...other story In this extract from ‘An Encounter’ James Joyce marks a growing sense of weariness from the boy in the direction of the old man, as the passage progresses, the boy’s attitude changes from one of naivety to one of marked suspicion and doubt at the old man’s motives for being there. However, due to his innocence and relatively inexperienced life skills, the boy seems to struggle to grasp what other reason the man would have for being there. One example which highlights this point is when the old man queries how often the boys get whipped at school, but despite this question being asked, the boy decides to ‘remain silent’. This response of silence from the boy indicates that there is indeed an element of doubt and confusion inside his head as to why the man wants to know these questions – but instead of perhaps retorting in disgust or walking away as an older person would probably have done, the boy remains where he is, and the conversation continues. Joyce’s description of the boy as ‘Magnetised’ by the old man is interesting; this suggests that the boy is enjoying the idea of listening to this old man who has encountered a lot in his long life, and that at that present point in the extract, the boy does not see the behaviour of the man threatening or in any way unnerving. The boy actually wants the man to stay and talk to him because he is intrigued about what he may have to say – adding to the little boy’s ‘adventure’. In contrast to the previous example, the metaphor...
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...A movie that has won recognition by the fans and the critics all around the world. Director: David Silverman An American production Gender: Animation/ Adventure/ Comedy Air date: 19th April, 2002 Time: 92 minutes Script: Pete Docter Music: Randy Newman Producer: Jhon Lasseter Awards: 13 Academy Awards and 31 nominations Another magnificent animation by the creators of Toy Story: 4th Pixar movie that is done by the partnership of CGI technology and Disney. Die Monster tells the story of the mosters that had to go to the places because of doors where some people live together to obtain energy in their own world. The best monster James P. Sullivan and his hard-working assistant Mike Wazowski work in the Monsters Company that is the biggest scream processing factory. The monsters’ world’s basic energy source is the people’s childrens’s screams. Monsters believe that children are dangerous and poisonous. Their work and their aim to gain energy according to them is to get into rooms of millions of children and to store their screams in little tubes. They have the connections to get into children’s rooms all around the world. Again in a normal working day, something unusual happens and a little girl gets into their world by mistake. They don’t know what to do because of fear. Sully (voice: John Goodman) who is not normally evil-minded among these strange creatures and his one-eyed friend Mike (voice: Billy Crystal) are one of the most terrified ones by this little girl...
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...Bradley Tucker English 111 Essay 3 Instructor rose 25 November 2013 Becoming a hero In the movie 3:10 to Yuma directed by James Mangold Dan Evense tells an inspiring story about a father and son’s relationship that later becomes closer as they set forth on an adventure together to save their families ranch. Dan plays the role of a man who lost his leg due to a friendly fire held during the time of the Civil War. After the Civil War Dan tried to bet his luck on ranching later became a father to his eldest son William. In the movie Dan and William did not have a close relationship like a normal father and son should have. William thought his father was a coward and he believed his father was not a role model to show him how to be a man he wanted to be. As the movie went on, Dan‘s ranch was being threaten to be taken away from him by a dangerous gang leader, Ben Wade. Dan sets off for an adventure to save his ranch by traveling to put Ben Wade on the train and trying to get the reward money. Dan’s son William took off on the quest to travel also with his father Dan. William being the know it all teen that he is thinks he can handle traveling on the dangerous trip with his father and the other men. From traveling on this thrilling adventure, Dan and William’s relationship become closer than ever and William will finally see the role model he always wanted to see in his father. It did not take much time to notice the rocky relationship between Dan and his son William...
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...Tangula Jones Literature of the Western World Mrs. Chance 21 September 2014 A Hero’s Journey with Odysseus Of all literature works read thus far, the Odyssey full fills the hero’s journey in all aspects of the story. Throughout this story there are vivid examples of how the hero’s journey is outlined. From the beginning of “the hero’s journey”, which is the call to adventure Odysseus will begin his journey when he makes the choice of going into battle in the Trojan War. There will also be specific events in this epic story to display “the hero’s journey” even further. Eventually the end of the journey will be revealed when Odysseus regains his family, friends, and home. This part of hero’s journey is called the return. As stated earlier, the hero’s journey starts out in the Odyssey with the call to adventure. This is shown when Odysseus goes to Troy. He had the right to refuse but he goes anyway. He didn’t want to leave his wife and son, but he felt it to be his duty to show his son what a true man and soldier he was. There were plenty supernatural aids within this story. One would be Athena. Athena is a goddess who always helped Odysseus along his journey. One example of how she helps him is that she convinces Zeus to send Hermes to Calypso. Hermes gives instructions to Calypso to release Odysseus from her prison. If Athena never would have convinced Zeus Odysseus might not have ever left Calypso’s island which would...
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...HL309 Comparative Literature August 2011 semester Description The module will examine the binary categories ‘modern’/‘traditional’ (and/or the ‘primitive’) as they appear in modernising societies. First, we look at representative literature from (what was until recently known as) Great Britain. The question is: why did the world’s homeland of the Industrial Revolution have a fascination with adventure, feats of derring-do and the primitive? We look at a young reader’s Victorian adventure novel, the long-enduring The Coral Island, and the later short stories of Rudyard Kipling (the ‘Bard’ of Empire), and examine the (contradictory?) lure of the primitive, even as British modernity is taken for granted. Second, the module will proceed to examine some major Chinese and Japanese writers and intellectuals (and an Indian poet and critics, the Nobel Prize-winning Rabindranath Tagore) and see how northeast Asian culture was broadly affected by their sense of Western modern superiority in technology, political organisation and literary (and other forms of creative) culture. Both China and Japan, the major countries in East-Southeast Asia, were never colonised, but they were intimidated by the presence of the Great Western Powers (and their colonies) in the region. Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868) became the first modern Asian nation-state, and their attempts at intensive (and disruptive) modernisation of their culture had a profound impact on the whole region – and this desire...
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...Air. There are even more action film series such as Die Hard, Rambo, James Bond and Underworld. The movie I have chosen to suit this genre is the action RED: Retired and Extremely Dangerous In 1920’s and 1930’s, action films were often about swashbuckling heroes, involving a damsel in distress and featured a romantic element such as the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorro. The 1940’s incorporated war and western action films including the 1955 war story The Colditz Story. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock re-invented the spy-action genre with his film North by Northwest and introduced action-orientated set pieces with the crop duster scene and the finale on Mount Rushmore. This film, North by Northwest, helped inspire producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman film their own spy-adventure film. James Bond, inspired by Ian Fleming’s novels, took the world by storm and is still used today. James Bond introduced some of the common elements and features of an action film that are still used today. In the 1970’s, gritty detective stories and urban crime drama’s led to a number of police officer films. Asian martial-arts themed movies also appeared including Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon. Also popularized by the cross of martial arts and cops and robbers, Chuck Norris entered with films like the 1977 Good Guys Wear Black. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas then introduced us to Indiana Jones, continuing with the James Bond inspired hero. In 1982, the first ‘Buddy Cop’ film, 48hrs, came...
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...these spies. Mary like many female spies were not thought to be soldiers by many men and were able to obtain useful information from the enemy. Women hid messages within their hoop skirts, corsets, and parsons. Many achieved fame during the war and continue to be well know today, including Harriet Tubman, Belle Boyd Rose Greenhow, and Elizabeth Van Lew. Some, like Mary Frances who had spied and smuggled for the confederacy, shied away from the fame after the war. Nursing was a role in the war that many associated with women due to the fame of Clara Barton, who was a nurse and the founder of the American Red Cross. Nurses had difficult jobs, the women had to demonstrate they could do the job. They also had to prove the could work in such a dangerous environment. Civil War nurses did much more than change bandages, tend wounds, and dispense medicine. They also served meals, did laundry, and wrote letters for soldiers. Barton archived distinction when she refused to wait until injured soldiers had been brought to the rear of the battlefield, she nursed them were they had...
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...Notes: New York Venice by plane Bianchi Palazzo (Venice) World Famous Harry’s bar 2 wedding ceremony -civil Bel-Air Hotel The Judson Clinic – Dr James Judson Anterograde Amnesia This latest installment in Woods's Stone Barrington thriller series finds the lawyer/sleuth from New York back in Los Angeles on a murder case in which everyone, even the accused, lazes along, enjoying life in sunny Southern California. In his sixth outing (following 1999's Worst Fears Realized), Barrington is surrounded by his usual cast of friends, acquaintances and casual sex partners. The biggest change here is that his ex-lover, Arrington Calder, stands accused of murdering her husband, movie star and renowned man-about-town Vance Calder, found dead of a gunshot wound in the couple's Bel Air mansion. Upon hearing the news, Barrington, in Italy for his imminent wedding to the lovely but unpredictable Dolce Bianchi, rushes to L.A. to take over Arrington's defense. Not much of substance happens next; there's plenty of rambunctious sex, lots of light banter, a few tiffs and a minimal bit of sleuthing. Barrington checks out who left the size-12 shoe imprint near the murder scene and does his best to avoid Dolce, who took exception to her fiance 's sudden departure from the nuptials and is now stalking him. The whole case ends abruptly and with little suspense, and everyone goes along his or her merry way. Woods's desultory plotting Dit is never made entirely clear who really killed Vance...
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...a busy sci-fi adventure punctuated by dark atmospheres and cathartic agitation in the form of wild action sequences filled with flashy, rowdy, and usually tiresome battles. The script, co-penned by Zac Penn and Ernest Cline, was based on the latter's 2011 novel of the same name. Despite the intelligent story, which alerts for current concerns about the addictive power of the ‘unreal’ world of the Internet and video games, the film’s visuals are hyper-saturated, assaulting our brain with the same uncontrolled trepidation as when you loop vertically in a rollercoaster. Set in 2045, the story follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an 18-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, who lives fascinated with an immersive virtual world called The Oasis, where he is one of the many compulsive players. As a place of the imagination, the Oasis allows you to be who you want to be, do anything, and go anywhere under the guise of an avatar. That way, you can feel every emotion of the experience while escaping from the desolation of the planet....
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...Trail, taking approximately five months to reach Virginia City, Montana. According to information on the Lakewood Public Library site the trek was often daunting. “Many times in crossing the mountains, the conditions of the trail were so bad that we frequently had to lower the wagons over ledges by hand with ropes, for they were so rough and rugged that horses were of no use” (Women in History 2010). Along with this they had to ford streams because many streams were noted for quicksand meaning horses could be lost along the way if they weren’t careful. Martha Jane spent most of her time with the men on the wagon train hunting. In her autobiography Martha Jane states “In fact I was at all times with the men when there was excitement and adventures to be had.”(Burk, M. cir. 1900). Charlotte Cannary, Martha Jane’s mother, helped supplement the family income by taking in washing from nearby mining camps. Charlotte Cannary died along the Overland Trail because of an ailment called washtub pneumonia. This was a common ailment to those women who took in laundry from the nearby mining camps, as washtub pneumonia was used to describe a number of respiratory problems associated with women working as laundresses in the mining camps. Martha Jane’s father died one year later in 1867, but it is unknown from what. According to...
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...One way he thought he could do that was by taking a so-called shortcut. Reed talked the Donners into taking the shortcut and they started out around the Great Salt Lake. The path, Hasting’s Cutoff, led the Donner Party through the Great Salt Lake Desert, over Ruby Mountain, and through Truckee's Pass. The shortcut was supposed to save a lot of time and yet all it did was get them stranded in the Sierra Nevadas no clue how to save themselves. The Donner Party’s shortcut ended up being longer, scarier, and more dangerous than the group could have ever...
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...9-803-127 REV: DECEMBER 2, 2010 NANCY F. KOEHN Leadership in Crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton. — Sir Raymond Priestley, Antarctic Explorer and Geologist On January 18, 1915, the ship Endurance, carrying a highly celebrated British polar expedition, froze into the icy waters off the coast of Antarctica. The leader of the expedition, Sir Ernest Shackleton, had planned to sail his boat to the coast through the Weddell Sea, which bounded Antarctica to the north, and then march a crew of six men, supported by dogs and sledges, to the Ross Sea on the opposite side of the continent (see Exhibit 1).1 Deep in the southern hemisphere, it was early in the summer, and the Endurance was within sight of land, so Shackleton still had reason to anticipate reaching shore. The ice, however, was unusually thick for the ship’s latitude, and an unexpected southern wind froze it solid around the ship. Within hours the Endurance was completely beset, a wooden island in a sea of ice. More than eight months later, the ice still held the vessel. Instead of melting and allowing the crew to proceed on its mission, the ice, moving with ocean currents, had carried the boat over 670 miles north.2 As it moved, the ice slowly began to soften, and the tremendous force of distant currents...
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...Have you ever killed a bug? Anyone human will more than likely have answered yes. Now, think of reasons as to why you chose to kill it. Was it because it was annoying or pesky? Was it because you just wanted to because you like to think that you are better? "The Scarlet Ibis" written by James Hurst, similarly relates to the idea of the bug's death. The difference of the situation is that this thing happens to be between siblings. There are two main characters in the story, two brothers, the older brother's name is unknown, so he is referred to as Brother. Doodle, the young sibling is physically disabled, as it had been expected for him to die after birth. Surprisingly, Doodle lived and began to become a little better and he survived....
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...appreciation of its extent and significance, and I did so under the influence of . . . Wilhelm Stekel. . . . Stekel arrived at his interpretations of symbols by way of intuition, thanks to a peculiar gift for the direct understanding of them. . . . Advances in psycho-analytic experience have brought to our notice patients who have shown a direct understanding of dream-symbolism of this kind to a surprising extent. . . . This symbolism is not peculiar to dreams, hut is characteristic of unconscious ideation, in particular among the people, and it is to be found in folklore, and in popular myths, legends, linguistic idioms,, proverbial wisdom and current jokes, to a more complete extent than in dreams." {The Interpretation of Dreams, translated by James Strachey, Standard Edition, V, pp. 350-351.) 17 16 THE MONOMYTH MYTH AND DREAM Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of...
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...Mimi Zycherman James DeRogatis Review of the Arts: Honors 12/9/13 The Obstacles of Life A Greek, a fighter, and a poet walk into a bar. The Greek says, “I’ll think I’ll have a craft-made IPA, but only if it’s from Greece.” The fighter says, “I’ll have a warm PBR in a can.” The poet says, “I’ll have whatever hops is on tap, but put it in a broken wine glass.” So many stipulations just to get a beer! Why struggle when all you need to do is order a cold one? Man vs. Self has its roots in Greek mythology, and has been a common theme in modern-day media. Man’s inner struggle is as common today as it was in the past. In the Greek epic, “The Odyssey” by Homer, the movie “Rocky” starring and written by Sylvester Stallone, and “Just Kids” by Patti Smith, each main character pursues an improbable goal with pitfalls along the way. However, he or she who overcomes so many obstacles becomes the person they want to be. “The Odyssey,” tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and his 20-year journey home after the fall of Troy. The epic poem begins with Odysseus trapped on the island of Ogygia by the nymph Calypso. After escaping he attempts his journey home, telling people along the way of his adventures. After ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, it takes him another ten years to get home to his kingdom of Ithaca. Since it takes Odysseus so long to get home, his family believes he is dead. This ancient narrative poem and its theme, Man vs. Self, is one of the oldest known written...
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