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    In everyday life, prejudice is an ongoing dispute faced by people for many different reasons; these reasons include religion, race, ethnicity, physical and mental disabilities, and almost any kind of diversity in general. In the short story titled “Cathedral”, written by author Raymond Carver, Carver illustrates character growth of a protagonist through the our unnamed narrator – referred to as “Bub” by Robert – when he undergoes a transformative experience realizing he should not discriminate…

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    )” (Carver 38). He uses his walls to deal with the fact that he cannot stand his current job. He smokes and drinks to cope with what he feels are his life’s disappointments, completely detaching himself from reality. In his essay “The Calm” Mark A. R. Facknitz discusses how complex and detailed the characters in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” really are. “Carver’s penetration of characters is honest and fast. But they compose a diminished race – alcoholics, obsessives, drifters, and…

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    Common Themes In King Lear

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    This play depicts the theme of Fathers and their children. Gloucester (Glou) introduces Edmund to Kent as a bastard that he sired out of wedlock; he used to be embrassed to announce this to anyone, now he boasts about Edmund;s “well breeding”. King Lear announces that he is splitting his kingdom among his three daughters he has each of them to say how much they love them so that he can give each their land accordingly. Regan and Goneril lie and say that they love him as much as possible it is…

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    There are many ways to describe a character. Some ways are through dialogue, character description, language etc. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver and “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason, both made characters very similar. However, with similarities also comes differences. Both husbands from Carver and Mason’s short stories both felt unwanted by their wives but in different ways. Carver made the husband feel unwanted by making him jealous while Mason made the character feel unappreciated. In “Cathedral”,…

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    Short and Sweet The short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, was published in December of 1905. In only a few pages, William Sydney Porter, under his pen name O. Henry, composes a magical story of love and sacrifice. Both characters are willing to give up what they love most for the person they love. O. Henry shows his excellence as a writer in “The Gift of the Magi” with his plot, use of irony, and his theme of love. According to Emily Wenstrom from “The Write Practice”, there are a…

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    Tropicália

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    ‘For the Tropicália movement, music was a form of politics.’ Discuss. The music of Tropicália brought a subtle political message of unity and social activism to Brazil in a time of heavy repression. It developed in 1967, following the psychedelic rock movements of USA and UK, but was quickly restricted the following year when its founding members, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, were exiled as threats to society. Its music applied a mixture of musical styles, from Brazilian traditional dance…

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    Running-title: Attack patterns of a psyllid herbivore on different eucalypt genotypes Glycaspis brimblecombei (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) attack patterns on different Eucalyptus genotypes Juliana Tuller1*, Karla Nunes Oliveira2, Jhonathan Oliveira Silva3, Maurício Lopes de Faria1, Mário Marcos do Espírito-Santo2, José Eduardo Serrão4, José Cola Zanuncio4 1 Laboratório de Controle Biológico, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes…

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    The title of the text is, “The Bath: What We Talk about When We Talk about Love.” It is written by Raymond Carver and the primary characters are Scotty, his mom, Mrs. Ann Weiss, his dad, who was referred to mostly as the father in the story. The story concerns a boy called Scotty who will soon celebrate his 8th year birthday. In preparation for the birthday, his mom went to the baker’s shop to order his spaceship chocolate cake, which will be ready on Monday morning before the birthday starts…

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    Jon Krakauer tells of how a close friend of his wife and himself had been twice sexually assaulted by someone they knew. Shocked Jon Krakauer seeks to find out more about these occurrences and this leads him to Missoula, Montana, the titular town of the book and how it came to be known as “The Rape Capital” of the United States. He begins by explaining the importance of college football to this community and how the pride they took in the sport led to the veneration of star athletes. He…

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    Walt Disney started off as a farm boy drawing cartoon pictures of his neighbour’s horses for fun. When he was older, Walt tried to get a job as a newspaper cartoonist, but was unable to find one and ended up working in an art studio where he created ads for newspapers and magazines. Eventually he grew to work on commercials, became interested in animation, and eventually opened his own animation company which has become one of the most successful businesses in the world. Walt Disney's childhood…

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