) After my grandfather died unexpectedly, my family sat around the table mourning his death. You know what you do when you sit around the table? You talk and you eat. Because of this, I was very overweight at birth when I was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1931. They could barely find my neck! After this, my mother swore to never get that heavy again. Unfortunately, she lost too much weight. My brother,…

Pain is a huge difficulty that needs much perseverance. For example, Buck, from Call of the Wild, is taken from his life in California and feels extreme pain through starvation, torture and harsh labor. In contrast to Buck, my friend broke her hip during softball from growing fast, moving fast, and quick sudden motions. Even though Buck and my friend don’t share the same story, they both had to use perseverance to overcome challenges. Anyone and anything must persevere to survive and thrive.…

Menagerie. Durang showed the true story in my opinion. I love parodies of things they are always funny, but I have never enjoyed a parody more than the actual story (or most of the time song) before. It is a valid parody to me, it is funny and does a great job of making fun of the story and making a mockery of it. Durang takes the small things from Williams’ story that you can read in between the lines and blows them up and makes them huge ordeals that also have some humor to them. I enjoy how…

Over the past few years the Greeks have affected the society by contributing primarily their advanced technology. Many of their advanced technology consisted of simple machines such as the lever, screw, cranes, and gears. These simple machines allowed the performance of work be held effortlessly. In my Rube Goldberg Machine we demonstrated the key aspects, of the ancient Greeks society by focusing on the five different components and representing their advanced technological accomplishments.…

John Steinbeck, throughout Of Mice and Men, explores the essence of male companionship. Despite the fact that most of the migrant workers are solitary, friendship is desired among them all. The bond of male friendship, they believe, will combat the pain of loneliness the field laborers feel. Steinbeck demonstrates the theme of male friendship throughout the characterization of Crooks, Slim, and through the bond between the protagonists, George and Lennie. Although being the most isolated…

Severus Snape is a complicated and well written character in the Harry Potter series but contrary to popular opinion he is not some valiant hero nor is he the persecuted martyr that the a majority of the fandom perceives him to be it is quite clear when you look at the bigger picture that Snape is actually a petty bully with deplorable morals who does not deserve Albus Potters middle name during his teen years at Hogwarts young Snape lusted after his childhood friend Lily Evans Snape tried to…

in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, money is the cause for the character’s actions and attributes, and this, in turn, affects the events of the novel. During the 1920’s, when The Great Gatsby took place, wealth was one of the most dominant influences in their society. This was because everyone had the same dream of acquiring the status of “rich.” Money was an astronomically immense influence on the way people acted, especially the main character’s in The Great Gatsby, but everyone was…

Running head: VISUAL ANALYSIS ESSAY 1 VISUAL ANALYSIS ESSAY 5 Visual Analysis Essay Student?s Name: Institutional Affiliation Visual Analysis Essay The assigned artwork is that of the construction of the Golden Bridge Gate in San Francisco, California. The Golden Gate Bridge is 1.6 km wide and 4.8 kilometers long and was among the premier suspension bridges to be built in the United States. The piece of artwork was drawn on oil and canvas in 1943 as the…