How do “assumptions” negatively affect the outcomes of The Verb to Kill and Who, Me a Bum?

Assumptions negatively affect the outcomes of The Verb to Kill and Who, Me a Bum? By creating a false realities for the story’s characters to brew and fester in so that they are already agitated when they need to interact in the material reality.

What is the purpose of Valenzuela illustrating such explicit and riciculous assumptions of the two main characters in the short story, The Verb to Kill?

The author Valenzuela's intent in portraying the escalating, irrational, obsession with the man, by the two girls, highlights the extreme nature of assumptions.

Question: How does Ernest Hemmingway create a sense of loneliness in the story A Clean Well Lighted Place ?
Thesis: Ernest Hemmingway uses descriptive language and isolates the protagonist in his story A Clean Well Lighted Place in order to create a sense of loneliness.

Question: In "A Verb to Kill", why do the girls feel like they need to prove their courage to a complete stranger? More or less someone who might kill them in which their courage would be irrelevant?

Thesis: In the short story "A Verb To Kill", the two main characters want to prove their courage to a possible "serial killer". This is because of their want for independence from their society and family. Not only this, but they also have a desire to feel safe around a potential killer. Proving their courage to that man serves just that.

Time and Photography: Thea's post

Time and Photography is only relatable in one way. Like how cotazar describes it, a photograph is just an image of an event frozen in time. Capturing one single image takes an event going on at the time and keeps it frozen, essentially stopping time. Each photo holds mystery of what was going on at the time. Bringing perspective into our discussion once again. One person might look at a photo, see it and think that at the time something was going on, and another person might look at the same photo and think that a totally different event had just occurred. Giving each person their own original take on each photographic image. A photo only captures one single event, straight down to the last second after the shutter opens and closes. It holds no time continuum it only takes one single event and freezes it in perfection. Otherwise like in the end of Blow-Up the images would begin to come off the page.

Photography and time

I don't think that photo and time can be compared because even though the photographic image needs time in order to exist, the time won't need photo to exist but only to remain saved. Because as a natural element, the time doesn't need anything else besides itself.

Although one doesn't necessarily needs the other, a photo needs a certain amount of time, so it can be effective, in the sense that the image will be reproduced correctly.

But even knowing that photography is able to be the really faithful to the reality, the fact that it is limited to a frame, and can be edited, makes me think twice about trust or not in a photographic image.

The River of Time

Time is an unstoppable flow of nature. A moment in time is over before it even starts. A moment in time is measured from an hour down to the milla-second. Photography and film capture a moment in time mechanically , and unnaturally preserve it for the viewer. The flow of time is like a river, each moment pass's by and is recorded in the memory of the brain; but with the help of technology, moments can be preserved electronically. This in turn changes the feeling of a moment, Christmas mourning would have a different feeling to one if they saw pictures compared to actually being there. The content of a photo is different then the actual experience.

a photograph is a moment in time captured and preserved. it is the moment where the boy opens his christmas present. it is a single moment that cannot be replicated or altered (at least not hold its authenticity if this is done). Time never stops in our world but in the world of a picture time does not move at all. the moment is frozen. photographs are a very trustworthy medium as they are an exact replication of a single moment in time, however if one needed to know what happened right before the photo was taken there would be no real way of knowing. the picture can only show a small fraction of a much larger picture that is constantly moving. because time never stops it can only be preserved through things such as art and photography.

Time & Photographs

I believe that time and photographic images can be compared greatly. In terms of time, since images stay still preserved in time, the photo does nothing to time itself. But in given situations, the expression of time through a photograph is possible, however it takes imagination on the viewer's part. For example, imagine an image of somebody throwing a ball. The picture itself is frozen in time, but the viewer can easily imagine the ball getting to point B. So therefore the expression of time through a photograph lies in the hands of the viewer, not the creator. Personally I trust a photograph more than something such as a painting for a reproduction of reality because a photograph mimics exactly what is really there, but due to human imperfections, a painting of something could be much more warped from reality than a photograph can be. However, nobody can really argue that either medium is one you can trust for the truth, because how can we prove that any of it is real? We can't.

the photographic image captures a split second of a past moment in time, and in this way it stops time and preserves it. however, time does not stop; it is ever changing and continuous. this opposition between the two clearly shows that they are contrasting, and cannot be compared. currently the photograph and film are the most reliable source of information and evidence. i would trust a photograph over any other form of medium because it is more accurate at portraying real life. this is only absolute assuming that the photograph in question is not tampered with or edited.