In his preface‚ Oscar Wild dare to say that art is quite useless. "What do you mean art is useless?" was the first thing that came in my mind‚ "but art has so much meaning: it elevates our awareness of things‚ questions everything‚ contextualizes and re-contextualizes ideas‚ sharpens our appreciation for beauty‚ thought‚ and skill‚ it can define cultures‚ and is able to capture the essence and spirit of the time in which it’s made". It doesn’t have only meaning but it is useful too. It is useful
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1. Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it‚ never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve‚ but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue." (’On the Blue Water’ in Esquire‚ April 1936) A legendary novelist‚ short-story
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Kaitlyn Alfman January 08‚ 2013 Research Project Notes Ernest Miller Hemingway Born on July 21st‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois Died on July 2nd‚ 1961. Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home on July 2‚ 1961. His wife‚ Mary‚ said that he had killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. American author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Raised in suburb of Chicago. Spent most of his time in Northern Michigan
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Paragraph #1: Introduction Hook - Ernest Hemingway is experiencing the inferiority of women‚racism against others‚ and the suicide of a depressed father. Explain the story - A boy named Nick is with his father and the father ends up helping an indian woman give birth while most don’t care about the woman in pain. The father of the newborn can’t stand to listen to his crying wife so he ends up committing suicide. This helps Nick mature at a young age. Thesis - Coming of age is the moment a person
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target other races and as a result we have turned our focus to within our communities. Our change of focus toward our communities is profound in the school systems. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao a Dominican boy living in the ghetto experiences both ends of what it means to be Dominican. Oscar has experienced two very different lives‚ one where people honor him and another where people walk over him. The ironic
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Ernest Gellner’s thesis in his book Nations and Nationalism is that economic change requires cultural homogeneity‚ and that the demand for cultural homogeneity‚ and the state apparatus to provide it‚ is what drives nationalism. Ernest Gellner was a philosopher and a social anthropologist. He was once referred to as a “one-man crusade for critical rationalism”. He produced many works that have prompted deep thought. His first book Words and Things‚ A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy
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Level 1: After the first couple of days at Ernest Manning i feel that one aspect of the culture there is academic excellence. All around the school there are trophy cases displaying excellence in a variety of subjects. Upon entering the classroom it’s easy to notice the numerous pictures displaying students winning local and international events (such as the International FIRST Robotics Competition) posted by proud teachers. It’s quite clear that the school has gone to great lengths to ensure students
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Isolation: Real or Imagined? In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ isolation is a common theme that contributes to character development throughout the novel. Junot Diaz‚ in his narration of Oscar’s life through the eyes of Yunior‚ induces the idea that isolation is a self-imagined way for a character or person to justify his/her differences from society and the people around them. While there are outside forces that contribute to the feeling of isolation‚ such as cultural differences
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In his article‚”Clash of Certainties‚ Old and New: For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Inner War of Ernest Hemingway” reveals Hemingway’s own transformation from an nonpolitical and anti-war view to one of a anti-fascist supporter‚ during the Spanish Civil War. The article states that Hemingway was always attracted to war zones‚ but his views remained anti-war. Hemingway believed writers jobs were to write‚ not form opinions‚ and not to be involved in the affairs of politics. During the Spanish Civil
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Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ Oscar attempts to live his life in accordance to what is expected of him‚ but cannot seem to please his demanding Dominican family; much less live up to Yunior’s high standards. The pressure Oscar feels from Yunior makes Oscar live his life with the sole purpose of wanting to become a true Dominican man. When Oscar dies‚ Yunior confuses his guilt for Oscar’s death with the guilt he feels for betraying
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