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    The experience of darkness is both individual and universal. Within Emily Dickinson’s “We grow accustomed to the Dark” and Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” the speakers engage in an understanding of darkness and night as much greater than themselves. Every individual has an experience of the isolation of the night, as chronicled in Frost’s poem, yet it is a global experience that everyone must face, on which Dickinson’s poem elaborates. Through the use of rhythm, point of view, imagery

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    Cardiac Dysrhythmias: Ventricular Fibrillation According to Brunner et al., the most common dysrhythmia in patients with cardiac arrest is ventricular fibrillation, which is rapid, disorganized ventricular rhythm that causes ineffective quivering of the ventricles. No atrial activity is seen on the ECG. The following characteristics that constitute ventricular fibrillation are, ventricular rate is greater than 300 beats per minute. Ventricular rhythm is extremely irregular and without a specific

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    So now I deserve to hear your story.” “Okay,” he said, “I just turned “24” three weeks ago.” “Cool,” she interrupted, “go on.” “I found out i got this job last week and was told to come into work today, that I already would know what to do, but I have no idea what I’m doing this job was a favor from my old boss. He was with me when I lost this bad boy.” He was

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    on his behalf about his conviction and through this voice he revisits the history in the novel, actually he is trying to challenge the grand narratives of communistic discourse and history to improve his unreliability. Ludvik’s personal life was interrupted by the authority. Kundera himself was thrown out of the party once without doing something wrong or serious. Similarly Ludvik is thrown out of the party without any serious

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    stronger than we were before. Everyone has their own story of how these days went down and changed their lives, for better or for worse. It did not matter who you were or where you were during the time of the 9/11 attacks, any story was harshly interrupted on that day. Two authors wrote about one or more stories that happened before, on, or after 9/11. The novels

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    The concert is Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stéphane Denève, recorded in high definition at Orchestra Hall in December 2013. Symphonie Fantastique composed in 1845, by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), is a program symphony; a five movement orchestral work that tells the story described by the CSO (2013) “as a purely musical melodrama”, a colorful illustration of the life of an artist, “replete with unrequited love, witches, guillotines and

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    1. The title An Enemy of the People is composed of pure irony; Doctor Stockmann is branded as an enemy of the people, but he is the exact opposite of an antagonist. The play opens in Stockmann’s house, showing how popular the doctor is by having many visitors stop by; he is obviously a well-known, intelligent man who is liked by many people, which makes the play’s title even more ironic. After announcing his research on the health baths that will supposedly bring the town prosperity in the future

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    location while creating a current that allows others to follow, offers meaning to function. What is writing? For many, writing is simply letters placed on paper, no more, no less. We have each heard someone say, it is not what they wrote but how we interrupted the words. Words may only mean what we want them to mean. Words have no power. It is true. I will wager every penny I have and can prove without a shadow of a doubt that words have no power. In turn, someone may say, but there are words that make

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    Rebecca Solnit’s In the Day of The Postman alludes to a simpler era. Solnit reminisces upon a leisurely time prior to 1995, in which time itself was plentiful, and each day was decipherable and measured in austere events. This ‘once upon a time’ was free of the complex technologies that now occupy the majority of our time. Solnit suggests that the plethora of information found via technology and the expansion of communication methods since 1995 has broken up time, conceived a disease of perpetual

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    detail that shows Owen’s belief in fate is the incident that killed Johnny’s mother, Tabby. Owen called the baseball that hit Tabby “That Fated Baseball” because he believed “there was a reason for that baseball (105).” He believed that he had interrupted the angel of death, so the angel of death gave the task to Owen. There were no accidents with Owen, it was always for a reason. He also believed his voice was for a reason. He believed his voice was a gift from God. Where his faith

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