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    Humans are curious creatures who observe the world to find meaning in life, but the world is not clear cut, meaning there are no definite answers. Furthermore, since a single truth does not exist in the world, the way people view something may be different from another’s view. People try to find purpose in their life, but this can change over time as with many things. One example is how writing styles change from era to era: Post-modernist writing takes place after World II when the writing style

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    mid-course update so I decided to send an email. I have enjoyed the readings and discussion in the course. I find the discussions often open up new ideas and points of view for me, as they are meant to. I particularly enjoyed The Crying of lot 49. I have been traveling a lot this week and picked it up as an audio book from the library. Listening to it was a whole new experience and I found it much more accessible. Going After Cacciato has been difficult to read as well. Over the past two weeks, I

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    both affect a person's life, but I think nurture has more to do with our lives than nature does. When I was little, i was at a parade and the people in a tracter threw candy I didn't get any so I started crying and felt bad. It connects to me now I am an ESFP a Feeler. I think that nature has a lot to do with our lives but nurture has more to do with it, and that nurture controls what you think and act. Nurture is one of the two things that will deal with our lives. Nurture for my preference has

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    Friends & Basketball Coming into a new town is nothing new to me. If you move around as much as I do, then you never really get to know anyone on a deeper level than knowing of them. I move on average of 4-5 times a year. My dad’s company that he works for keeps moving him around, so I never really expect us to stay in a house very long. I never put my clothes in my drawers, even though I have them. I keep them in my luggage bags, because you never know when you will move again. I’ve ever really

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    Exploration of the Personal Experiences and Effects of Counselors’ Crying in Session” written by, Miles Matise. Matise is an Assistant Professor at Troy University in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Matise’s article explores the appropriateness and effectiveness of therapists crying during a counseling session. Matise (2015) investigates this query through a, “qualitative interview study of 11 counselors’ personal experiences of crying in session with a client and their perception of its effects on the

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    remember her from and why they have the same last name it was his sister and haven’t seen her for 10 years because she got taken by social service and now working at a gas station. He told her that he was her brother and she was surprised and started crying and sobbing so did he they started taking and what he was doing. He told her that he was a gang member and had some money for her to come move to Atlanta with him. She thought and asked him how much money you have he said I have 1.5 million in the

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    The first chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster is about the hero’s quest. Foster starts the chapter with a fictious example of a story with a protagonist called Kip that although on the surface seems like a search for bread, is actually an example of a knight’s encounter with nemesis, a quest. He then goes on to discuss the five components of a quest and how the parts often vary and are hidden in different forms. One of the primary take-aways from the chapter however

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    1. Defining (Post)Modernism and McHale’s Theory of Dominants The distinction between modernism and postmodernism has never been a clear-cut dichotomy, and it probably never will be, and thus can best be interpreted as a continuum (Childs 2008: Malpas 2005). For brevity’s sake, I will not (and cannot) fully explore the complex intellectual debates that function as the foundations of modernism and postmodernism, as it is not this paper’s goal to fully explore the nuanced difference between modernism

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    Read Like a Professor, Mr. Foster starts out his book by introducing one of the more common story plots, the commencement of a quest. Since writing builds on what has come before, stories such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Setup in The Crying of Lot 49 have similar development and organization because they’re all quests. The plot structure of a quest usually consists of five elements with the end result being the characters discovery of self-knowledge. The basic organization requires a questor

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    Pynchon's Entropy

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    "ENTROPY" by Thomas PynchonSummary:Meatball Mulligan throws a lease-breaking party at his apartment in Washington, D.C. in early February of 1957. His guests are a colorful bunch, including Sandor Rojas, an "ex-Hungarian Freedom fighter," and the avant-garde Duke di Angelis quartet comprised of Duke, Vincent, Krinkles and Paco who together perform an original piece in complete silence. Saul, a neighbor of Mulligan's, comes in through the window after an argument with his wife concerning communication

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