New York Grounds
Colson Whitehead has a special name for the imagined and artistically created "New York" we all have.
What is a "private New York."
The relationship between logic and illogic in essays can be compared to a philosophical idea in Taoism and Buddhism...
What is yin/yang or the nature of transformation, mutual dependence of apparent opposites, or the presences of balance between elements to form a whole and a path?
A successful poem or story, according to Poe must...
What is:
Be short
Be melancholy
Focus on one single emotional effect
A notable Native story is...
What is "Rainy Mountain" by M. Scott Momaday, the history of the sacred site and the attempts to displace or assimilate Natives fail, but the raider, warrior, and cruel nature of Native culture is documented with research-style footnotes that go along with the poetic text
"Fleur" by Louise Erdrich Accident and attempted murder are used to try to drown Fleur, but she survives that and attempted rape and lives alone, with a child, and might be a wendigo spirit
or "Lullaby" by Leslie Marmon Silko (baby taken from mother, mother flees with baby)
What is enjoying destruction and change and still seeing the places as they once were--as they matter to you?
The logicians Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, and Alan Turing had dramatic lives in which their identities, sexuality, and principles were perceived to be at odds with conservatism and tradition, yet they...
Created the logical principles on which modern science including computers and computer science depends as well as seeking personal freedom that the world denied to Wittgenstein and Turing. Logic and illogic in our humanity and aspirations must mingle if we are to reach people through art and writing.
Poe accused New Yorkers of a many bad qualities, among which are..
What is?
Gossip
Celebrity Worship
Gullibility to the media
Bragging
Cheap taste--brownstones, not wooden mansions
The Fourth State of Matter weaves together mass murder at a Physics Department with
What is the death of a dog, a friendship with a professor, a husband who left his wife, plasma in the universe, and a lack of purity and respect along with racism...
Mark Twain pointed out that the use of media kept people isolated, cowardly, and disconnected, longing for deeper connections and not even realizing that they did in a newspaper article he wrote.
What is "The Personals" and what is smartphone addiction?
One particular step in writing Coherent Paragraphs is the most difficult for most writers.
What is writing a second sentence that is about the WHOLE of the first sentence.
Chester is a charming dog.
He is a mix of Chihuahua and Terrier (DOG) who dances on his back paws when he sees someone he likes (CHARMING).
What is the guilt of the narrator, his increasing addiction, is escalating cruelty and violence?
"Woven" contains a spirit who does good and harm.
What is the Water Spirit who protects children and punishes those it sees as neglectful of abusive parents?
Patti Smith performed Spoken Word Poetry in dive bars and cafes, wandered into a record contract, had minor hits, wrote two best-selling memoirs, and is nicknamed The Godmother of Punk. One chaotic, awkward, and hostile-to-the-audience performance is Stockholm is...
The song horses
An attack on a boy at school
A vision of wild horses
An homage to the French teen Queer poet Arthur Rimbaud
--The Allerton Hotel is about a flophouse hotel inhabited by addicts--and Smith and soulmate Robert Mapplethorpe
A long list of evidence lends authority, plentiful examples, and a tone to introductory paragraphs and has a special name.
What is Enumeration?
Poe had biographical obstacles.
Orphan and ward
Class envy and anger
Genius but only sporadic recognition
Addiction
Poverty despite workaholic productivity?
"Precious Artifact" presents a trope that is also basic to The Matrix and many other sci fi narratives.
What is a false world imposed on beings who have been defeated in warfare and that unknowingly serve the victor in the war?
Willa Cather wrote about a kind of sitting and lifestyle that never dies in New York....the musical Rent, and the meta-musical Tik, Tik, BOOM keep the trope and motif of this kind of world alive, from SoHo to Williamsburg to...
What is "Bohemia"?
The voice and personality of a writer can be suggested by word choices, but even more distinctive and revealing is another practice.
What is a distinctive and interesting choice of EXAMPLES?
Gothic--aristocratic, massive and enduring, religious in inspiration
Goth--Germanic " barbarians" and, today, deliberate rebels and outsiders against bougey rulles
Give it another go. In the film Brooklyn, support Team Tony or Team Jim, and explain your answer.
What is security, wealth, courtesy and sophistication opposed to fun, attraction, adventure?