Marrying Absurd

Specific details Didion uses in her essay include: The state of Nevada does not include a premarital blood test, or a waiting period before or after the marriage. People in Nevada expect more when they are getting married. Las Vegas has girls and ladies as room attendants, with nitrite poppers in the uniform pocket. There is no "logical sense" of where anyone is, therefore they do not have a connection with "real life". There are 19 wedding chapels in Las Vegas, they are all competitive and each offers better and faster service. Honeymoon accomidations, wedding ceremony on record, free transportation, flowers, rings, dressing rooms, and parking. All of which are offered 24 hours a day. Las Vegas Strip chapels have wishing well's and stained glass paper windows as their artificial bouvardia. Las Vegas offers niceness and shows you how to make your wedding ceremony "right"

What I think kobe bryants frame is to let everyone know his love for basketball and how much of a star he is.

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1) Why does Kobe Bryant working on commericals to show his talant, when everyone knows he is good?
2) Why does he stress so much to be fit? Ex: stresses over the ingredients in food and also HOW it is cooked.
3) Why did he think it was that necessary to have a design with a special alloy band inside the arch of his tennis shoe?
4) Why does his facial expressions matter for photo shoots?
5) Why is he always about winning?

Westbury Court

What I think the author's point is in this story is since she never dreamed of leaving the westbury court until the year of the fire happened, the fire may have ruined all of the memories there. Because that is the one thing that is the one memory that stuck out the most to her. Examples from the story would be when the mother said "see, this is what happens to children who play with matches. Sometimes it is too late to say, I shouldn't have" Another example is, when the family moved away 3 years after the fire happened