The Slits

The first lines one reads in the beginning of Larry Watson’s Montana 1948 are, “From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images move vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all my attempts the years make to erase or fade them…”(p. 1). This foreshadowing immediately gives off the ambiance that their are major conflicts to occur. Of course every novel needs a conflict to move the plot along, but what makes Montana 1948 special is all of the conflicts…

The Symbolism of Music in Joyce Carol Oates’s "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates introduces a fifteen-year-old rebellious teenage girl fixated on getting male attention. Unfortunately, this all leads up to a man in disguise, named Arnold Friend, exploiting Connie. However, as the story progresses, the reader begins to notice evidence of the influence music has on Connie’s ideas of romance and love. It is evident that the…

is raised, as Vergil sings of his Laocoon: the opening of the mouth does not allow it”. Some argue that the opening of the mouth breathed life into the statue, (Loh, 2011) making it almost to the brink of moving, whilst others argue that the opening slit of the mouth is merely a sigh. (Lessing, 2005) From the look of the mouth, it resembles either a groan or a sigh as compared to a full-fledged scream, showing how the sculptor did not follow Vergil’s Laocoon exactly. Some other characteristics…

When it comes to how we think about animals, our perceptions all differ. We, as humans, pick and choose which animals we like and which animals we do not. Just as many of us like to eat meat, others cannot stand the thought of it. Or, for those of us who do eat meat, we tend to only eat some meats while excluding others. What is it that makes us decide what animals to eat and which ones we do not? Perhaps one of the reasons why we think differently about animals is because of the certain…

the Chicago World Fair. Holmes teases the woman into joining him sneak inside, but then the two quickly leave and head back to the hotel that Holmes owns. Inside his permanent hotel room, Holmes begins to act coldly towards the woman and suddenly slits her throat without a flicker of emotion. He takes her blue hair clip and adds it to his collection. This is not his first time taking a life. EMELINE CIGRAND (20’s), independent and confident, hustles to work through a sea of men. She arrives at…

son for abandoning their religion. Lady Constance is left unscathed and is cast out upon the sea. The next example of revenge occurs when Constance denies the young knight’s advances and flirts. The young knight is then influenced by Satan to cruelly slit the throat of Hermengild and to place the knife in Constance’s bed, as to frame her for vengeance. As the young knight takes an oath, swearing that Constance was the murderer, God takes action on his sinfulness. The moment the young knight…

Animal abuse has been a part of human history for going farther back than 710 A.D.. Animal abuse has even been used for human entertainment such as bullfighting all the way to grindadraps. These activities still exists to this day. At some points in history animal abuse was considered a sport. Dog fighting was seen as far back as the 12th century. When the Romans invaded Britain, Britain’s used their dogs to help in the war. When they finally won they saw how strong their dogs were and began…

Introduction Talvar is a 2015 Bollywood film based on the Aarushi Talwar murder case, famously known as the Noida double murder case of 2008. It is written by Vishal Bhardwaj and directed by Meghna Gulzar. The film portrays the contradictory versions of the case that pronounce Aarushi’s parents as guilty or innocent. It ends at the point where the closure report by the CBI was rejected by the court and the case was reopened for investigation. Background of the Case- The film is based on the…

and yellows. The piece is on white paper, with a pink box that has yellow panels coming out of the left and right sides. A pinkish-red sphere, that gets lighter both towards its center and towards the outside sits in the center. It has a faint white slit in the middle. The Pinkish sphere is enclosed in a large pink-shaded box. On both sides of the pink orb, sit two yellow orbs, one on each side. They sit partially under the pink orb. They are also half way into the pink…

with the initial length. A marker/pen was used to mark on the string by taking the end side as the initial point. The lengths were measured on the string and the measured point was marked on it using a marker. The string was then placed in between the slit in the rubber cork and it was made sure that the marked point was just projected outside under the rubber…