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Blind Man Blurred Vision
857 wordsThe narrator in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" has two fully functional eyes, in which he chooses never to use to their full potential. The eyes of the narrator are biased, insecure, jealous, and very limited in what they choose to see. This inability to see is made apparent when he is forced to meet and converse with a blind man. The narrator's perception of the world around him, and blurred vision, is resolved by a great irony in the story when Roger helps the narrator see past his prejudice out...
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Point Of View White Man
1,045 words... t "has no referent" (p 554) or at least there is no precise benchmark to measure this "word with which we are all so familiar that we rarely take the trouble to ask what we mean by it" (p 554). Because of this reason, any government, no matter how despotic can attribute their regime as being democratic. From this idea, he hits the origin of imperialism, for colonization starts with a justification that the colonizer is more democratic, thus being more virtuous and civilized; therefore they i...
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Angel Of Death Lack Of Intelligence
1,798 wordsApplied Intelligence and Knowledge Conquers All In his novel, Eaters of the Dead, author Michael Crichton shows how the Volga Northmen were able to defeat their foes, the window, by using their intellect instead of their weapons. This is seen in four aspects. The theme of the novel is that physical courage is not enough to preserve your culture and lifestyle: intelligence and superior knowledge are absolutely essential. Conflict between the window and the Northmen shows which group has the intel...
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Downward Spiral Short Story
1,657 wordsIn the stories Counterparts and Araby Joyce focuses on small moments of human truth related through the theme of loss. Although Joyce writes about the recognition of human truth through loss he does not pursue an exploration of them, merely leaving them to be seen for what they are or could develop into. In the short story Araby Joyce relates the loss of a Romantic interpretation of the protagonists view of existence. While in his short story Counterparts Joyce explores the mounting and inevitab...
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Point Of View Atom Bomb
2,095 wordsThe three essays, Thank God For The Atom Bomb by Paul Fuel, Democracy by Carl Becker, and Chief Seattle: Letter to President Pierce, 1855 are three different rhetorical modes of writing that exports theoretical, personal reasoning on the realities of certain controversial historical topics. The main focus of the essays are in proving a steadfast view of an ambiguous subject through sarcastic criticism of opposing ideas and by applying clever use of irony; the authors? sentiments vary from imperi...
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