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8. One symbol in The Alchemist is Santiago’s sheep. Santiago’s sheep represent the lives of those people who are unaware of their Personal Legends. The sheep symbolize characters similar to the baker and the crystal salesman Santiago works for, who are satisfied with their current social standing and material possessions. These people do not seek their Personal Legends and go on with their regular lives without change, like sheep. Another Symbol in The Alchemist is gold. Gold symbolizes the time and effort necessary to achieve something that one wants. In the novel, gold is the end product of all of an alchemist’s work. Another symbol in the Alchemist is the desert. The desert symbolizes the challenges that anyone pursuing their Personal Legend must overcome. Santiago learns a great deal of spiritual lessons by observing the desert. The alchemist says that learning spiritual lessons along the journey of fulfilling one’s Personal Legends is very

You can learn so much from going out and experiencing life and new cultures. The Alchemist is about a young man, Santiago and his journey to find treasure at the pyramids. He meets many new people and learns many new things. In the end he was able to grow in his knowledge of the world because he pursued his Personal Legend. In Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist he portrays literary devices such as symbolism and imagery to develop the theme that critical knowledge comes from life experiences.

Caucasia by Danzy Senna, is an intriguing novel of girl who explores race through performing as both white and black. Birdie Lee, also known as Jesse as the story goes on, is the protagonist in the novel. Over time and experience she continues to struggles with finding a common ground between her white and black heritage. Because she is biracial she struggles with changing from white to black all depending on what is going on and where she is. "My body would fill the blanks tell me who I should become, and I would let it speak for me."(Senna 1) The "blanks" Birdie is referring to is her individuality and identity. Birdie explains that in life, in order to survive you first must disappear. She then deliberates the question, “What was the point of surviving if you had to disappear?” (Senna 8). In this story we follow her as she sacrifices her identity in order to survive. In Caucasia, performing identity is only crucial because most of the difficulties for Birdies family were based on race.

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

A Chemy Called Al  by Wendy Isdell, is a reader-captivating story about a girl named Julie, and her adventures into mathematics and science, and how they correlate with each other. Julie, being very sharp minded and sociable, faces an issue in the first chapter. Crucial medical equipment and other modern lifestyle technologies are crashing, and she feels as if it is her mission to solve these problems with the help of some of her special friends through witty context and an introduction towards alchemy.

Children’s book “Chocolate Me!” was published on September 27, 2011 by Taye Diggs and illustrated by Shane W. Evans. Taye Diggs is an African American author of several children’s books who grew up in Rochester, New York. In addition to his accomplishments, Taye Diggs is also an amazing Broadway performer and TV/movie star. As for illustrator Shane W. Evans, he currently lives in Kansas, Missouri where he owns a Dream Studio art center. Evans is an outstanding artist who currently has art exhibits in West Africa, Paris, Chicago, New York and other major cities in the U.S. Prior to the collaboration of “Chocolate Me!”, Shane Evans and Taye Diggs are great friends dating back to their high school days. Shane Evans believed he could bring “Chocolate Me!” to life through his illustrations. Within no time wasted, “Chocolate Me!” was published.

Often times when having to read a book for a class it's assumed that you won't get much out of it, but that’s not been the case as I read The Alchemist, by Paul Coelho, 1993. One of the most interesting aspects of the read is that it was so relatable in many ways. I found myself empathizing with characters and plugging into all the different scenes taking place. Amongst all of the bigger picture themes I chose to write about the stones Urim and Thummim ironically because they're literally like the hidden gems throughout the book. The stones played a role that I felt was quite overlooked from discussion with my peers so I chose to write about how important the stones were in the book and how I interpreted them fully.

Scraping By, by Seth Rockman offers an insight to the rarely recorded history of ‘the chronically impoverished, often unfree, and generally unequal Americans whose work made the United States arguably the most wealthy, free, and egalitarian society in the Western world”(3). In the book, Rockman showcases to his audience the flourishing booming port of Baltimore, Maryland and the complications of the men and woman, white and black, which worked on the early capitalist development. An absence of economic safety and impoverished state republic capitalist prospered on is what this diverse group of people had in common. He explains early republic capitalism as “a political economy that dictated who worked where, on that terms, and to whose benefit” not a “synonym for market exchange” (5). Rockman not only shed light to the view that capitalist economy utilized human labor as a tool for economic development nationally and of private wealth’s service, but he also justifies the argument that the opportunity to harness an assorted group of workers who were denied the liberty to rightfully claim their freedom without holds, was what capitalism was built on. He also touches on the people of unskilled labor who never gain prosperity or success economically and ultimately remained in manual labor. Rockman’s purpose is to shed light on the various kinds of exploited individuals and conditioning them in Capitalism’s systemic dependence in the history line of the United State’s political

Oliver Sack was able to write a very captivating, yet at the same time informative story about a man he has met named Dr. P. Reading Sack’s observations on Dr. P. is what one would imagine reading another’s thoughts would be like in the best sense of the idea. The name of the story, interestingly enough, is “The Man Who Mistook His Wife as a Hat Sack’s description of diagnosing Dr. P. can be compared to that of a detective solving a case, in that it is entertaining to read like a mystery novel would be. Sack set’s his writing up with the following sentences. “I couldn’t think why he had been referred to our clinic. And yet there was something a bit odd” (Sack’s 712). He makes it clear that there was no sense of anything drastically wrong with Dr. P, as there might be with somebody with dementia, or a similar brain disease. But there was a sense that there was something wrong according to the way Dr. P. looked at the wall rather than at Sack.

Kamo No Chomei as opposed to Genji went out into seclusion on his own account, Genji was exiled from the capital and went into seclusion to Suma, although he had a few servants he imagines himself in solitude. In An Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut, the writer is basically revealing that peace can be found in beauty, and beauty is found within the soul. Sometimes the way of civilization (worry about reputation, ranking of social status, politics, love affairs, etc.) interferes in finding spiritual peace. However, Genji was a man in love with beauty and the arts, but he was never at peace with himself. He needed the company of other, specially the company of beautiful women. He might have appeared self-centered, selfish, and arrogant at first, but after reading Chomei’s story, one can see the good side of Genji’s persona.

C.S. Lewis once wrote "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them." Throughout history mankind has struggled, relentlessly, to put this concept into perspective. Lewis, a well respected Christian author, thought it appropriate to develop a work that would help individuals "grasp the notion of devils." "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis is a powerful satire that develops situational and dramatic irony by allowing the reader to experience various thought patterns of the devil.

Author Paulo Coelho employs a number of stylistic techniques in The Alchemist in order to communicate the core didactic theme of the importance of fulfilling one’s Personal Legends. Readers are educated on the danger of fear, the treasures gained along the journey, the ideology of continuous self-improvement and the importance of following dreams in one’s pursuit of their destiny. In order to express these relevant didactic sub-themes to readers, novel structure, narrative perspective and characterisation are used alongside magical realism, key concepts and symbols and motifs.

Billy Joel is an American singer and songwriter who toured Russia in the later days of the Cold War in the mid 1980’s. Billy Joel was the first American to tour any communist country since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the raising of the Iron Curtain. Billy Joel, through the use of this Russian tour, was able to witness the Russian life first hand. During this tour he began to realize that not everything he had been taught about the Russians and the life they lived was entirely true. During the tour Joel became friends with a Man named Viktor who attended all of the performances during this tour. Billy Joel’s management learned about Viktor and set up a way for the pair to

Azreal is a legendary warrior, one of only five that remain of an ancient race known as the Darkin. He wields his massive blade with grace and poise, slicing through legions in a style that is hypnotic to behold. With each foe felled, Azreal 's seemingly living blade drinks in their blood, empowering him and fuelling his brutal, elegant campaign of slaughter.

Lynn Nottage is one of the most talented contemporary playwrights in the Untied States. Her focus indeed is on the African American lifestyle and through her work she manages to touch topics and share ideas that are usually quite controversial. In addition, her approach towards each of her plays is different, in the best expectable way. Nottage’s intention is to present the world of the play in the most unique and memorable. Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Mud, River, Stone are two plays written by Lyn Notagge that reveal her magnificent playwright skills. Both of the plays are unique in their own way and represents stories that are different, but also connected in a way.