John Carpenter

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art. The painting brought Wood almost instant fame after being exhibited for the first time at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930. It is probably the most reproduced and parodied works of art, and has become a staple within American pop-culture. The portrait of what appears to be a couple, standing solemnly in front of their mid-western home seems to be a simplistic representation of rural America. As simple

American Gothic – writing assignment I Description: In the painting we see two people. We see the farmer holding a hayfork and beside him is a woman. The woman is most likely his daughter. The couple stands in front of a house styled by the “Carpenter Gothic” era. The sun is shining but the couple don’t look like they appreciate the weather or “something else”. They both look very stretched in their faces. The man has a long head and his mouth is like a parenthesis on the wrong side. The woman

The book I chose for the critical book review is, “Anatomy of Anorexia” by Steven Levenkron. This book concentrates on the importance of detecting early symptoms of anorexia nervosa. This book is suitable for parents and friends of anorexia sufferers or others who would like to inform them of this disorder. He states that it typically has to do with teenaged girls and how people who experience this mental illness need serious help. This mental illness can even cause death, if not treated on time

Alice is running forward, or so she thinks; however, Alice is doing the exact opposite of that. Alice has a main objective in this novel; she must move eight squares in order to become a queen. In Lewis Carroll’s, Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll adds a certain pizazz that most people wonder where it comes from. How does he come up with certain characters? How does he think of something so different like the Jabberwocky poem? Many things contribute to Carroll’s writing: struggling with sleep

patient with the food. Indeed, Karen Carpenter needs to change her way of thinking in order to treat her disorder, and in order to do so, punishment need to be associated to losing weight and reinforcement to gaining weight. Even if most anorexic patients deny their disorder, hospitalization is always the best way to keep the person alive by imposing weight restoration (Davison et al., 2013). Then, the cognitive behavioural therapy can come into play by reinforcing eating with a reward. For instance

The stereotypical ”Zombie Ant” , most typically found in a rain forest and or farm climate, are not the flesh tearing type of zombie you most likely had in mind, instead, fungal-spreading mind controlled ants, taken over by a fungal parasite. And these ants, are far from usual. There is a cycling, almost endless process, repeated in three stages. The process and fungus is called Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis. During the first faze, the fungal parasite picked up by the target ant, enters the ant’s

Whats missing from the movie Alice in Wonderland? If the movie Alice in Wonderland was like the book then what would it be like? Though the movie is sort of like the book there are a few things missing. When she's falling in the movie her dress catches her but in the book she just falls. When she finishes falling in the book she's surrounded by many doors, but in the movie it's just one small door. And also the door isn't living in the book but in the movie it is. The garden of live flowers and

Human life is a blend of myriad of emotions. Our emotions add facets to our humanity – they give us dimensions and make us the social, emotional and intellectual beings we are. People go through both good and rough times. While some persevere through these times, some crack and acquire fissures. In the novella “Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger, Franny Glass is undergoing a similar identity and existential crisis which severely derails her life. Disenchanted by the superficiality of the world surrounding

controversial of the two. Franny has been critiqued for so-called shallow concerns. John Updike famously referred to Franny as, “a pretty college girl passing though a plausible moment of disgust” in his New York Times review of Franny and Zooey. He calls Franny “pretty” to demean her intelligence. He calls her “girl” to demean her perspective. His use of “plausible” indicates that he finds her character understandable. John Updike may be a wonderful author and an eloquent reviewer, but he will never understand

The Glass Family, consisting of seven children and a mother and father, were all a part of a quizzing radio show known as “It’s a Wise Child”. These seven children, all contributing to the show at some point of their childhood grew up having high expectations, and more often than not, being unable to meet them. In Franny and Zooey, J. D. Salinger portrays how success and fame at a young age has lasting negative effects on children and their families. The now grown kids and elderly parents both have