“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” These words of John Steinbeck perfectly illustrate the necessity of contrast in the world to give meaning to one’s life. Just like Steinbeck, Annie Dillard uses specific contrasts to depict her world view before and after the total eclipse. In the beginning of Dillard’s essay, “Total Eclipse”, she described “sliding down the mountain pass” to get to her hotel in central Washington. As she observed her surroundings of the drive, she made the simile of being like “a diver in the rapture of the deep who plays on the bottom while his air runs out.”
“Home is where the heart is” (Unknown). Meaning how homes are made of families and love. In the novle Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Sal changes due to the settings, Bybanks, Kentucky, Euclid, Ohio, and Lewiston, Idaho. Bybanks is important to Sal because that is where her old home was. The author uses Sals thoughts to show how Bybanks is important to her, “...he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hay loft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me” (Creech 1).
In the essay titled, “Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard, Dillard uses the experience of viewing the total eclipse to express the author’s state of mind. She creates a dramatic effect in order to emphasize the inner changes we all go through. Dillard uses metaphors and imagery to reveal internal changes and battles the narrator experiences. Although, the author’s changes are internal, she uses the external world through literary devices to convey the darkness of humanity, rebirth of the narrator, and hope of change.
From the beginning, Annie Dillard mentions how the eclipse was unique. She does this by stating how the sky “deepened to indigo.” When she mentions the color of the sky, she also emphasizes that it was “never seen.” Dillard's very detailed description of the eclipse makes it very clear that it was awesome. She makes it seem that she was out of this world.
In the beginning of the essay, Dillard uses simile and compares the arrival to their destination as “like the death of someone”, she also describes the feeling as “sliding into the region of dread”, ”slipping into fever” or “falling down the hole in sleep from which you wake yourself whimpering”. Here, she compares her feelings to “death”, “dread”, “fever” and “falling down a hole”, which are not some conventional things that a writer would compare to the feelings one feels in waiting to the witness of a total eclipse. By making these bizarre comparisons, the author has successfully emphasized her anticipation for the total eclipse, which further highlights the magnificence of the cosmic phenomenon of a total eclipse. Also by comparing her feelings to common sensations or experiences that people would understand, Dillard shows the readers how just a single natural event can bring such a great impact to humans, which again emphasize the universe’s vastness as oppose to the silliness and insignificant of
Annie Dillard emphasizes her feeling of awe by saying “Now the sky to the west deepened indigo, a color never seen.” Showing how unique this color was. In Annie Dillard's writing “Total Eclipse” she uses metaphors and imagery to convey her awe in her experience of the Total Eclipse. Annie’s feeling of wonder and awe continues as she uses imagery to emphasize her experiences of the Total Eclipse.
In Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Salamanca goes on a road trip across the 50 states to make peace with herself and her mother. Sal, or Salamanca as her grandparents insist on, ends up journeying with her grandparents. As they start they journey, Sal’s grandpa Hiddle tells Sal to spin a yarn. “And that is how I happened to suspend my tree prayers and tell them about Phoebe Winterbottom, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.” Creech starts the story in Euclid, Ohio with the past Sal and Phoebe Winterbottom.
Year of Wonders is set in Eyam, an actual village which was located in Derbyshire, England. Also known as the "plague village" for an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in 1665 and 1666, the story of Year of Wonders is based off of this event. At the beginning of the book, Anna Frith is introduced to the readers as a house maid, mother of two young sons, and the narrator. Although she isn't a historical figure, through her eyes, the readers get to get an insight on what it was like living in the midst of a plague. As the story starts out, Anna is faced with the struggle of watching her friends (Anys and Mem) being accused by mobs of being witches because they are midwives who deliver newborns and use charms and herbs to heal the sick.
Total Eclipses are incredible events that bring awe to anyone who witnesses them. A passage written by Annie Dillard illustrates this phenomenon by sharing her experience with a total eclipse. She shows her true awe in these experiences through utter shock, fear, and confusion in a wonderful, descriptive manner. Annie Dillard emits a true feeling of awe beginning in the second paragraph when she states, “I missed my own century, the people I knew, and the real light of day.” This displays her sincere awe by showing her confusion and fear as she is present in this strange moment.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “awe” as “a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.” The author, Annie Dillard, shows awe toward the eclipse in the passage “Total Eclipse” by using metaphors to enhance the telling of the experience to the reader. For example, in paragraph 6, the author states, “There is no world. We were the world’s dead people, rotating and orbiting around and around.” This metaphor shows that, to the author, the eclipse was a surreal experience, and she felt as if the world had stopped and she had died.
Throughout every piece of writing, writers use certain strategies and techniques to convey their ideas. In this case, Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel in “Super Disasters of the 21st Century” and Sebastian Junger in “The Perfect Storm” use a like text structure to portray their ideas on nature’s savagery. However, these authors use different techniques and strategies in their writings. In “Super Disasters of the 21st Century”, Jacqueline Adams and Ken Kostel use specific methods to portray nature’s fury.
Twilight Project was such a remarkable performance which performed by the Bellevue College students and faculty/staff. A reading of selections from Twilight Los Angeles 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith. It was about many years ago when black people did not have equal rights the same as white people. All the portions of the performance were so interesting for me, but one part was emotional and very sad when Mrs. June Park (wife of a gunshot victim, Walter Park) explained how she was disappointed and worried about her husband gunshot story. In my opinion, fighting for social justice is one of the most important subjects to think about.
In "The Last Curiosity," a short story by Lucy Tan, the Woken are described as beings with artificial intelligence that change into humans to see what life is like on Earth. This story shows the aftermath of the destruction of mankind and emphasizes how humans were the cause of their own deaths. They watched over humans for a long time and were curious about what it meant to experience life as humans. While on Earth, the Woken experienced struggle, fear, selfishness, and power.
Daniele Manville was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 4 ½ to 15 years incarceration. Daniele had decided at a very young age he wanted to work in law; he wanted to be a lawyer. In 1972 at a college campus he got into a heated scuffle and killed a guy with chloroform; the heated scuffle was over drugs. When Daniele was released in 1976 and thirteen years later applied to enrol to be a lawyer. When it came to one question ‘Have you ever been convicted of a criminal charge’ he answered appropriately to what he had done.
In any type of working sector including healthcare one will find a variety of people with different cultural background working together to accomplish the task at hand. In the healthcare setting healthcare personnel’s and staff constantly work together to provide the best service its patients. Every patient is a priority whether it includes direct or indirect care. Every single individual that works in the healthcare settings carry a different type of quality and experience that is very important to the healthcare setting. With each individual bringing their own unique skills and abilities to their jobs it enables them to work with each other creating teamwork and providing the best outcomes in the healthcare settings.
