Literary Analysis Mark Twain is widely recognized as one of the most important writers in American literature . The effect of his discipline approach to the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” incorporated figurative language like simile as well as hyperboles to further expand the the characteristics of the frog as well as other characters . He also incorporated hyperboles to exaggerate the certain situation and features the characters have . Furthermore in the short…
8. Overview of the Arduino Sketch 8.1 General Codes MediaTek labs states that an Arduino sketch “is a source code file representing the core controlling logic for the LinkIt ONE development board. It consists of two main structures: setup and loop” (MediaTek Labs, n.d.). In this section I will discuss what the above code do. First, LinkIt ONE initializes the Ubidots account, then the sensors, Wi-Fi or GPRS, the location and finally the serial port. To minimize battery consumption, I did not use…
irony. Irony occurs when what a reader expects to happen is the complete opposite of the actual outcome. Irony helps illustrate humor especially in the works “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a framed narrative that tells the tale of Jim Smiley who is really good at winning bets; More rather, he is good at manipulating the game to win bets. In the end of this short story, the…
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County play versus the short story had many contrasts. Yet, there were characteristics that differed between the two media forms. The setting, theme, plot, characters, and conflict are each a bit different between the forms of the highly-recognized story. The setting of two stories contrast in a couple of ways. To begin with, the play opens right in the old west. The short story, on the contrary, begins at Angel’s Mining Camp. The time period between…
Los Angeles is a place where people of different social backgrounds lead increasingly separate, parallel lives. Individuals from all social backgrounds participate in routine activities in micro-spaces throughout the city such as purchasing a cup of coffee or riding the bus to work. These people can be a student going to school or a senior citizen out on a stroll. Even though they may cross paths and share certain spaces on a consistent basis, that does not mean that they live identical lives.…
theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing different plays to these eras including Trojan Women by Euripides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn, and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. In the Ancient Greek era some of the most prominent aspects of staging conventions…
Lost in Lust The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn, book by Rachel Sheinkin, and conceived by Rebecca Feldman, explores a lighthearted event, as the play title suggests, a middle school spelling bee. I watched the production on February 7, 2016 at 2:00 PM at the University of Washington’s Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse. This production was directed by Brandon Ivie, musically directed by Jordyn Meeker, and choreographed by Steven Sofia. This musical…
been a problem, it has only gotten worse from the recession. Shawn Marlowe, a guard, said, "Every time I ask people to leave, they ask me, 'Where am I going to go?' " (Homelessness increases despite the decade-long push to end it in Minneapolis, Hennepin County). Homeless people don’t have a warm, safe shelter to stay. People can’t do anything because there aren’t enough shelters to provide for homeless people. Homelessness affects the Minneapolis transit station, the government because…
My organization, Hennepin Health is a Medicaid HMO plan that has 10,000 recipients, and we only service Hennepin County residents. Medica health plan announced last year, they are exiting the Medicaid market, due to increased deficits. There will be 300,000 people in the public healthcare market that need to select a health plan. The following health plans will receive an influx in enrollment: BCBS, Hennepin Health, Health Partners, and UCare. My department recently restructured our department…
mental health intuitions. Three jails – Cook County Jail in Chicago, IL, Rikers Island in New York and Los Angeles County Jail in California, are the three largest mental health facilities in the United States (CITE). Although these jails are not actually mental health institutions, they do have the three largest populations of persons in an inpatient or in custody setting who are receiving…