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“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded” (Galloway, p.1). This is how the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway opens. In a small city overtaken by war, the citizen’s lives are completely changed. The author expresses the harsh social conditions of the siege of Sarajevo and how war can…

“The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin’s is a story for those readers who like short stories that contain much symbolism within it. Although this book is full of symbolism, it begs the question what do these symbols mean in this story, as well as how does it relate to Louise. The story of an hour is about Louise Mallard a woman who finds that her husband Richard Mallard has died in an accident. So after locking herself in her room for a while she eventually gets out only to discover that her…

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context. After the war, Kathleen Drover returns to her home in London to collect her families items that they left behind. As she is in her old, broken down home, she notices a letter on the table but convinces herself that her soldier lover has come back for her because he told her to wait for his return from the war. “On the supernatural side of the letter’s entrance she was…

nightly bedtime stories. Bedtime stories signified the closing of the day. Routinely my father would race me to bed and tightly tuck me in (tightly enough so I couldn’t escape). After tuck in he’d lay on my carpet floor and ask me what story I wanted to hear. The books we read together were chapter books, typically of the fantasy and mystery sort, books such as “Island of the Dolphins” or “The great Brian” which are bestsellers. However, my father also had a talent for drumming up stories on the…

consciousness is a literary term which is the name for a writing technique which was thought out in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s most noted user has been James Joyce. It is a method for the author to get a character's point of view and emotions across to the reader via linking the reader directly to their thoughts.…

How Fake is “Fake” Writing? When you enter the room, it is pitch black, save for the eerie blue light emitting from a laptop on what looks to be a bed, but it’s hard to make it out from your position by the door. On the bed, you can see several boxes of Chinese takeout. In front of the laptop, you can make out the image of a young girl, huddled into the blankets so that she looks like a cocoon. Aside from her face, the only other part of her body emerging from the blanket were her hands,…

From creating the first user friendly technology machine, to making the first handheld devices, and improving and producing the most famous Pixar movies. In the end, his name is under 346 patents in the US(“The 5 “inventions” of Steve Jobs”). Many people were inspired by Jobs’s…

For whom the Bell Tolls seems to part away from Sun & Farewell in terms of word length and sentence length. Hemingway tended to use longer words and longer sentences in For whom the Bell Tolls than in the early novels. It is obvious that results support critics’ claims about the beginning of change in this novel. If we look at the openings of the three novels; The Sun also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For whom the Bell Tolls, it is obvious that, although words are concrete, simple,…

Her. Screenplay by Spike Jonze. Warner Bros., 2013. Film. Spike Jonze’s Her is a critically-acclaimed film with its main plot featuring a sensitive, lonely man named Theodore Twombly, a ghostwriter for BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.com, who writes in the “customer’s” point of view to their intended recipient. He has been pondering over despair ever since his ex-girlfriend Catherine left him. One day, he discovers a new artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha, who develops into…

The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 2th. but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so…