Myths Of The Knife

And contrary to popular belief, once a limb is gone it will not grow back (think Monty Python). Another common evil scissor sin is tossing a pair of scissors to a classmate when asked “Hey can you pass those?” So the devilish device is innocently lobbed (or not so innocently) through the air, mutating the once paper trimming device into a veritable spear. The parallel can also be drawn to writing utensils and their frightfully sharpened points. If backed with enough force (F=ma), they morph into virtual daggers, lusting to brutally stab anyone who stands in the way. Worse yet, these weapons have no prejudices and will strike everyone with the same level of malice and intent to destroy. No one is immune.

When looking at, “Divorce”, the cutlery is personified and uniquely used throughout the whole short poem. In chapter four, Johnson and Arp tells us “Personification consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept”(797). Primarily the whole idea around personification, is for the reader to visualize and understand what the human attributes that are given to the object or concept. Billy Collins writes the lines,”Once, two spoons in bed,/now tinted forks/across a granite table/and the knives they have hired”(1-4).”The two spoons are personified as this couple who fit into one another perfectly just like spoons as you put them together. All of a sudden, they become

* Butterfly knives (where the blade is hidden inside a handle that splits in two around it, like

Richard Pryor once said, “There’s a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at” (A-Z Quotes). Leon Rappoport, a professor at Kansas State University, believed in the same thin line as Pryor. Rappoport received his BA and MS at New York University, and completed his PhD in 1963 at the University of Colorado(Kansas State University). He studied psychological sciences, and concentrated his studies in decision making and human judgment, even writing a book called Punchlines: The Case for Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Humor (Kansas State University). In another book, The Sword and Shield Metaphor and Other Perspectives, Rappoport claims that humor depends on how the audience receives humor. The audience can either be on the side of the audience that is getting laughed at, or they can be on the side of the audience that is laughing with other people.

To make a choice is easy, but to make the right one can sometimes be very difficult. To speak one’s mind and stand up to your opinion can also be tough, especially when in a large crowd, but sometimes this is the most important time for doing so. In Steven Millhauser’s short story, “The Knife Thrower”, the ambiguity of the narrator’s view on the knife thrower’s act is really drawn out and exposed in the spotlight, very unlike the knife thrower’s act itself which is very mystical and sort of hidden in the shadows.

The Knife written by Judah Waten, is a short story about a young Italian- Plinio, who has immigrated to Australia from a ‘poor village in Calabria, in a very desolate part of Southern Italy'.

Sharp edges – sharp edges or burrs are a hazard when handling the components it is possible to injure yourself on these razor sharp burrs.

Who would win? A samurai has all the tools necessary for defeating a knight. A knight has similar tools but ultimately will be defeated. A samurai would arise victorious.

pointed to a knife on the kitchen counter stated it looked like the knife the

customer, taking heed that not a single pore should emit a drop of blood. Seeing to it that the blade did not slip

which is a cut caused when a victim grabs the knife in self-defense. Cuts are

It was crafted from natural metallic. They didn’t want to provide away their production era in their weapon to anyone because the sword became their point of strength. Most of the Vikings swords were found in rivers across Scandinavia and northerly Europe.

These swords were designed for slashing and cutting and not for thrusting, so the blades had to be carefully sharpened while leaving the tip relatively dull. He thought that if they were confronted by legitimate forces in raids they could create a wedge formation, with their biggest and strongest men at the front of the wedge. They would rush this wedge through the enemy lines where they could engage in hand-to-hand combat, which was their forte. But the wedge formation would only serve as a distraction because the real plan is while the shifters are concentrating all their efforts to defend the gate at the front of the fortress an advanced scouting party will be well under way at digging out the dirt from underneath the castles back wall to weaken its foundation and pull it down with an entire squad of swordsmen and archers that will flood into the courtyard from behind and catching the shifters by surprise. Psycho’s military tactics succeeded mainly because he ignored common battlefield tactics, methods, and customs of the time such as ignoring the unspoken rule of warfare that gave holy sites immunity from becoming a battle site. He had always thought that the battleground always picked you and that you never get to choose where or when a battle might break out, even if it means trampling on the ground of long ago dead

I stood between the two bodies, looking into their lifeless, glassy eyes. Crimson blood pooled around their stiff bodies. More blood ran down the blade of the knife I clutched in my hand, gathering at the point and slowly dripping on my leg. What had he done?

The most recognized weapon of the samurai throughout history was the katana. The oldest swords were straight and had their early design in Korea and China. A katana was never worn without its companion sword, the wakizashi; it was a shorter sword with a broader blade. Together the two swords are referred to as daisho, meaning "large and small." The word dai (large) represents the katana and the word sho (small) represents the wakizashi. The smiths who created the katana for the samurai are widely regarded as the finest sword makers in history. (Daidoji, Ratti, and Cleary 42) The samurai's desire for tougher, sharper swords in battle gave rise to the curved blade. One of the biggest problems in making a sword is keeping it sharp. A weapon made with a hard metal will keep its edge, but will be brittle and prone to breaking. Japanese sword smiths solved this problem by making the core of the sword with a soft