...Jonathan Hoyer LIT 369: Short Fiction/Honors Dr. Quan Ha 4/9/13 Psychoanalytic Objectification of Women – When Women Literally Become Objects (Revised) The story “The Babysitter” is fraught with sexual language, addressing sexual behavior directly and nonchalantly in discussing characters’ interactions with non-sexual objects. Psychoanalysis relies on the Oedipus Complex; the assumption that male behavior is a result of a deep-seeded unconscious “castration anxiety,” whereupon a young boy loves his mother and wants to have sex with her and competes with the father, resulting in an unconscious fear that his father will castrate him. In adulthood, a male “fetishizes female beauty as a way of defending against the anxiety brought about by the spectacle of woman as representing ‘lack’ or castration” (Gabbard, 161). This fetishizing female beauty, or in other words, objectifying women, is a defense mechanism against castration anxiety. Psychoanalysis offers multiple explanations for the objectification of women. Objectification is also considered to be a result of the disturbance of the relationship between mother and baby. Objectification is a compensation for the loss of “the blissful relationship with a mother who has no autonomy or otherness but exists only to serve the baby’s needs” (Gabbard 166). Objectification, then, is a result of the male trying to recreate this perfect maternal symbiosis in which the mother serves the baby’s needs, and is essentially used as an...
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...A&P is a story written by two time Pulitzer prize award winning author John Updike. He is one of three authors to win the award twice.1 He is a celebrated author, artist, and cartoonist, but he is perhaps most well known for his writing. An extremely prolific writer, his works are recognizable to a large portion of the American population. In fact, a biography by Steven Moyer states that readers “would have entered into the at times sad, at times triumphant thoughts of, say, a certain check-out clerk at the local grocery store; 'A&P' serving as a model of dramatic irony for at least two generations of English literature teachers.”2 A&P , which stands for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, is a supermarket chain with a long history. In the 1950s, A&P was a prominent food retailer in America, but its popularity had declined by the 1960s; the company had lost its luster, and the public viewed the A&P as a stale, struggling corporation.3 Updike's story is set in a 1961 A&P in Massachusetts just five minutes away from the beach. This short story outlines the maturation of the main character Sammy as he works at his local grocery store. While working on a normal summer day at his cash register, in walk three young girls in their bathing suits and flip flops searching for some herring snacks. While the girls walk around shopping Sammy extrapolates details about them from their appearance. Although he starts the story immaturely agreeing with his cohorts about the audacity...
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...She was not so tall and “was the queen” (Updike 1111). She wore her straps down off her bathing suit and had long prima-donna legs and pale skin. Her name was Queenie, so they referred to her as. She was always in the middle and leading the way with her two girl friends following her side. The two boys were so shocked that these three girls came into their store in their bathing suit because their store was five miles away from the beach in the middle of town. They enjoyed watching them walk up and down the aisle though comparing it to a “pinball machine, not knowing what aisle they would come out of” (Updike 1112). As the girls walked up to the checkout, their manager, Lengel, stops the girls and confronts them about their inappropriate attire and tells them next time to come in with their shoulders covered because it the store’s policy. The relationship of the boy, Sammy and his manager, Lengel have a lot of tension towards the end of the story because Sammy quit his job. He did not agree with Lengel calling the girls out like the way he did. Sammy thinks Lengel embarrassed the girls but Lengel says the girls embarrassed the store (Updike 1113). Lengel questions Sammy quitting his job because he had been a family friend for a long time. Sammy’s relationship with Lengel obviously is...
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...Character Analysis Sammy Text “A&P” by John Updike In the story of “A&P” by John Updike Sammy is the narrator. He is a nineteen year old young man who portrays a normal teenager by having a summer job like most teenagers do. He had a common summer job at a grocery store. He held the position as a cashier throughout the story until he ended up having a dynamic change. Throughout most of the story his actions would be considered assertive to most readers. He is very particular with every detail of all of the other characters in the story. He does with go a dynamic change from the beginning to the end of the story by becoming a very sympathetic character. The narrator early on in the story shows how he is able to see every little detail about the other characters in the story. He looks at each character in the story and almost examines what he feels they are going through in his or her life. He becomes quite interested when three girls walk in at “A&P”. He is immediately very drawn to their appearance, “They didn't even have shoes on. There was this chunky one with the two-piece-- it was bright green and the seems on the bra was still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit)--there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed right, and one of these sunburns right across under the eyes, and a chin that was...
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...Review of Crash: Crash" tells interlocking stories of whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals, the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless, all defined in one way or another by racism. All are victims of it, and all are guilty it. Sometimes, yes, they rise above it, although it is never that simple. Their negative impulses may be instinctive, their positive impulses may be dangerous, and who knows what the other person is thinking? The result is a movie of intense fascination; we understand quickly enough who the characters are and what their lives are like, but we have no idea how they will behave, because so much depends on accident. Most movies enact rituals; we know the form and watch for variations. "Crash" is a movie with free will, and anything can happen. Because we care about the characters, the movie is uncanny in its ability to rope us in and get us involved. "Crash" was directed by Paul Haggis, whose screenplay for "Million Dollar Baby" led to Academy Awards. It connects stories based on coincidence, serendipity, and luck, as the lives of the characters crash against one another other like pinballs. The movie presumes that most people feel prejudice and resentment against members of other groups, and observes the consequences of those feelings. One thing that happens, again and again, is that peoples' assumptions prevent them from seeing the actual person standing before them. An Iranian (Shaun Toub) is thought to be an Arab, although...
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...he collapse of one of the world’s most striking and original game studios in late 1998 came as a shock to the industry. The precise circumstances of its collapse remain a mystery, but one fact remains. In an enigmatic 1992 press conference, Simon Bertucci used the phrase as he hinted at the development of a gaming technology well beyond the current state of the art. Following his death later that year, no notes or working prototype were found. Its lasting legacy includes four major game franchises: Realms of Gold, Clandestine, Solar Empires, and the Realms Beyond. REALMS OF GOLD SERIES FOLLOW the adventures of FOUR ETERNAL HEROES through INFINITE WORLDS, in the greatest INTERACTIVE experience ever forged. Realms of Gold I: Tomb of Destiny (1983) Realms of Gold II: War in the Realms (1984) Realms of Gold III: Restoration (1987) Realms of Gold IV: Foundation’s Edge (1990) Realms of Gold V: Aquator’s Realm (1993) Realms of Gold Worlds of Intrigue: High Society (1993) Realms of Gold VI: Far Latitudes (1994) Realms of Gold VII: Winter’s Crown (1998) Realms of Gold RPG, 1st Edition Rules (1999) Realms of Gold remains Black Art's seminal contribution to the medium. Begun in 1983 as a high school class project, the series extended from the earliest, crudest text adventures to state-of-the-art 3D and sprawled across multiple genres and at least four revolutions in graphics technology. It starred four heroes—a warrior, a wizard, a princess, and a half-elven thief—and...
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...pressure. The collapse of RBS; the multibillionpound bailout (courtesy of you and me), and the smug indifference of the guilty men is one of the parables of the ills of contemporary capitalism. Iain Martin tells it brilliantly, mixing furyinducing narrative with an acute eye for the broader conclusion. Of all the many tales about the global financial crash, I have not read a more compelling one. The star of the show, the pantomime villain, is Fred Goodwin, aka Fred the Shred (a nickname he apparently quite liked), a man who made up for his ignorance about the complexities of banking with hubris and bullying. His story (in a nutshell): modest home in Paisley (although not nearly as "salt of the earth" as he would have people believe), trains as accountant, moves into banking, takes over the Clydesdale, is head-hunted for RBS… and the rest is opprobrium. The bank's story (in a nutshell): formed shortly after the acts of union, expands into England to exploit the wealth from empire in the late 19th century, known for centuries for its canny 1 management of money, following the Thatcher "big bang" it wants to join the global league. Cue Fred. In 1998, Goodwin was brought in as deputy chief executive and, together with his board, set about the great aggrandisement of the Edinburgh-based bank. He had already acquired a reputation as someone not to be messed with. One former...
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...Web 2.0 MIS Finds Compromise between Service and Privacy Question 1 : One of the most well-known game online in the past until now is the Ragnarok Online. For the Ragnarok Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game or MMORPG was created by GRAVITY Co., Ltd. It was first released in South Korea on 31 August 2001. Anyway, it also has been released in Thailand since September 2002 and imported by Asiasoft Corperation Co.,Ltd. That we mentioned before is that Ragnarok Online is MMORPG, therefore it has created relationship among gamers or players because player can select main character to represent themselves (Role-playing). Anyway, in each character will has different point in advantage and disadvantage in both skill and character status. Briefly, as I have experiences this game, it will encourage players to kill monsters and collect items and character’s experience for upgrading character’s status and skill that player has selected and for the level is started from level 0 to the highest level 99 when players can reach level at 99, it will have blue aura under foot of character that it is attractive thing as well and it has many characters and many classes of each character to upgrade you can find it in the figure in appendix part. Moreover players can decorate their character by their own style from equipment which is dropped from killing general monsters in the game or buy/exchange with other player, one activity of this game that is the most attractiveness...
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...A&P by john updike In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I'm in the third check-out slot, with my back to the door, so I don't see them until they're over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a good tan and a sweet broad soft-looking can with those two crescents of white just under it, where the sun never seems to hit, at the top of the backs of her legs. I stood there with my hand on a box of HiHo crackers trying to remember if I rang it up or not. I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I knowit made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before. By the time I got her feathers smoothed and her goodies into a bag -- she gives me alittle snort in passing, if she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem -- by the time I get her on her way the girls had circled around the bread and were coming back, without a pushcart, back my way along the counters, in the aisle between the check-outs and the Special bins. They didn't even have shoes on. There was this chunky one, with the two-piece -- it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale so I guessed she just got it (the suit) -- there was this one, with one of...
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...Running head: GRADUATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN FACEBOOK GRADUATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN FACEBOOK Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyse the issue of substandard employee retention rates in Facebook, one of the leading companies in the IT industry, identify the reasons behind it and suggest concrete steps for bettering the situation through an improved Graduate Career Development Plan. The analysis reveals that the main two issues plaguing the company’s young graduates are excessive competitiveness and lack of challenge and development opportunities. Short-term countermeasures include creating a better, more efficient working environment, on personal, managerial and corporate levels alike, as well as ways of instantly increasing immediate motivation levels. The long-term plan suggests restructuring certain key elements of HR management, such as the workplace atmosphere, relations between employees and the management, the company’s organisation on the whole and the objectives set in front of the employees. The scope of the changes is broad and requires substantial resources, but the evaluation methods put in place ensure that a return on investment is achieved when the project is completed and the company restructured. GRADUATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN FACEBOOK Introduction The IT sector is arguably the most dynamic global industry branch of today (Dutta and Bilbao-Osorio, 2012). The market cycles of products have been decreased to a tenth of what they...
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...Course No: C-501 Course Name: Managerial Communication A Report on Business Communication Method of Warren Buffett Prepared For: Mr. Zahid Hassan Khan Associate professor, Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka Prepared By: Md.Tazul Islam Roll:133 Batch:46D Date of Submission: 11-12-2011 Executive Summary: Warren Buffett is considered as one of the most successful investors of the market. A man who started his journey as an investor at the age of 13, continued to cross hurdles of his business carrier. It's annual report season, which includes announcements from the CEO and/or chairman of every public U.S. company. Given that Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is the most successful investor of all time, you might expect that a 23-page communication from him would be jargon-packed and over most people’s heads. In actuality, Buffett's annual letter to shareholders is famously down-to-earth, conversational, and witty. Never mind for now the specific points he makes: how he communicates his message is a lesson for all of us. Warren Buffett writes his letter to shareholders as a letter to his sisters - then crosses out "Dear Doris and Bertie" and replaces it with "To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway". It’s not enough that Warren Buffett has become one of the richest men in the world. He’s also a world-class communicator – and nowhere does this gift go on public display more than in his annual letter to shareholders...
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...TERM PAPER TOPIC:ANDROID APPLICATIONS Acknowledgement I would gladly like to thank my faculty guide Ms. Riju Choudhary and it gives me immense pleasure to say that she was a constant support throughout helping and guiding me. I would say it wasn’t easy for her but she did her best replying to our mails n helping us in correcting our mistakes. She also helped us in selecting a topic of our choice and interest so we could work harder and with more interest. I was happy to have her as my guide and will look forward to work under her again. A special thanks to you mam. I would also thank my parents for their never ending care n support. Table of content 1. Introduction * History * Design * Features 2. Applications 3. Google play 4. The 100 best apps of 2012 5. The 12 best android tablet app 6. Android software development 7. References Introduction Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as Smartphone and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies. Google purchased the initial developer of the software, Android Inc., in 2005. The unveiling of the Android distribution in 2007 was announced with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. Google releases the Android code as open-source, under the Apache License. The Android...
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...Ariel Johnson CRTW 187 Final Project Blind Is Not Enough Dear Doctor Pritchard, I am sad to inform you that these are my final hours. I believe it my duty to tell you, my most loyal doctor—and though it may not be appropriate—I dare to call you my dear friend. I have come to conclusion that my life must end today. This may come as a surprise to you, I’m sure, but there is nothing left for me now. I suppose you would be wondering why? I fear I have not been entirely truthful with you, though, I assure you my dishonesty was not always on purpose, as you will see. You see, there are parts of my life’s story I have left out of our sessions and I believe it is time you learned the truth, as have I. My name is not John Hatchet but rather Julio Antonio Hernandez-Bulkeley de a Villa Llorando Tortuga. My mother, born Mary Marie Bulkeley, a woman of Welsh descent, met my father Marceliano Estévan Hernandez, an Argentinean, in Peru. My father was on business and my mother was said to be on a church trip to help the homeless. My mother had been wandering through the market place when she quite literally ran into my father. As my father tells it, “I felt her sweet hand brush against my wrist, just below my gold watch, and I knew at that moment I never wanted her to leave my sight again.” My father took her back to live with him on his cattle ranch and that is where I raised, knee deep in manure, from the day I was born until the age of thirteen. This you know to be true, in part. I told...
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...The Jobs family Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco. His Biological mother was an unwed graduate student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father was either a political science or mathematics professor, a native Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali. In 1950s, the baby was put up for adoption. Joanne had a college education, and she insisted that the future parents of her boy be just as well educated. Unfortunately, the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her expectations: they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the Bay Area after the war. Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from high school. In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them. Paul and Clara called their new son Steven Paul. While Steve was still a toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara County, later to be known as Silicon Valley. They adopted another baby, a girl called Patti, three years later in 1958. Childhood Steve was quite a turbulent child. He really didn’t care about school for some time — until he reached the 4th grade, and had Imogene “Teddy” Hill as a teacher. She did bribe him, with candy and $5 bills from her own money. He quickly became hooked — so much so that he skipped the 5th grade and went straight to middle school, namely Crittenden Middle School. It was in a poor area. Most kids did not work much there, they were rather fond of bullying other kids, such as the young Steve....
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...Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach. Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century. Today’s students – K through college – represent the first generations to grow up with this new technology. They have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today’s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention...
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