...The use of simile in this quatrain helps unearth meaning and emotion, it reads “the movement of his soft powerful strides is like a ritual dance around a center.” A ritual dance can be thought of as a celebration of spiritual freedom, but if we reference back to pacing in “cramped circles”, it can be seen that there is no freedom for this panther, and his spirit is trapped behind those bars. The imagery in the final line of this quadrant depicts that the Will of the panther is being tortured when it says “A mighty stands paralyzed.” The very nature of this creature has ceased due to his unjust...
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...Physical Development in Middle Adulthood Middle adulthood is a time of change and has been referred to as the prime time of life. Middle age can range from ages 35 – 70. This is a time when you reflect on exciting milestones that had occurred in the past. For example, graduating from college, getting married, and starting a family. Most people at this age are in fairly good health both physically and psychologically, they are also apt to earning more money and having acquired wisdom through life experiences (Zastrow 2010 pg 410). However, in middle age there are also life crises, slow decline in health, changes in sexuality occur, and slight changes in intellectual activity and cognitive competence. Men and women are changing physically, cognitively and biologically during this time. There are four common health problems that arise from middle adulthood, Hypertension, Diabetes, Cancer and Arthritis, as individuals reach middle age they will feel a difference in physical functional so it is important for to stay healthy and practice a lifestyle of wellness. Hypertension also referred to as high blood pressure is a major health problem beginning in midlife. Middle-age Americans face a 90% chance of developing high blood pressure at some time during the rest of their lives, according to a new study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). " Lenfant states, "high blood pressure is easily diagnosed and can be prevented by adopting certain lifestyle...
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...do what he pleases, if she denies him or don’t act the way he thinks she should, he will hurt her. He has also managed to isolate her from her friends and family making sure she is only there for him. Laura’s freedom has been taken away and John in so much control and fills her life so much, that she feels almost invisible to both him and the rest of the world. It is said, that Laura wasn’t always like this. Before she got married, Laura was an outgoing, happy, humorous and energetic person; much different to whom she is now. In the beginning Laura was drawn to John because she wanted him to belong in with the others, even though “he resented the effort of fitting in”. John is as said a very miserable man, so he marries her in hope that Laura’s humor and happy spirit will wear off on him. The text states that in the beginning of the relationship, there is a spark of love between the two. However when John blames Laura for his ongoing unhappiness and starts slapping and punching her, that sparks quickly dies out. The only thing holding her together is a tiger eye gemstone, which she got from a friend long ago. It symbolizes courage, strength and “creates harmony out of chaos”. It also represents herself in some ways – most of the time dark and empty, but with rare flashes of light, the...
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...How successfully does the use of symbolism in ‘Madame Tutli-Putli’ (2007) contribute towards a narrative that explores themes of a woman’s sexuality and freedom? Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski are the professionals at showing their story through the use symbolism in their work of stop motion animation “Madame Tutli-Putli”. I will be showing the best examples I have chosen to support the themes of a woman’s sexuality and freedom in the short animated film, I will also be exploring the use of symbolism and how well it contributes towards the narrative in the short film. We will be looking at two different scenes in the film, the beginning scene and the end scene, we will examine on how well Chris and Maciek use the symbolism to tell a narrative...
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...the life and death of the ball turret gunner. In the drab and desolate background of world war II the gunner is hunched upside down in the belly of a bomber aircraft flying bombing missions over Germany. He is fighting off bullets and flak, constantly staring death in the face. The life expectancy of the turret gunner is short. The stench of the previous occupant still Lingers. Jerrell scribes from the first person a monologue of this ill fated gunner. We hear the gunner speak to us from the grave. The brevity of the poem is short. The life of the gunner is short. Most strikingly, the poem whisks us in time from birth to death. Perhaps the gunner is experiencing the death flash. His whole life flashes before him in an instant and we are reading his thoughts. The irony, symbols and choice of words Jerrell uses set the tone of the poem and leaves the reader with mixed emotions. In horrific times of armed conflict everything is turned inside out. What we think of as normal is abnormal. Our values are inverted. Life becomes cheap. Jerrell’s choice of metaphors and words has a traumatic impact on the reader. In a clever twist, Jerrell uses time to shorten time from decades to seconds. First, he advances time as if he knew nothing in life matters but death. The gunner goes immediately from birth to preparation for death. “From my mothers sleep I fell into the state,” line 1. It’s clear the...
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...Abby Dillard EN 1103 Mr. Tyler Trimm April 15, 2010 Predestination in The Lady of Shalott The ballad, “The Lady of Shalott”, written by Alfred Tennyson in 1833, is an analysis of the Victorian woman's predestined role in society and her free will desire to abandon this identity and break free into the male dominated world. In the Victorian Age, society had very little tolerance for those who did not conform to the predetermined roles. This is shown through the main character in “The Lady of Shalott”. The Lady represents those who did not reciprocate the idealized role of women during that time period. The Victorian age was one of much turmoil with women actively campaigning for more rights in a male dominant society. During this time men were considered to be intelligent, strong, powerful characters, while women were emotional, and only capable of housework and raising children. It is the Lady's rejection of these Victorian ideals of femininity that ultimately lead to her destruction. After seeing the city's people interacting and the charming Knight Lancelot, she rejects her life of solitude and seeks a new lifestyle, but unfortunately, the restricted society she escapes to has no place for the creative female and ultimately leads to her demise. The Lady is doomed to remain a stranger to society. She is completely isolated on her own island in a tower near the Victorian town of Camelot. The Lady’s confinement reflects the Victorian attitude towards women. The...
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...“Testagrossa Agrees” Discussion Questions Part 1 1. Testagrossa was said to be a man with a big round head on a very thin, skinny body. He wore a huge cloaked that drowned his figure making him look like a scarecrow. He had a flat face with a wide mouth, squashed nose, and green eyes. He seemed to have a very mysterious and mischievous look on his face. He seemed to be portrayed as a very uppity and active man who worked as a produce weigher. His job seemed to be enjoyable to him mainly because he earned some money and when he would weigh out the basket of peaches he would sneak one peach into his pocket, resulting in having 12 peaches in his pockets and all the way around his giant cloak everyday. When he was caught with all the peaches one day this resulted in him being accused of being a thief. Even though he seemed like a generally happy man he was very poor with no home and rags for clothes. He lived day by day on the stolen fruit and little money earned. As for his opinion on crime, he did not accept it. Even though he committed a crime of stealing everyday, he was against crime and everything Serpenera was involved in, his “dirty business”. Part 2 1. Serpenera was also a very tall, thin man who seemed very stealthy. He tried to convince Testagrossa to come with him to a “palace” where he could have a suit and a pair of shoes to wear instead of rags, making him look like a gentleman. He seemed very conniving trying to convince Testagrossa to come with him...
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...her childhood. Flashes of being in the castle and being the missing princess hit Rapunzel and she is forced to face them; she is the lost princess. After the brother battle with Mother Gothel, Rapunzel goes back to the city to show the king and queen that she is their long lost daughter. After an uneasy pause, the royal family hugs and finally has closer about the hole that they all felt because of Rapunzel’s absence. This is a major part of the hero’s journey, also known as the atonement with the father or family. Tangled follows this and continues the road toward the hero’s final chapter, the return. Beforehand, Rapunzel is awarded the ultimate boon, the feeling of no longer being incredibly lonely. In her tower, she has her “mother” and Pascal, her mentor and pet chameleon. But, after the brother battle, not only is Mother Gothel gone, but she shows Rapunzel that she never really loved her nor did she care for her safety, just her healing powers. This inevitably makes Rapunzel remember the past eighteen years as an incredibly lonely experience. But now, she has both her family and Flynn Rider, and her ultimate boon is achieved. Her feeling of loneliness is gone, now replaced by an even more powerful one, love. Rapunzel’s hero journey continues through her atonement with her family and the achievement of her ultimate boon. Rapunzel’s final steps in the film, also known as the return, include not only a rescue from without, but a conclusion with Rapunzel’s freedom to live how she...
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...Bring your own device Victor Morgan CIS330 Strayer University Bring your own device As practice shows, a growing number of employees use at work their own mobile devices. This year, many tech sites are increasingly flashes by acronym BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) – “Take your own devices to work”. As of today, when it is posible connect to different cloud services and harness the power of personal device to perform the work steps, literally holding the phone, and the range of devices has become a truly enormous, sometimes for an employee computer standing on his desk has no value. With the ability to perform the same work tasks, but with the help of his personal device employee, in practice, will seek to do so. The task of company IT-service – is to provide him such. BYOD (bring your own device) – is a term that describes a situation where an employee of organization instead of corporate computer uses to run his own device, whether it is his personal laptop, tablet, or, in extreme cases, even a smartphone. BYOD term appeared at least since 2004. However, the explosive popularity of this idea is found only recently and mainly due to the activity of suppliers of IT-services and the rapid development of functional diversity and cloud services. Today, the growing popularity of BYOD concept affects the number of positions in many areas of IT: from the technical support department to department of development of mobile applications and security management and monitoring of compliance...
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...Design principles Unit 2 Learning outcomes • Introduce concepts of usability and user experience • Understand fundamental design principles • Develop – awareness of how to apply them in design – Critical ability to evaluate other people design 2 Usability • “Extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.” – ISO 9241-11:1998 Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) -- Part 11: Guidance on usability. 3 Usability • Usability is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. • Five quality dimensions: – Learnability: How easy is it for users to accomplish basic tasks the first time they encounter the design? – Efficiency: Once users have learned the design, how quickly can they perform tasks? – Memorability: When users return to the design after a period of not using it, how easily can they reestablish proficiency? – Errors: How many errors do users make, how severe are these errors, and how easily can they recover from the errors? – Satisfaction: How pleasant is it to use the design? – http://www.useit.com/ 4 Usability • Quality = absence of problems – discover usability problems and reduce their frequency and severity. – It can be measured – Objective data (performance data derived by behavioural data, user observations) – Subjective data (self-report, questionnaire...
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...Offred, a handmaid at the time, serves as a concubine, bearing children for couples that cannot bear children on their own. Assigned as a handmaid to Commander Fred and his wife, Offred suffers greatly, as she is forced to have non-consensual sexual affairs with the Commander regularly. In her anguish, Offred often flashes back to happier times when she conceived a daughter with a married man whom she loved. During her time as a handmaid, the narrator meets another handmaid, named Ofglen, who tells her about Mayday, an organization trying to overthrow the government. Later in the story, Offred and the Commander begin a newly mutual, illicit relationship; however, in another story line, Offred has developed an affair with the Commander’s wife’s driver, Nick. After seeing Ofglen commit suicide to avoid the punishments of her involvement with Mayday, Offred sees the police at her door. The novel then comes to an end, leaving the readers with the ability to interpret the...
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...KEYS TO PERSONAL LEADERSHIP - initiative and selfreliance Mr. Ronay’s history encompasses 35 years of leadership as a CEO, consultant, founder, trainer, and coach in technology, life style, leadership, change management, and disruptive businesses domestically and internationally. He has devoted much energy to public service and volunteer organizations. Written for the Aug Austin Software Council newsletter.. June, 2001 The ability to lead is a peculiar combination of human characteristics equal to, if not more important than the ability to discover, to invent, and to create. Invention results from the experiment with the unknown; leadership, by contrast, grows out of experience with what is already known. The Austin Software Council was birthed as an experiment to forge solidity of experience in networking and awareness building helping to drive our technology community toward greater leadership capabilities. --------------------------- Contrary to the cliché genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it because they are leaders. Historically, for me, grade school was a command and control environment, a carrot and stick behavior modification routine filled with rules, sin, prayers, shame, guilt, fear and not much on leadership. High school had less of the same although the Army military academy I attended sprinkled in military precepts of leadership. College, the Air Force and a pilot career left more in my bag of leadership skills. Most behaviors were highly...
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...Task B Survey use of social media by customers Questionnaire to customer type associations Compile questionnaire Identify associations Strategy for surveying Social media platforms enable you to create and engage communities online. These communities are of like-minded people who share opinions, ideas, and information of interest with one another. The networks that evolve on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Foursquare, Google Plus might include the very audiences your business serves. And at some point, you may want to ask for their feedback. For example, let’s say your company is planning to introduce a new mobile app and wants to do a little more market research. You might consider posting a short survey on Facebook and offering a 50 percent discount to the first 50 customers who complete it for you. How to Use Social Media Surveys Social media channels assessments. Do your clients and customers use the Internet and social networks? If so, which ones? Are they on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Foursquare, Google Plus—or all of the above? How often do they participate in these communities, and for what purposes? What devices do they use to connect, and how likely are they to engage as a consumer? A mobile user will engage with your products very differently than someone who primarily accesses the Internet from Mac or Windows desktop. Use this information to build your digital marketing strategy, including which...
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...DAFFODILS STUDENT COPY 2012 Daffodils By William Wordsworth Note: This is reference and a training purpose copy only, any copy made or selling this work to public will be liable for penalty and subjected copyright policy. INDEX 1) Poem- Daffodils 2) Questions and Answers 3) Summary 4) Explanation Poem I wandered lonely as a Cloud That floats on high o'er vales and Hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden Daffodils; Beside the Lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A Poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the Daffodils. Questions and Answers 1) What was the poet doing when he saw the daffodils? Answer: The poet was walking around through the hills and valleys, but he felt all lonely and mopey. Suddenly, as he passed the lake, he noticed a big group of yellow daffodils waving in the breeze. 2) What does the poet compare himself with? “I wandered lonely as a Cloud...
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...passes the River Street, a little moment from her past would just pop up in her head. She would flash back to the old good day. Another article which surprised me is Once More to the Lake by E.B. White. “I seemed to be living a dual existence” (White 233). The author reflects his own childhood during the time when his father would take him to a lake in Maine when he was younger and now, he visits there with his son. This article is as same as Ann Hood’s street scene because based on places, both the authors’ childhood memories could be rebounded. Times waits for no one as people having more ages, including White. While he was playing with his son, he was realizing that things changes differently but the sounds do not change; therefore, it flashes him back to the past. “I began to sustain the illusion that he was I, and therefore, by simple transposition, that I was my father.” (White 233). By observing all his son’s actions, it reminds him of how likable his actions are comparing to his son’s actions. Picking up a bait box or laying down a table fork, or simply saying something and “suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words or making the gesture” (White 233) would awakening the delusion of White’s childhood time at the lake with his father. “Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, ice garment. As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly...
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