...Have you ever felt invisible or alone in a filled crowd? Top that with being ignored and disrespected of your own family, and you have the most condescending situation imaginable. In the short story "Letter to a cat" from 1997, respect and care is one of the main themes. It takes respect and care to build a relationship. But disrespect and carelessness can equally tear a whole family apart. Our main character is Norma, a very obese Irish housewife with a life dominated by routine and pleasing her family. She is a lady with very few hobbies in life: reading English literature, collecting shells and sowing her own kaftans. She is a naive and loving person, who time and time again offers her family the opportunity of accepting her. This we also see towards the end of the short story, where she offers them one last time to accept her, and her beloved kaftans. But the reaction is unambiguous: "Ridiculous, I hope you're not even thinking of wearing that tomorrow!" As she rustled out of the room, Colonel Blimp gave her a long hard look and closed his eye. Not even the cat supports her, and this, you could say, is the last push she needs to take action into her own hands. Norma never gets any credit for her kind heart and compliant soul, and she is forced to put her few hobbies away in a little room, out of sight and out of the mind, by her husband and daughter. Her husband and daughter are hardly described in the short story. They express great contempt towards Norma. Even the...
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...As the two of these poetic candidates have chosen to run for the presidential spot for the greatest country in the world, America. Jesse and Mario both make some well-presented points towards the people of the minority race. Who imposed a better change? Who would enter the minds of Americans so they could set their future? The first candidate, a Baptist minister by the name of Jesse Jackson provided the audience with the thought provoking statement of “We want somebody who will challenge corporate America to higher until it contracts”(Jackson). Jackson proposes that America wants someone in office who is not only going to take the side of those of the wealthy. But a president who will step up for the lower and middle class and stop those whose pockets are overflowing with the...
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...The Team & Some Facts ¬ Producer – David Hamilton ¬ Director/ Writer – Deepa Mehta ¬ Cast ♣ Chand – Preity Zinta ♣ Rocky - Vansh Bhardwaj ♣ Maji - Balinder Johal ♣ Papaji – Rajinder Singh Cheema ♣ Aman – Ramanjit Kaur ♣ Baldev – Gourrav Sihan ♣ Kabir – Orville Maciel ♣ Loveleen – Geetika Sharma ¬ Location Shot – Punjab in India, Brampton/Toronto, Niagara Falls. ¬ Interesting Quotes ♣ “Aren’t I who you desire?” – Cobra as Rocky ♣ “How is this possible? To scowl one minute and laugh the next...” - Chand ♣ “Can our desires be so powerful, that they take on human form and walk right into our lives?” – Chand ♣ “Better hell than a heaven with no dignity” – Papaji ♣ “Who were you talking to?”- Rocky “Surely not you...” - Chand ¬ Insight – Deepa Mehta is a renowned Canadian Director working on social issues surrounding the women from different eras. She has given many noticeable works like Earth, Water and Fire. The movie Heaven on Earth was premiered at various film festivals such as Grand Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Edmonton International Film Festival and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. ¬ Awards – Best Actress (Silver Hugo) award for Preity Zinta (Chand) at the Chicago International Film Festival. ¬ Underlying Concept – The Power of Imagination. ¬ Genre – Family Drama ¬ Inspiration – Nagamandala, a Kannada play. Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta, 2008) is family drama of an untold and dark promise...
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...ourselves in the representation of love, respect, family and purity of our beloved heritage. Family is the long line of people we are force to love, respect and purify amongst the outter look upon society. We as a people understand our culture and the ways of it because we are raised to achieve the best of who we (& our families) are, under the unwritten bylaws of the samoan ways. My opinion upon life amongst myself and the people of Samoa, is that we are searching for greater and new meanings or purposes to our lives in America and forgetting the true reason why we are considered the HAPPY people of Polynesia & honestly, the Samoan people are farrrrrrr from happy. Hatred and darkness has been planted in many hearts, and so I considered the heart of Polynesia to be one COLD HEART. Born and raised in America, I've come to believe that my heritage is one unique and rich culture. Greatness has shined upon us in many ways. The respect of our older generations and our culture as one has been our number one flawless greatness, we have also given men and women to the most powerful military known to mankind on earth to fight for our rights and freedom that was given to us (we never earned any rights or freedom in America), many have succeeded in the National Football League, many have succeeded in the line of education, and the list can further move on but we cannont sit, stand, walk, run, jog, fly or even cry about what we deserve without shining our weaknesses. I've grown to...
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...Name_____________Jawad Salman_________________________ Global Issue Response Form: Greek Drama (rev. 6/13) (The easiest way to complete the assignment is to download the Word file from CN or MyCourses, save it with your own filename, type your response into the Word document, save the document, and submit it. Please delete excess blank lines in each section.) Before completing this form, please see the sample Global Issue Response on CN and MyCourses (Bb) Submit your response via MyCourses Assignments in the correct folder for this response Check which one of the two relevant Global Studies learning outcomes best relates to your specific Global Issue topic. Your Global Issue response must be on one or more of the plays we have read in this course and the surrounding culture of 5th Century BCE Athens and Greece. _____ Describe and analyze a culture or society outside the United States, or describe and analyze some part or aspect of this culture or society in relation to the wider culture or society of which it is a part. (Choose this outcome for a topic that relates to the entire culture, such as religion, customs, and political structures.) __X___ Identify and analyze cultural or social diversity in a culture or society that is found outside the United States. (Choose this outcome for a topic that relates to some form of diversity within the culture, such as issues involving race, class, or gender.) Identify, in a sentence or two, your specific Global Issue...
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...society formed. For instance, when Hinduism first emerged, it prevented peasants from rebelling by giving them hope that a person could rise to a higher-caste in his or her rebirth if the person works hard in his or her lifetime. Religions have been a solution to many social problems. In Cry, the Beloved Country, Paton suggests that faith can serve as a coping mechanism by showing how Christianity helps Kumalo overcome his suffering, gives people hope and solace, and integrates various ethnic communities to explain that Christianity can be a solution to many social problems. Christianity helps overcome Kumalo’s suffering. Throughout the book, Kumalo keeps...
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...Tagore’s “Gitanjali” (Songs Offerings,1913). Yeats was attracted towards the Indian mystic Purahit Swami. Therefore he and Tagore shared their own theory on poetry, humanity, peace, freedom. Tagore was a poet, as well as a singer, song composer. So his songs also bear some semblance with Yeats. To evaluate Yeats’s conception of purification, emancipation and mysticism two of his famous poems ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ (1927) and ‘Byzantium’ (1930)should be mentioned. In the very beginning of the poem ‘Sailing To Byzantium’ Yeats described a very sorrowful state of his country in the eyes of an old man. It was surrounded with sensuality that was unsuitable for an old man. So he wanted to remove himself from that kind of wretched situation. So the old man wanted to forget his decayed body and educate his soul with immortality. Unable to find any suitable position in his country he sailed to Byzantium that is the centre point of the poem. To describe the primary condition of Byzantium he stated very significant lines : “O Sages standing in God’s holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall.” In those lines Yeats described fire as ‘holy’ thing and the sages as the divine representative. The sages stood in the fire like the stones in mosaic marbles. He asserted the permanence of the sages in fire . The old man requested those agent of God to purify his souls. So here fire stands for purification. So he appealed to them : “Consume my heart away, sick with desire...
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...He becomes obsessed with the blood on his hands but, unfortunately, this reminder of his guilt does not prevent him from continuing violent acts. Violence and the bloodshed that results are important symbols in Shakespeare’s Macbeth that foreshadow Macbeth’s downfall. In the story of Macbeth the character of Macbeth is portrayed as an honest and trustworthy man. In the beginning of the story Macbeth meets three witches who tell him that he will be the Thane of Cawdor and eventually become King. Initially Macbeth does not believe this and ignores it. Macbeth tells his wife about the series of events with the witches, and his wife begins Macbeth’s quest for power. Lady Macbeth is the force provoking Macbeth to commit all of the evil deeds. In the story...
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...homicide. Some might consider him innocent because he created the monster, but that's just it; he only created the monster. He should not be responsible for actions of the monster. Although he didn't instruct the monster to kill he still allowed it to kill without alerting the authority, he was completely aware of the creature's actions and chose to stand by and do nothing. This causes Victor to also be an accessory to a crime. In conclusion Victor Frankenstein is guilty for the murders of William, Justine, Henry, and Elizabeth. When a scientist is experimenting on an animal he alone is responsible for keep everyone else safe from that animal. Similarly Frankenstein was supposed to take responsibility and take care of the creature he brought to life. Instead Victor neglected the creature and ran from it, he didn't truly understand what he created and so he ran from it. His neglect caused the deaths of all four people, if he had not created the creature or taught the creature the ways of the world those four people would still be...
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...The story opens with $1.87. That's all Della Dillingham Young has to buy a present for her beloved husband, Jim. And the next day is Christmas. Faced with such a situation, Della promptly bursts into tears on the couch, which gives the narrator the opportunity to tell us a bit more about the situation of Jim and Della. The short of it is they live in a shabby flat and they're poor. But they love each other. Once Della's recovered herself, she goes to a mirror to let down her hair and examine it. Della's beautiful, brown, knee-length hair is one of the two great treasures of the poor couple. The other is Jim's gold watch. Her hair examined, Della puts it back up, sheds a tear, and bundles up to head out into the cold. She leaves the flat and walks to Madame Sofronie's hair goods shop, where she sells her hair for twenty bucks. Now she has $21.87 cents. With her new funds, Della is able to find Jim the perfect present: an elegant platinum watch chain for his watch. It's $21, and she buys it. Excited by her gift, Della returns home and tries to make her now-short hair presentable (with a curling iron). She's not convinced Jim will approve, but she did what she had to do to get him a good present. When she finishes with her hair, she gets to work preparing coffee and dinner. Jim arrives at 7pm to find Della waiting by the door and stares fixedly at her, not able to understand that Della's hair is gone. Della can't understand quite what his reaction means. After a little...
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...if any happiness and when asked to explain the situations by psychologists and doctors, susan hands start to shake constantly, which is why she’s been prescribed medicine to control the seizures she so frequently experiences. To get a little taste of the kind of mental state susuan was in through out her early adulthood, a doctor who had dealt with rap and murder victims for the past 20 years said “"I have never seen a victim who was so completely psychologically and mentally, emotionally destroyed,""She will never be well again." This quote is from susans The woman, whom WW is calling Susan, suffers from physical and psychological ailments that have robbed her of health and happiness. She weighs little more than 100 pounds; she suffers insomnia, nightmares and a recurrence of flashbacks. Her hands shake constantly, despite the anti-convulsive medicine she takes to control seizures she's experienced. She didn't change overnight from the bright and beautiful girl her childhood friends remember to the woman who eventually served time in a federal penitentiary. It is undeniable, however, that her future...
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...------------------------------------------------- Prophecy in the Last Days Study by: Elder Abraham Juma ------------------------------------------------- True Prophet vs. False Prophet A prophet is anyone who bears the message of God and conveys it to others. The messages of God can never contradict one another. The Spirit that inspired the writers of the Bible inspires every true prophet, and brings to clear view the thoughts of God revealed in the Bible instead of contradicting it. Those who contradict the Bible are under the inspiration of another spirit. We call them false prophets. God’s thoughts in the Bible are complete and clear, without any contradictions. Though the thoughts of God were written in human language by human beings, they show a clear purpose of God’s love. Sometimes they appear to contradict, but if read ‘precept upon precept’ and ‘line upon line’, ‘hare a little and there a little’ all apparent contradiction is dissolved, and a perfect harmony seen. God’s word is perfect. Those who teach principles contradicting the Bible are not better than the Bible; they are actually being inspired by Satan. God cannot contradict His word; see the story of the prophet in 1Kings 13:1-28. God communicates through the Bible. If He must send a prophet, the prophet cannot contradict the Bible. Again I say, if he contradicts the Bible, he is a false prophet. God has not sent Him. Christ has a message to the world, and He puts His Spirit in a person who communicates...
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...The Hell of Nineteen Eighty-Four. ). Did Orwell realise quite what he had done in Nineteen Eighty-Four? His post-publication glosses on its meaning reveal either blankness or bad faith even about its contemporary political implications. He insisted, for example, that his 'recent novel [was] NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter)'.(1) He may well not have intended it but that is what it can reasonably be taken to be. Warburg saw this immediately he had read the manuscript, and predicted that Nineteen Eighty-Four '[was] worth a cool million votes to the Conservative Party';(2) the literary editor of the Evening Standard 'sarcastically prescribed it as "required reading" for Labour Party M.P.s',(3) and, in the US, the Washington branch of the John Birch Society 'adopted "1984" as the last four digits of its telephone number'.(4) Moreover, Churchill had made the 'inseparably interwoven' relation between socialism and totalitarianism a plank in his 1945 election campaign(5) (and was not the protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four called Winston?). If, ten years earlier, an Orwell had written a futuristic fantasy in which Big Brother had had Hitler's features rather than Stalin's, would not the Left, whatever the writer's proclaimed political sympathies, have welcomed it as showing how capitalism, by its very nature, led to totalitarian fascism? With Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is particularly necessary to trust the tale and not...
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...Physician-Assisted Suicide Must Be Legalized Sheryl Tello GEN 499 Prof. David Ward March 14, 2014 Physician-Assisted Suicide Must Be Legalized Imagine that you just received a phone call from your physician’s nurse and she told you that the doctor wants to see you right away. When you ask her what is the problem; she tells you that it would be best if you came into the office as soon as possible. You tell her that there is no way that you can come in until next week; she asks if you can hold for a minute while she relays the message to your doctor, and the next thing you know your physician is on the phone and tells you that he wants to see you today. You try to rationalize everything that your physician could possibly tell you. Then you tell yourself that it cannot be too bad because you have always taken good care of your body, you eat right, you get plenty of exercise, and you see your doctor once a year. At the doctor’s office, the doctor informs you that there is no easy way of telling you that a large amount of cancer cells have been found in your blood work. As you try to speak, he continues to inform you that the cancer cells have completely taken over your blood and have migrated to your vital organs. As you try to speak again, he interrupts you one more time, however, this time it is to deliver the final blow; you only have six weeks left to live, which you will surely spend in extreme pain and unremitting suffering as your body goes into complete organ...
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...father and a solemn, pious mother. Joyce's parents managed to scrape together enough money to send their talented son to the Clongowes Wood College, a prestigious boarding school, and then to Belvedere College, where Joyce excelled as an actor and writer. Later, he attended University College in Dublin, where he became increasingly committed to language and literature as a champion of Modernism. In 1902, Joyce left the university and moved to Paris, but briefly returned to Ireland in 1903 upon the death of his mother. Shortly after his mother's death, Joyce began work on the story that would later become A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Published in serial form in 1914–1915, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mandraws on many details from Joyce's early life. The novel's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional double—Joyce had even published stories under the pseudonym "Stephen Daedalus" before writing the novel. Like Joyce himself, Stephen is the son of an impoverished father and a highly devout Catholic mother. Also like Joyce, he attends Clongowes Wood, Belvedere, and University Colleges, struggling with questions of faith and nationality before leaving Ireland to make his own way as an artist. Many of the scenes in the novel are fictional, but some of its most powerful moments are autobiographical: both the Christmas dinner scene and Stephen's first sexual experience with the Dublin prostitute closely resemble actual events in Joyce's life. In addition...
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