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The next artifact is entitled “The Water Knife” by Paolo Bacigalupi. In this piece of literature, the main character Angel is hired by Catherine Case to hunt for valuable water rights in the south during an intensifying drought, in order for her luxurious arcology developments to bloom. “Plenty of people washed out. Angel thrived (The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi, 55).” Identified as the ‘water knife’ Angel seems to look death in the eye pretty regularly, even before being hired; lifting up his shirt to reveal plenty of scars from different bullets wounds. Upon his journey down south Angel is almost shredded to pieces with bullet wounds in an all out firing feud, but not only does he experience the pain; he witnesses the trigger being pulled
McMurtry, Larry. 2005. Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846-1890. 10th Ed. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
In A Separate Peace, author John Knowles uses the element of water to portray hidden meanings throughout the story. Although the weather is part of the setting, the rain, snow, and fog also reveal a character’s inner thoughts and what they are experiencing. Sometimes, when characters are showing effusive emotion, authors let “a character to cleansed, symbolically,” (Foster 77) by letting him walk through the rain. This causes them to be “less angry, less confused, and more repentant” (Foster 77). In A Separate Peace, Gene revisits his old school, Devon, after his time in the war. He ventures to the tree in which he pushed off his best friend, and rain begins to pour. Being cleansed in the rain, he realizes, “nothing endures, not a tree, not
The book A ,Misplaced Massacre, Ari Kelman’s writing describes the Sandy Creek Massacre astounding while still explaining how historians struggled to get its story to public and be told. This epic event in the history of America’s settlement occurred on . The sandy river Massacre was once seen a horrific event. The tittle has even been debated over the years.
Shirley Jackson portrayed an American village, where people carry a sacrificial ritual to please the god for the productive crop harvest. The story organizes the mob crime in a very simple positive tone, slowly escalates to a climax, and ends in a negative tone. She was amazed by the mob crime actively practiced in a relatively not that old town of America. An innocent individual, who unluckily picks a black marked token, was stoned to death in a ceremonial fashio...
While looking through the book list I was mainly looking for a title that really got my attention and would be a good read. With this goal in mind I really thought that “From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle” fit that criteria. While reading it I gained a lot of insight on how you go about excavating a sunken ship. The book is about the excavation of the explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle ship the La Belle. The ship slammed in the Texas bay by gale winds and storm surges, La Belle finally slipped beneath the water and sank, where it would remain for over 300 years until it was finally found by the Texas Historical Commission archaeologists. It was assumed that Robert Cavelier was looking to establish a colony in the New World. I believe if they had landed where they wanted to, they would have been able to colonize there with the cargo they had arrived with. To see if this would have been able to achieve I must take a closer look at the materials that they brought with them on their voyage.
Kock, Phillip. The Depiction of Violence and the Soldier's everyday life in Michael Herr's"Dispatches" and Tim O'Brien's"The Things they carried". Munchen: GRIN Verlag, 2010.
Many authors use symbolism to convey messages about society as a whole. One particular symbol which is trans-cultural and appears in much of literature is that of the blade. The blade in many cases embodies masculinity, honor, and courage. In the two stories “In a Grove” and Chronicle of a Death Foretold the authors use the motif of the blade to convey similar messages about the societies in which they take place. Both authors Akutagawa and Marquez use the motif to give an insight into views of honor and masculinity in the societies of Japan and Latin-American countries, respectively.
artifacts, as shown by one of the two wooden clubs dredged from buried deposits that was found
The effects of water scarcity are relatively new for irrigators in the Klamath Basin as decreasing summer and spring snow melts have brought a re-examination of water priorities in the region. In times of drought, irrigators received priority in water allocation because of the prevailing legal rights and normative values at the time. The Klamath Wildlife Refuges and the Salmon received the leftover water that which was not needed for irrigation (Tarlock 2007). In 2001, the USFWS issued biological opinion reports that stated that because of the severe drought, water levels in both the Upper Klamath and Lower Klamath must be maintained at higher levels to preserve the endangered Coho Salmon and the Short nose and Lost
Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1942.
Elena Ferrante develops the theme that education paves the future for growing adolescents in the novel, My Brilliant Friend, through the motif of Greek and Latin, the foil characterization of Elena and Carmela, and the motif of water. Elena, the protagonist, lives in a neighborhood filled with low-level occupations and constant violence. She hopes to use her newfound education as a way to depart from her violent neighborhood.
2. Tomasso Portinari wanted this piece to be displayed in his family's chapel in Florence and was intended to be a representation of the writing of the birth of Jesus by St. Bridget (Stokstad, 2011). Portinari and his family are represented in the piece. Located on the side panels of the piece Portinari, his wife, and children can be seen kneeling beneath the depiction of Patron Saints. They are represented much smaller than the Saints, Mary and Joseph, and the shepherds. The family is instead similar to the size of the Angels. The artist, Hugo van der Goes, I feel is also represented in this painting through his style. Besides the subtle symbolic parts of the painting, like the flowers or jar decorated with grapes used to represent the blood of Christ, royalty, and purity, van der Goes painted the shepherds in an uncommon way for the period. This style may have been
Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth, Joan Lebold Cohen, and Lawerence R. Sullivan. (1996, November-December). Race against time. Archaeology.
War does leave people with all kinds of trauma as illustrated in the Bao Ninh’s short story “A Marker on the Side of the Boat” and Nicola Zavaglia’s documentary film Barbed Wire and Mandolins. When comparing the effectiveness of conveying the trauma of war towards the audiences, however, the short story “A Marker on the Side of the Boat” is more effective due to its well-developed plot and the emotional responses from the readers arising from the story.
In Patagonia is one of the more interesting books that I've read lately. It's the only book that I know of that crosses theives with archaeology. It is mainly a collection of Bruce Chatwin's logs and descriptions of his travels in the South American frontier in the late 70's and early 80's (during the Cold War), filled also with short stories and vignettes. Some of them are true, though some mix the facts with fiction. Chatwin leaves these stories hanging and ties most of them back together in the end.