Spin

Do people prefer to watch news with bias? One article of Greg Beato’s entitled "The Spin We Love to Hate" has seemed to present the argument that our media is biased, even though the majority of people prefer news be non-biased. Beato started off his article with a statistic that shows that 67 percent of people prefer that their news was non-biased, which he ironically states that the top news reporters have been doing the exact opposite. The author will go on to present a few examples of…

Does a Cinderella Spin off Connect to the Renaissance? Ever After, a movie that is based on the 16th century, does it really connect to the Renaissance? This movie is not a reliable source to use if you are looking to learn about the Renaissance; because this movie takes place in France, Leonardo da Vinci’s timing in the movie was off, and the time frames of the movie were incorrect. This movie is full of false information. The writers of this movie were showing people, (who do not…

It is firstly interesting to see that the polyphony of characters within Let the Great World Spin works perfectly for a description of the landscape of 1970s New York and this view is supported by Michael Lukas when he describes them as a “collection of conflicting voices” Within an urban landscape we are often interdependent on those around us and McCann explores this idea by having all the main narrators connected to each other in a Guare-esque six degrees of separation way. McCann allows an…

The Seemingly Random Nature of Dying The first book of the Colum McCann’s novel, Let the Great World Spin, is comprised of four interconnected stories, or chapters. Although each of these chapters would make sense on their own, and each has different central characters, the stories do end up connecting to each other plot wise, such as when Lara and Blaine get in a car accident killing Corrigan and the resulting interaction. However, it is just as important to notice the thematic, motific and…

In the novel, Let the Great World Spin by Column McCann portrays Jaslyn’s abandonment of her legacy by not becoming a prostitute and changing her name, which shows that people desire hope. Jaslyn changes one letter of her name to portray her separate identity from her mother. Jaslyn’s previous name was Jazzlyn, just like her mother’s name. It is important to realize though that Jaslyn did not completely change her name to something else. This means that she still accepts her past, but moves on…

No matter how difficult, people face struggles, and life goes on. Colum McCann’s novel, “Let The Great World Spin”, describes how major acts of beauty impacts induvial in unique ways. The event includes Phillipe Petit, a tightroper crossing a wire between the twin towers in New York. When this event occurs, each individuals struggle is exposed and explored, directly or indirectly from Pettit’s act of beauty. The character Lara is indirectly impacted from Pettit’s actions, allowing her life of…

There are two ends on a scale which measures the magnitude of an event. There is devastation, and there is the feeling of accomplishment. There is a common theme in the first part of ”Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann of finding the beauty in places where everyone else sees darkness, or nothing. Passion is something present in an individual which is hard for that person to explain in words “why?”. It is simply something that one is compelled to do, and everyone has a passion for…

Jennie Dixianna didn 't know how to live with the troubling memories she had as a child. She was broken and thought she couldn 't seek help and repair herself. In the short story, “Jennie Dixianna or The Spin of Death,” written by Cathy Day, explains how Jennie Dixianna became a survivor from the lose of her mother, being molested by her father and manipulating Porter. Day explains how Jennie lived her life with all this that happened in her past and how she learns to deal with it. Jennie wants…

In his opinion piece for the New York Times, “Goodbye Spin, Hello Raw Dishonesty”, economist, Paul Krugman employs the recent discovery that Trump’s Attorney General was lying in order to shed light on the lies and corruption that have become prevalent since Trump’s inauguration. Although Krugman feels somewhat defeated by the lack of control that the people have over the current political situation he still keeps some of the same outrage he presented in “The Uses of Outrage” to again argue that…

Russell Banks retells a particular book signing that caused some memories to resurface in his essay “A Novelist’s Vivid Memory Spins Fiction of Its Own”. He first focuses on his initial memories of what caused him to leave Boston to go to Florida and become a writer, and then he recalls what really happened. Banks was at a book signing in his hometown of Boston, across the street from the bookstore where he once worked. He reminisces briefly about his life in the city. He had been a dropout,…