...1. Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline. New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Print. Madeline is a book about twelve little girls who lived together in a schoolhouse with Miss Clavel, their teacher. Madeline was the smallest out of all of the girls, but was also the most wild. One night, Madeline started crying and woke up Miss Clavel in another room. Madeline was then rushed to the hospital where the doctors removed her appendix. Days later, Miss Clavel and the girls went to visit Madeline in the hospital. Madeline showed everyone the scar on her belly, and all of the girls became very jealous of her. That night, all of the girls woke up Miss Clavel because they were all crying because they also wanted to get their appendix out and to get a scar across their stomachs. “She was not afraid of mice – she loved winter, snow, and ice. To the tigers in the zoo Madeline just said, ‘Pooh-pooh,’ and nobody knew so well how to frighten Miss Clavel”(Bemelmans 13-15). The theme of this book is bravery. Madeline always was the one to be outgoing and go against the grain despite her size. Madeline was the first to be excited about any endeavor, and the other eleven girls knew that. When Madeline had to get her appendix out, rather than being weak and gloomy afterwards, she was jumping around showing off...
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...his friend Roderick. Roderick was in a situation where he would be a different person from before and would be acting strange, since the narrator saw him. Roderick had a twin sister named Madeline. Madeline never knew the narrator as much as Roderick. A death is involved with Madeline which is supposed that Roderick probably killed her. Madeline was buried alive in a tomb. The narrator had changed over the days and would act the same as Roderick, but Roderick was getting worse and worse for the death of his twin sister Madeline. The narrator would see Roderick acting and would do such the same as Roderick for being there for him. Madeline was dead, but her spirit was still in the house just like Roderick. “Roderick has on the external world at all is his twin sister, who is less...
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...I dreamed of her last night again. As vivid as always, I was left with the idea of her and no image. She stood before me, her face in shadows, obscured from my view. Her hands reached out to me, beckoning me forward. Seeming to float, I moved toward her, long slender fingers gently grabbing my wrists, pulling me forward. Happily I submitted to her embrace, feeling her naked breasts press against mine, her skin silkily brushing against mine, intoxicating me with the sensations. Still, I couldn't see her face, the one part of her I really wanted to see. Frustrated, I tried to cup her face with my hands and force it into the light. Laughing lightly, she resisted, pulling away completely, turning from me. Watching the muscles in her naked back flow as she walked away, I felt entranced. Sexual desire and lust coursed through me, my blood warming and traveling as my need grew. My head felt light as I again went to her, this time to a bed that appeared in the room. With a sure touch she pushed me down onto the bed, not that I fought her any way. I was dying to see her, dying to see the face on this woman who had tormented my dreams too often, but I was also hungry for her touch. With confidence born of shared love, she began to stroke my body, her caresses fanning the flame within me. I know I must have been moaning, but I couldn't hear anything but the sound of my own heartbeat in my ears. For the thousandth time I let myself sink into her love making, not...
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...Self-Determination Theory 312033788Work2218Assig1S12012 Word count: 1648 Motivation. A word used often to describe a compelling force that drives people to participate in task and activities such as; a marathon, diets, and writing case reports. But, where does this motivation stems from? To understand where, we must understand? And how can we sustain this drive in every aspect of our lives? This report will cover self-determination theory and how it relates to an associated case study. Other theories and examples will be given along the way, but the focus is on understanding what factors play a role in motivating people to act. Self-Determination Theory is the investigation of people’s inherent growth tendencies and innate psychological needs (Deci & Ryan 2000, pp 68), and its distinction between autonomous motivation and controlled motivation (Gagne and Deci 2005, pp. 333). Self-determination theory separates extrinsic and intrinsic motivators to examine in what ways can intrinsic motivation be sustained and applied to tasks that are displeasing. However, the conditions for personal growth, well-being, and social development must be met. Through research the universal necessities needed to promote the perfect conditions are autonomy, competence, and relatedness (Deci & Ryan 2000, pp 68). Self-determination theory could be paired with Cognitive evaluation theory which focuses on external and internal factors, but is limited to sonly those two. Self-determination...
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...The Fall of the House of Usher “In the Fall of the House of Usher, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.”(Poe). This story is Gothic Literature using grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events. The narrator describes the grotesque or Roderick Usher Madeline Usher, the strange sounds, and the crashing of the house and the violent event of Madeline being buried alive. Inside the House of Usher there are two grotesque characters. Roderick Usher is a man with a corpse-like appearance. He has pale skin, thin lips, and bright eyes. He suffered from sensitive skin to certain textures, odors to flowers, his eyes were sensitive to light, only certain sounds sooth him and insipid foods. Madeline, Roderick’s sister...
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...Nicola Yoon and the sci-fi “Harrison Bergeron” by Vonnegut use literary devices to portray the overarching concept of regret throughout both pieces. Nicola Yoon uses setting to portray the regret that defines her main character, Madeline. Madeline, 18, lost her brother and her father in a car crash when she was very little, and has a rare disease called SCID that traps her in her house for all of her life….until the new neighbors move in. There's a boy...
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...Poe is known for his great gothic works and “The Fall of the House of Usher is no exception. Poe’s work retells an unnamed narrator’s experience inside the House of Usher when he goes to visit his sick friend, Roderick Usher. “The Fall of the House of Usher” excellently shows the gothic elements of sin and guilt, mysterious/violent events, and madness and death. Along with Roderick there is another Usher, Madeline, in the house of Usher through which Poe conveys sin and guilt. Soon after we are introduced to the character of Madeline she dies and is buried in the basement in the House of Usher. At the end it is revealed that Madeline was alive the whole time and Roderick says: I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin. I heard them – many, many, days ago – yet I dared not – I dared not speak!... Is she not hurrying to upbraid me for my...
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...his story “The Black Cat”, he used this technique. “I approached it, and touched it with my hand. It was a black cat--a very large one--fully as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in every respect but one.” Edgar Allen Poe is talking about a cat the narrator found in the den of his house. He had recently hung his own cat, Pluto, who was all black. The cat the narrator found closely resembled Pluto, only having one major difference. Another time Poe used the ghost twin technique is in his story “The Fall of the House of Usher” when he writes, “While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so she was called) passed through a remote portion of the apartment, and, without having noticed my presence, disapeared.” The narrator is explaining how as Roderick spoke, Madeline showed herself in a ghostly way, silently passing through and then disapearing. She appeared to be a ghost of Madeline, not the living Madeline. Another gothic technique Poe used in his stories is using a dark and spooky setting. He used this technique in his story “The Pit and the Pendulum.” “It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry--very smooth, slimy, and cold.” The narrator is describing what he felt when he first stood up and made contact with the wall. This description of the wall gives off a sort of spooky feeling. The descsription helps the rest of the story because it helps give the story the dark and spooky setting. Poe also used a dark and spooky setting in his story “The Fall of the House of Usher” when...
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...like vacant eyes and the staircase cloaked in shadows.” In this short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, it examines how a mansion has a profound effect on each character. The house drives Usher crazy because of all of the bizarre things happening. This house essentially kills Madeline which is ushers sister. This “haunted” house also prevents the narrator from helping his friend Usher and drives him away. This “haunted mansion that drives usher crazy seems to be alive. Every family member that has lived there has died there. Usher had watery enlarged eyes, skin as pale as a ghost, a nervous voice, wild hair and was suffering from a family mental disease. He sits in a chair for hours, hears noises and thinks the stories in the wall are alive. He is an irrational thinker because of the previous reasons. This also shows that his thinking is not logical. Usher is also very upset about his sister dying and his thoughts are growing even more bizarre. Madeline who is Ushers sister was suffering from the same disease as all of the other family was. Madeline would haunt the family by passing them in shadows and reappearing while she’s dead. Madeline was a weird, scary kind of person. One of the reasons is because she haunted her family and killed her brother usher after she died and reappeared. The narrator which is Ushers best and only friend felt that he was needed by Usher. Since he felt that way that’s why he went to go stay at the mansion with...
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...Nia Nguyen A Blame on Nothing and Nothingness Abject: A Rereading of Vertigo “In a male libidinal economy… the only good woman is a dead woman.” Slavoj Zizek, A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema Robin Wood began his landmark studies, Hitchcock’s Films (1965), with the rhetorical question, “Why should we take Hitchcock seriously?” Yet it was also Wood himself who revised the question in 1983. He asks, “Can Hitchcock be saved for feminism?” While there is no denying the brilliance of Hitchcock’s subjective camera and his skillful manipulation of identification processes, one cannot help but loathe the pungent misogyny prevalent in his works. Vertigo (1958) is arguably no exception. Laura Mulvey, a vocal and influential feminist film critic, contends that Vertigo elucidates an active sadistic voyeurism of the male gaze that subjects the woman, as object-of-desire, to realize his impossible fantasy, time and again at the cost of brutish violence against her body and psychological wellness.[1] Also exploiting Freud’s theory, Tania Modleski deciphers female suffering in Vertigo as a punishment for her inherently close relationship with the mother with which the men envy.[2] In drawing on the phallocentric models of Freud and Lacan, these criticisms bear a blind spot in that they assume certain essentialist sexual development characteristics to formulate the backbone of their analysis, such as Mulvey’s reading of object-of-desire or Modleski’s draw on bisexuality...
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...by Gavin Elster to spy on his wife, Madeline, due to her strange behaviors. Madeleine is apparently haunted by her dead family member, Carlotta Valdes, and as the movie progresses she becomes Scottie’s love interest and his dream girl. Looking at Vertigo through the feminist lens, it is evident that through Hitchcock’s representations of women’s appearance and their interactions with men portrays women in a negative image compared to men. This film suggests that women are inferior to men in all aspects of life, such as women’s reliance on men. Analyzing Vertigo through the feminist lens, Hitchcock is degrading women by creating their existence solely in their relations to men. For instance, Madeline is...
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...Briana Eng 201 Final Paper 20 April 2015 Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher: Literary Elements Exemplify Gothic Style As the Romantic Movement swept through nineteenth century American literature, Edgar Allan Poe emerged as one of the central literary figures of the Romantic era. Along with other authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe’s Romantic style of writings often introduced his readers to the dark side of literature present during the time. As Poe sets out to explore and expose different elements of darkness within humanity, he familiarizes his readers with the experience of fear and horror that are so commonly present throughout his works. As a result of the recurrent themes of fear, horror and mystery that he elicits through his writings, Poe is often credited as one of the most important writers of Gothic fiction, an extension of the romantic style of writing. While most of his works of fiction are told from the perspective of a first person narrator, in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher he implores the use of the peripheral narrator to introduce his readers to the many elements in the story that exemplify his distinctly gothic style. By allowing readers into the mind of the narrator, Poe gives his audience the opportunity to discover, analyze and interpret different key literary devices used to highlight important characteristics that classify the gothic style of writing. Utilizing the peripheral narrators experience with mystery and suspense allows...
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...imply that this story has a fairytale nature. On the other hand, if we take a closer look at John Keats’s work, we see lots of “dark” imagery that leads us to ponder the topic of mortality. This underlying relation to mortality can be glimpsed when we examine some of the different characters. The characters in this tale can be easily correlated to characters found in a standard fairytale. For example your hero is Porphyro. He is the protagonist in this tale and has to persevere to win a fair maiden’s heart (Madeline being the fair maiden). The fairytale genre is shown because we assume Porphyro is a good, noble guy. Many people argue he is not because of the wording Keats uses that implies Porphyro is not the “ideal prince,” just mortal like us all. His mortality flickers through when we start to see him no longer as our “prince charming” and start to question his morals and objectives. An example of when we start to doubt our hero is when he starts to think about Madeline in a more vivid way, “Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose/ Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart…” His...
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...own insanity, superstitions, and horror when he describes his boyhood friend Roderick Usher. Poe asks the reader to question Roderick's decision in contacting the unnamed narrator in his time of need as well as the unnamed narrator's response. Poe contrasts the standard form of the gothic tale, with a plot of inexplicable, unexpected interruptions. The short story begins without a reason for the narrator's arrival at the house and this uncertainty drives this short story's plot, which blurs into the real and fantastic. Roderick Usher shows his sanity slipping when he tells the narrator he dreads the future struggle with the fatal demon of fear. The unnamed narrator is shocked to see Roderick Usher has a striking resemblance to his sister Madeline, Poe's late wife. Poe refers to his late wife's eventual death when he mentions Roderick's complexion as the mockery of a faint blush, and gives a sense of foreboding to the story as it leads to the end when...
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...The novel Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon is a young adult fiction. Madeline is a sick 18 year old girl who has spent her whole life inside due to a disease called “SCID”. This is a rare disease that anything can trigger her sickness just by a touch. Madeline reads a lot of books in her white room which is where she spends more of her time. She has her mom and her nurse Carla, who takes care of her. Maddy falls in love with a boy named Olly who moved in just next door. These two spend time messaging and gazing through the window at each other and creating a deep bond with one another. The author develops an idea of tolerance that Olly and Madeline have toward one another, Olly’s caucasian and Maddy is half Japanese and half African-American...
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