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Strangers are simply friends, we haven’t met yet. Strangers are dangerous. Strangers are strange. To someone I am a stranger, and to me you’re a stranger. We may become friends, or we may continue to walk different paths the rest of this lifetime. This could be down to luck, destiny, or our own life planning. Due to frequent déjàvu episodes I sign onto the internet to ferret out information. According to the medical websites, this could be the sign that a mental illness is about to present…

In his New York Times review of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, Vincent Canby said: “in the filmography of Werner Herzog…‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’ looks to be a kind of charming diversion…it’s something less than the voyage of self-discovery that each of Mr. Herzog’s earlier, very original films has been…[Dracula is] not some profoundly complex character.” With all due respect to Vincent Canby, I completely and fundamentally disagree. On the one hand, I can see Canby’s angle—Herzog had already built…

I chose to read the book Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living by Jacqueline S. Thursby. This work explores numerous aspects of funerals and the customs that surround it. Although some of it was hard to follow and seemed a bit jumbled, I was able to get a sufficient amount of information from it that I believe will help me become a great funeral director in the future. I was able to extract a few great lessons from the work, the first being the fact that all people unconsciously…

Morales Song of Solomon Tony Morrison Topic 1 Mariely Morales AP Literature Mr. Amoroso PD. 3 Morales You may look and/or feel younger or even older than your age but there has always been this idea that if someone is a certain age they should act their age. This idea that as you grow older you become mature. In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Macon Dead III, is an example of this idea that some people have not always being true. Macon Dead III personally and socially “came of age”…

In Sable and Dark Glasses Joan Didion remembers her distaste for being a child and her yearning for a glamorous, grown up life. I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother’s definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of…

Narrative structure and literary techniques are used to help develop, and draw attention to, major themes and ideas within literature. The short stories Recitatif by Toni Morrison and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor use such devices to help their themes and ideas grow. Morrison’s use of the first person perspective and keeping information from the reader, like the races of characters, helps to develop the major theme of racism and assumptions. O’Connor, on the other hand, uses a…

that anxiously awaited Shaw's death while encouraging the executioner. His depiction of pro-capital punishment individuals as barbaric and uneducated continues to become more detailed. Additionally, he describes crowd members eagerly awaiting the hearse, shouting, "Where's the beef?" and expressing "whoops of elation" (607). The quotation of one demonstrator shouting "Where's the beef?" refers to a Wendy's commercial at the time, thus, the question successfully connects to the audience's…

Conformity, defined as “compliance with standards, rules, or laws,” is an epidemic facing all groups of people and all nations (“Conformity”). It is obvious that we as human beings need to have that feeling of acclamation, to be loved by their neighbors or colleagues, and to feel a sense of normalcy. “Say You’re One of Them,” and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, create the mindset described as above, but Mayone Satrapi’s Persepolis, takes place in a similar environment revels against the state’s…

1.Unstable situation The grandmother, plays a major role in the story by introducing the audience to a very unlikeable person, which in turns, gives a distinctive negative attitude towards her that grows throughout the story. She isn’t very well liked by the family of her son, Baily. Baily’s family tries to ignore the grandmother because she often is a self-interested and conning women. For instance, the grandmother tries to convince the family to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, by adding…

O'Connor (1925-1964) is called as one of the representative writer of "Southern Renaissance". Its main source of creativity from religion and the church. Her description of the main themes of evil, sin and salvation. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is one of the most respected O'Connor short story writer through a family trip to show us a path of soul salvation, the salvation of the soul essence but a fiction journey. O'Connor said: "A good novelist is through symbols and metaphors to convey…