...The order of things The Order of Things Essay -”The Order of Things” Carl is a reverend and the main character in the short story by Judy Troy. He has a wife and a daughter, but he is having an affair with this woman, Lily Forrest. The story goes about how he and Lily isn’t satisfied with their marriages, and are trying to make up with it by having sex. These to person’s looks almost like each other and this is why Carl has fallen in love with her. Carl sees himself in her, in a female version. The description of the persons looks is very direct (explicit) in the story, we are told for an example that: They’re in the early forties, married to teachers, they look alike (Six feet tall, pale eyes, angular features and light hair). The story hasn’t many characters in it, and they’re well described, the looks directly, but the personality indirectly (you have to guess how they actually feel), and you might get mixed signals at some points. It’s funny to think that a Reverend, who have become this, because he is so religious, is having an affair with somebody else. He should at least be so religious that he wouldn’t cheat on anybody, even though he doesn’t like the wife? The fact that he is a Reverend in this story and not an ordinary man, might be to show that love beats everything, and also might not be. I think the relationship is only based on sex and have no feelings from Lily’s side. Carl has fallen in love with her, because he can see himself in her and not because she...
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...”The Order of Things” “The Order of Things” is a short story written by Judy Troy in 2007. The short story is a third person limited narrator. We see the short story from Carl’s life. We know what Carl is thinking, feeling and the experiences he is having. Carl is a middle-age man in the earlier forties. Carl is six feet tall, angular features, pale eyes and light hair. Carl lives together with his wife and his teenage daughter. His wife is a teacher, and the marriage seems to be perfect, until they move to Wortland where Carl meets Lily. Carl is the priest in Wortland, and the church and faith means a lot to him. Carl is a very shy man; he is split between what he is feeling and what he should be doing. The father of Carl taught Carl never to take chances, but to be prepared for what is next. Carl had grown up believing that was possible. Carl and Lily looks the same. They were each in their early forties, married to teachers, and they are both six feet tall, angular features, pale eyes and light hair, and they have each recently lost a sibling to cancer. In the years since Carl and his family arrived to Wortland, Carl had not been able to stop thinking about Lily. Carl is occupied in Lily; he is not able to think of other than Lily, he is noticing everything at Lily, and he feels that they had met before; Carl has that believing that it is the destiny that has brought them together. The first time Carl and Lily are together, they do it in a hotel. At first Carl is against...
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...Essay about ’The Order of Things’ Love can hit you like a tornado. Both create an aftermath in which you can often find yourself totally reset, with new ground rules to play by. The short story ‘The Order of Things´, written by Judy Troy investigates themes such as the resetting of a mindset, the value of our short lives, but most of all: love. This essay seeks to focus on the setting, the two main characters, their relationship and symbols to underline certain points of the text. The setting in this short story takes us to the small town Worland, which is located in the state of Wyoming, USA. As with most small towns in the United States, we get the feeling that it is a town where people have close relations with one another. For instance, the first line of the story mentions “…the first inning of the Worland Lutheran softball game…” as the place where our characters Lucy and Carl meet. The fact that it is a Lutheran softball game points towards Worland being a religious town as well. The story takes place over about half a year, from August to around February. This makes for some interesting use of the weather, which is used to underline certain points and moods: “Then in bed, with the sound of rain on the thin roof, they talked about their marriages.” (p. 8 l. 60) Everyone knows the sound of rain dazzling on a thin roof. It screams intimacy. Intimacy is something Carl has never really been used to dealing with. He is the result of a rushed marriage without intimacy: “…...
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...”The Order of Things” Carl is about forty, he is six feet tall, he has pale eyes, angular features and light hair. He’s married to a teacher and he has a daughter. He lives in Worland, with his wife and daughter. Carl and Lily met at a softball game, when they both were sitting and watching their spouses play the outfield. They had everything in common, and soon they began talking. Carl had been thinking of her all his time I Worland, they just hadn’t been speaking. But that day, they sat and talked while watching the game. They felt an intimate connection, even when they weren’t talking. Carl just felt something about her, he couldn’t ignore and apparently they agreed to meet three weeks later. They met at Super 8, a motel south of Cody, where they apparently had their first time together. After that, they were seeing each other in different places, different motels and hotels. In time, their relationship turned into a serious thing. They were seeing each other every Sunday morning, meeting and making out. They were in love and they made plans about the future. They would both get a divorce with their currently spouses, when Carl’s daughter was out of high school in two years. Carl had never felt so comfortable with anybody but her, and he felt it easy to touch her and be with her. He felt much happier with her, than with his wife. I think it’s kind of strange, that they can have a relationship like that. In the dark. I understand, that they have to keep it a secret, but...
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...Amor Vincit Omnia means ‘’Love conquers all’’. It is a philosophy of life that entails that every human being one day will be conquered by the term love. An important message of the philosophy is that, no matter what happens, love will overcome all obstacles. Carl grew up around his father, who represented the idea, which is that life is transparent and predictable and therefore Carl adapted his father’s perception of life. However, in the short story ‘’the order of things’’ by Judy Troy from 2007, the main character Carl gets to experience the philosophy ‘’love conquers all’’ first hand and his life is changed for good. The narrative is focusing on Carl and his relationship with Lily. Carl has throughout his entire life lived by his father’s idea of life: ‘’Never take chances […] always be prepared of what’s next’’ (p 2. Ll. 54 – 55). Carl is a regular person with a decent job as reverend at the local church; he is decently married and has a daughter. Carl is a pastor which means that he has dedicated his live to preaching the word of god. Carl starts having an affair with a woman named Lily. This is a little ironic because as a pastor you should be able to live by the word of god. Yet, he is breaking one of the Ten Commandments which is ‘’you shall not commit adultery ’’. However, the reason they got together in the first place, was because they reminded so much of each other ‘’they were each in their early forties, married to teachers; they had recently lost a sibling to...
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...Essay -”The Order of Things” Carl is a reverend and the main character in the short story by Judy Troy. He has a wife and a daughter, but he is having an affair with this woman, Lily Forrest. The story goes about how he and Lily isn’t satisfied with their marriages, and are trying to make up with it by having sex. These to person’s looks almost like each other and this is why Carl has fallen in love with her. Carl sees himself in her, in a female version. The description of the persons looks is very direct (explicit) in the story, we are told for an example that: They’re in the early forties, married to teachers, they look alike (Six feet tall, pale eyes, angular features and light hair). The story hasn’t many characters in it, and they’re well described, the looks directly, but the personality indirectly (you have to guess how they actually feel), and you might get mixed signals at some points. It’s funny to think that a Reverend, who have become this, because he is so religious, is having an affair with somebody else. He should at least be so religious that he wouldn’t cheat on anybody, even though he doesn’t like the wife? The fact that he is a Reverend in this story and not an ordinary man, might be to show that love beats everything, and also might not be. I think the relationship is only based on sex and have no feelings from Lily’s side. Carl has fallen in love with her, because he can see himself in her and not because she is a unique woman (depends on the definition...
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...Dear White People 1. Dear white people was a movie based on the lives of four black students at an Ivy League college. The campus race or culture war was between blacks and whites at a predominantly white school that comes to a head and boiling point when the staff of a magazine stages a degrading offensive Halloween party to tease and laugh at the black community with no remorse for their feelings. It shows the real life modern version of racism as it “doesn’t exist” but it is very alive and real unfortunately. 2. This movie was very disturbing to me and it reminded me of when I first moved here from California in the 90’s as a Mexican American with the struggles of racism and ignorance of stupidity and prejudice as I was the only Mexican at my high school and I had to fight my way through it and educate my class mates. 3. Coco Conners, she shows the struggle of how black people and woman struggle to survive and float above the hateful racial stereotypes of black woman and trying to fit in the “white world” and be accepted into society 4. Most interesting:--- that this movie can bring light to the topic of racism in a educated and tasteful manner of a movie to show the reality and struggle that minorities face every day, and to that I say bravo and thank you to you ma’am. Most disturbing:--- that stuff like this is still so real and common and true, with everything else in this world that is going on we as people still regress to the older stereotypes of racism...
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...Summary of “The Order of Things” Recently, the ranking system of U.S. News and World Report is increasingly being questioned. “ The Order of Things”, an article written by the bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell and published in the prestigious New York magazine, criticizes the methodology used by U.S. News and World Report. According to Gladwell’s article, some fundamental changes should be made in the U.S. News ranking system to improve the fairness and accuracy of the rankings. The first change should be made is to choose particularly effective proxies. An example of these problems is in the category of “faculty resource”. U.S. News uses “faculty salary” and “percentage of faculty with the highest degree in their field” to measure the quality of a student’s contacts with faculty. However, some educational researches show that salaries and degree attainment have nothing to do with educational quality. Another problem is reputation score. According to the system, 90 per cent of the reputation score are based on “ peer assessment survey” and “ high school counselor’ rating”. However, those people under survey cannot have any specific insight into every school they are required to rank because of some factors such as geography or knowledge. Furthermore, people will rely on the U.S. News ranking to grade schools if they know nothing about those schools, resulting in a vicious circle. Gladwell suggests that employing one-dimensional rankings and created by people with specialized...
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...Analysis and interpretation of Judy Troy’s ”The Order of Things” Sigurd Storgaard 2.e Everybody can fall in love. Even the most settled people with a wife and children can suddenly fall in love with another woman or vice versa. This is the order of things, but it may seem like a hackneyed truism that everybody at every age can abruptly in the middle of the hardships of the everyday feel the hair-raising feeling of being in love. When it happens to a settled person it causes him or her a lot of ethical consideration. But when the feeling is strong enough people, at least Carl and Lily, find it okay to cheat on their spouses. Carl and Lucy are the main characters in Judy Troy’s short story “The Order of Things”. It is a short story that among other things deals with the issues put forward. It is about a reverend, Carl, and a woman, Lily, who fall in love. They live in a small town called Worland and they are both settled and married. They have a romantic love affair on a trip, but when they come back it is hard for them to find the right time to see each other. After all, they start dating in the church on weekdays – they are in love like teenagers and they want to get married. But on the iciest winter day Lily dies accidently. Carl is left alone with a broken heart. Carl also seems like the subject of the narration due to the fact the narrator can go in and out of his internal thoughts. Everything is seen through his eyes, “Carl forced himself to say, although he couldn’t...
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...completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution such as property rights, but he also wanted absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and state.apoleon was more of a rejection of the completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution such as property rights, but he also wanted absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and state.apoleon was more of a rejection of the completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution such as property rights, but he also wanted absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and...
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...best with each rhetorical mode. | Provide 2 tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. | Narration | Narrate to tell a story of an event or a series of events that takes place in a story. | Chronological orders work best because it lines the story up and puts it in order to make it easier for the readers to understand | Be sure to use words that create vivid details. Change settings each time the plot changes and give details. | Illustration | To clearly demonstrate or show the readers the scenes in a story | Show actual pictures so that the reader can show certain parts in the story to keep the reader attention | Make sure the pictures show what is going on in the story at the exact time when the pictures are being used, use words that describe scenes vividly | Description | Showing and giving details of how an object, scene, person, or thing look, smell and feel. | When using this method give words that describe whatever you are talking about in order to make the reader get the full understanding. | Use words that help the reader get a better idea, use words from the senses like feel, smell, taste, hear, and see | Classification | To state or describe something clearly | Putting things in order of events and describing them exactly | Be sure to put things in groups according to their likes and differences. | Processanalysis | A series of events that happens and the...
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...Kekla Magoon, the author of books such as Camo Girl and 37 Things I Love (in No Particular Order), has a certain way of writing her stories. She also has a special way that she develops her characters and the plot. She develops her characters and the plots of her stories by using description, other characters in the story, and an inner conflict within the main character of the novel. So, how exactly does Magoon incorporate all these elements in order to create characters and a story? Description is an important way that Magoon develops both her characters and the plot. In Camo Girl, description plays an important role in that it helps construct the appearance of characters, personality of characters, and other components of the story. Additionally,...
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...God Works His Will through Divine Order We're going to look at several verses in Ephesians starting with the first chapter. Divine order is very important, and we find it all the way through the Scriptures. There is a very simple reason for God using divine order like He does. It is because God's plans are carried out by men. He works through His people. Thus, divine order becomes most important and necessary. Divine order is clearly seen in the life of Jesus Christ. Couldn't God have saved mankind without working through an individual? Couldn't He have spoken a word and accomplished it as He did with the creation of the world? Either it was not possible or He just simply chose not to do it that way. In His wisdom He chose to save man by becoming man. Jesus was the answer to everything. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Me. John 14:6. No man can come unto God except through Jesus; that is divine order. It can't be done any other way. Everything has to be done exactly the way God wants it done. Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God. Hebrews 10:7. Again, I can of Mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just; because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me. John 5:30. Again, Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwells in Me, He...
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...1) In everyday life, work is still at the center of things; along with love, it is the most important element of a satisfying and happy life. In ordinary life, the ideal of “meaningful work,” or work that has sufficient scope for self-direction, complexity, and consequential effects to support pride and a sense of purpose, is more relevant than ever. Few still believe that a different economic and political order can bring a fundamental improvement to the human condition. Good purposes and fulfilling activities are hard to specify impersonally in any case and any attempt to do so would insult individuals’ freedom to define such things for themselves. In this view, no single ideal of meaningful work could cover the variety of individual tastes and inclinations, nor accommodate the remarkable ability of people to invest their work with meaning even when the work has little to offer in the way of variety, authority, complexity, or social standing. 2) 1) In everyday life, work is still at the center of things; along with love, it is the most important element of a satisfying and happy life. In ordinary life, the ideal of “meaningful work,” or work that has sufficient scope for self-direction, complexity, and consequential effects to support pride and a sense of purpose, is more relevant than ever. Few still believe that a different economic and political order can bring a fundamental improvement to the human condition. Good purposes and fulfilling activities...
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...aims, ultimately, for eudaimonia”. Eudaimonia is the Greek term, which means human flourishing. For the ancient Greeks, the term flourishing relates to one being successful in life. “Aristotle realizes, of course, that there are many different opinions about just what eudaimonia is” (to be successful). “In order to sort through these opinions, separating the plausible from the true, Aristotle discerns three preconditions for a proper understanding of eudaimonia”. “According to Aristotle, whatever eudaimonia is, it must be such as to be final, self sufficient, and the end of action”. In order for eudaimonia to be final, it cannot be achieved for the sake of something else. This means that our goal of achieving eudaimonia should not serve to meet another goal. A good example of a non-final goal would be one setting their goal to make a million dollars. However, the only reason they want a million dollars is so they can buy their dream car. Because they only want the money in order to get something else with it, this would be considered a goal for the sake of something of something else. In other words, our goals have to serve a purpose to fulfill a final result. In order for eudaimonia to be...
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