Dream Interpretation The Individual Oral Presentation on dream interpretation expanded my knowledge of Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses many undertones in the dreams of characters to symbolize a deeper meaning. Dream interpretation was common among cultures like the ancient Egyptians and was seen as early as 4000 B.C. During the 1950s‚ Colombia was mainly catholic‚ and had strict views that only involved religion. In Catholicism‚ dreams are seen as not important‚ but Marquez
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Ode on Melancholy (General theme – how sorrow and joy are inseparable so are life and death) First sentence – negative with ‘No‚no !’ the comma is used for emphasis. ‘Wolfs-bane’ – root/herb which is poison. Nightshade – also poison Proserpine was the daughter of demeter (goddess of fertility) in greek mythology‚ she was taken by hades the lord of the underworld. As she was taken there was only sorrow while winter set in. if this continued the earth would be in trouble thus there was
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Reflective Statement During our Interactive Oral Discussion‚ many questions were brought up to the table for discussion relating the novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. To start the discussion I had asked‚ what emotion did the even in the Rex Theatre cause the reader to feel? I had mentioned how this event evoked anger in my persona. Everyone within the group agreed with the fact that anger was the emotion they felt. We all concluded that keeping everyone in locked doors while the fire was going
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Reflective Statement: Perfume Perfume by Patrick Süskind‚ exposed me to a series of literary texts‚ themes and ideas. It also opened me to a variety of cultural developments that happened throughout the book. In the slums of 18th century Paris‚ Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born‚ with the gift of scent. As he grows up he lives to decipher the smells of Paris. He journeys to satisfy his obsessions with capturing odors‚ and it’s this that drives him to a murdering quest to create the ultimate perfume
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Persepolis Reflective Statement Having an interactive oral always improves my understanding of the cultural and contextual elements of the book‚ as it provides more aspects and points of view to consider and add to my own analysis of the book. Within this interactive oral‚ I feel as if I got more from the book‚ and had a better understanding of a lot of things. For example‚ one of my seminar questions were “How does religion define us as people and effect how we interact with others”. I expected
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Reflective Statement How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the IO? The interactive orals were quite interesting as I could easily connect what was being said to the cultural and contextual considerations of the play Antigone. As a general background‚ one can possibly notice that Sophocles was more about the art then about the economy. He was the Michelangelo of his time‚ so to speak. Antigone is a great nationalistic play which illustrated
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Reflective statement: How was you understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of ‘Perfume’ developed through the interactive oral? In the street markets of Paris Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born. As other people use sight to perceive objects and people he uses his superhuman sense of smell. In the novel Perfume the intellectual Grenouille uses his hidden ability to wreck the innocence of twenty-five virgins of which he strips of their innocence‚ to create his ultimate scent.
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Ethical Reflective Statement What I have learned through taking the surveys on the Ethical Lens Inventory taken throughout the this course is that my preferred lens is the Reputation Lens. According to my Ethical Lens Report my strengths are that I use my head‚ I have compassion‚ I live out my role responsibility and I make virtuous decisions. On the contrary the surveys have concluded that my weaknesses are entitlement‚ hardness of heart‚ confusion and self-righteousness. Lastly‚ my value is
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Direct Measurement of Global Value Chains: Collecting Product- and Firm-Level Statistics on Value Added and Business Function Outsourcing and Offshoring Timothy J. Sturgeon‚ MIT* Peter Bøegh Nielsen‚ Statistics Denmark Greg Linden‚ UC Berkeley Gary Gereffi‚ Duke University Clair Brown‚ UC Berkeley Final Draft: April 2‚ 2012 Forthcoming as Chapter 9 in the World Bank volume: The Fragmentation of Global Production and Trade in Value-Added - Developing New Measures of Cross Border Trade‚ based om a
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GloFish The GloFish was the first genetically modified animal to become available as a pet. It is a natural Zebrafish which has had genetic information from bioluminescent jellyfish added to its DNA. It was originally produced to provide a warning system for pollution but with the addition of further colors its viability for the pet market became clear. It was introduced to the US market in December 2003 by Yorktown Technologies of Austin‚ Texas. 9 Grapple The grapple is a relatively new
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