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Mary Oliver reveals conjectures people make about other people and other cultures in her poem, “Singapore.” Oliver shares a woman’s experience in an airport bathroom. The speaker in the poem is inwardly conflicted, and her internal thoughts displayed throughout the poem alter. At first, the poem reveals the speaker’s thoughts towards a woman working as a custodian at the airport as degrading and poignant. The speaker judgmentally feels sorry for the woman and takes pity on her. The speaker’s…

The character Connie in Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are Going, Where Have You Been?” has a lot of issues. The problems Connie has with her social life, family, and the people that she talks to come to control her future which anticipates the development of her character, this correlating to her unfortunate death. The Bob Dylan song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” perfectly describes her situation which was the inspiration for Oates's story. In 'Where Are You Going Where Have You Been'…

Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico, was a Mexican artist known for self-portraits, which had a deeper meaning. Frida Kahlo used oil, Masonite, and canvas for her self-portrait paintings. She died on July 13, 1954, in Coyoacan, Mexico, due to a pulmonary embolism. The art styles of Frida Kahlo were surrealism and realism. Surrealism is an art form when a painting has unrelated images in a very strange way. Realism is a style of painting are depicted as they are…

Biography Mary Higgins Clark, a bestselling author of mystery and suspense books, was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. Clark had published her first short story in 1956 but decided to try her hand at books in 1964 when she became windowed with five children to look after. Where Are the Children?, her first suspense novel, became an instant bestseller. After her father died, Clark became a secretary to help support the family after graduating from high school. Then she spent…

Trances and Dreams Complicating Desire & Blackness in Jean Toomer’s “Esther” Jean Toomer’s “Esther” is a bildungsroman text that follows the light skinned protagonist, Esther, through four distinct ages in three chapters. “Esther” is full of magical realism coupled with female desire which is often expressed through dreams, visions, and color. From the beginning, the reader can contrast Esther with Karintha, Louisa and other female characters in Cane. Esther is not desired by white or black…

Architecture, Jewelry or Hieroglyphics, but one that stands out in the world of ceramics is the Canopic Jars. The Canopic Jars were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process. The Jars during the mummification process were used to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. They were commonly either carved from limestone or were made of pottery. I do not believe that the Jars were made to intentionally be seen as a piece of art, but as something sacred…

poems “Barn Owl” and “The Glass Jar” where through potent symbolism and aesthetic linguistic elements, Harwood delves into the transition from childhood naivety to the harsh realities of life and experience. The “Barn Owl” is a story of how a child steals their father’s gun in excitement to shoot a barn owl and instead is forced to understand the horrors of taking a life. “The Glass Jar” is similar in this aspect as well as a boy in the despair of shattering his jar of light goes to seek comfort…

I bought the audio book for The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which was narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The bell jar she refers to is a metaphor of how she feels suffocating, stewing in her own “sour air”. (Plath, S.) She also refers to the bell jar as something many people around her seem to have that are in denial, perhaps not even just in their own madness, but about everything. In chapter 7 Esther bring up feeling inadequate. (Lit Charts) Esther doesn’t seem to recognize her own accomplishments.…

warmer when exposed to sunlight. The procedure that was conducted in order to test the greenhouse effect is rather simple and demonstrates significant amounts of information that prove the hypothesis. The experiment involves two glass containers, Mason Jars, each containing an identical amount of soil. The soil is used to represent the ground, and the transparent glass containers allow for a clear view of the thermometers. After filling the two containers with exactly 2 cm’s of soil, both were…

Introduction & Problem Identification A Vlasic pickle jar will be the manufactured product discussed. The pickles found in Vlasic pickle jars are grown in Mount Pleasant and Kalamazoo, Michigan. They are then processed in Imlay City. The jars themselves are primarily made of glass, which is completely recyclable. Although, data from a number of sources has found that glass jars are simply not being recycled enough. In addition to this, glass is fairly inexpensive in its value, resulting in…