Chua Mia Tee & Tan Swie Hian. Chua Mia Tee was born in 1931 in China. Chua was only six when he and his family migrated to Singapore in 1937 because of the Sino-Japanese war in China. At the age of 19‚ he began his art training under Chen Chong Swee at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In his third year‚ the principal of NAFA‚ Lim Hak Tai‚ asked him if he could teach the afternoon class and Chua agreed to it. Upon graduation in 1952‚ he began to teach in the Academy. Between
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The following essay consists of comparison between two commercials analysis‚ Girl’s Don’t Poop by Poo Pourri and The Man Your Man Could Smell Like by Old Spice. Poo Pourri is a company that has sold millions of scented toilet air freshener whilst Old Spice is an American brand that produced male grooming products such as soap‚ deodorants‚ shampoo manufactured by Procter & Gamble. Poo-Pourri is a company that specialized in making a toilet sprays and has advertise ‘Girl’s Don’t Poop’ featuring a
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and it is‚ except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say are things like “Poo-tee-weet?” (Vonnegut‚ 1972‚ 19). The birds symbolize the lack of anything intelligent or anything at all to say after a massacre. The birds say “Poo-tee-weet?” because what else can be said about the Dresden firebombing? What else can be said about such a terrible event? The birds say “Poo-tee-weet?” as a question‚ but we are unable to give them an answer about the destruction of war and violence
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Vonnegut 72). These colors are very dull and deathly‚ which leads us to believe that Vonnegut was trying to illustrate the state of mind that Billy is in during these moments. Another example of symbolism in Slaughterhouse Five is the phrase “Poo-Tee-Weet” which is repeated several times throughout the war scenes in this novel. Vonnegut explains this through Billy’s following thought process: “It is so short and jumbled and jangled‚ Sam‚ because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus‚ and Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory. There are remarkable similarities between the structure and purpose of the early Wittgenstein’s philosophy (specifically as seen in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and the writing style of Ernest Hemingway. Both seem to represent meaning in life‚ ethics‚ and values in their writing precisely by making apparent their absence. Wittgenstein in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker : “The book’s point is an ethical one. I once meant to include
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Coping with Porn Stars and Plungers Inside a fantasy world of time travel‚ aliens‚ and porn stars‚ Kurt Vonnegut delivers an iron hard moral statement on the aftermath of war in his novel‚ Slaughterhouse-Five. We follow the fictional character‚ Billy Pilgrim‚ as he struggles‚ like Vonnegut did‚ to discover the purpose of life. Kurt Vonnegut uses Slaughterhouse-Five as a way to cope with his experience in the Dresden massacre. By taking the narrator’s voice‚ and by employing the themes of time and
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People could be the cause for the earth to be destroyed or uninhabitable. On December 7‚ 1941 the Japanese bombed the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. joined the war right after this attack. On the dates August 6 and August 9‚ 1945 the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on the homeland of Japan. After the war‚ the number of bombs dropped on their cities heavily devastated Europe and Japan. But we looked at the just the toll it had on the people‚ But it wasn’t just that. The thousands of boats
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Slaughterhouse-Five explores fate‚ free will‚ and the illogical nature of human beings. Protagonist Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time‚ randomly experiencing the events of his life‚ with no idea of what part he will next visit. Billy Pilgrim says there is no free will‚ an assertion confirmed by a Tralfamadorian‚ who says‚ "I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will." The story’s central concept is that most of humanity is insignificant--they
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What effect does the acceptance of tragedy have towards one’s view of life? by Polina Snitkova Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut combines the themes of loss and determinism to create a story of the power of tragedy. The characters and events experience the inevitability of tragedy and begin to accept the fate granted‚ affecting their view of their own lives. Billy Pilgrim is a numb and senseless character after his experiences in WWII; witnessing the bombing of Dresden triggered the concept
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supposed to be dead‚ to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre‚ and it always is‚ except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre‚ things like Poo-tee-weet” (Vonnegut 19)? Vonnegut established a powerful idea right off the bat with a long description of the moments after a massacre. This along with the time period the book was written‚ during the height of the Vietnam War‚ demonstrated his anti-war
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