MUTE

All through my life I have had several problems with my mouth from cavities to crooked teeth. I had braces place on January, 9 of 2015 and I unlike other people have always enjoyed going to the dentist. I remember in elementary school when the they would drive the children with no insurance to free clinics offered in universities and I loved it more than anything. I looked forward to getting free tooth paste, a new tooth brush and fun goodies that they offered at the dentist. It was like a field…

The last hard copy piece of literature I read was the novel called “The Tiger’s Wife” by Téa Obreht. It is a 337 page literary fiction, involving magical realism, politics, and the supernatural. I read “The Tiger’s Wife” for english class and it took about one or two months to read the book. Although this is true, if I truly had time to read it without making annotations and journal entries, it would have taken only one day to read.The novel includes four important characters; Natalia,…

In the Bible Solomon writes, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy” (Proverbs 31:8-9). In The Crucible, Giles Corey and John Proctor stand up for what they believe is right and strictly stand by their beliefs and God’s will. They stand up against the court because they know the innocent are are giving in and confessing to things they are not guilty of for the sake of saving…

Besides reverting to the piano and art, Mick tries another solution to cope with her illness. Like Dr.Copeland, Jake, and Biff, Mick unloads her story to the deaf mute, John Singer. Singer as he does with the other characters, nods as a deaf mute would do. At one point in the novel, Singer decides to write a letter to his long lost friend Antonapoulos. McCullers writes, “I do not mean that they work at their jobs all day and night but that they have much…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The novel takes readers behind the scenes of what life in a totalitarian-like mental hospital is like through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic Native American man who is perceived to be deaf and mute. Chief Bromden describes everything that he witnesses from the way that the staff treats the patients to other metaphorical aspects of the hospital that are not actually present. Although this novel shows aspects of multiple genres, the genre…

On week 1 I had my very first general psychology lesson. It was a very enriching and interesting lesson. We learnt about the subfields of psychology as well as the psychology perspectives. There are 5 psychological perspectives. They are; neuroscience, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic. For neuroscience perspective, which is based on the physical and biological viewpoints of the brain and the nervous system. One example is the inheritance of certain characteristics influence…

which is where he met Erich Zann, the protagonist, who plays otherworldly music with his viol. The college student stays in an apartment on Rue d’Auseil street, which is in a part of the city he had never seen before. Here, he meets Erich Zann, an old, mute German man who plays the viol. When Zann is alone at night, he plays strange melodies that have never been heard before. Soon, the student gains Zann’s trust and learns of his secret. Zann…

to share the horrors that he witnessed and experienced with the public. Young men are killed, maimed and mangled. Families are torn apart and bystanders are annihilated – collateral damage. In “Chickamauga,” Ambrose Bierce uses an innocent deaf-mute child’s point of view in conjunction with vivid…

The Star Trek episode “The Empath”, season 3 episode 12, begins as most all Star Trek shows do; Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Jim), played by William Shatner providing an abbreviated log of events. “Captains log: Star date 5121.5. Orbiting the second planet in the Maniarian star system. This star has long given evidence of entering a nova phase and 6 months ago a research station was established to make close up studies of the star as the end approaches” (Star). The topic of this show is that two…

the lives of the masses ahead of her own life. This is a classic socialist value exemplified by Kattrin. Although she was told to stop or be shot, she continued beating the drum. The manner of Kattrin 's heroism is also ironic. Although she is mute, she makes herself heard, and uses the drum as her voice. The irony accentuates her actions, and allows the audience to consider Brecht 's message further. Using this scene, Brecht makes Kattrin the heroine of the play, and cements the value of…