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during a match and mountain climbers warm during an excursion. Synthetic fibers also allow the everyday person to go out in a torrential downpour then to dry quickly once inside. This is accomplished through the use of water resistant materials in raincoats and…

Anna Quindlen is one of many talents, she is a journalist and a writer, as well as the recipient for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Quindlen began her career at the New York Post and soon after became a columnist for the New York Times. In her essay, "Sex Ed", Quindlen begins her essay by introducing readers back into a time in which she had the opportunity to sit amongst several pregnant adolescent girls from an indigent neighborhood in New York City at a family planning clinic, she…

In life, most people set their goals to endeavor so they can fulfill them. However, once those goals are met, people are not as happy as they expected to be. The theme of the corruption of the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is the greed in his characters lives. This may be used to show how corrupted the American Dream gets when people let it consume them. This can explicitly be seen through the characters: Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. In the novel, Myrtle Wilson is…

of good luck, West learned that the prison's vacuum had broken. He was permitted to repair it, and while inspecting the machine, he found that it had two motors. He carefully removed one, and was able to get the other working” (History.com) Using raincoats and glue West made a raft for them to float to shore with and also a device to easily inflate the raft when needed. They made fake heads out of newspapers and other objects they could find, as to not alert guards during nightly counts. As the…

A terrible mistake started something big and strong. Racism has gone on for decades and it was something normal. Nobody said anything about it and even slaves themselves. They didn’t make it a big riot. They didn’t have the right. They were nothing for the “yankees.” So the slaves started something different. Something quiet but loud. They sang! They wrote songs about their slave life and racism that they had to see every day. Their songs had different codes that only, but only they could…

Tuğrul Can Sümen Res. Assist. Seçil Erkoç IED 134 (02) – Study Skills and Research Techniques 08.04.17 Concealed Realism in “Clay” and Joyce’s True Purpose When we think of a kind and gentle old maid in a story, who is beloved by everyone, delighting her friends with a thoughtful present, playing with children or singing a moving song, we generally feel many eloquent emotions. We would approve her politeness and admire her personality. But what if, all of a sudden, we realize that…

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…

A bustling modern city seems to be the most exciting place to be. Or so it seems. While the city itself seems colorful and vibrant, these modern industrial cities tend to be devoid of “humans.” Surely, humans do exist and they constitute the city population, but city-dwellers are often stuck in the mundane, boxed life of an urban city, deprived of their individuality. Shanghai, a city where “One Evening in the Rainy Season” and “Sealed Off” are set, is no exception. To Shanghai residents,…

The last day of the contest, Krista arrived with Daniel and Lorraine a few minutes after seven. It was just starting to drizzle. I didn’t have a raincoat, so I searched several closets in the house before finding an old trench model that belonged to my dad. It had enough buttons, buckles and decorative flaps for ten coats. Climbing into it, it smelled of mothballs and hung on my shoulders, airless and heavy, like an old canvas tent. How he ever wore this thing, I’ll never know. Now it was my…

Poverty and skedaddling Jeannette Walls’s memoir, The Glass Castle, talks about the adversities and the challenges that she and her family had to suffer from because of the limited amount of food and cash. As a result, they had to constantly move from places to places such as Battle Mountain in Nevada, Phoenix in Arizona, Welch in West Virginia, New York City and so on in the search of the survival. Some places provided the better quality of life while some worsen it. Thus, the author and her…