For thirteen days‚ the United States held its breath‚ fearing the ultimate destruction of the nation by nuclear weapons. This was the Cuban missile crisis‚ a struggle fought between the world’s two largest superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ which nearly provoked a nuclear catastrophe on both sides from October 16‚ to October 28‚ in 1962. This crisis had been brewing for many years and was sparked by previous issues between the two nations. The United States had been at odds
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received the tapes but has no clue why he is on these tapes. In this journal I will be evaluating‚ visualizing‚ and predicting. While reading Thirteen Reasons Why I found myself evaluating Hanna Baker when she was talking on the cassette tapes about suicide and the map at the beginning of the book showing the locations of the thirteen encounters. Thirteen people who made her life so horrible that she commit suicide. The person that was most obvious to me was Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter was Hanna’s
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Canon thirteen was constructed and written in the fourth Lateran Council in 1215‚ in which there were three sessions on the eleventh‚ twentieth and thirtieth of November. Pope Innocent III preached to over four hundred Bishops and eight hundred abbots‚ deans and others in this event . Canon thirteen can be suggested to have been proposed by Pope Innocent III and approved by the council‚ thus higher individuals in the church could arguably had responsibility for the manufacture of canon thirteen. Canon
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even confessional‚ regarding private life in light of its potential extermination‚ and resoundingly political‚ warning of a future that isn’t what it used to be.” The book of poems that this analysis will be coming from is titled “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith. The poems presented are mostly about how Smith deals with the death of her father. This message is not clear throughout the poems which causes one to have to carefully analyze each poem to get an understanding of what is going on. The three
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In chapter thirteen there is one specific passage that holds a lot of meaning. This passage uses personification with the sun and how it “[sent] up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark‚ he peeped up over the door sill of the world and made and went about his business all dressed in white.” This example of personification makes the sun seem like a person. The sun looks over the “door sill of the world” which is another way to say the sun was coming up and it got rid of the darkness
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Response for “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bird” I think the most difficult yet most appealing concept in the reading is the concept that the content arises from the temporal duration of the artwork. I like how McEvilley thinks artwork is timeless and eternal. The author also described in the article that “The divine spark inside the artwork is its immortal Soul‚ which enables it‚ like the magical ritual‚ to penetrate through to higher metaphysical realms and to act as a channel to
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The movie Thirteen Days directed by Roger Donaldson is about the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. It is often referred to as a docudrama as it is very entertainment oriented but still remains close to the roots of what actually happened. Since it was produced at a later date than many other films portraying the events‚ Thirteen Days was able to access recently declassified information which helped in attaining a more historically accurate film. Although there were some discrepancies with what happened
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If I could meet any character from one of the books we read this year‚ I would choose to meet Skye Miller from Thirteen Reasons Why. There are many unanswered questions about Skye‚ and we don’t know a lot about her. We know she’s an outcast and likes to avoid people. We know Clay used to have a crush on her in 8th grade too. She appears only a few times throughout the book‚ but we can infer Clay goes to help her after he goes after her in the hallway. The reason I would want to meet Skye is because
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Tracy Kidder’s inspiring novel “Mountains Beyond Mountains” continuously uses metaphors and imagery to allow the reader to be capable to analyze the novel’s protagonist‚ Paul Farmer. Farmer is characterized as an honoring doctor who provides all his help and time to serve the poor in many countries. His goal is to end infectious disease and to provide all the medicine to those who need it the most and have no access to it. As the author describes his point of view towards Farmer’s actions he realizes
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The 1999 film Fight Club‚ based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name‚ was received as one of the most controversial films of the year‚ and has since gained a strong cult popularity. The movie places strong emphasis on the evils of modern consumerism‚ and adopts a “fight the system” attitude throughout. The setting is bleak and degraded – the main character‚ who remains unnamed for the entirety of the film‚ inhabits a city that seems perpetually dark and run down. All in all‚ the film attempts
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