...–Batter-Con has a toxic spill of cadmium in the water supply of a town close to the factory of about 40,000 people, Town-A. Through a huge media campaign everyone in the town was informed of the spill and ordered to stop using the water. The corporation took full responsibility for the spill. They treated and cleaned the spill. They provided free testing for the citizens of the town for cadmium toxicity. They provided drinking water for all of the residents of the town. The even invited the EPA and hired an outside source to test the water after the treatment. The residents had no reports of illness or adverse effects because the company acted so quickly and efficiently. Life was good and the water was deemed good enough to use again. Soon after that, the company discovered that the spill had affected another town’s water supply Town B. Through the study of Town B’s water source information was received that a small amount of cadmium spilled in to Town B’s water source. Town B is very rural with a population of about 1,000 people. The amount of the spill had a very little chance of harming any of the town’s residents. The amount of cadmium found in the water supply was so small there was a 90 % chance that none of the town’s residents would be affected. Should Batter-con use the same methods of action and accommodation for Town B as Town A (cleaning the water, notifying residents with a media campaign,) as Town-A? Kant would solve the dilemma by using the method of universal...
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...The Hurt Man It is the late summer of 1888, and the town of Port William is a dangerous place for a child to be wandering around. Yet that is exactly what five-year-old Mat Feltner does. Danger lurks behind every corner, horses in the road, the occasional droves of animals, and plenty of anger fuelled fistfights inside the saloons or in the street. Death is something Mat Feltner is aware of, something most boys his age nowadays, thankfully, are not. He knows his three siblings are buried in the town’s graveyard. The short story “The Hurt Man” by Wendell Berry revolves around the themes death and grief, and revolves around how Mat comes to not only be aware of the two things, but to comprehend them. The short story takes place in the town of Port William and the year is 1888, as previously mentioned. It is a small town, built along a road that used to be no more than a buffalo trace. In one end of the town is a school, in the other a graveyard. There are a couple of saloons, a church, a blacksmith, a bank, a hotel and some stores, and a dozen miles by river to the nearest courthouse. The characteristics such as the saloons, the fact that the city’s road used to be a buffalo trace, and the lack of law, as well as the names of the characters, point towards the town of Port William being an American frontier town. Anger rules the town and violence is at a high rate, especially in this particular town because there is no one to uphold the law. “And in Port William, a dozen...
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...Vast Hell “A small town is a vast hell” The quote above describes how badly some people perceive small towns. There could be many reasons behind this strong dislike. One of them could be that small towns are often seen as these tight and small communities where everybody know each other in one way or another and are noisy with too much time on their hands, which resolves in gossip spreading out quickly in town when something happens. But what do you do when you try to move past the gossip, and stumble upon the ugly truth? We see this in the novel “Vast Hell” by author Guillermo Martinez, where the quote is also from. The story takes place in a small village, and resolves around a man that thinks back to the arrival of a nameless young boy in the small-town, that manages to become the talk of town, when rumour starts spreading that he is romantically involved with the wife of one of the two barbers in town, who people call “the French Woman” for unknown reasons. Fuel is added to the fire when the boy and the French Woman disappear, leading half the town to believe they ran off together and the other half to believe that the barber somehow did away with them. Further investigation into the case gives the story a whole different turn, because after digging in the ground to see if the barber had buried them there, they do find dead bodies, but not the bodies of the boy and the French woman, but of a lot of unknown people. The story is told with a first person narrator...
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...The town of Hadleyburg had a very good reputation to the entire world talking about how great they are. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in the entire region somehow keeping this tradition from generation to generation. All the neighboring towns were jealous of Hadleyburg but this would all change when a stranger with a terrible goal would turn this town upside down. This man new of the town’s gift bag of goal would do the trick. The stranger decided that he would turn the town upon itself by making the honest become liars. First off, the stranger brought the back of gold to an old couple and told them that his bag was for the person that had given him $20 one lonely night. He would give 19 members of this town the code on how to get their hands on the gold. Through of series of events he was able to get all of these 19 members to believe that they were the rightful owners of this bag of gold. The reason why these 19 members thought they were the rightful owners of this bag was because they all knew what was said to the man that lonely night. The saying was “You are far from being a bad man: go, and reform.” This saying was the one that would tell the true owner of this bag but there were 19 people who knew of this sentence. This would be later found out at the town meeting when each member would believe that they were the ones who could claim the bag. Finally at the meeting the owner would be revealed and everyone would know what has happened. When the chair...
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...raised by a narcissistic father who created an isolated woman. Her father secluded her from the rest of the world by assuring no one was good enough for her. After her beloved father’s death, she struggled to let him go. Later in her life, she meets a man named Homer Barron, who was in town to fix the town’s streets. The unknown narrator, who lives in the town, and fellow townspeople notice Miss Emily’s happiness with Homer and believe that they will get married. The townspeople specifically thought Homer and Miss Emily were married when Miss Emily bought a men’s toilet set in silver. However, when Homer disappears, Miss Emily loses another person she loves. In “A Rose for Emily,” Miss Emily’s dreams of love collide with the real world. Miss Emily loved her father and he is the only person by her side. He is the only person in her life because her father is narcissistic. Faulkner suggests that Miss Emily’s father abuses his daughter. This may be the reason “none of the young man were quite enough” for her (Faulkner 439). The way Miss Emily acts with her father, the town “thought of them as a tableau” (Faulkner 439). After Miss Emily Grierson’s father passed, Miss Emily became the last of the Griersons. Unable to accept the death, it is only after three days that Miss Emily allows the coroner take her father’s body away because she is unable to let him go. However, the town understands Miss Emily’s decision by including that, “she would have to cling to that which...
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...third world country, Sudan, a man called Malik, is working hard to get supplies for the town. He promises the people they will get paid for their work, there will come food, that Norway donated and medicine will come for the sick. When it all gets delayed, people start to complain and talk down to him, just because he is a man of science. He’s car won’t start, so he can’t get far around. When the food from Norway finally gets to the town it is full of weevils, and the people starts to sneer at Malik. Then when a car arrive at the town and Malik hears it’s a doctor he get very excited, but as it turns out, it is just a doctor who comes to inspect. When Malik hears that the chief of the neighbor town died shortly after an injection, he worries the entire area will die, he turns to the window and sees a storm is approaching. They seal all that can be sealed in the house and try to wait out the storm. Malik is a Msc of Khartoum University. He worries about the citizens of the town. He is a hardworking man, which tries to maintain the town and avoid another famine. He doesn’t have much for himself, all he got is a little house without much stuff, he’s clothes lay spread out on the floor because he don’t have the energy to clean up. All he’s energy goes to the town for being maintained. When he meets the doctor, the reason he gets excited is because, now he got something to give to the people of the town. That shows the commitment he has to the town and the people in it. The...
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...time reporter who is very eager to advance from his small town news paper “Examiner”. A murder has happed in the town and the murderer is Thomas Delaney one of the younger locals in town who killed Mathew Rhinehart in the heat of the moment after finding out at he had been molesting his wife. Michael goes looking for the hangman who has just arrived in town, I believe his motives are pure he wants to meet this hang man to see what kind of person he is and if there is a story he will write about it. So he goes to the hotel in town and finds out that there’s one man staying by himself a man named K.Smith, and he is looking for a bout to go fishing, there is only one place he could be Smollet’s place. And that is where he finds him. Michael helps Simtty get a bout and the two head out to go fishing. Michael finds out fast that smitty is not a bad man, he’s very polite and a tad bit shy, they befriend but Michael would much prefer not to be seen with him. I got this from when smitty wanted to try fishing again in the morning and Michael brushes him off by saying that he would try but it would be hard for him. The next day at the hanging Michael is disturb by the atmosphere of the place, the locals are all riled up and there hater is focus on the hangman who Michael knows is not a bad man. But when smith arrives he walks towards Michael and talks to him like there old friends and then hands him some fish that he had got that morning from fishing and was looking for him. This I think...
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...have in this story. Emily as a young woman who lived with her father. They were wealthy people in their town. She once had a sweetheart, but he was driven away by her father. Her father didn’t think any man was good enough for her, so she was never married. She never had a male figure in her life except her father. When her father passed away, she was left alone and in the large house they had shared. For the first few days after his passing the towns people would stop by to check on Emily but she denied her father was dead and that he was very well and alive. They begged her to let them bury his body. After a few days she finally let the people in to get her father. The house Emily’s father left her living in alone, over the years it had started to fall apart. Emily withdrew and basically disappeared from the town. Years later she emerged. At that time there was a crew in town repairing the roads. Emily started to accompany a man that was there working. They went on buggy rides through the town. His name was Homer Barren and he was a Northern. The townspeople looked down on her for this because they though he was beneath her stature. But Emily continued to see him every Sunday afternoon. That left a lot of rumors and gossip around the town that they may marry, but no one though it was a good idea. It was also said that Homer liked men, and the town kept saying “Poor Emily”. When the roads were...
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...Artforms 4/16/11 Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808 p.327 Visual Elements A.Line-There are actual lines in this painting from the rifles toward the man holding his hands up. When looking at this painting you view quickly from the right to the left and can almost feel the inevitable execution. There is also a line in the sand separating the light from the dark. Seems to be imply between the good of the Spaniards who are about to be executed, from the evil hooded men who are shooting. I believe that there is an implied line between the end of the gun and the man with his arms up. It is giving an action that you can almost feel the gunshot from the barrel executing the man. Especially how when looking from right to left it goes from dark to light, like the gun has been fired. B.)Shape-The geometric shape of the lantern stands out to me right away. Its rectangular shape and the triangle shape of the light which it creates draw my eye in this painting. It seems to paint a positive light on the people that are about to be executed. There are many more geometric shapes in this painting than organic. The organic shapes that I see are the rounded hill in the background and the contours that are created in the sand. These two in the painting are good examples of biomorphic shapes. C.)Mass-The mass is implied here and is created by the forms of the captives. They seem to go in all directions here with their arms and the way each is bent. It really creates urgency that...
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...Sang Spell is about a boy named Josh, his mom died in a car accident and he has to live with his Aunt who lives in Dallas, Texas. So instead of flying there he decides to hitch hike there from Boston, Massachusetts. He thinks he can blow off some steam this way. He really doesn’t like the idea of moving to go live with his Aunt in Texas and the changes this will bring in his life. As Josh goes along on his journey, he meets a man willing to bring him to Dallas. Josh accepts the mans offer, but instead of going to Dallas, the man purposely drives the wrong way. The man then tells Josh he must pay for the ride even though he went the wrong way, Josh refuses to pay and started to walk again in the middle of nowhere. The driver then jumps him and takes his shoes, over $200 and his expensive watch, leaving him there to die until a woman with a horse and carriage finds him and takes him to a strange farm town with no electricity or telephones. He stays for a couple of days because of his terrible conditions from being jumped by that driver. He tries to leave the town a couple of times but for some odd reason he seems to end up back in the town? So he decides to stay for a little while to find out more about the town. He then meets Mavis, who teaches him the history of the town, its called Canora. She doesn’t know much about the strange force that sends you back but there’s definitely something? Then he meets Kasper, another Melungeon like Josh himself hates being trapped...
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...A Rose for Emily In this story "A Rose for Emily" written by William Faulkner, Emily is considered a monument of the southern town, but Emily is living a sad life. Emily came from the Grierson family, who had held their images at high standards. Emily’s father thought of no man good enough for his Emily, so he sheltered her until he passed. When Emily’s father had passed, it was rumored that all he left her was the house and lonesome, “a pauper, she had become humanized.” She would finally have the thrill of a penny now. People of the town would come to offer their condolences on the death of her father, but when greeted by Miss Emily there was no trace of grief on her face and she was dressed as her usual self. She told people of the town that her father was not dead. After about 3 days, Emily broke down and allowed them to bury her father....
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...A Rose for Emily Author: William Faulkner Plot: The story is broken down in 5 sections. In section I, the narrator recalls the time of Emily Grierson’s death and how the entire town attended her funeral in her home, which no stranger had entered for more than ten years. Colonel Sartoris, the town’s previous mayor, had suspended Emily’s tax responsibilities to the town after her father’s death, justifying the action by claiming that Mr. Grierson had once lent the community a significant sum. As new town leaders take over, they make unsuccessful attempts to get Emily to resume payments. When members of the Board of Aldermen pay her a visit, in the dusty and antiquated parlor, Emily reasserts the fact that she is not required to pay taxes in Jefferson and that the officials should talk to Colonel Sartoris about the matter. However, at that point he has been dead for almost a decade. She asks her servant, Tobe, to show the men out. Section II: the narrator describes a time thirty years earlier when Emily resists another official inquiry on behalf of the town leaders, when the townspeople detect a powerful odor emanating from her property. Her father has just died, and Emily has been abandoned by the man whom the townsfolk believed Emily was to marry. As complaints mount, Judge Stevens, the mayor at the time, decides to have lime sprinkled along the foundation of the Grierson home in the middle of the night. Within a couple of weeks, the odor subsides, but the townspeople begin...
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...generations of men and women from the town. The story begins at the huge funeral for Miss Emily Grierson. Nobody has been to her house in ten years, except for her servant. Her house is old, but was once the best house around. The town had a special relationship with Miss Emily ever since it decided to stop billing her for taxes in 1894. But, the "newer generation" wasn't happy with this arrangement, and so they paid a visit to Miss Emily and tried to get her to pay the debt. She refused to acknowledge that the old arrangement might not work any more, and flatly refused to pay. Thirty years before, the tax collecting townspeople had a strange encounter with Miss Emily about a bad smell at her place. This was about two years after her father died, and a short time after her lover disappeared from her life. Anyhow, the stink got stronger and complaints were made, but the authorities didn't want to confront Emily about the problem. So, they sprinkled lime around the house and the smell was eventually gone. Everybody felt sorry for Emily when her father died. He left her with the house, but no money. When he died, Emily refused to admit it for three whole days. The town didn't think she was "crazy then," but assumed that she just didn't want to let go of her dad, (even though you could argue that he had stolen her youth from her). Next, the story doubles back and tells us that not too long after her father died Emily begins dating Homer Barron, who is in town on a sidewalk-building...
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...Joshua Biship James Mense English 102 05 October 2014 Billy Ansel: Dark or Light? In the book, The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks a story is told of tragedy that strikes a small town. Banks tells this story through multiple character each of which brings their own understand and view of the accident. Billy Ansel was one of the characters used to convey his message. Billy is a parent of two children in the town of Sam Dent. Billy is a veteran, business owner, and widower. All of these moving parts have played huge roles in shaping the character that Billy portrays but nothing could prepare him for losing his children. At the beginning of the story Billy is shown as a person to look up to and rely upon in hard times. But there is another side to Billy that is explored in the latter half of the book. Through the revelation of more detail Billy’s character is better-rounded and with that rounding he also slips into a darker side of himself. This side which is far darker and hidden from the public is brought to the surface when Billy losses his children and changes forever. Billy first appears in the story as a father who was raising his twin children on his own after his wife passed away from cancer. He is waiting in the kitchen for the bus to arrive like he does every morning. Dolores Driscoll is the school bus driver picking up Billy’s children. Dolores is fond of Billy and gives us a view into who she thinks he is. “I always liked stopping at Billy’s. For one thing, he...
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...Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the minor characters have an influential role in determining the fate of the protagonist. These minor characters are used by Durrenmatt and Marquez to establish an individualistic or collectivistic society within their works and by doing so isolate the protagonists and lead them to their deaths. In a collectivistic society, the people tend to view themselves as part of a group and hold the needs of the group over that of the individual. This is the society which Durrenmatt has presented in The Visit. In Durrenmatt’s The Visit, the town of Guellen is populated by minor characters lacking any names. Throughout the play, the villagers are simply referred to by the occupation which they hold within the town. Mayor, Priest, Schoolmaster, Doctor, and Policeman are just a few of the names given to Guelleners. Durrenmatt presents these characters this way to establish that the town of Guellen is a collectivistic society. The minor characters are named this way to portray them as a part of a greater...
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