“Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind‚” was written by the poet Stephen Crane. The poem is a bitter and emotional protest of the horrors of war. It gets much of its strength from using simple but highly descriptive words in contrast with innocence‚ and also through the use of repetition and sarcasm. The poet portrays bitterness and innocence in the first stanza. It is strongly shown in the lines "Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind‚ because your lover threw wild hands towards the sky” (1-2). The
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Many of Stephen Crane’s stories reflect much of Mark Twain’s approach to Western stories. “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” depicts a East invasion of the West through small role changes in a small western town. The power of the Old West is giving way to the domesticating power of the East. Crane supports this through the description of events that unfold on the train‚ the couples actions after getting off the train‚ and the uneventful showdown at the end. The biggest indicator would be how Crane
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The chapter in Stephen J. Gould’s Bully for Brontosaurus titled “To Be A Platypus” touches on the discovery and classification of the duck-billed platypus native to Australia. The chapter opens with a note on the origin of the telegram‚ in which the platypus was first described using the four words “monotremes oviparous‚ ovum meroblastic” by Cambridge biologist W. H. Caldwell. Fundamentally‚ this translates to the platypus being a mammal that possesses a duck-like bill and lays eggs. The “duckbill”
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This started a long love affair for horror stories. For instance Stephen King is known as the master of horror; I have read all his older novels. Watched a few of his movies and discovered the movies are ‘B’ rated compared to the books. His newer work is a little more farfetched for me more like Sci-Fi‚ but he was the cause for my thirst in horror and mystery. A case in point when summer was over‚ I started looking for Stephen King books on the shelves at school and discovered that they did not
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In Stephen Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies" he claims that we are all mentally ill. According to King‚ people’s quirks are proof of this. The antidote to our mental illness‚ king says‚ is that we watch horror movies to "re-establish our feelings of essential normality". King also says that we watch them to satisfy the bad in us. We all do crazy things in our lives. Once in awhile we all want to thrash out on someone‚ to prove a point‚ or just to hurt them for the sake of hurting them. We
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One of the main themes of the novel The Shining‚ by Stephen King‚ is expressed through the character of Jack Torrence‚ who unwittingly loses his temper on occasion and forfeits his common sense to commit borderline monstrous acts. Him‚ being a normally happy family man with a wife and son‚ can express the theme that “anyone is capable of going insane if pushed in the right direction”. One example of this occurring when Jack tells a doctor of the night he came home to find his son‚ Danny‚ has destroyed
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Stephen King “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Close Reading 1. Mr. King states his thesis in the very first sentences‚ “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better- and maybe not all that much better‚ after all. Located in paragraph one. Mr. King states that all people are mentally ill but hold it in better then the people locked up in mental wards. 2. Mr. King is references to “jack the Ripper” and “Cleveland Torso”; it supports his thesis
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In Stephen Marche’s “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”‚ published in The Atlantic in May 2012‚ he brings up the topic of the growing loneliness in America and its possible connection with Facebook. Marche shows us the “accelerating contradiction” (62)‚ where the system that was designed to connect us‚ is actually causing us to become more lonely. Isolation‚ or solitude‚ does not mean that someone is unhappy. Loneliness‚ on the other hand‚ is what makes us miserable. However‚ both are on the rise.
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As one of the first American naturalist writers‚ Stephen Crane injected his own philosophy on life in his realist stories. Some of Crane’s short stories‚ including The Blue Hotel‚ and The Open Boat‚ all reflect his negative anthropology. Crane displays this in different ways in his short stories‚ for example‚ by not giving many of his characters names‚ switching narrative perspectives‚ and by frequently using self-importance as many of his character’s driving force. Crane thinks humans are ignorant
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In “Sex‚ Drugs‚ Disasters‚ and the Extinction of Dinosaurs”‚ Stephen Jay Gould Gould‚ annoyed with inconsistency in popular science‚ takes issue with widely accepted theories that have gained notoriety despite not having any real application of the scientific method. To argue his point he compares and contrasts three notable theories to explain the death of the dinosaurs. Gould explains that good science provides the opportunity to prove or disprove a hypothesis‚ and anything less is mere speculation
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