Arron Lambie, Blog # 11/14

"Both my manias and depressions had violent sides to them."

My first thought of this quote is how it shows two completely different illnesses. Manias are periods of excitement, while depression is a period of sadness. Secondly I thought of violence and how people can become violent no matter the mood they are in at a given time. Persons can be happy and still violent without knowing it. I selected the image of a fist punching through a piece of paper or wall to represent violence. The hand is usually used when someone is committing a violent act, and to me the image s

hows how the hand is being used, and how destru

ctive one can be when they are violent.

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind, Alfred A. Knopf, INC. 1995, page 120

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Nader Hakim Blog #11

"if you're going to live this moment stop rehashing the past and deciding what you're going to do with your future."

I chose this quote because it is really something that we all do in our everyday life. All we do is think about the future and what it holds for us or think about the past and keep asking ourselves "what if." but if we really forget about our past and future for a second, and just think about what we're doing in the moment we are living in, we will all live a totally different and care-free life. the image i chose emphasizes this way of "human behaviour" to a great extent.














Stephen King, Gerald's Game( the penguin group, 1993) page. 257

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EMIRI HASHIMOTO #11/13

" She turned to the right and followed the river, inside her dream of enchantment at last. The sun glanced off the surface of the water in a thousand thousand sparks of light, and the ferns dripped tiny droplets, and dragonflies hovered with rainbow-mica wings, and brilliant parrots wheeled from the trees of one bank to the trees of the other."

Sometimes i want to go to the river to calm down and refresh my mind when i am stressed out. In this chapter, Missy was thinking about John Smith and decided to go to his property. When she walked into the forest she saw a path that have been made by animals, heard trees talking and sound of water . She was impressed how beautiful the nature is, especially the river. I understand how Missy felt when she saw the river. An hour from my house, there are a lot of mountains and heritage parks where there's gorgeous lakes, river and etc.. Nature gives me a power when i'm depressed and when you are upset, it makes you calm down and forget about everything . I chose this picture because this reminds me one of the famous park in Japan.

Colleen McCullough, The Ladies Of Missalonghi,Harper &Low, 1987, page 73

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LISA M. LUGO BLOG POST 11/13

"There'll be a lot of drinking and a lot of money changing hands. That means women present and women mean trouble."

Even though I think women are amazing creatures, we are mostly related to two things: money and business. In my opinion, women are not individuals who depend from the power of others to feel like they have accomplished something. However, throughout the book and based on the main character's attitude, women are seeing as material things. Frank underestimates the power women have over men because he cannot admit he does not have the emotional stability he could have with the love of his life. Therefore, in the book women are used and left without any explanation or complain. This is why I chose the picture by Costa Manos, Boston 1974 Pilgrim Theater, because it shows the attachment women have towards men. I believe it relates to the quote because, Frank views women as weak and greedy. He represents women as trouble, because it is "something" you need to take care of and I think this picture shows the behavior Frank sees in females. It is something you can easily get but can also get you in trouble if you show your power status; this can mean you can provide stability emotionally and financially but you choose not to which causes conflict.



Charles Willeford, Cockfighter (New York: Vintage Books, 1972), page 175

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AMANDA N. CRUZ GERENA 11/13

"She had stolen biscuits, she had never stolen money. She expected to feel shame, but it didn't come -only again the odd swell of pride."

I really loved this quote even though it's not that significant. The reason I loved this quote is because it reminded me of me when I was a kid and the first time (and last jaja) that I stole candy. I had never stolen anything in my life but I felt I had to do it because I knew my mom wasn't going to buy me that candy. I thought I would feel bad about it but I didn't... it was kind of fun. Rose has always had in her the innocence of a child... she always knows what's best for her but never truly listens to the voice inside her; and therefor ends up in difficult situations. The image I chose explains exactly what I pictured, a girl who has no shame for what she is doing even in the face of authority. It's a shame that these things happen but they do.

Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Penguin Books, 1977, p. 193

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Ala Salem; #11 of 13

"Someday, white men would come to this country and the Mayans would mistake them for gods. The return of the great white god Quetzalcoatl. There were hundreds of tales of a white-skinned, blond-haired, blue-eyed man who had been a god come down from the sky. Legends said he had the power of the sun and fire."

This quote reminds me a lot about racism and discrimination at it's peak way before the twentieth and twenty first century. Also, the fact that every now and then occasional incidences involving racism happens bothers me a lot. After all, white and black are just two different colors. Just as everyone comes in different shapes and sizes, we all come in different colors. A person must be judged by aspects, like accomplishments, achievements, etc... and not by the color that God gave him/her. No matter what color a person is, that person has feelings, passions, goals, dreams, desires,etc... This visual is by far the most explicit and I find it to be too general. It's like saying "Don't discriminate against anyone. Period".

Wolverton, D. A Very Strange Trip (Bridge Publications Inc. 1999) pg. 220

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ALEXANDRIA ASCIOTI #11/13

"It was funny the way these people kept asking for it. Just latching onto you, no matter how you tried to brush them off, and almost telling you how they wanted it done"

This situation is very common among people. Often, there is a friendship that is not always wanted by both parties. Sometimes a person may not understand that the other does not wish to be friends because perhaps they have nothing in common. There are those who try too hard to create friendships that don't make sense. This is usually because someone may just like the idea of having a friend, as opposed to really looking inside the person's personality. Intimate relationships can also work like this if there is a lack of chemistry. It is necessary to go beyond the ideas of friendships and relationships to see the true colors. It is also important to walk away from them if there are not any positive results, as opposed to latching onto to something that will only hurt a person in the end. The picture below clearly shows that the two women are not happy. I chose this picture because I believe it could represent a dead-end friendship. They are not happy with each other and perhaps they should no longer hold onto the friendship.

Jim Thompson. The Killer Inside Me. Vintage Books. 1991. 155.

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Myall Budden #11/13

“The dry voice in his mind advised him that he spent far too much time worrying about things like that.”

Simply put, life can be complicated and challenging. There always seems to be a little voice in your head that reminds you of the trials and tribulations that people have to endure. Yet, at the same time life is so sweet and there is too much to offer not to enjoy it. Sometimes even the simple things can be the best times of your life. The quote above made me think of the little things that can damper or ruin your day or even life. Thus, the below painting correlates to the passage above by illustrating the happiness the man has for something as simple as fishing. In life you can either complicate things and think about them until they overtake you, or you can recognize the things in your life that bring happiness and enjoyment. I believe the author of the painting was trying to send this message, just as the author of the passage was highlighting the exact opposite. Life is what you make it, and when you allow petty things to take away from the happiness that life has to offer, it is you that is making the mistake.

David Eddings, Pawn of Prophecy (New York: Ballantine Books, 1982), page 163

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Carly Gaffney Blog #11

"Look, she was still a beautiful doll then and you know the power of a doll."

There is the word doll as an adjective and doll as a noun. In this context it is used as an adjective. Doll can be described in beauty, sincerity, sweet, and even used as slang (older days). Doll might have other connotations if said by a male rather than a female as well. With a guy it can be seen as a come- on or even offensive. As a female it can be a sign of friendship and in some cases sarcasm. The word doll is also a representation. It's something that usually all young girls had a some point in time. I had one. The doll brought comfort and something you took care of. Dolls today are portraying an image. There are dressed up and elegant looking (according to this picture). There many types of dolls in the world, they all represent something and mean something different to everyone. Even adults may hang on to dolls as collectors item or holding on to a piece of their childhood. Dolls are beautiful, that is what is being communicated in this passage; the representation on beauty.



Mickey Spillane, The Snake (Bath: Chivers Press, 1964), page 84

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Ashley Hushka, Blog # 11/13

"Please--I just need a vacation from my life. You never heard of that?"

I find myself needing a vacation from my life, a lot. With school, work, and other miscellaneous things, life can be unfortunately stressful. Grant it, I do live in a vacation spot, but when you are just doing every day life things, it's not so much a vacation spot to you anymore. With finals coming up, I could definitely use "a vacation from my life," just to get away from everything that has to do with school and relax. Hmmm yes, that would be perfect. This quote caused me to reflect more personally, rather than on the book. I chose this picture of a beach in Queensland, Australia.. looks like the perfect getaway to me.






Thomas Pynchon, Vineland (Canada: Little, Brown and Company, 1990) pg.138
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BRIAN STANIS POST 11 OF 13

"While black people in the South challenged the prevailing racial order by direct political action, most white Americans accepted the status-quo and tried to change themselves to fit into it."

This powerful quote represents so many different things from our countries history. It brings about the point that americans were and still are very self-centerd. It shows how Americans wanted to change themselves to fit into whatever they felt good, where as blacks felt America needed to change so they could fit in. It is ironic because if Americans put as much effort into racial equality as they did into wanting to fit in the country would have become united at an earlier time. this picture not only shows whites solving their problem and fitting together, but also brings blacks to fit in in the same way.

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound (Basic Books 1988) P. 167

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SARAH JACOBY BLOG POST #11/13

"People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done."

I really liked this quote because it presents an interesting way to view thinking. Surprisingly this quote makes a lot of sense; when we get board our brains shut off- we stop listening or paying attention. People who can tolerate thinking about a variety of subjects without losing interest can accomplish a lot more thinking. Modern society seems to have increasingly shorter attention spans due to TV making us have ridiculously high expectations for entertainment. Many of us can barely sit through an hour long TV show without getting bored, perhaps this is way many TV shows are even shorter in length, many only half an hour. We should challenge ourselves to stay focused for longer periods of time, we should not give in to the boredom. Albert Einstein is the one the best people at tolerating boredom; this is demonstrated by the mass amounts of thinking that he was able to accomplish in his life.

Stephen King, Bag of Bones (New York: Pocket Books, 1998), page 279

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Katie Faunce post #11

" Perhaps that complete peace which the death cell guard observed was nothing more than the hollow mask observed by the psychiatrist. Either way, the State executed a man who was already in many ways dead."

The guard described Jesse as looking like a "hollow mask". Empty inside, like he wasn't even living anymore. This reminded me of people that are suffering from extreme depression. I have had a situation close to my heart with a family member with depression. It was almost as if she was just as mask with nothing behind it. No emotions but sadness. She was hollow and told us that she had lost her dignity when she was diagnosed. The picture I chose is one of a man getting his head shaved. This reminded me of dignity lost. In the military they use head shaving as a way to make everyone the same and cut them down. They lose their pride and sense of themselves when they are just like everyone else. Jesse is loosing himself because of the actions he took. He is no longer who he was, he is just simply a mask.

Murray Silver, Behind the Moss Curtain (Bonaventure, 2005), pg 124

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CECILIA EVANS-11 of 13

"We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time--not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed."

We all are delusional, to a greater or lesser degree, because it is natural to have desires and want so badly for them to become reality. What we see is based upon our own experiences, good and bad, and is not so much a result of our inmost tendencies as we imagine. Our every perception of reality is derived totally from our position in the universe. If we but move a little, here or there, we see a transformation in our viewpoint and therefore in our lives.

The image, created by artists Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, is a photograph of two people standing on a detail of a terrazzo with solar system images, illustrating how we can create change simply by changing our position. It's title is "Principia" and may be related to an organization called the Discordian Society, which counts as its members philosophers, theologians, magicians, scientists, artists, clowns, astrologers, trippie hippies and similar maniacs, that is eccentric free-thinkers.

Lawrence Durrell; Balthazar; E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., New York, 1958; Pages 14 &15.

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CARINA DOMINGUEZ BLOG POST 11/14

"I confess, I am to blame. I don't use Raid. I don't squash them."

Carol Leigh, a prostitue, shares that her life is not only filled with literal cockroaches in her motel room, but metaphorically her life is filled with disgusting cockroaches. She describes the metaphor of the cockroaches to be common things that prostitutes experience in their life, like diseases and birth scares. She lives in the motel knowing there are cockroaches yet she doesn't do anything to get rid of them. Just like the cockroaches, she continues to deal with an infestation of obstacles (diseases and birth scares) that can be eliminated but she chooses to live with them and it keeps her in an unhappy situation.

I found this passage interesting because I think it can be compared to the the Unites States government. Metaphorically, I think the cockroaches are laws that keep people from freedom in the United States, and Carol Leigh is the policy maker or major political figures. The U.S has all sorts of laws that exclude people of different sexualities, races, and genders from being treated equal. The laws get in the way of living a fulfilled life. I think political figures have the power to change things around, but they do not. Like Carol Leigh, they are not squashing major issues that could create a better lifestyle.

Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla Alexander, Sex Work (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1987), page 181.

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AMBER FAHRNER BLOG POST # 11

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show happiness. We learn so little from peace".

In the context if the novel it is referring to the characters talking about giving up things. How they must waist their resources now because they didn't plan for the future and save. Relating to the quote how they have to go through all this pain of paying off dept while trying to remember how things were. It is so hard when the present is what is the pain. The picture I picked represents pain while trying to find that sweetness and love. The picture is dark and has shadows all around, the models posing are not smiling yet they are holding each other. When I view this picture I see how they are trying to hold on to each other to forget all the bad things that may surround them. They have a dark presence that doesn't deem much happiness. The picture is simple but powerful, they have strong faces and body language. Pain is present while happiness is somewhere in the background trying to be found.




Chuck Palahniuk, Diary Chuck Palahniuk (Doubleday, 2003), page 212

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EMIRI HASHIMOTO #10/13

"Such a nice man! Interesting too. How easily he had lifted her off the ground and carried her inside. The recent avalanche of second-hand knowledge Una's smuggled novels had tripped on top of her was suddenly of genuine benefit;Missy understood that she was in love at last."

Drusilla, she had an unknown heart attack. When she got a heart attack she was with a guy named John Smith. He carried her inside and called a doctor. Next day Drusilla was totally fine, she got up and talked to Missy , the main character ,about what happened to her. Drusilla told her about the pain and what it might mean. She thought the unknown heart tack was from stress of thinking about future and John Smith. Missy realized Drusilla was in love at the end since this incident happened and how nice of John was. Why is it so east to fall in love with someone? I chose this picture because i think it shows love and kindness.

Colleen McCullough, The Ladies Of Missalonghi ,Published by arrangement with Harper &Row,1987, page 66

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Hessa Al Rumaihi Blog # 10/13

"I dont know why. I pressed my cheek to the cold tile. I liked the coldness against my face. I was in a state of madness, but not an uncontrollable state. I lay staring". (pg 142)

I knew i could relate or use this quote because of the way the author wrote these lines. A lot of us have been through a lot in our lives from losing the closest people in your life, a family member, a lover, a friend, or even a pet. Nobody is able to change the reality and the best way to make it all go away is by going through the pain by yourself, letting time heal all your sorrows. In this chapter, Pandora had to leave Romania so that she wouldn't be killed by the assassins because of her father's occupation. She watched as they killed her father right in front of her. All she could do is leave the country to survive, so she her father planned ahead for her to sail to Greece and start over with a new name, house,  and atmosphere. She had lost everything she had that was important in her life, and all the gold and money she had wouldn't make up for the losses in her life. I chose this picture because i thought it was the most relevant to the quote, as you can see the woman is lying down on the floor and she looks as if she has gone through a lot of pain in her life. The only way to forget is to be in an open space all by yourself and to get all your anger and thoughts out. The woman is lying down in a fetal position, just like a baby and that shows that she just wants to someone to tell her that everything will be alright and to fix the problems in her life. No one is alone, there is someone for everyone.

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Rice, Anne. Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires. New York: Knopf, 1998. Print. (pg. 142)

ALEXANDRIA ASCIOTI #10/14

"It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back into the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable."

Because of the main character's darkness, he only feels comfortable when he is living in that nightmare of his. When he is living among his darkness, he feels like that is where he belongs. In this novel, his darkness is murdering people. He has lived through multiple nightmares in his life and the picture represents these numerous darknesses. The main character feels disoriented when he is awake from his nightmare because he does not exactly fit in. I believe that he understands that he is different from everyone else. Therefore, he knows he has to go back into hiding, which is beneath his nightmare. He sees everything from a different perspective there. When I look at this picture I see the large and wide eyes that main character views his life through during the nightmares.

Jim Thompson. The Killer Inside Me. Vintage Books. 1991. 155.

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KAITLIN CONGO #10/14

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"The world had never seemed so new to me as it did during those first few months of college. My first lesson was on race. I was stunned to learn that not everybody wanted to be white. They become more involved in their own ethnicity and culture.

In this book Acts of Faith, this passage refers to Dr.Patel being in his college days as a Indian Muslim learning that college students outlook in race becomen a lot different, where in High School we often try to assimilate to what the majority is doing (the white students) whereas in college, it is just the opposite, we tend to gravitate to those of the same race as us and begin to truly embrace the culture surrounded by the race we're a part of. For example, in this picture this is a sterotypical picture of young black guys, from the huge baggy clothes to their mannerisms of their body positions. This is the epitome of black culture when people think of it. And these guys are now all congregating ostrisizing themselves even and getting into trouble (hense the graffiti wall in the back). I chose this picture to display the stigma behind a certain racial group was people imagine that specific group, although often not true. But this pciture encompassed black culture.

Lola Ogunnaike, For a Fresh Mix the Retro Kids Hit Rewind. The New York Times. 2005 Nov 19. Page 1.

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