Lars and the Real Girl. (The Lake Scene) One prodigious technique that I have established in this limited scene is Pathetic Fallacy, in another definition, a Weather Metaphor. A clear example of this technique shown was when Gus has quoted “Is there a storm coming?”, and Karen has replied “the weather said no.” This showed me that there is a few overcast color’s involved in this scene, such as Grays and Blacks.…
Cliff Olson was born in Riverside, California, on July 8, 1967. The first memory that he ever had was when he was little and he was playing catch with his friend Chriss in his backyard. He threw the ball and Chriss missed it and the ball went through the back window of the house. He loved playing baseball with all of his buddies in the park. Cliff loved his mother's dad, grandpa Joe.…
“The Last Dragonslayer” by Jasper Fforde is a story for kids and adults who like fantasy and mystery. The main message in the text is be yourself. The story takes place in the Kingdom Of Snodd. Tiger asked Jennifer “What really happened to Mr. Zambini? so Jennifer told him the truth about Mr. Zambini saying that one day, Mr. Zambini had no choice but to perform shows for kids, because Kazam was running low on money.…
Author, Lars Eighner, in his personal narrative essay, “On Dumpster Diving”, expresses his personal experiences from the streets, and described how the gracious art of dumpster diving carried him through a difficult time in his life. Eighner’s purpose was to enlighten our society on the repression brought upon by ourselves. He adopts a didactic tone, in order to appeal to his beliefs as a scavenger in his generalized audience, especially those who do not understand the life of a scavenger. Eighner establishes his credibility from the first sentence; “long before I began Dumpster diving” which shows us that this essay comes from personal experience.…
This book closely examines Lincoln's writings and speeches and avoids direct engagement with previous Lincoln historians. Eric Foner stated that "His intent is to return Lincoln to his historical setting, tracing the evolution of his ideas in the context of the broad antislavery impulse and the unprecedented crisis the United States confronted during his adult life." (Foner prefacexvii) That being said, Foner said he wanted to isolate Lincoln's exact thinking on slavery at different times in his life, while also trying to break this image of Lincoln that he feels scholars have all given him. Often by referencing Lincoln to themselves, thinking they understand the way Lincoln felt and thought about slavery.…
According to of the Article by Cronin, Mcdevitt, Farwell, and Nolan, the issues with measuring the prevalence of hate crime is the lack of training of the different law enforcement agencies in how to identify bias crime. Based on Uniform Crime report, 84 percent of agencies that participate report zero bias incident between 1992 and 2004). In most of the agencies, “officers are not well prepared, so at the time of the report officers make judgements about bias motivation with limited information. Also officers judgments central to the bias crime reporting process because standards are not easy applied in some situations.” (Cronin, Mcdevitt, Farwell, and Nolan, 217)…
In this brilliantly written work, Markus Rediker describes a machine that manipulated the world both politically and economically. The machine of terror in which people and objects were in constant process of transformation within the slave trade. In this essay I will discuss, the theme of transformation of the ship itself, the captains of the vessels, the crews, and the poor African captives. The ship begins from just a moving vessel which later is transformed into the naval warfare weapon, factory(plantation), and a prison for both Africans and sailors. Being just a moving vessel it managed to carry 12.4 million African souls through the Middle Passage from 1700-1808 when slavery was finally, officially abolished.…
In Daniel Luzer’s article, “Is Alcohol Really to Blame for the Prevalence of Sexual Assault on College Campuses?” published in Pacific Standard on November 18, 2013, explains the reasoning behind the tremendous amount of sexual assault on college campuses. As the topic of sexual assault was being over looked, alcohol consumption was a major factor in this case but there was a stronger reasoning that could easier explain the prevalence. For past years, alcohol consumption in college has remained mostly the same, therefore, if the alcohol intake hasn’t necessarily changed it can’t take the full blame for the rise of sexual assault. Take into consideration the ways students, or generally in our society, used to interact and socialize compared…
Although the nature of homelessness is uncommon for the American population in modern society, the reality of the homeless is depicted clearly in On Dumpster Diving. In Lars Eighner’s text, he is effectively able to describe some of her personal experiences and opinions on the types of scavengers present in his community. Towards the end of the text, Eighner also begins to describe his motivation to make the middle-class of the population aware of their materialistic attachments. Moreover, he is able to effectively transmit his message of materialism in the US by using multiple rhetorical devices.…
Environmental historian and professor, Ted Steinberg wrote the book Down To Earth which presents American history through the lens of nature. Steinberg does an excellent job displaying the significant role nature has played throughout American history and his writing will forever change the way you perceive our country’s history. This book differs from your traditional American History books by uniquely linking historical events to their environmental counterparts. Down To Earth provides an insightful perspective on American History by highlighting the environmental impacts caused by our culture and making us question whether or not development truly meant progress.…
Lars Eighner’s “On Dumpster Diving” is a story about himself and how he went from having a nice job, and a family to living in the streets as a homeless man accompanied by his dog named Lizbeth. Eighner began Dumpster diving a year before he became homeless. Eighner shows how dumpster diving is a full time j ob that requires a lot of effort but following certain rules can help someone to become efficient. Eighner describes his experiences on the street and the art of Dumpster diving. Eighner finds Dumpster Diving an art.…
The story takes place in a country known as Elsweyr. The time period of this story take place in medieval times. Things like dungeons and dragons. Elsweyr is located in the southern part of a continent known as Tamriel. The people of this country are known as the Khajiiti.…
The landfill brings these people together each day to do something great for the community and in the environment. Each individual picker has a part in this giant landfill. However, some decide to leave the landfill, with Vik’s help each one of these men and woman are able to live better lives and bring awareness to their…
Hildegard was a german composer, poet, musician, natural historian, and playwright. She was recognized by the twelfth-century Church as a visionary. She possessed a divine gift for perceiving images and messages directly from God. Hildegard documented her ornate visions in numerous important works, including the Scivias (c. 1151) and the Liber divinorum operum (c. 1170). She is also well-known for her medical and scientific writings and musical compositions.…
This semester I had the honor of gifting Ryan Broche for the 2015 Interpersonal Communication class Gift Exchange. Ryan Broche is a soon to be married twenty-three-year-old male from New Braunfels. Although Ryan gives off the impression of a shy twenty-something-year-old, he is not truly timid or bashful; Broche is just quiet. However, this made it quite difficult to find out information about him during the semester due to his nonverbal’s indicating he prefers to keep to himself and rather not share personal details. Nevertheless, I discovered a few of Ryan’s weaknesses: his beautiful fiance, playing golf after classes at La Contra, traveling, a cold pint of Shiner Bock, Frisbee golf, his close friends, his strong Baptist Values, and his traditional…