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Personal velocity by Rebecca Miller is a series of seven short stories all in one novel. They are about seven different women, describing their personalities and how they are shaped. Each character was unique in their own way, but the background of their lives was usually the same. The three characters I liked more were Greta, Delia, and Julianne. These three women have very different basic core personalities. A core personality is are primary traits that people develop usually in their…

There is a moral compass that makes a ticking noise every time a person makes a decision that could have a successful result or a dreadful consequence. People make choices that shape their lives using this tik-tok compass, and it will be at the back of their head reminding what is virtuous or dishonorable that follows throughout the journey of life. Throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Huck Finn's moral compass in an assortment of ways to uncover how Tom’s influence has…

Charlie Gordon: Ignorance is Bliss Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man who has a mental disability. He was taught by Miss. Kinnian,who treats Charlie very well. He is motivated to succeed,and wants to be smart, but learning is extremely difficult for him. Miss. Kinnian had heard about a surgery that could possibly triple someone’s intelligence, so she recommended Charlie to be the subject of the operation/test. The operation was successful, but it didn’t impact Charlie the way he had been…

National Identity can be expressed in many ways such as a persons language, culture, religion, and traditions. In this course we have read many literature's where characters have expressed their national identity for example in the poem "I, too" by Langston Hughes and the story "How it Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Hurston. Both of these literature's have the similar settings and backgrounds. They both revolved around days before blacks were equal to whites. In the poem "I, too" Langston…

Kate Chopin, in her short story, “The story of an hour”, shows a lamentable woman Mrs. Mallard who realizes the freedom unfortunately when her husband come home, she has a heart attack, and died in the end of the story. Mrs. Mallard because of her husband's panic and desire for freedom, so an important theme in this story is Mrs. Mallard’s Awakening. In order to develop and reveal this theme, the author uses setting, portrayed of the character and symbolism. To begin with, using the importance…

efforts to prevent its life from diminishing as Woolf recalls,”I laid the pencil down again. The legs agitated themselves once more.” Despite arriving at the climax, the short sentences create a calm tone and reveal Woolf’s acceptance to inevitable approach of death. Woolf’s use of long sentences, to describe her observations, and short sentences, to narrate her inner thoughts on those observations, ultimately guide the reader towards the overall…

The Tradition of Pain The “The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson and “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973) by Ursula Le Guin share a setting that is both similar and different from one another. In both stories, the writers use social constructs and deep ritualistic traditions to pave a setting for both stories. Though both traditions pertain to one individual, the basis of each tradition is different from the other through life and death. The first element of comparative analysis…

Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter who according to Rolling Stones is “ one of the greatest songwriters of all time”. In the book “The Unspeakable” author Meghan Daum discusses the Joni Mitchell problem which is fans or non-fans, liking or disliking Mitchell's art for the wrong reasons. We can also call the fans and non-fans consumers. Daum makes the claim that Mitchell’s art can be interpreted in one way. Daum says the consumers see Mitchell as a romantic but to Daum that doesn’t…

In the autobiography Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez uses the term “private language” to depict the difference his heritage, culture, and spanish language, have with the American lifestyle, and english language. “Private language” to Rodriguez signifies the private spanish language his family and himself shared at home. Outside their home he considered it to be public, because everybody shared the same common language that is english. His family however stood out because of…

The Peculiar Character of Judge Goodwill Banner The novel “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud is a story about a character named Roy Hobbs and his unique experience with major league baseball. Roy interacts with many unique characters through the story, however Judge Goodwill Banner stands out amongst all of the others. Through Judge Goodwill Banner Malamud tells a deep story. In the story the Judge servers to be a constant presence over the club while still remaining somewhat mysterious. The…