COMMENTARY: Poems I?d read over on any rainy day by Nikki Rivera Gomez / MindaNews Monday‚ 02 July 2007 23:01 It was the 1950s—the decade when a pompous West‚ emerging victorious from a world war that killed over 57 million people‚ was beginning to prance and preen like a peacock. Almost overnight‚ the US economy boomed with those big-finned Chryslers‚ Fords‚ and Buicks. Holiday Inn began its worldwide chain‚ as did the now ubiquitous McDonalds. I was barely a year old when Elvis‚ James
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The "Way" To Rainy Mountain Q: In many ways‚ Momaday is writing a memoir of a people‚ the Kiowas‚ not just himself or his grandmother. How does he use events from his own life and his grandmother’s life as a lens through which he can talk about the Kiowas? Momaday star his book by familiarizing the reader with facts about Kiowas’s past. Momaday tell of how the Kiowa migrated in the early 18th century. In the course of that long migration (the Kiowa) had come of age as a people. They had conceived
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"The Way to Rainy Mountain" A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For many people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The Hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves of hickory
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Descriptive Analysis Paper Ashley Baraan Frederic Edwin Church (1822-1900) October 2012 Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) Art 118 Rainy Seasons in the Tropics‚ (oil on canvas) was painted by an amazingly talented artist‚ Frederic Edwin Church. Most of his paintings consisted of the nature‚ such as forests‚ the sea and sky. Rainy Seasons in the Tropics happens to be my favorite one by far. It is currently displayed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco‚ California
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The Way to Rainy Mountain In Scott Momaday’s introductory paragraph of “The Way to Rainy Mountain” he uses figurative language to show his love for the land in Oklahoma. As a Kiowa‚ he describes the land with such intimacy‚ that it seems as if he owns the land and he is one with the land. He starts the paragraph with a descriptive image of the Wichita Range: “A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma”. He describes the weather with extreme exaggeration‚ “winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic
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The struggle between one’s desires and expectations leads an individual to falter from their values and beliefs resulting in dire consequences to one’s morality and internal self. The short story "On a Rainy River" clearly demonstrates the conflict between the two dilemmas as the main character‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is faced with a decision to fight a pointless war or desert his country‚ choosing between potentially dying‚ or being branded as a coward. "Traitor! they yelled. Turncoat! Pussy! I felt myself
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In the novel Madame Bovary‚ Gustave Flaubert displays through the use of symbolism the moral corruption that eventually consumes Emma’s being. Flaubert uses a combination of characters and objects to illustrate her impending downfall. At a young age‚ she harbors idealistic romantic illusions‚ longs for sophistication‚ sensuality‚ and passion‚ and descends into fits of extreme boredom and depression when her life fails to match the romantic novels she treasures. Emma’s bourgeois aspirations set her
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battle. Although Polynices is considered a traitor to the land of Thebes‚ Antigone feels that to respect the wishes of the gods she must burry him. She faithfully acts upon her morals‚ even though they oppose the law. However‚ in the story “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien‚ Tim is not so persistent with his loyalty to his morals. Although he is very against the war he has been drafted into‚ in the end he ends up going to battle due to his fear of letting his family and country down. While both Tim
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Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary: Comparisons We would like to think that everything in life is capable‚ or beyond the brink of reaching perfection. It would be an absolute dream to look upon each day with a positive outlook. We try to establish our lives to the point where this perfection may come true at times‚ although‚ it most likely never lasts. There ’s no real perfect life by definition‚ but instead‚ the desire and uncontrollable longing to reach this dream. In the novel Madame
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Monsieur Gustave How does Anderson characterise Gustave? Very fast paced Straight forward Stern Sense of humour Peculiar Lonely Posh but crude Uses a lot of vernacular In what way does Gustave reflect the world that he lives in? The world he lives is depicted as almost cartoonish and unreal. The colours are very bright and a lot of contrast is used. The setting of the film as well as the directing‚ makes the film seem quite peculiar and strange. The setting in the hotel lobby‚ in particular
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