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Between third and fifth grade, my family and I moved from my childhood home, which my parents had owned together, to a duplex and then to an apartment. According to my mother, we moved because she needed a fresh start with her new husband. The last move placed me in a different school. I had been at my previous school, Heber Hunt, since kindergarten. At Heber Hunt, I had friends, I knew the teachers, and I felt comfortable. My classmates didn’t often focus on clothes or the stuff we had; we just…

Study shows that if people drink a lot of soda, their bones will get weaker. If they drink a lot of soda like with everything then pretty soon they would go to the hospital because their bones are weak. It would be their fault because they’re the ones who kept drinking the soda. If they went for something more healthy like milk then maybe just maybe they wouldn’t be in the hospital and have to deal with the BIG bill when they get out. When people started to drink soda again because it taste good…

project two of the many stores I have visited so far, Lowe’s and Big Lots. To me, it seems like fan acquisition is not the first priority for Lowe’s. To find the links to social networking sites in the Lowe’s website, you have to scroll down all the way. In the section “Get Connected” you will find the icons to Lowe’s Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Instagram sites. On the other hand, as soon as you enter the Big Lots website, a pop-up window displays asking you to enter your…

I wish for lots of money Wouldn’t it be amazing if your wish could come true? I believe that most people would have their wishes. In the story “The Monkey’s Paw”, Mr. White can make three wishes after he gets the monkey’s paw. Unfortunately, his son is died after he makes the first wish. At the ended of story, he can’t get everything he want because he doesn’t think the consequence before he makes wish. Since the strange events might happen, I still want to make a wish. My grandmother tells me…

he has an impulse to do “some kind of a wall-to-wall rewrite” (S.L., 3). To some extent, the ending of Gravity’s Rainbow is a rewrite of the ending of Crying of Lot 49. Although the same proliferation of options happens again at the end of Gravity’s Rainbow, the endings of these two novels are in fact drastically different. In Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon merely poses four possibilities of the nature of the predicament that Oedipa faces, which “she [does not] like any of them” (C.L., 141). Yet in…

problematic perception of heteronormativity, the belief that humans are normally heterosexual and distinctly male or female. In The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon challenges the traditional perception of a gender binary through the protagonist, Oedipa Maas, who represents the fluidity and choice of gender identity as asserted by Queer Theorists. Throughout The Crying of Lot 49, it is made apparent that the novel has feminist undertones by the manner in which the plot dramatizes perception.…

Claim: Kids today have lots of technology to keep them entertained today, wherever they go. When I was a kid, that was not exactly the case. I didn't have a cell phone by my side or in front of my face at all. When in a car, I didn't have a television to watch movies on until I was eight years old, and even then, I had grown so used to not having it, I never really watched it. I didn't have portable game devices until I was fourteen. The most important stage of life is a person's childhood,…

the established way of life as a whole, and embraced the philosophy of meaninglessness and a rejection of the transcendental meta-narrative. This move has been fully expressed in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 in which both demonstrate a plethora of postmodern characteristics such as strategic use of allusion and irony, and clever employment of intertextuality; per contra, these similar attributes are structurally the same but…

Entropy and Meaning in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 In modernity, the narrative of scientific progress operates under the assumption of order and linear progress. But with the rise of postmodern theory, these assumptions begin to be called into question to provoke new scientific discourses based on indeterminacies and discontinuities. The Crying of Lot 49 poses the same questions of the possibility of scientific knowledge and the search for intrinsic meaning. Pynchon follows the…

It was a windy fall day. The student parking lot riots were in full effect with students trying to get out to go to their homes. The speech and debate team at Monett High School had been selling small snacks for their team fundraiser. Some of the snacks included fruit snacks, trail mix and small bags of peanuts. Makayla was heading to her play rehearsal with her friend Taylor. As Makayla was walking, she heard a boy -who called himself Tom - make a joke about the nuts to her. Makayla was very…