The Passage

The eight passages given to my class from The Tao Te Ching written by Laozi portray incredible examples to help explain the concepts of dualism and nonduality. My personal favorite of the passages is passage thirteen which states, “Success is as dangerous as failure…What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down…

people. It can often be quiet difficult to analyze the relationship between two people. A passage from Johnny Got His Gun talks about a young man and his father going in their annual fishing trip. The selected passage from Trumbo’s novel Johnny Got His Gun uses various techniques such as point of view, selection of details and syntax to characterize the close relationship between Joe and his father. This passage is written in third person point of view but it is limited to Joe. The readers are…

The passage talks about three eveidence that shows, Chevalier de Seingalt's memoir was made by the imagination of the writer rather than the real historical events. However, the lecturer casts doubts on this claim and gives reasons for each of the eveidence that passage assert. First, the passage claim that barrowing money form a Swiss merchant shows that Chevlier claim about being rich in Switzerland and spending money in parties and gambling is not true. In contrast, the lecturer point out…

initial claim over the Arctic, The United-State’s attempts at claiming unrestricted domain, and the Russian brashness; attempting to claim the Arctic with devious undersea flags. The sudden haste involved in the claims results from the Northwest Passage, a trade route…

and forests and swamps of the world. He finally soothes the beast in his head and comes to find that as soon as the conflict in his head is gone he can find the happiness and peace of being alone. Lastly, the passage, “Wife’s Lament” says that it’s okay to move on. The narrator of this passage is a woman who is abandoned by her man, who has to leave to somewhere. She goes on and on for what seems like forever about how unhappy she is about him being gone. All though in the end if only she were…

In the short story, Bullet in the Brain, by Tobias Wolff, a character named Anders is shot in the head. As the bullet is traveling through his head and his life fades away, his last memory is portrayed as one of his most favorite days, “This is what he remembered. Heat. A baseball field.” Instead of remembering his family or friends, he remembered a simple time where everything was once easy. As a boy, Anders was able to enjoy his life with not a worry in the world. One day in the summer, he met…

they were entitled to the extravagant treatment and women have always been cast down. Within this passage, Woolf reveals her animosity about how women are treated differently and her jealousy for the man’s world. In the first passage extensive and luxurious details were used to give the effect of living a privileged life of a man. She used undersized, unpleasant descriptions within the second passage that is used to show the reader the life of a woman. She clearly describes the discriminating…

found in Harriet Jane Caldwell's piece. Caldwell talks about the job of hurricane hunters, weather disocveries, and other important pieces of technology that we use each and every day. Now, what makes this passage include the most adavanced technology for reserachers, explorers, and you? Passage one, "Treasure Hunters", talks about treasure discoveries undersea. Many treasures were found in Florida, which has a large body of water surrounding its coast. However, during the 16th, 17th, and…

group was split into three subgroups , only read the passage , read the passage then watched the video , and watch the video and then read the passage . After reading and watching the incident between Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson the participants had to answer , who was to blame and how much the blamed owed . The results of the third study matched the results of the first two studies and found that participants who read the agentive passage blamed Justin Timberlake and thought he should…

come back. Throughout the passages, selfishness and betrayal are portrayed as the main themes. It is clear that Hercules proved to be a liar, and he was exceptionally selfish. Hercules was being extremely selfish when he made Atlas hold the world again. He claimed that he would put on a cushion so Atlas could hold the world…