...“The Painted Door” The natural landscape and the winter storm in “The Painted Door” serve as a metaphor for Ann’s sense of isolation. Sinclair Ross, the author of the short story, intelligently uses imagery to add atmosphere to the story and enhance the readers understanding of the emotions and mood of the protagonist, Ann. The isolation of the farmland is made abundantly clear as we learn the closest neighboring farm is “five miles away,” and even then it would seem longer as the roads are “impassable.” However, Ann’s isolation is not entirely physical, she also feels very emotionally isolated from the one person who is supposed to be there with her. The emotional setting of Ann is that of the physical environment, isolated, bitter, and cold. Ann cannot seem to surpass the emotional blocks John has put up. Her words are “chilled” as she speaks to John indicating how she has turned cold and indifferent toward her husband. Ann’s geographic isolation eventually intensifies her feelings of loneliness to the point where she feels even alienated from her own husband. Although John knew the they “could expect a storm,” he left Ann alone amongst the “ever-lurking silence” to go help his father. Ann is feeling alienated from John and the storm is representing that alienation physically “isolating her [there] alone.” The earth is entirely “snowswept”. The bareness and simplicity of the surroundings, the “clear pale sun-chilled sky”, serve to “intensify a sense of isolation”. They compare...
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...identity, The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross shows how adversity affects people’s identities. This can be seen in Ann’s adversities of; Isolation, Lustfulness, and Regret. Adversity can provide a change on how individuals shape their identity, this can happen because adversity alters their point of view about themselves. Ann, from The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross constantly feels isolated and alone, often being left to herself while her husband, John does chores around their farm. With Ann being left on the farm it causes her to long for something different. Which results in how she views being a farmer’s wife and leads to her expressing to John that she wants to visit and socialize with other people, while early in the marriage she was content with staying to herself. Ann’s isolation also causes her to want John to hire a farm hand to help with the workload while John wants to pay off their mortgage instead of paying for help, so that he can please Ann with material objects such as fine clothes. This causes Ann to become restless and unhappy with John and their marriage and longs for attention from someone, this changes Ann’s identity from a farmer’s wife to a unhappy and lonely farmer’s wife. When John leaves during a blizzard to go check on his father, This becomes Ann’s final straw expressing her grief saying “Surely I am as important as your father.”. This shows that Ann has become bitter with John and justifies herself with the...
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...Both protagonists experience isolation and alienation which leads to fatal results in Sinclair Ross’ “The Painted Door” and “One’s A Heifer”. Ann’s constant lonely state caused by her husband John always being busy at work and not being there for her, also her not going out and having fun which she always dreams to do. As well as the setting creating a sense of isolation for her, only intensifying her own inner loneliness. These result in Ann being unsatisfied with John and leading to the adultery with Steven, Her sudden realization that John was the man she loved and John's death. Vickers sense of isolation is amplified by his cabin being as dirty as it is, pushing away his only chance of a girlfriend and communication and playing checker...
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...It is in people’s nature to seek happiness for themselves first and then worry about those around them. It is only the people of the highest character that are able to put the happiness of other people before their own. People will often claim that they are motivated by making other people happy, but this is simply not true. The short story The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross exemplifies this as a young woman, Ann, is exceedingly selfish and has little regard or thankfulness for her kind selfless husband John. Ann is primarily motivated by her own desires and throughout the story she finds ways to justify her egotistical ways. Unfortunately, these kinds of people are always detrimental to societies and will always cause more harm than they do...
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...are institutions that they can reach out to for help. In the novel Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, each character sees the world with a different perception of what life should be like, often a distorted perception, and their neurosis is caused by the isolation of the small town. Neurosis is the term for the distress of the mind causing a person to behave socially different from others; it is also seen as abnormal nature. Neurosis includes more specifically depression, mental confusion, dependency, perfectionism, negativity and obsessive thoughts .Usually, neurosis is caused by the common attributes of modernism such as isolation, search for truth, and gender consciousness; in general, modernism is the changes and reactions of the world. Due to lack of communication to the outside world, the people of Winesburg struggle to overcome their unique difficulties by holding in grief and coping life with their own beliefs. Without communication there is no guidance, forcing the individual to form his own misleading truths; one then must cling onto his truths as means of life. However, one can choose to either confront their problems or allow himself to be helpless. A common form of neurotic behavior is caused by isolation, the separation of one from one or more people. In the short story “Adventure”, the main character Alice Hindman expressed her insanity through actions: “Getting out of bed, she arranged a blanket so that in the darkness it looked like a form lying between the...
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...Anzlee Is a sixteen year old girl with long black wavy hair that flows down the back of her caramel colored skin. She posses eyes of such a dark brown they fade into black lifeless pupils. Through those lifeless eyes, she sees the world in black and white. Currently, Anzlee lives in a world of isolation, depression and self harm. Yet, no one is there to know her inner struggles, her true feelings; about the scars upon her legs. The faded marks that once let her forget her pain, that distracted her from the sadness just for a few seconds. Although,this life she lives was destined to happen. Anzlee grew up in a spilt home, leaving one parent to be with the next. Growing up with two sets of morals and rules. She was the product of two people who were never meant to...
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...Production System Analysis In Treysan Prefabricated TREYSAN PREFABRICATED STEEL CONS. IND. AND TRADE CORP. MERVE BUYUKBAS IE 299 October 6, 2013 Industrial Engineering Bilkent University 06800 Ankara Abstract This report is an examination of Treysan Prefabricated Company observed by myself as an intern. In the three stage of the report, firstly, identity of company is defined. Then in the second part, general information is given including the part that the company’s took place in the industry. Conducted system of the company is observed; how they manage the orders from all over the world and how they produced their products are expressed in detail. In the third part, one specific area of the company, Magpan is analyzed and possible outcomes are written in order to develop the existing system. 1 IE299 – Company Identity Card Company Name: TREYSAN Location: Date of Establishment: Ownership: Area (m2) Outdoors: Indoors: Number of Workers White Collar: Blue Collar: Number of IEs: Annual Production Capacity for major products/services KAZAN, ANKARA 1975 IC IBRAHIM CECEN INVESTMENT 32 000 M2 18 000 M2 71 138 7 600 000 M2 2 Treysan Prefabricated Company produces prefabricated panel system buildings, preengineered steel buildings, permanent structures and living containers in its factory in Kazan, Ankara. Treysan Prefabricated is established in Ankara in 1975 by Ibrahim Çeçen and now it continues it’s business as an affiliation...
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...A SORROWFUL WOMAN The following short story is a study of the gradual disintegration of a human personality. In keeping with the "once upon a time" lead, the style is similar to a fairy tale except that "happily ever after" does not happen. The reader should consider the monotonously repetitive tasks taken over by the husband and later shared with the live in girl and compare these with the usual tasks of men in their jobs at the office or wherever. Then, consider how all of this relates to the final "legacy" of food, laundry, and sonnets. Once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times One winter evening she looked at them: the husband durable, receptive, gentle; the child a tender golden three. The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again. She told the husband these thoughts. He was attuned to her; he understood such things. He said he understood. What would she like him to do? "If you could put the boy to bed and read him the story about the monkey who ate too many bananas, I would be grateful." "Of course," he said. "Why, that's a pleasure." And he sent her off to bed. The next night it happened again. Putting the warm dishes away in the cupboard, she turned and saw the child's grey eyes approving her movements. In the next room was the man, his chin sunk in the open collar of his favorite wool shirt. He was dozing after her good supper. The shirt was the grey of the child's trusting gaze. She began yelping without...
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...cultures, the Indian traditions of his parents and the mainstream American culture in which he grows up. His struggle is the same one that his sister Sonia goes through, and his wife Moushumi, however, this identity crisis seems to affect him deeper than his relatives. The novel revolves around the symbol of a name, which is the most integral part of a human identity; Gogol’s name is one of the chief causes that make him feel alienated. The difference between the naming process in Indian and American cultures pushes Ashoke and Ashima into chaos, and ultimately Ashoke names his son after a Russian author he reveres; for him, Gogol signifies new beginning and survival, it fills him with joy. However, Gogol’s name causes him distress and isolation. Gogol, the name, has itself a lot of conflicts. To begin with, it is a name...
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...out. Then they would get their face painted with milk and honey by the executioner. Soon after that flies and other types of insects would begin to eat it off of the convicted persons face and body. The convict would be fed regularly, but because they sat in the tub they would end up sitting in their own excrement. Days would pass and at that point worms and insects would being to feast on the decaying body while they were still alive (List25). Another form is called the Rack, which is used in medieval times, is a well know technique that uses two people to turn the metal or wooden rods that were connected to the limbs of a convicted person. It would last until the limbs were dislocated from the body, but just to make sure that they were, the executioners would keep turning the device until the limbs were torn off of the body completely (List25). Today’s form of techniques are not that extreme. Some of todays are cold cell, waterboarding, and white torture. Cold cell is when the prisoner is sitting, sits in front of an air conditioner on full blast for days, weeks, months, or even years (list verse). Waterboarding is a well-known technique where a person is laid down and strapped to a table. The questioner is pouring water over there cloth covered face to simulate the effects of drowning (business insider). White torture is psychological technique. They place the convicted in all white room to affect their sensory deprivation and isolation, instead of beating, electrocuting or...
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...Edward Scissor Hands “The years spent in isolation have not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong. He's had no context. He's been completely without guidance. Furthermore, his work - the garden sculptures, hairstyles and so forth - indicate that he's a highly imaginative... uh... character. It seems clear that his awareness of what we call reality is radically underdeveloped.” (IMDb) This quote comes form the psychologist who is talking to the character officer Allan during the middle of the movie which is after Edward is released from jail. For those who have not watched the movie Edward ScissorHands it is a comedy mixed with horror. The movie starts off with Kim tucking in her grandchild to go to bed. Kim's grandchild asked for a story so Kim told her the story of Edward the man who lives in the house on top of the mountain. The story starts off with Kim's mother Peg who is a door to door Avon sales women. She was having a rough day with no one wanting to buy the Avon products. Peg then decided to go up to the house on top of the mountain. When Peg arrives she is confronted by the beautiful garden. She then lets her self in to the house and finds Edward in the corner of the attic. Peg then takes Edward home were all the woman in the neighborhood are curious to find out who the mystery man is. One day when Kevin, Peg's husband is in the backyard Edward sees him cutting the hedges so Edward cuts the bush and makes it into a dinosaur. Peg then throws...
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...Nixon and the U.S. Rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China When Nixon began his presidency, the relations between the United States and China had been fraught ever since Mao Zedong’s Communist Party achieved power and established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. Less than a year later in 1950, the Korean War, in which American troops died at the hands of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, further exacerbated the situation. The next twenty years were characterized by American opposition to UN membership for Mainland China, three crises between the two nations in the Taiwan Straits, threats of nuclear attack, and the fighting of a proxy war in Vietnam. But the two decades of hostility and nonrecognition of the People’s Republic of China was brought to an end during President Richard Nixon’s administration, marked most prominently by Nixon’s historic visit to Mainland China in 1972. In ending this hostile estrangement, Nixon thus executed the first stage of a momentous diplomatic revolution in U.S. policy towards Communist China. This turning point, as Nixon and his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger suggested, also “changed the world” by transforming a Cold War U.S.-Soviet bilateral international system into a tripolar one, in which powers are balanced and national interests are secured. In the process of the rapprochement, President Nixon, managed to show the world his sound judgment, pragmatic perspective, and negotiation strategy in the field...
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...Coming into language n weekend graveyard shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital I worked the emergency room, mopping up pools of blood and carting plastic bags stuffed with arms, legs, and hands to the outdoor incinerator. I enjoyed the quiet, away from the screams of shotgunned, knifed, and mangled kids writhing on gurneys outside the operating rooms. Ambulance sirens shrieked and squad car lights reddened the cool nights, flashing against the hospital walls: gray-red, gray-red. On slow nights I would lock the door of the administration office, search the reference library for a book on female anatomy and, with my feet propped on the desk, leaf through the illustrations, smoking my cigarette. I was seventeen. One night my eye was caught by a familiar-looking word on the spine of a book The title was 450 X&Y of C~~EW Hirtmy in Pictzms. On the cover were black-and-white photos: Padre Hidalgo exhorting Mexican peasants to revolt against the Spanish dictators; Anglo vigilantes hanging two Mexicans from a tree; a young Mexican woman with rifle and ammunition belts crisscrossing her breast; Cisar Chavez and field workers marching for fair wages; Chicano railroad workers laying creosote ties; Chicanas laboring at machines in textile factories; Chicanas picketing and hoisting boycott signs. From the time I was seven, teachers had been punishing 0 4 + WORKING INTHE DARK me for not knowing my lessons by making me stick my nose in a circle chalked on the blackboard. Ashamed of not understanding...
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...The Origins of the Chinese Empire, to 220 C.E. these cities, built by rulers to move troops and supplies, were traveled by traders transporting such items as metal tools and utensils, lacquered wood plates and boxes, silk, pottery, gems, salt, and lumber. A money economy emerged, using copper coins called cash, with center holes for stringing them together for counting and carrying. China's towns and cities were likewise linked into a large economic system . Trade between China and distant lands A metal bell from the Zhou era. was difficult and dangerous, but by the era's end commerce was conducted by sea with Southeast Asia and by land routes crossing Central Asia. The Central Asian Connection Central Asia, a vast expanse to China's north and west where the climate was too dry for farming (Map 2), was home mainly to pastoral nomads who grazed herds on its plateaus and plains. Skilled on horseback, the nomads occasionally attacked Chinese settlements to carry off goods and supplies, but they also spread commerce and useful knowledge. Some nomads, for example, exchanged their Central Asian nomads connect China with other cultures Nomads and Chinese adopt horse riding and crossbows from each other Iron tools and weapons spread to China, enhancing farming and warfare hides, wool, and horses for Chinese silk, pottery, metalware, and wood products and then traded these items with other societies across Central Asia. Over time, connections with the...
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...Robert Frost is one of America’s most beloved poets, and "Mending Wall" is one of his most popular poems. This poem tells the tale of a rock wall which sits between two properties in the countryside. Something continually destroys this rock wall. A compelling aspect of "Mending Wall" is the Frostian sense of mystery and loneliness. What begins as a quest to discover the identity of the wall-destroyer, ends in a meditation on the value of tradition and boundaries. "Mending Wall" is the first poem in North of Boston, Frost’s second book of poetry. This book was published when Frost was in England, rubbing elbows with the likes of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, andEzra Pound. Frost was a contemporary of many modernist poetic movements, but he isn’t associated with any particular group of poets. He marched to his own drummer, and as a result, he garnered a good deal of criticism from the literary world. But, it is precisely because he was such an individual and his voice so original that Frost became so beloved. Born in San Francisco, Frost moved to Massachusetts at age eleven following his father’s death. He attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but never earned a college degree. He was, however, often invited to teach at Dartmouth and Harvard later on in his life. You know you’re good when you get to teach college students without having a diploma yourself. After spending some time in England, Frost befriended a lot of poetic giants, including William Butler Yeats...
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