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The passage I am picking from in Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” story is the one where he describes his doppelgänger’s one weakness. In this passage, William says “I could find, indeed, but one vulnerable point, and that, lying in my personal peculiarity arising, perhaps, from constitutional disease, would have been spared by any antagonist less at his wit’s end than myself - my rival has a weakness in the faucial or guttural organs which precluded him from easing his voice at any time above a whisper. Of this defect I did not fail to take what poor advantage lay in my power.”

The one word I have chosen to isolate from this passage is the word “precluded” which appears in the passage as [… guttural organs which precluded him from…]

[…guttural organs which averted him from…]

When I replaced the word “preclude” with “averted” it changed the meaning of the sentence from making it sound like the doppelgänger was made to whisper by some other outside force rather than him being unable to speak above a whisper naturally.

Poe’s usage of preclude in this passage, among many other things, shows to us, the readers, that this William is an incredibly educated man with a verbose library of words to use rather than just using more common words which we all normally use.

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This is the recycling bin in my dorm. It’s made of some sort of plastic. Only interesting thing about it design wise is that it has these little prongs or whatever on the sides of its lid. I have no clue what they’re for but they’re there. The only noteworthy text on it is copied on each side. The text reads: “Rubbermaid, Commercial Products.” This object is in my dorm because I need somewhere to put my recyclables before I throw them out. For the supply line; first was the plastic. Where or how it’s made I have no clue. It was molded into its current shape, had a design put on its side with some sort of paint. Then it was bought and shipped to Oswego State University and put in this dorm before I got here. A question this object raises is in relation with one of my previous objects: how much of what we use now is made of plastic?

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This is a picture of the little dust pan in my room. It’s made of plastic and a type of hair, guessing it’s made of plastic too. What’s interesting about it the color I guess. It’s just a really monotone color. Nothing outstanding about it but that’s interesting somewhat. The only text there is on it is on the back/bottom. The text reads: “Made By Design” and there’s a little Target logo next to the text. Pretty sure that means Target made it. This object is in my home because I need something to clean with. Thinking supply line-wise, first was the plastic whether or not it was recycled or freshly made I don’t know. Doesn’t matter. Then it was molded into its shape, packaged, shipped and bought by me at some point in the past. Only question I can think of that this makes me think of is, who designed it? I know someone affiliated with Target designed it but… who?

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This is my phone stand. It’s made out of a sort of metal, probably a cheap steel of some kind. What I find interesting about it is the fact that it’s shaped like a triangle. Also the fact that it’s supported from the back rather than the front. On the back there is the text: Lamicall, which I assume is the company that made the design. This object is in my room because I wanted to have something to prop my phone up on while I’m at my desk. Thinking about how it was made… first is the metals which were mined or recycled, forged into this shape and then were sprayed with some sort of black coating followed by the printing of the text found on its back. Afterwards it was shipped to my dad’s house where he later gave it to me which is who it’s in the possession of now. Not going to lie… this object doesn’t make me think about much. It’s doesn’t pull any questions out of me. It simply is what it is, a metal phone stand designed by Lamicall or more specifically Skyhorse. …though now that I think of it I have no clue who or what Skyhorse is… guess that’s a question lol.

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Pic 1:

The first picture depicts the list of certain steps we as current residents of these buildings are expected to take during the event of a fire happening within the building. This list of “rules” perfectly describes exactly what is expected of us to do during the event of a fie.

Pic 2:

This picture is a picture that was taken during the first week of orientation here at SUNY Oswego. In the picture is not only myself but also my roommate and four other students enrolled here. When I look at this picture I’m not only reminded of that night but I am also reminded of the events that made that picture possible. At that moment, we were a bunch of total strangers all coming together for a picture because we had made our own little friend group, our own little community within that very moment.

Now when it comes to the words “rules” and “community” these two words don’t seem to have a lot in common at first but there are ways in which they find themselves entangled with each other. Let’s start with the fire procedures which itself is pretty simple. It’s simply a list of rules for a community to follow. The community in this instance is the residences of the building. The rules are just the Fire procedures themselves.

Communities and rules have been changed intertwined with each other ever since the first group of humans came together and decided to live amongst each other’s presence. Communities are kept together by their rules. Every single community that has ever existed has had its do’s and do nots. As an example, think of a home owner’s society. A home owner’s society is a community of home owners who live within close distance of each other. Now this group of home owners have similar interests with each other. Some of these interests may include the desire to keep the houses looking nice or keeping the lawns cut to a certain length in order to uphold a sense of community by making all the houses look like one homogenous group. These home owner societies create rules for each member to follow in order to create this sense of a solid, unified community. Now at the same time this can be quite destructive, after all a community is defined as a unified body of individuals and not a unified body of the exact same person copy and pasted over and over again. These rules which have been created by the community can have an adverse effect of destroying the community by eliminating any and all individuality from the community. If the rules are strict enough, you wouldn’t be allowed to have a different mail box, grass cut just a little too tall, house paint that makes your house easily distinguished from the rest. These strict rules could cause people to turn away from the community causing the community to shrink. Wrapping this whole thing back to the two pictures and I realize that both pictures have their own little tastes of these concepts. The fire rules for example are a set of rules that were made in order to protect the community from the aftermath of a fire. With these rules it’s entirely within the communities interest to protect themselves from the fire by following the rules. With the picture there are certain social rules that we must all follow in order to make our communities grow. There are certain things which you can and cannot say, certain gestures you can and cannot do and hell even certain clothings we can and cannot wear around others.