...pay you a penny more than he has to either.” Lucius waited and watched for any sign of Ina May being more rattled than she already was, instead he noticed her bosom rise and then fall, he heard her long, slow, drawn-out exhale and knew that she had regained her composure, that she was back on solid ground in the conversation. “Lucius,” Ina May smoothly said, “Mr. Hobbs treats me well and he pays me enough so that I can afford to live. It’s a lot more than what some people have.” Sensing he was losing his factor of shock and intimidation, Lucius quickly darted his eye around the lobby, looking for something to spark another nasty comment. He noticed that Ina May had quickly glanced out of the window, and his eye followed her gaze. There, walking by the building, he found his next conversation...
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...the Little Dog," we are given a chance to take a look inside two characters not unlike ourselves. As we are given insight into these two people, their character and nature unfolds, presenting us with people we can relate to. Even if we fail to grasp the fullness of a feeling or circumstance, we are still touched on our own level, evidencing the brilliance of Chekhov’s writing. In the exposition of the story, Chekhov immediately delves into his character generation, introducing us to both Anna Sergeevna and Dmitri Gurov, the main players in the story. He also gives us a physical description of Anna, as well as a beginning presentation of Dmitri’s character. Of Anna, Chekhov writes, “…a young woman, not very tall, blond, in a beret, walking along the embankment; behind her ran a white spitz” (Chekhov 144). Of Dmitri he comments, “Gurov, who had already spent two weeks in Yalta…began to take an interest in new faces” (Chekhov 144). Chekhov immediately offers a feel for how each character will shape up to be, and presents a chance for us (the reader) to attach ourselves to these perhaps not-so-unique individuals. Without further ado, Chekhov expounds on his initial description of Dmitri through the next five paragraphs. We learn that he is almost forty, has three children and a wife, but that he is not happy at home. He married early, and is not in love with his wife. He outwardly proclaims extreme chauvinism towards women, but we learn that “in the company of men he was...
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...The French Revolution of 1789 brought an upset of the social order in France: monarchy and religion, the two institutions that had retained order and promoted the growth of a great society for decades, were rejected. It is not difficult to see Chateaubriand’s René as an allegory describing post-Revolutionary France and the predicaments that the Revolution brought to French citizens. Chateaubriand’s short interlude draws a parallel between René and France- both have been cut off from previous social order, which provokes a feeling of nostalgia. In René’s world, like in the new France, there is no connection to the former religious way of life or the traditional government. Even the title of Chateaubriand’s work can be seen as a metaphor for a need for return to the past due to the fact that René means reborn or born again in French. The title provokes contemplation for the renewal of pre-Revolutionary society. Furthermore, Chateaubriand focuses on lack of memory to point to the necessity for the rebirth and restoration of pre-Revolutionary French society. The first time there is a lack of memory in René, it occurs on an individual basis. On the very evening of the passing of René’s father the “indifferent passer-by trod over his grave”; “aside from his daughter and son, it was already as though he had never existed” (89). René’s father, a ruin of the past himself, stands as a symbol for pre-Revolutionary society. Just as the ideals and morals of pre-Revolutionary France -which...
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...There is a dungeon we are in – a dark prison with no physical walls to keep us in, no guard to watch us day and night. And yet, we are serving our time in solitary confinement in there this prison… Each one of us has particular aims, and as we move forward in life, our ambitions change, and we set ourselves certain goals. But more often than we realize, we restrict the goals we set for ourselves. We suffer from self-doubt, and our insecurities of which we are not even aware instill inhibitions that spread roots and branches in our minds. The result? Self-imposed internal limits – on ourselves, our goals, ambitions, potential, imagination. We lose faith in ourselves, and at times, we don’t even realize it. At times, our inability to take risks and go beyond the defined boundary becomes so internalized that we do not even realize how we clip our own wings. Like a reflex action, our instantaneous response to any challenge is to evade the situation altogether, because it is too risky. It is almost as if in our own little world, the word ‘risky’ is synonymous to ‘bad’. Our inability to do something new and tough becomes an absolute truth for us. We even lose the capability to think it through, measure the pros and cons, and then arrive upon a decision like an intelligent being with a fully functioning cognition. As a result of living in fear for too long, we manage to condition ourselves to play safe, without evaluating the reason behind reaching this negative conclusion. And...
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...By likening the group of boys to a creature, Golding is foreshadowing that the specific group of boys will become a force of savagery. The quote creates a mood of mysteriousness and suspense as the boys change from an unknown monster to a group of boys. Due to the boys walking and being dressed in an orderly fashion, the group contrasts with the setting of a savage island. The author chooses to emphasize the heat because it will be a continual challenge for the boys. Because the boys are British, the group is not used to excessive heat. By comparing the heat to a continual challenge, the author foreshadows the difficulties that the boys will face. The boys strip off their clothes to express their new freedom. Because no one is there to...
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...A&P and Araby John Updike's A & P and James Joyce's Araby share many of the same literary traits. The primary focus of the two stories revolves around a young man who is compelled to decipher the different between cruel reality and the fantasies of romance that play in his head. That the man does, indeed, discover the difference is what sets him off into emotional collapse. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the fact that the main character, who is also the protagonist, has built up incredible,yet unrealistic, expectations of women, having focused upon one in particular towards which he places all his unrequited affection. The expectation these men hold when finally "face to face with their object of worship" (Wells, 1993, p. 127) is what sends the final and crushing blow of reality: The rejection they suffer is far too great for them to bear. Updike is famous for taking other author's works and twisting them so that they reflect a more contemporary flavor. While the story remains the same, the climate is singular only to Updike. This is the reason why there are similarities as well as deviations from Joyce's original piece. Plot, theme and detail are three of the most resembling aspects of the two stories over all other literary components; characteristic of both writers' works, each rendition offers its own unique perspective upon the young man's romantic infatuation. Not only are descriptive phrases shared by both stories, but parallels occur with...
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...E.B. White Once More to the Lake (1941) One summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. We all got ringworm from some kittens and had to rub Pond's Extract on our arms and legs night and morning, and my father rolled over in a canoe with all his clothes on; but outside of that the vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer--always on August 1st for one month. I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods. A few weeks ago this feeling got so strong I bought myself a couple of bass hooks and a spinner and returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week's fishing and to revisit old haunts. I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows. On the journey over to the lake I began to wonder what it would be like. I wondered how time would have marred this unique, this holy spot--the coves and streams, the hills that the sun set behind, the camps and the paths behind the camps. I was sure that the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated. It is strange...
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...Once More to the Lake (1941) E.B. White One summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for the month of August. We all got ringworm from some kittens and had to rub Pond's Extract on our arms and legs night and morning, and my father rolled over in a canoe with all his clothes on; but outside of that the vacation was a success and from then on none of us ever thought there was any place in the world like that lake in Maine. We returned summer after summer--always on August 1st for one month. I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods. A few weeks ago this feeling got so strong I bought myself a couple of bass hooks and a spinner and returned to the lake where we used to go, for a week's fishing and to revisit old haunts. I took along my son, who had never had any fresh water up his nose and who had seen lily pads only from train windows. On the journey over to the lake I began to wonder what it would be like. I wondered how time would have marred this unique, this holy spot--the coves and streams, the hills that the sun set behind, the camps and the paths behind the camps. I was sure that the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated. It...
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...3673 THE ‘UNCANNY’ (1919) Freud - Complete Works. Ivan Smith 2000. All Rights Reserved. 3675 THE ‘UNCANNY’ I It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other strata of mental life and has little to do with the subdued emotional impulses which, inhibited in their aims and dependent on a host of concurrent factors, usually furnish the material for the study of aesthetics. But it does occasionally happen that he has to interest himself in some particular province of that subject; and this province usually proves to be a rather remote one, and one which has been neglected in the specialist literature of aesthetics. The subject of the ‘uncanny’ is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly related to what is frightening - to what arouses dread and horror; equally certainly, too, the word is not always used in a clearly definable sense, so that it tends to coincide with what excites fear in general. Yet we may expect that a special core of feeling is present which justifies the use of a special conceptual term. One is curious to know what this common core is which allows us to distinguish as ‘uncanny’ certain things which lie within the field of what is frightening. As good as nothing is to be found upon this subject in comprehensive treatises on aesthetics, which in general prefer to concern...
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...Chapter 1 The Importance of Leadership D. Quinn Mills Leadership How to Lead, How to Live © 2005 D. Quinn Mills. All Rights Reserved. Leadership: How to Lead, How to Live Few things are more important to human activity than leadership. Effective leadership helps our nation through times of peril. It makes a business organization successful. It enables a not-for-profit organization to fulfill its mission. The effective leadership of parents enables children to grow strong and healthy and become productive adults. The absence of leadership is equally dramatic in its effects. Without leadership, organizations move too slowly, stagnate, and lose their way. Much of the literature about organizations stresses decision-making and implies that if decision-making is timely, complete, and correct, then things will go well. Yet a decision by itself changes nothing. After a decision is made, an organization faces the problem of implementation—how to get things done in a timely and effective way. Problems of implementation are really issues about how leaders influence behavior, change the course of events, and overcome resistance. Leadership is crucial in implementing decisions successfully. Each of us recognizes the importance of leadership when we vote for our political leaders. We realize that it matters who is in office, so we participate in a contest, an election, to choose the best candidate. Investors recognize the importance of business leadership when they say that a good leader...
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...Megan as she enters a male-dominated profession. The plot of crime thrillers revolves around crime, so the overwhelming focus on the gun in the opening credits reaffirms the gun’s importance later in the story. The mise-en-scene elements of costume and makeup, setting, lighting, and staging and performance help establish the first scenes following the opening credits. Megan Turner is adjusting her uniform in preparation for her New York City Police Academy graduation (2a). She has androgynous features and short hair. This shows how she is trapped by the concepts of femininity and masculinity. On the job she is always seen as too feminine; off the job she is seen as too masculine. Her uniform should be a symbol of justice and power, but her gender gets in the way of people taking her authority seriously. Graduates consisting mostly of men are seen taking pictures with their family members in attendance (2b). Megan’s best friend Tracy attends, but her parents fail to show up (2c). Later, Megan eats dinner at her parents’ house where her mother attempts to apologize for their absence at the ceremony. Her father is the first man in the film to question her career choice, and then he admits his disapproval (5c). Megan cruises the streets of New York on her first night on duty in scene 6a. The setting of New York acts as a character of its own as action follows the ever-changing hustle and bustle of city life. She is questioned yet again about her career choice by the cop on duty...
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...Newkirk 1 Eric F. Newkirk Dr. Garber Evangelism 101/ C01 31 March, 2016, Spring 2016 “Methods of Evangelism” The importance of understanding the methods of evangelism, which are, the intellectual, relational, and confrontational, will determine the “effectiveness” and or the “ineffectiveness” in how the Christian believer will reach the lost, for the kingdom of God. During, a Thanksgiving gathering at the main family house for the holidays, the oldest of daughter of two sisters were preparing to place a ham in a roasting pan, when her sister suddenly “yelled,” you have to cut the ends off of the ham before placing it in the oven”! After a few moments of debating, the mother was called into the kitchen to settle the debate. “Mom, shouldn’t you cut off the ends of the ham, before it is placed into the roasting pan, asked the younger sister?” The mother thought for a moment and then replied,” I cut the ends because I did not have a big enough pan to place the whole ham into”! What an awesome lesson to learn from, especially when it comes to a particular method to evangelize, “the lesson should be” “what really works most effective for one person, may not work the same for someone else”. The LORD say to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations” (Jer.1:5 NKJV). How comforting it is to know, that Christians can go the...
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...The main objectives of the study are • To study the working capital management of dilip material handling equipment • Analysis of various component of the working capital. • To identify the factors, responsible for the changes in working Capital. • To assess the impact of working capital on profitability. 1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY The scope of the study is to put into the theoretical aspects of the study into real life work experience. The study of working capital is based on tool like ratio analysis,compounents like inventories, receivables, cash and payables and term loan have give component wise importance to the study. The main attempt is to know the firm ability to fulfill short term obligation .further the study is based on last five years annual reports of dilip material equipment 1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY PRIMARY DATA Primary data is collected directly from the field of enquiry and thus original in nature. It was collected through financial manager SECONDARY DATA • Secondary data are that information which has been collected by the other for a specific purpose. • Secondary data was collected from the audited balance sheet published report of...
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...using distinctive methods and style techniques, which have influenced modern day film makers such as Tim Burton. One of the most significant stylistic variations that can be found within German Expressionist films is the considerable use of mise-en-scene. ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, directed by Robert Wiene, was filmed against painted sets and backdrops. Due to the lack of funding in the film industry at the time, some films were shot entirely on backdrops like the ones seen in this film. The importance of this is that the sharp angles and distorted buildings look highly unrealistic, which reflects upon the madness and insanity of the main character Francis. As he is the narrator of the film, we are being told and shown the story through his mind, therefore the unfocused and uneven backdrops of the landscape and other features; lead the audience to believe Francis’s narration is untrustworthy. However, it is not until the end of the film, that this becomes clear. The settings or location is an aspect of mise-en-scene that becomes more evolved in the film, ‘Nosferatu’. Unlike in ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, ‘Nosferatu’ doesn’t depend...
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...Salvation", Langston Hughes Langston Hughes paints a picture of himself as a little boy whose decisions at a church revival directly reflect mans own instinctive behavioral tendencies for obedience. A young Langston whose congregation wants him to go up and get saved, gives into obedience and ventures to the altar as if he has seen the light of the Holy Spirit. Hughes goes on to say: " So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I'd rather lie, too, and say that Jesus had come ,and get up and be saved ." In saying this, Langston has obviously overlooked his personal belief to meet the level of obedience laid out by the congregation. It leads us to fact that people may believe strongly in an idea or thought but will overlook that belief to be obedient. One can make a justified assumption that everyone in society has at one time or another overlooked his or her personal feelings to conform this occurrence whether it is instinctive or judgmental is one that each individual deals with a personal level. He was a young boy who wanted to see Jesus, who wanted to earn salvation, but when he couldn't see Jesus, when everyone else saw,he found himself in the terrible position of disappointing not only himself but everyone in his community.He finally "saved" himself by pretending to see Jesus . He was saved not by love of Jesus as a congregation or preacher intended but by pretending to be other that who he was. One wanders what would have happened if he didn't stepped forward...
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