...Book Notes 3 The Rise of Silas Lapham Chapter 1 Bartley Hubbard goes to Silas Lapham’s office to interview him for the “Solid Men of Boston” Series in the Boston Events newspaper. Lapham goes into telling him background information on his life. Lapham was born in Vermont near the Canadian border. His father was a farmer and they didn’t have much money. He described his admiration for his mother and how great she took care of the family. His father found mineral paint on their farm from a hole left from an uprooted tree. Buildings were not being painted at that time because of poverish conditions. He decided to start mining and selling the paid in 1855. He married a woman name Persis who was a schoolteacher. He gave credit to his fortune to her because of how encouraging she was towards him. His first paint was named after her, the “Persis Brand”, which is the finest. After fighting in the war, Lapham returned and found a partner. He later bought him out because he claimed he knew nothing about paint. Lapham offers Hubbard a ride back to his office. Upon leaving, Hubbard notices Lapham’s attractive secretary. Hubbard returns home that night with a special package from Lapham, which ends up being his a jar of the Persis Brand paint. Chapter 2 The Lapham’s come to the realization that they live in a socially unacceptable neighborhood in Boston. They are also afraid that they have not educated their daughters with the proper etiquette for social functions. The daughters...
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...Ernest Hemmingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises is not considered to be a mystery. However, through his creative storytelling, Hemingway nimbly evokes an aura of uncertainty and mystique surrounding the relationship of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. Their attraction to each other is palpable, yet without the ability to consummate her sexual desires, and the tragic war wound that rendered him impotent, Brett obstinately pursues a variety of other meaningless relationships. There appears to be a recurring internal conflict with Brett throughout the course of the novel. Incapable of dealing with Jake’s injury, she meanders from relationship to relationship searching for that same unequivocal love she and Jake share. Jake all the while has nothing but unremitting love for this woman, and time and time again proves he is willing to sacrifice anything, even his own moral compass, to be with her. In essence, the real mystery of this novel is the potential relationship that could have ensued had life dealt these characters a different hand. If Jake’s accident not occurred, and had Lady Brett not been emotionally damaged by prior relationships, could they have been together forever, or do their circumstances allow love and friendship to grow because there is no chance of any real romantic future? Although it is not her intention to manipulate their hearts, Brett’s inability to commit to any man, toys with their emotions and pits them against each other at times. Why she finds herself...
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...Independent Reading Literary Analysis The fictional novel The Sun Also Rises was written by Ernest Hemingway. The novel was published in 1954and also copyrighted in 1926 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The 251 page book was an excellent novel to read. The story begins in Paris, France, moves to Pamplona, Spain, and concludes in Madrid Spain. The protagonist Jake Barnes is the narrator and a american veteran of World War I. A beautiful Lady Brett Ashley is a british partier who drinks and party all the time. Jake and Brett both love each other but for Brett to be with Jake she must make the ultimate sacrifice. Robert Cohn is a wealthy Jew from New York. He is the antagonist of Jake and Brett. The story is told in first person because you know exactly what Jake is thinking the whole time in the story. The main conflict of the story is internal man versus man relationship between Jake and Lady Brett Ashley. Jake looses many of his friends and his life is changed because of his loyalty to Brett who has destructive love affaires with other men. In the exposition we learn the Jake Barns in our narrator and that Robert Cohn comes from a wealthy Jewish family. We also learn that it takes place in Paris, France just after the war of World War I. The rising action of the novel was when Jake, Brett, and their friends pursue a life full of partying and drinking in Paris. Jake introduces Brett to Robert Cohn and they have an affair in the city San Sebastian. Cohn then followed...
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...Evaluation of Security Programs SEC 420 Case Study 1 01/16/2016 Case Study 1 I just won a bid to construct a high-rise residential apartment building. The complex is to be located in an area of the city which borders a high-crime urban area on one side, and industrial facilities on the other. This will present several challenges that will require strategic planning to overcome or reduce the level of risk or threats. The construction will be built with a design that accommodates the needs of the occupants and owners especially those involving security and territorial space. Considering the industrial facilities surrounding the apartment it is important that the building will suit residents that are associated to the industrial facilities in the area. The building will have a modern designed with an attractive complex structure for people who are looking for an apartment. I will consider the following factors that will incorporate the needs of the occupants and owners, which include; territoriality; natural surveillance; design guidelines; territory and personal defense strategies; and confidence restoration strategies. I begin with territoriality of the construction planning. According to Robert A. Gander “Territoriality involves an individual's perception of, and relationship with, the environment. A strong sense of territoriality encourages an individual to take control of his or her environment and defend it against attack.” In order to accomplish...
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...Isolation, Illusion, and Love: Hemingway Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises was a book that emphasized what the jazz age was all about. The book was written in 1926 and is about a group of Americans and Brits that travel all over Europe after World War One. This is very similar to how Hemingway lived in the 20’s because he too traveled around Europe in the 20’s when this book took place. In the book a group of friends go to a bull fighting festival. The protagonist is Jake Barnes who is an American journalist living in Paris. In the war he suffered a wound that left him impotent, which means he can’t have sexual intercourse with a woman. Even though he cannot have sex he is in love with an Englishwoman, Lady Brett Ashley. Brett embodies the sexual freedom of the 1920’s. Her style is very close to the new woman, bobbed hear and many love affairs. In the first part of the book you can sense the sexual tension between Brett and Jake. While in the cab she confesses she loves him but a relationship would never work. When she tells him this they both are extremely drunk because they have been to a night club all night. The next part of the book Jake goes on a fishing trip with his friend Bill. They enjoy a quite few days with little drinking, playing cards and fishing. After the five days they rejoin their friends in Pamplona, where the festival is. They start to drink heavy again. The group is not fond of a fellow on the trip there with them, Robert Cohn. He had an affair with Brett...
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...Hemingway uses The Sun Also Rises to loosely write about his experiences after the war. The main character, Jake Barnes, goes through many hard times after returning from World War I. He’s injured so he cannot fornicate, which greatly troubles him. This injury did not happen to Hemingway, but could possibly be parallel to an issue that he had after the war. Because of this injury, Jake cannot be with the woman he loves, Brett Ashley, because it would not be fair to her. Also, Jake has to deal with his insecure friend, Robert Cohn, who is having troubles with his marriage and writing his second novel. “Jake’s attitude toward homosexuals—the way he degrades them and casts them as his rivals,” can explain how his injury has greatly affected his life. When Jake goes to the bal musette he encounters what he perceives to be many homosexual men. He was lead to believe they were homosexuals by the way they dressed and how they kept their hair. He also saw that their casual attire was very feminine, which bothered him more than the plain fact that they were gay. Jake doesn’t understand why a man would cross-gender himself and portray a woman, and it makes him think about his current conditions. “Jake’s inability to perform sexually corresponds to the homosexual’s inability to perform the correct gender.” Brett Ashley, the woman he is in love with, spends a great deal of time with homosexual men. Jake probably feels that even though he is straight, Brett probably thinks of him as one...
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...imperative to the state’s present and future. These ecosystems provide food and other products for its habitat as well as valuable and irreplaceable ecological functions. These systems also attract visitors from all over the world who wish to experience the beauty and recreational opportunities these locations offer. The state’s life-support system, economy, and quality of life depend on preserving and sustaining these resources over the long term . Of prime interest to Florida is the climate changes impact on rising sea levels. Sea Level Rise (SLR) has been identified as a major global problem. SLR has two causes, the melting of mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets and thermal expansion of the oceans. At present, the mean global rate of sea level rise is approximately 3 mm per year. However, within a relatively broad band of certainty, projections for future sea level rise consistently indicate a non-linear increase in this rate. A rise of at least 1 meter before the end of the century is an increasingly likely possibility . SLR is a serious problem for Florida because of its vast stretches of coast-line. A large portion of the state’s coastline and near-shore inland areas are less than 10 feet in elevation and are...
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...Bullfights in The Sun Also Rises Do some research into Hemingway’s life and you will find he had a great love for Spain, including bullfighting, wine, and fiestas. He shows his love of the fight in his writings such as The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. In The Sun Also Rises he not only talks about the bulls, but his characters can be compared to bulls or steers. It is a deep symbolism that shows Hemingway’s views on gender roles and androgyny in the 1920’s. Jake Barnes, the main character, is a WWI veteran who was rendered impotent during the war. This is the main reason he cannot be with the woman he loves, Lady Brett Ashley. Hemingway portrays him as a man with masculine interests like fishing, bullfighting, and drinking. Though he is shown this way, rather than being like a bull, Jake is considered a steer. Jake is calm, a peacekeeper between his friends just as a steers in bullfighting rings are used to calm the bulls. Jake considers himself an outcast, just as steers are not the main part of bullfights. Lady Brett Ashley would be considered a steer at first glance, but as the story progresses it is clear that she is a symbol of a bull. She is quite possibly the most masculine character in the book. When Hemingway first describes Brett, he describes that “she wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy’s” (Hemingway 22). This gives off a very masculine image, especially considering they lived in a time where...
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...The novel The Sun Also Rises is a novel about a man's life in Paris. The Sun Also Rises is a novel written by Ernest Hemingway. The book is written in the time period around the 1920s. The protagonists are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley. Brett and Jake’s relationship is tragic even though fate is what brought them together. Fate is a predetermined course of events. In the novel Brett and Jake are trapped by their fate. At one part Jake takes Brett to her hotel and they kiss but Brett won’t let him in the hotel room and pushes him away. In another area of the novel Jake gets unhappy with Brett because he is tired of her going out with other guys. Their fate says they should be together because they can’t stay off the each other. Some...
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...In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway makes an attempt to shed light upon the issue of manhood. More specifically, he calls into question what masculinity truly is. Hemingway challenges stereotypical preconceptions of what it means to be a man through the character juxtaposition of Jake Barnes with Robert Cohn. Cohn is emblematic of the general view of masculinity, but Jake turns these notions on their head and gives a much different picture of what it means to be a man. Robert Cohn’s character is that of the prototypical “manly man.” He is truly an “alpha male” by the standards of the public eye, especially of his generation. He possesses all of the qualities that a truly masculine character should have. He is physically strong and an excellent...
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...Jake’s Relationships in The Sun Also Rises In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes has two key relationships. Brett and Jake share a relationship that is very strange and doesn’t relate to how a normal couple should function. The other odd relationship Jake has is with Robert Cohn, a man who has an unacceptable way of dealing with rejection. Jake Barnes is a socially challenged man whose relations throughout the book shape how the reader perceives him. It is clear that Lady Brett Ashley is anything but a lady. She is kind and sweet but she is extremely vulnerable to her attraction to men. Brett is not happy with her life or her environment and she searches for an escape in the arms of men. But, the men don’t fill the void she longs to fill. They only end up hurting her. “Oh, darling, I’ve been so miserable” (Hemingway 32) has become her famous phrase when she runs back to Jake. Jake knows that he will never be able to have her for himself, but he keeps her around because the two wouldn’t know what to do without each other. The Count once asked them, “why don’t you get married, you two?” (Hemingway 68). They answered with the lame “We want to lead our own lives. . . We have our careers” (Hemingway 68) excuse. Jake tolerates her reckless and whorish behavior because he loves her unconditionally and he is willing to ignore everything she does. Jake forgives Brett of her promiscuity and disloyalty for two main reasons. The first and very minor reason is related to the questionable...
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...Jake Barnes of “The Sun Also Rises” is the protagonist of the book, known precisely for his wound from WWI that proves to leave him impotent in his experiences throughout the course of novel. The setting of the novel takes place in Paris,France during the exposition.Jake is young and from America but now lives in Paris working in a newspaper office. Barnes leads an almost simple life, doesn’t find interest in traveling. He has a small group of friends he normally hangs out with as well as always drunk with. He plays tennis with one of his closest friend Robert Cohn. He finds his life empty after World War I, in which he was injured in the state of losing his genitals. Lady Brett, a woman he met during the war, is the love of his life though...
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...Jake Barnes seems to be a very outgoing character in The Sun Also Rises. He is going out to the bar with girls and traveling across Europe with his closest friends but he is also very reserved when he has the chance to speak. If someone to see him walking down the street, they would not know there was anything wrong with him. The only thing that inhibits him is his old injury from the war. It isn’t something that makes it hard for him to walk or function in society but it does affect his love life. He is described as a young man “penis had been shot away but whose testicles and spermatic cord remained intact” (Lahrmann). While to most men this may seem like a detrimental wound to sustain, it is something that can still be lived with. This wound...
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...PRI (Personal Reading Inventory): The Sun Also Rises Context_______________________________________________________________________ 1. Historical: Hemingway based his book The Sun Also Rises on the time period of the Lost Generation, a wandering "lost" time period after WWI. While Hemingway explores the superficiality of his characters' indulgent lifestyles, he touches upon a number of themes, many of which have to do with new notions of masculinity arising after the war. Jake's purported impotence is a powerful symbol for the emasculated postwar male psyche, and bull-fighting describes sex as warfare on a metaphorical level. In addition, Hemingway conceived of the idea for The Sun Also Rises while attending the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, with friends in July, 1925. The novel is a roman à clef where the characters are based on real people and the action is based on real events. 2. Biographical: Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, heavily influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. In 1925, Hemingway took a trip to the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain that would later provided the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises. The novel is widely considered Hemingway's greatest work...
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...In the book the sun also rises written by Ernest Hemingway, men and women have a major disconnect between one another throughout the book. Men and women during this era being that it is the time after world war 1 and most of the characters are considered to be apart of the lost Generation, whee men in women of talent who partaken in the war would move out of the states and into a more foreign land to start over and establish a new life for themselves, which made coping with the war a little easier. These men and women wanted to live their lives to the fullest and that kind of meant disconnecting themselves from one another feeling as if the opposite sex would somehow hold them back from living their life the way that they wished to live it. The characters in the book have a certain mindset so they tend to treat the ones that care about them the most, the most poorly....
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