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The Opposite Of Loneliness by Marina Keegan is a collection of stories and essays written by Keegan, who was a college student at Yale. She was killed in a car accident a week after her graduation, and her family published her works in a novel to honor her memory. This book should be read by all college students in the honors program because she encompasses the life and feeling of a college community, especially with a close knit community of the honors program at DePaul University. The essay…

him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might have accidentally lost. What the strag will think is that any man that can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, ruff it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win…

Sheriff Tate standing for justice, and the low life of the town Bob Ewell represents racism. Throughout this novel she often uses symbolism to display all of these themes. “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit’em but remember it is a sin to kill a mocking bird” (pg.92). Because mockingbirds don’t harm them and do anything wrong, they just sing beautiful music for them to enjoy it is against Atticus’s…

“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” A quote made by Atticus that means it's a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is try to please people and produce beautiful music. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they just try to help and don't harm anyone. The book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee referred to good people as mockingbirds.…

He “put[s] one leg over the complex green tin cornice. . . The man’s leg hung over the lip of the next world.” This paints the picture of half of his body facing the doom of death, while his other half is living life, and one sudden movement will determine his fate of life. Some would assume this line is written primarily for suspense, but this position is a perfect representation of how easily life can be taken away or spared. It seems this is the way the man is hanging…

and confusion, from adults and from one another (Malone, n.d.). The loss, grief and trauma reactions of adolescents may be complicated and significantly impacted by the fact that most peer deaths are sudden and viewed as preventable. These reactions can affect relationships with other friends, leading to enhanced feelings of estrangement, isolation and a prolonged grief (Malone, n.d.). After a peer dies an adolescents sense of safety and security about the world and ongoing relationships may be…

white will make them acceptable in America. African Americans therefore should not desire to be like the white Americans, they also should not get frustrated and depressed because of the American society. Just as Pecola feels that the only way she can be fully accepted and have a definite identity is by having blue eyes. Black Americans should know that they have a strong identity and culture which should always be appreciated instead of attempting to mask their identity and search for…

Food. As tasteful and delicious as it can be, is much more than a nutritious substance that people eat or drink or that plants absorb to support life and growth. A theme that ties with food is culture. Oxford dictionary defines culture as the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular person or society. With that being said, the question “How big of a role does culture play in one’s diet compared to affordability?” arose. This question is highly debatable as it suggests one’s self to…

In the picture the audience is able see the structure of his house is in bad conditions. I was able to find out that Flavio and his family lived in a shack near the top of a mountainside. It was a leaning crumpled place of old planking with a rusted tin roof. Inside of the shack was a stove, which consisted of a rusted, bent top of an old gas range resting on several bricks, a sagging bed and a broken baby’s crib. The shack itself was six by ten feet. The walls were a patch work of misshapen…

trees and vegetation holds soil in place to prevent soil erosion. The landfill method is beneficial as it increases the usable land area, helping some countries which land scarcity poses a serious threat to tide over the land scarcity problem. It also can be used by any purposes such as the building of educational institutions, recreational facilities and industries. While the landfill method creates new land from bodies of water, it however could also damage the environment’s ecosystem as…