PostScript Essays

  • Lara Jean And Peter Have Broken Things Off During Winter Break

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    Lara Jean and Peter have broken things off during winter break. Lara Jean broke things off with Peter because he would not defend her when Peter's friends were saying that they did more than just kissing in the hot tub. On Christmas day, Peter came to Lara Jean's party. Josh (another boy who likes her but is Lara’s Jean older sister's EX) came and Peter and Josh were fighting over her. Lara Jean was so annoyed that she made them both leave. 2 days later Lara Jean noticed that she really missed Peter

  • Legal Theory: Postscript Of Eichmann In Jerusalem By Hannah Arendt

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    Asha Walker Legal Theory: Paper 1 Professor Meyer October 30th, 2015 In the postscript of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt writes about the controversy that arose over her original account on her views of Eichmann. Arendt largest observation from the trial was that Nazi criminal were ordinary people who committed atrocious crimes and thought they had the right incentive to do so. Eichmann was a German Nazi SS and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. After he was captured he stood

  • Nabokov And Lolita Language Analysis

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    creating nonsense out of a verse by Kipling (Nabokov 448), which again suggests this international personality who can manoeuvre though different languages, playing with words, nevertheless, with the English tradition in mind. This makes Nabokov’s postscript a bit ironic since he throughout the novel is using the English canon as reference in which aspect it seems more than his heritage additional to his ability to play around with this content in different languages suggests that he does indeed transcend

  • Analysis Of Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

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    could be a matter of life and death. This exact situation was stricken upon author Jon Krakauer, who would write about his experiences in the book Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, which was published in 1997; with a postscript authored in 1999. The paperback is a first-hand account of Krakauer’s journey to Everest as a journalist. Krakauer’s story begins when he is offered to write an article on Mt. Everest and accepts. Once in Nepal, Krakauer joins Rob Hall’s expedition

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Petrie's Purpose

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    In the postscript, Petrie explains that he wanted to write an essay “that would expose… the dangers and hypocrisy” of the collegiate athletic system. The diction of that sentence alone uncovers Petrie’s purpose. The word “expose” implies that under the sugar coating of temporary fame and fortune, there is an ugly reality for college athletes. Since this is a persuasive essay, the purpose was gradually revealed. As Petrie stated in the postscript, he starts by establishing credibility with his experiences

  • Taeh Scream Monologue

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    There are a lot of postscripts in Taehyung 's life--PS, I left my keys on the table by the door and I don 't think I locked the door but I don 't really remember; PS, there 's cake in the fridge, the kind you like, with the taro and the icecream and the fruits on top and they 're not bad this time, I promise; PS, you didn 't bring your favorite tie; PS, I 'm bringing it to you but you don 't know that yet ;D PS, I love you and you know that already. Kim Taehyung hums as he packs his bags, just

  • Frankenstein Knowledge Quotes

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    guilt-ridden man determined to destroy what he has created. Paul Sherwin demonstrates that, “for Frankenstein, who is dubiously in love with his own polymorphously disastrous history, the fateful event to which every other catastrophe is prelude or postscript is the creation” (Sherwin 883). Victor represses his needs to sleep, eat, and have any contact with his family and friends to follow this one ambition. The monster and Victor have all experienced the affects of self-centeredness. Learning is a part

  • Summary Of In The Time Of The Butterflies By Julia Alvarez

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    In the Time of the Butterflies is published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1994. Julia Alvarez (1950- ) selected a story that had haunted her since she was ten. This novel should be considered as a historical novel due to narrate the lives and deaths of the Mirabal sisters also known as “Las Mariposas” (Sirias 6). Julia is profoundly influenced by their deaths as states that “their stories ended just as ours began” (Garza 5). In the Time of the Butterflies was named a Notable Book by the American

  • Differences Between The Hound Of The Baskervilles

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    The tense and suspenseful novel The Hound of the Baskervilles has the audience on the edge of their seats when reading the novel, or even watching it. In 2002 this novel was created into a frightful and tense movie and there are many differences between the novel and the movie. The movie had many similarities to the book as the terror the audience had, but unfortunately, some differences made it so we couldn’t enjoy the full experience. When comparing the two someone could conclude that there

  • Apocalypse Now Essay

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    natives. On the trip back with Kurtz, Marlow reads his report for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs. The report, despite its cogency, lacks a practical solution. What Marlow finds instead is a disturbing hand written postscript. His eloquent report

  • Summary Of A Fine Art By Thomas De Quincey

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    relatively often in modern media, with Ferris Bueller talking to the audience like he and the viewer are high school pals or Patrick Bateman addressing the audience to give a glimpse into his psycho world, when Thomas De Quincey wrote his essay, “A Postscript to On Murder as a Fine Art”, readers previously were inactive witnesses to the unfolding plot. De Quincey changed the reader’s role in literature and inspired countless authors of thrillers and murder mysteries. Scholars point to De Quincey as one

  • Childhood Ideology

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    The Ideology and Policy of Childhood This essay will discuss Boyden’s chapter ‘Childhood and the Policy Makers: A Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood from Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood (1997). The essay will focus on how Boyden describes societal context as shaping the needs and rights of children, it will contemplate how these two terms differ according to Boyden. The essay will then discuss how policy surrounding these needs and rights affects children globally

  • Personal Experience In Man's Search For Meaning

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    second part of the book titled Logotherapy in a Nutshell*, Frankl provides an illustration of Logotherapy and explains that this theory presumes that one’s meaning is more important to human experience than one’s desire for power or pleasure. In the postscript titled The Case for a Tragic Optimism, Frankl clarifies that the source of meaning in one’s life comes from dignity and

  • The Great Wave Off Kanagawa Analysis

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    Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist specializing in ukiyo-e painting and printing. Ukiyo-e is a form of Japanese art which was popular in the 17th through 19th century. In English, ukiyo-e translates to “pictures of the floating world.” It is a wide range of paintings and woodblock prints such as faces, landscapes, flowers, and even erotica. Hokusai’s most famous painting is the Great Wave. The Great Wave off Kanagawa is part of a woodblock print series he did called the Thirty Six Views of

  • Mary Anne Warren's On The Moral Permissibility Of Infanticide

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    States because they create very polarized opinions and beliefs. One such philosophical issue is the moral permissibility of infanticide. Mary Anne Warren, a philosopher, presents her liberal yet controversial views on the issue of infanticide in the postscript of her article, On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion. However, the anti-infanticide arguments pose problems for Warren’s position because they justify the immorality of infanticide through the physical similarity in resemblance of neonates

  • The Role Of Ghost Stories In Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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    Ghost stories have always been a favorite genre of novel to many people around the world. The thrill of a racing heart produces endorphins that give the human body an epic rush. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving is no exception as it leaves readers searching for answers on the whereabouts of Ichabod Crane. After his mysterious disappearance, many rumors spread about the events surrounding the location of Ichabod. The story of Ichabod’s encounter with the Headless Horseman and its

  • Kant's 1962: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

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    Prior to Kuhn’s 1962, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, Karl Popper and Donald Campbell agreed the existence of specific thought processes derived from the evolutionary theory but, expanded their thinking when determining the scientific method is social (requiring language leading to social interactions which leads to rational endeavors or cognition), according to Wettersten (2016). This advanced from earlier thinking that scientists’ observations were the source of all knowledge (Wettersten)

  • Essays Not Rants ! 188: The Honest Truth

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    Essays, Not Rants! 188: The Honest Truth. A lot of stories aim to be real. Or as real as you can be while being a, y’know, story. The challenge here, of course, is figuring out what real is. One interpretation of ‘real’ is realistic. No spaceships, because spaceships are far from commercial right now. No superpowers or superheroes, because those aren’t things. And no magic either. Y’know, realism. So like Lost in Translation. It’s about two people in Japan, and just about there. There’s no monsters

  • Chapter Analysis: Fire In The Cocoanut Grove

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    to provide a wrap up to the story. Also, Esposito begins to cover the new laws that were created out of this disaster. Esposito also notes that the Cocoanut Grove Fire wouldn’t have occurred if the existing laws of that time were followed. As a postscript, the author includes a chapter about the Station nightclub fire. It was a club wildly different from the glamourous Cocoanut Grove, but it suffered the same fate. The saddest thing is, the fire occured in 2003, 61 years after the incident at the

  • Slavery Definition Essay

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    Slavery can be defined in different ways. Freedom is a term reflected by physical, religious and ideology independence without retribution. The weekly readings reviewed for this assignment included Spanish and English documents. Some of the readings Illustrated different forms of slavery and how it occurred in history. In the readings that were Spanish in origin it seemed that their religion or the word religion seemed to come up a lot. It also seems that Europeans believed that people who were