Summary Of Stinky Pit A History By Kristin Lewis

Consider the simile on p.10 ‘…watching the town pass like a newsreel from the 1950s’.

Pages 61-120 are basically explaining Tris’ new life and what her daily routine is. This section of the book starts out with Four, the new instructor of the transfers, showing his new students around the Dauntless compound. The first place Four takes the students is The Pit. The Pit is a big chasm that is so big that Tris couldn’t see the other side from where she stood. Then Four turned the group over to Eric one of the five leaders of dauntless. Eric showed the new initiates to their dormitories and gave them their schedules. Their first task was to learn how to shoot a gun. Tris was terrible at first because of her insecurities about holding a gun. In her old faction having a weapon was self-serving which went against their thrive for selflessness.

The setting of the story “August Heat” is very important to the story. The story takes place in England on the 20th of August, and it is extremely hot. Throughout the entire story the narrator speaks about the heat being too hot. “The heat is stifling. It is enough to send a man mad” (line 172-173). This enables the reader because the story isn't just shown but it is also felt. The heat helped direct the character James because if he was not preoccupied with his discomfort toward the heat , he would of have not wandered and not be able to found the stonemason Mr.

Specific instances like “When you wet the bed, first it is warm then it gets cold”, “He felt a warm glow creeping up from the cold shivering sheets”, “and he felt his forehead warm and damp against the prefect's cold damp hand”, from A Portait, show the constant repetition of this contrasting theme of hot and cold. Adding to the usage of this contrasting theme is an example, “It was very cold. Her face, fragrant in the cold air, was quite close to his, and suddenly she called out to the man at the furnace: --Is the fire hot, sir?”, from The Dead. Various other contrasting themes like “bright and dark” and “maroon and green”, have been stated in Joyce’s

In both stories, heat represents luxury and a life that is much more appealing to the character. Since Lutie seems intrigued by the property, the author is able to show the effect of the setting on the theme. If she lived in the home, she would be inside of it, warm and content, instead of outside in the miserable weather. The setting has a similar effect in McCourt’s writing, as he describes the heated homes as “cozy” (McCourt) and “happy with all that food and light” (McCourt). In both stories, the distinction between a warm and cold setting is made clear in order to stress the theme, particularly the part of it that refers to the hardships in the characters lives. The characters' lives primarily take place in cold, dark settings, but they do catch glimpses of what their lives could be, as they see environments much better than their own that are warm and luxurious. This is the doing of the authors of each piece of writing, as it showcases the theme of overcoming hardship by showing the characters in their actual situations and compares it to what they want to achieve and the better lives that they are striving towards.

Ani Lui explained the importance of smell and how we can use it to fix are problems in life. “Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary, and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains” (Diane Ackerman).On Ted Talk, Lui talked about how smell can be a huge resource to our everyday life.The show was called “Smelfes, and other experiments in synthetic biology”. She showed pictures of fruits like strawberries that could grow its own fruit. Ani Lui is from EIT lab, a designer. She sorts out science fiction and science fact. At their lab, they study artificial life and objects. Back in the 19-century women would put an apple under there underarm. If the man ate the apple that meant

The smell receptors interact with the molecules of these vapors and transmit sensations to the brain. We need only a little amount of molecules of substance to trigger an impulse of smell in a nerve end, and we can smell more than ten thousand different scents. If it is a new scent it is possible to remember the scent and identify it again later. The scent captures one’s memory of the place; the nose makes the eyes remember. For the blind people, the sense of smell can help awareness of one’s location. Odour can also relate to hunger and the desire to consume. Since it is not possible to name all the odours, spatial qualities or experiences are often associated with scents. Positive experiences of smell can be used in design to induce positive memories or associations to a space, while negative smells can do the opposite. Bringing certain smells into a designed space can immediately stimulate emotions, guide us, or distract us. Designer Valerie Trent cites research that connects smell and memory; “People can often recall aromas from childhood or a distinctive odor they’ve only smelled once. Whatever your particular nose prefers, smells do enhance comfort and

Smell is one of the five basic human senses. Smell is a powerful sense with many abilities. Smell can alert people to potential dangers. Smell brings variety into the world. In addition to these, smell also has one very special ability. Smell can instantly draw memories out of a person.

It’s the smell of your grandma’s house, the scent of wax crayons and Elmer’s® glue, the aroma of your favorite home-cooked holiday cookies that your mom baked only once a year when you were a kid. Smells and odors have a natural tendency to transport you back to the rose-colored years of your childhood. Before you know it, you’re suddenly caught up in thoughts of who you were and how you’ve changed or perhaps reflecting on which decisions brought you to where you are in that particular moment in life. It’s in that moment, those short-lived moments, that one deeply appreciates the ability to smell and maybe wonders how such an arbitrary smell can have such a strong emotional response. Most of the scents that have strong emotional connections, nowadays, originate from inside of buildings and houses, just as most of the population lives indoors and spend most of their time in their homes or office buildings or schools.

For example, in stanza four, the narrator states “Just own the night, like the Fourth of July”. In this simile, the poet is creating a mental image to the reader of how beautiful and unique fireworks are on the Fourth of July. This simile makes us recognize as being compared to owning the night on America’s Independence day,

Bryson begins his story by recounting his first day in Luxembourg. He recalled his experience by saying, “I felt like someone stepping out of doors for the first time.” Bryson felt like this because countless things in Luxemburg were different than what American cities have to offer. He used a simile, by saying he felt like someone stepping out of doors for the first time, in order to make the description more relatable and vivid to the audience. A simile is when an author compares two things using like or as; it causes the audience to be able to sense

The manufacture of scented oils and perfumes from the Semitic period until later antiquity was reviewed. In the Semitic world the religious aspects of fragrances and scented oils were much more prominent than in later antiquity. The archaeological evidence that is currently available leaves us with a lot of unanswered questions on the evolution of perfume-making technology and the spread of knowledge. However, combining the information that is currently available from the excavations with the knowledge from systematic analysis, we are able to paint a picture of how perfume might have been produced during antiquity. The most recent knowledge of perfume preparation and uses was found in the writings of Dioscorides, Theophrastus, and Pliny.

Odors are common, pleasant or unpleasant scents that we experience daily in all different forms. More often than not, the term odor is used in a negative context. There are different forms of deodorizers that help to prevent the spread of odors, especially unpleasant ones. This experiment was designed to analyze three different air fresheners Febreze, Glade, and Lysol, to determine which one works best at covering up the unpleasant odor of garbage. I hypothesize that Febreze will work best in blocking unpleasant kitchen scents. I feel that each one of these air fresheners most likely work to some extent; however, in the end, I feel that Febreze will be the most effective at covering up the smell of garbage because of previous experiences using this air freshener in the past.

“Two beds, a washstand, and a wooden trunk with a frayed leather straps nearly filled it.”(pg:1) is an example of the descriptive imagization answering the question: Where does the story take place? This is also represented in multiple occasions through imagization such as the setting of 1793 Philadelphia in the hot days of August; in several parts of

One way to tell that is that Joy Boothe several times describes the weather in a very explicit way: “and it was bad hot that day” and “Jesse and Daddy work in the hot sun all day long” . These examples are very straight forward in the description of the heat, but Joy Boothe is also using metaphors to describe the heat that the characters experience: “The road is buckling in the sun, and tar is sticking to the bottoms of my feet. A long time before I get to the store, I smell hot fish guts from where they are cleaning the fish.” This time the narrator is in Florida near the Steinhatchee River where her uncle and pa are fishing. The heat is this time described in a more implicit and metaphorical way. The heat makes the road sticky and the stench from fish is traveling far through the hot and dense air. This form of description gives the story a vivid imagery and it is used throughout the story. The setting is also described in relation to the narrator's given age as she pictures the mill being a castle: “the mill looks like the fairy castle”