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"The Sacrament of the Last Supper" a painting by Salvador Dali characterized by his interest in religion,  science, and optimal illusions. The image depicts  thirteen figures sitting around a table. Basic religious connections lets us assume that these figures are Christ and his 12 Apostles. The painting's usage of perspective allows Jesus to be the main figure of the painting with his arms stretched out. The usage of surrealism is visible where the portrait is in golden ratio with the dodecahedron in addition. Michael Anthony Novak is spotted implying that "Dalí's true intention, which he has masterfully accomplished on this canvas, is to remind us of what is occurring in every celebration of this mystery of bread and wine: that the worship here on Earth makes present the realities of worship in Heaven."

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Kafka ppts 8

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Kafka's Zuerau Aphorisms Short form lit. 

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"The Human Condition" are two paintings by Rene Magritte , one drawn in 1933 and the other in 1935, and it is considered as one of his masterpieces. The first drawing shows a canvas with the drawing of a landscape, but the landscape matches with the view one can see from the window. The second is similar in the way that the drawing on the canvas matches with the scene of the landscape outside, but the landscape can be seen from a door. The canvas and the scenery outside blends perfectly, creating a dreamy atmosphere. The drawings represent our perspective of the world, where time, place and other set categories lose meaning and, like the canvas, blends in. The title refers to the assumptions and perceptions we make in our daily lives that divides reality from fantasy, when in fact there, according to Magritte, there is no difference at all.

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" Real and world Bale fans generation has Bernabeu Sections one"

Expository
Guernica - Pablo Picasso

Arguably the most famous of Picasso's work, it is a powerful political message in response to the 🤬's bombing practice on Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. In the painting, we see the depiction of grief and pain expressed through deformed human beings. Along with that, the artistic choice to discard color , which takes away distractions and emotions that correspond to color, further intensifies the emotions. This piece is often seen as a anti-fascist appeal and was used as the symbol for that movement.

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Another Kafka link (Marxist criticism, Helmut Richter)

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ifr/article/download/13639/14722

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Cadvre Exquis(exquisite corpse)

Cadvre Exquis are a series of drawings created by games which aims to open up the mind into subconsciousness. The concept was mainly created by Andre Breton, who is a French writer who created the cultural movement of Surrealism in his first edition of Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Other inventors include Yvon Tanguy,Jacques Pervert, and Marcel Duchamp. Players fold the paper and draw freely, then hide the previous pictures drawn and collaborate on creating a piece of artwork. Because it is based on chance, the resulting pictures often become absurd and humorous. This element and the aim played makes these works to be considered fundamentally surrealistic. The name derives from the first piece created, titled " Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau(The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine)".

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Produced in 1938 for his patron Edward James, Time Transfixed is one of Magritte's most well known works, juxtaposing as it does the timeless and the hasty, the private and the industrial and the everyday and the surreal.
It depicts something that cannot be- steam locomotives do not suddenly appear from fireplaces- but the effect of what is being shown is something deeper and more significant than just simply the impossible or wacky.
The painting has a dreamlike quality; its intradiegetic world seems very much at peace with itself, as if this kind of thing happens everyday. It is the viewer's understanding and response that brings discord.  Magritte's use of Surrealism as a medium has a clear message and purpose as such. Time Transfixed is not simply about making the absurd seem possible, it's about unveiling the unseen. Through the paradoxes in his work he encourages his audience to seek him out and to understand their relationship to him better

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"Mama Papa is Wounded" by Yves Tanguy is one of his surrealistic masterpieces. Like the painting's title which may sound very similar to a child's cry and resembles to the helpless message of a broken family relations signifying the illustration of the interplay between surrealism and psychoanalysis. It is certainly a well known fact that Yves's art works especially this one was inspired by Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and its language of symbols. Also Yves's is known for his research work on the psychiatric cases of war veterans and apparently he transported their messages on the piece itself.

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"Lobster Telephone" by Salvador Dali is an iconic Surrealistic objects created in 1936, depicts a lobster in the place of a phone. The juxtaposition of a phone and a lobster is an aspect of Surrealism, revealing the unconscious mind in a playful and menacing tone. In Dali's numerous creations, he established a sexual connotation to lobsters and drew social relationships to phones. Therefore, despite the irrelevancy at the first glace, this piece successfully divulges the idea of secret sexual desires.

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People are often keen to pinpoint real Prague places in Kafka's fiction. It is generally recognized that the anonymous cathedral in The Trial is none other than St. Vitus' cathedral, and that the path taken by Joseph K. in the last chapter leads from the Old Town to the outer limits of the Lesser Town, over Charles Bridge. It is also said that in The Judgement, from Georg Berdemann's window, we recognize the wharf, the river, the opposite bank of the Vltava, just as they could be seen from Mikulášská ulice (Nicholas Street), where the Kafka family lived in 1912. Efforts have been made to prove that the topography of Prague is constantly present although unnamed.

Yet this is not what really matters. In his fiction, Kafka carries out a more difficult operation: he turns Prague into an imaginary topography which transcends the fallacy of realism. Kafka's phantasmal architecture has other ends. Rather than a particular house, school, office, church, prison or castle being important, it is what these constructions reveal when they act as topological metaphors or allegorical places. What surprises does this transfigured Prague hold in store? Just how far can the metamorphosis of a city take us?

This long-term exhibition takes us into the world of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), born in Prague and one of the greatest figures of 20 th century world literature.
The exhibition presents:

most of the first editions of Kafka's works

letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs and drawings never before displayed in Prague

3-D installations

five audiovisual pieces and a soundtrack specially created for the exhibition

Entrance and informational materials

BORN ON 3 SEPTEMBER 1883 IN THE OLD TOWN OF PRAGUE. AFTER COMPLETING HIS STUDIES AT THE IMPERIAL AND ROYAL GERMAN KARL FERDINAND UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE, HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN OFFICIAL IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN THE YEARS 1907-1922; FIRST BRIEFLY AT ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI AND THEN FOR 14 YEARS AT THE WORKERS' ACCIDENT INSURANCE INSTITUTE, UNTIL JULY 1922.

However, he regarded writing as the main task of his life and found it difficult to reconcile with the office work he was performing very diligently. After the outbreak of his lung disease in 1917, he fought the disease in vain for seven years. He spent the last years of his life mostly in health resorts and facilities in Bohemia and abroad. He continued writing even during the years marked by his struggle with the disease.
Franz Kafka died on 3 June 1924 in the Austrian sanatorium in Kierling near Klosterneuburg.

1904

Autumn / winter: probably, the first draft of Description of a Struggle (Beschreibung eine Kampfes). First regular meetings with Oskar Baum, Max Brod and Felix Weltsch.

1907

Wrote Wedding Preparations in the Country (Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande). The family moved to Mikulášská Street (Niklastrasse). In October, he started work at the Prague office of the Assicurazioni Generali.

1908

His first pieces of prose, consisting of eight fragments appeared in the magazine Hyperion. From July 1908 to July 1922, he worked at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute (Arbeiterunfall und Versicherungsanstalt).

1909

Conversation with the Supplicant (Gespräch mit dem Beter) and Conversation with the Drunk [Gespräch mit dem Betrunkenen] were published in Hyperion. Kafka spent his holiday in Riva (on Lake Garda) with Max and Otto Brod. On 29 September, the Prague daily Bohemia published the tale The Airplanes at Brescia (Die Aeroplane in Brescia). He started to keep a diary.

1910

In the Easter supplement of Bohemia, five prose pieces appeared under the title Reflections (Betrachtungen). He attended Yiddish theatre performances. In the middle of October, he travelled to Paris with Max and Otto Brod. Kafka fell ill and returned to Prague. In early December, he travelled to Berlin.

1911

Kafka spent his holidays by the lake in Northern Italy with Max Brod, and later a period of time at the Erlenbach sanatorium. His interest in Yiddish theatre grew and he made friends with Jizchak Löwy. He was attracted by the vitality of this theatre of eastern origin, perhaps because it was in contrast with the performances of the Prague German companies. From 26 August to 12 September, he and Max Brod, passed through Munich on their way to Zurich, Lucerne, Lugano, Milan, and Lake Maggiore. From Italy they went on to Paris, where Kafka wrote some notes with an exceptional observer's insight. Later they returned to Milan, where they attended plays at the Fossati Theatre. In Paris, they went to see Racine's Phaedra and Bizet's Carmen.

1912

A decisive year for the writer. During the first month he started work on The Man Who Disappeared (Der Verschollene),which Max Brod would later rename as America. Kafka spent the month of July in Weimar with Max Brod. He was introduced to Felice Bauer, with whom he began copious correspondence in October. From November to December, tireless and insomniac, Kafka wrote Die Verwandlung (literally, "the transformation," but known generally as The Metamorphosis). By January 1913, he had written seven chapters of The Man Who Disappeared, the original title of the novel, which for a long time was published under the title of America. In December, he gave a public reading of The Judgment (Das Urteil). The number of pages in Diaries decreased while the letters to Felice abounded.

1913

In Leipzig, Rowohlt published Meditation (Betrachtung), which had been in circulation since November 1912. In January, Kafka travelled to Berlin to meet Felice Bauer's family. In May, made a second trip to Berlin. In September, travelled to Vienna, Venice and Riva.

1915

In January, Kafka and Felice Bauer became closer again. In March, he moved to his own apartment in Dlouhá třída Street (Lange Gasse). Kafka mostly lived with his parents, except for some periods such as those noted and his final days in Berlin. The expressionist playwright Carl Sternheim gave Kafka the Fontane Prize which had originally been awarded to him. In November, Rohwohlt published The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung) in Leipzig. The Metamorphosis was offered in bookshops, along with The Judgment.

1916

In July, Kafka and Felice went to Mariánské lázně (Marienbad). He wrote short stories for A Country Doctor (Ein Landartz). In Munich, he gave a reading of In the Penal Colony.

1919

A Country Doctor and In the Penal Colony were published. Kafka spent the summer in Prague. He became engaged to Julie Wohryzek. He spent the winter with Max Brod in Želízy (Schelesen). He wrote Letter to His Father (Brief an den Vater).

1922

January and February in Špindlerův Mlýn (Spindelmühle), then he returned to Prague. He read pages from The Castle (Das Schloss), on which he worked from January to September. He met Milena for the last time. In the spring, he wrote A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler) and in the summer, Investigations of a Dog (Forschungen eines Hundes). He spent the period between June-September in Planá with Ottla.

1923

Kafka spent July in Müritz, by the Baltic Sea, where he met Dora Diamant. He went to stay with Ottla in Želízy (Schelesen). From September to March, he lived in Berlin with Dora Diamant, a Zionist who revived in him the desire to go and settle in Palestine. He wrote some of the narratives that, together with those of the previous year, epitomize the purest traits of his production: A Little Woman (Eine kleine Frau) and The Burrow (Der Bau).

1924

Berlin. In March, he left for Prague. He could neither talk nor swallow his food. At the beginning of April he left Prague for the Kierling Sanatorium, accompanied by Robert Klopstock and Dora Diamant. He died there on 3 June. The writer was buried on 11 June in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague. A Hunger Artist was published that summer.

1914

In June, Kafka became engaged to Felice Bauer. In July, he broke off the engagement. He travelled to the Baltic. From August, he lived alone in Bílkova Street (Bilekgasse). He began writing The Trial (Der Prozess).

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People are often keen to pinpoint real Prague places in Kafka's fiction. It is generally recognized that the anonymous cathedral in The Trial is none other than St. Vitus' cathedral, and that the path taken by Joseph K. in the last chapter leads from the Old Town to the outer limits of the Lesser Town, over Charles Bridge.

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Useful sites to help you prepare for your critical essay,
http://www.kafkasocietyofamerica.org/about/index.php
http://www.tokyoacademics.com/franz-kafka-great/
http://www.kafka-research.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/archiv/

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René Magritte's "Personal values". In this painting, Magritte shows a bedroom filled with everyday objects such as a comb, a matchstick, and a shaving brush that are scattered around the room and are juxtaposed together in unrealistic proportions. The unusual size of these objects create a surrealistic feel to the artwork. They highlight the importance of rethinking about one's personal values, the objects' significance in their lives, and about their relationship with their personal items.

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“The Castle of the Pyrenees” (1959), one of the most renounced pieces of artwork by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, depicts an immense rock with a castle placed on top, levitating in mid air. Its unrealistic juxtaposition of realistic subjects creates an optical illusion in the midst of reality, thus conveying a daydream-like scene. This out-of-context portrayal of conventional objects also leads viewers to reconsider aspects normality that are often taken for granted.

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"The Elephant Celebes" by Max Ernst.
This artwork includes an unusual juxtaposition of an elephant, a machine and a headless women, which is one the factors of surrealism.
Max Ernest was also one of the first artist to apply Freud's dream theory. He explored the idea of dream/reality, and conscious/unconscious in his works including this one. This painting is famous for its dreamlike imagery that mocks social conventions.

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“Solitary and Conjugal Trees”, by Max Ernst was drawn just before his departure to the United States during World War II in order to escape the fires of French’s occupation and most likely, his devastating experiences in Europe including losing Leonora, his wife, to a psychiatric hospital and being imprisoned for his German nationality. In the early summer of 1941 he arrived in New York and married his third wife.

Before Max Ernst was involved in the Dada movement, he had been studying philosophy and psychiatry at the University of Bonn, until he encountered some Dada artists in Cologne. He is known to be the inventor of the artistic techniques, frottage, in which one draws over an uneven surface, and grattage, in which one oil paints a textured object and then randomly scrapes the paint off.

This art piece includes a long horizon, the time setting at high noon, which can be surmised by the position of the shadows and the shape of the moon, and distorted shapes of trees, which are all aspects of surrealism.

Hidden into the design of the trees are human and animal body shapes including two faces looking to the right and a fist in the tree in the middle, and a bird's head among the boulders on the left. These subtle imageries among inanimate objects may be affected by Max Ernst's interest in the Freudian interpretation of dreams, which was a common element among many surrealist artworks.

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Pablo Picaso's "Guernica".
Guernica is a very famous and popular painting by the renowned artist Pablo Picasso made in 1937. It is Picasso'S immediate reaction into art portraying the dramatic and devastating bombing at the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. All of the humans and animals in a chaotic scene is representational of the citizens of the bombed city in their fear, making this piece of art a significant example of surrealism.

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This painting is by Heidi Taillefer.
In this painting, surrealism could be seen in the juxtaposition of putting irrevalent things together. Another common factor in surrealism could be seen in that the artsist tries to make some kind of connection between the irrevalent things.
This painting shows three things, worms, butterflies and cats. Taillefer made the butterflies and the worms part of the cat's body. These three things may seem irrevalent, but if you think of it, cats are said to like chasing butterflies around and worms change into butterflies when thew grow. Like this, a slight connection could be seen.

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Surrealism(Mai)

'The Son of the Man' is a selfportrait by Rene Margritte and was painted in 1946. In this painting a big green apple can be seen floating in front of the man's face. The man's face is partly hidden, but his eyes and his body can be observed. Margritte intended people to hold interest in the not visable part of the painting, as human kind hold interest in something they are not able to observe and may feel something similar to a conflict between the things they can see and the things they connot see.

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'The Nostalgia of the Poet' by Giorgio de Chirico is a surrealism painting created in 1914. It is one of a series of paintings made in the same year, all on one common subject; the poet. In this artwork, the bust with glasses is juxtaposed with the fish relief in the background. While these two objects seem to be the main motifs of the painting, it is difficult to see any connection between them, hence the surrealism.

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This is a piece of art by Vilde Dyrnes Ulriksen, who is a twenty-one-year-old illustrator based in Norway. At first sight, this seems to be a forest because we see some trees, but then we see fish-like creatures at the top of the illustration, flying. So it can be said that there is perhaps a juxtaposition of the fores and the sea. The "animals" in this picture are very unique; there is a rabbit with an unnatural face, a snake with horns, a gigantic shelled creature with multiple legs and a strange nose and head, an unidentifiable creature with a deer's ears, a bird's beak, and four fore legs. They are unique enough to make the supernatural animal, the unicorn, seem natural. But what is the most supernatural aspect of all, is that the moon is at the bottom corner instead of the top. This illustration is an example of surrealism.

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‘The Persistence of Memory’ by Salvador Dali can be considered a piece of surrealistic work. This is an illustration of Catalunya, Spain. Dali expresses unconsciousness outside the oppressive boundaries of rationalism and the soft watches in the painting are considered to be unconscious symbols of space and time. The creature in the middle is fading and shows the uncertainty of dreams and the human mind.

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The Horla by Guy de Maupassant:
- "automatic writing"/uncensored narrative
- juxtaposition
- irrationality/ dream/fantasy (is it only possible that an invisible force turned the page of the book instead of himself?)
- unconsciousness (he thinks he might've drunk water when he wasn't fully conscious)

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This subgroup was first developed in the United Kingdom in late 19th century. The fitness sport became popular after the world games for bodybuilding was established in 1981.

<Food>

Diet of a bodybuilder would mostly likely consist of food containing proteins, for instance, protein shakes, chicken, red meat, and eggs. Their diet would also eat low glycemic carbs, legumes. Bodybuilders eat a lot of proteins and minimum amount of fats to gain muscle and lose fat as much as possible. Protein is the most important nutrient out of the five components of nutrients(carbs, fats,vitamins, proteins, minerals), because the function of proteins is to help in building and repairing the body.

<Hobbies>

Bodybuilding may be a fitness sport, however, like many other people, is a hobby to exercise in the gym. Bodybuilders must think of bodybuilding as an enjoyment or a passion, because they are able to go through the intense diet plans and workout sessions.

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This subgroup can be found mainly in Australia. It was at its peak during 2010.
They have common grounds in the characteristics of food and the environment. As for the food choices they

describe it as

eating a vegetarian diet with the addition of kangaroo meat.

In terms of the choice with environmental benefits because indigenous wild kangaroos require no extra land or water for farming and produce little methane, unlike cattle.
Kangatarians were a movement that has started due to the environmentalist mindset connected to global warming and the idea to utilize organic Australian food from its native land.
Not only were they influenced by other food diets, Kangatarian diet influenced more native diets in Australia to be created.

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Subgroup: Hippies

[when and where can we find this group]

Hippies were most common in America during the 1960s and 1970s.

[what is the common characteristic that defines the subgroup]

(clothes/fashion)

Hippies favored long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colors. Many males grew beards, and both men and women wore sandals and beads. Long flowing granny dresses were popular with women, and rimless granny glasses with both men and women.

(food)

And they often adopted vegetarian diets based on unprocessed foods and practiced holistic medicine.

[what is the subgroup’s relationship to the mainstream culture]

Hippies were a counter-cultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream American life. Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they saw as dominated by materialism and repression, and they developed their own distinctive lifestyle.

[what is the lasting influence of the group?]

By the 1980s hippies had given way to the next generation of young people who were intent on making careers for themselves in business, but hippies continued to have an influence on American culture such as concerns for the environment, a widespread lessening of formality, and advocacy for nonviolence and love.

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Subgroup: Kpop fans
Kpop fans are a collective term given to those who share the same love for Korean pop music and Hallyu (Korean) idols. The subgroup can further be categorized into individual fandoms of specific artists or idol groups. Each of these fandoms have a fandom name given to them by the idol management agency. For instance, fans of the group TWICE are referred to as “ONCE”, while fans of BTS call themselves “ARMY”.

As the Kpop industry has pioneered its way into mainstream media over the past few years, the number of fans have increased drastically as well. While Kpop fans used to be recognized but considered to be somewhat rare in most countries, now, a majority of people engaged in popular music trends are either familiar with or are fans of Kpop. Therefore, Kpop fans can now basically be found anywhere on the globe, even in countries such as the US and Mexico. The most common “gathering spot” for fans, are of course concerts and festivals, such as K-Con and MAMA.

As for their ties to the rest of society, it could be said that Kpop itself is beginning to establish dominion over mainstream media and culture. While the fandoms used to be considered a sub-cultural part of the overall music industry, Kpop fans are now more common than ever, especially due to the success of groups such as BTS and BLACKPINK in topping music charts all over the world. Moreover, the lasting influence of these fandoms will most likely be that they will raise awareness of Korean and Asian culture in general.

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http://www.glencoe.com/theatre/Timeline/timeline_content.html

http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century

http://www.methodactingstrasberg.com/

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Contemporary Satire Analysis assignment Part A

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Refer to your assigned editorial cartoon A, B, C, or D.

1. What do you think the cartoon is criticizing?
2. Who or what might be its target? What evidence do you have to support your response?
3. What satirical techniques do you see being used to create this criticism? That is, how does the cartoonist create criticism? Explain.

*Answer all questions on your assignment sheet. Post at least two possible satirical techniques/devices for Question #3 with its respective cartoon.

**Use the satirical devices sheet in your workbook.

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From The Onion: Thematically appropriate for HHGG

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From The Onion: Thematically appropriate for HHGG

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SCHAUMBURG, IL-In a turn of events that has stunned the worldwide medical community, local infant Nathan Jameson, born just six days ago, has become the youngest person ever to permanently and irrevocably lose all faith in humanity.

"This shatters all previous records," University of Chicago psychologist Douglas McAllister said Monday. "In all of documented medical history, there is no case of a newborn taking less than four months to develop the mental faculties required to grasp the full extent of this existential nightmare we call life on earth."

"Considering he already comprehends harsh realities that many people spend their entire fleeting, shallow existences attempting to deny, Baby Nathan is quite the little miracle!" he added.

Though he has not yet developed the capacity for speech, extensive cognitive testing has definitively shown that the shockingly perceptive 6-day-old fully understands and accepts that human beings cannot be trusted, that they remain far too ignorant for their opinions to be reliable, that a lack of self-awareness about their own destructive tendencies pervades the species as a whole, and that most are too ineffectual to successfully pursue even the shallow self-interested agendas that rule their lives.

Sources said the early-blooming newborn was putting two and two together about the real nature of humanity even before leaving the hospital, where his first sensory experiences included the shouts of sick people arguing to get treatment they urgently needed, visitors staring vacantly at smartphones as they sat next to bedridden loved ones, televisions blaring the empty rhetoric and emotionally manipulative appeals of political advertisements, and dozens upon dozens of pained, desperate cries, including his own.

Local reports confirmed the baby's disillusionment was only compounded by the fact that he spent his first days in the bleak and soulless suburban conformity of Schaumburg, IL, its empty consumerist non-culture allowing him to realize in record time that all human pursuits are cold, joyless, and devoid of any substantive purpose or integrity.

"For a baby, he sure is an insightful little guy," Nathan's mother, Melanie Jameson, told reporters. "My husband and I are a loveless, narcissistic couple whose weird, freaked-out neediness and anxieties-which we sublimate under a mask of facile self-regard-would normally be introjected into our child's forming psyche over the course of years. But this talented fella just took it all in at once!"

"We're awfully proud to have such a precocious son," she added, her face displaying no genuine emotion.

According to household sources, Baby Nathan has already noticed that his father, Michael Jameson, resents the infant's 3 a.m. crying, feels more trapped than ever in his sham-marriage now that he's a father, and is inwardly building an ever-growing wall against the reality of his own life one mid-afternoon cocktail at a time.

"The kid's not even a week old, and he has the thousand-yard stare of a middle-aged man," said psychologist Helen James, one of the cognitive scientists who verified that by his third day of life, Nathan had already begun to sense the overwhelming air of desperation surrounding other people. "That look that says, 'I've finally given up on the reassuring fictions that prop up humanity's delusional self-image as dignified, intelligent, or decent in any way.' He knows the truth."

"At this point, he shouldn't even be able to distinguish between himself and the rest of humanity, let alone have the capacity to lose faith in it," James continued. "Evidently, the human condition has gotten even more depressing than it already was, and we're going to need to reformulate our entire theory of childhood development."

"My God, what a depressing development," she added.

At press time, there were unconfirmed reports that Baby Nathan had used the wind-up mobile above his crib to hang himself.

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Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days

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SCHAUMBURG, IL-In a turn of events that has stunned the worldwide medical community, local infant Nathan Jameson, born just six days ago, has become the youngest person ever to permanently and irrevocably lose all faith in humanity. "This shatters all previous records," University of Chicago psychologist Douglas McAllister said Monday.

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Answer key to secondary character quiz

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Close Reading Chapters 2,3

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Published in October 2014, this controversial Charlie Hebdo cover depicts an ISIS man moments before he beheads Muhammad. In the comic, Muhammad says, “I am the prophet, you idiot,” to which the ISIS insurgent exclaims, “Shut your face, infidel.” The graphic cover follows the ISIS beheadings of three Americans.

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Hello, Incoming S1 Returnee Students! I am looking forward to a productive and stimulating year with you. Our first author is J. D. Salinger. He was not terribly prolific, and is well known for having been a recluse. He had pronounced interests in spirituality, especially Buddhism, and was connected to the Beat movement. While he didn't produce a lot, the stories he did write very powerfully comment on the America of his time, the 50s, and are perennial favorites. I hope you enjoy him.

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Hello, Incoming S1 Returnee Students! I am looking forward to a productive and stimulating year with you. Our first author is J. D. Salinger. He was not terribly prolific, and is well known for having been a recluse. He had pronounced interests in spirituality, especially Buddhism, and was connected to the Beat movement. While he didn't produce a lot, the stories he did write very powerfully comment on the America of his time, the 50s, and are perennial favorites. I hope you enjoy him.