...In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie, one of the main characters strives for fulfillment in life. Throughout the book, Janie develops emotionally, intellectually, and physically by seeking true love. Making her depict as an influential and potent character, that empowers others to follow their own paths and chase their own dreams. Janie’s development, stubbornness, and hopefulness made her pull her “horizon like a great fish-net.” Suggesting an accomplishment and sense of peace for Janie, of a complete journey to a horizon she could call her own. Janie is a misfortunate character; she was born as a result of her mother being raped by a schoolteacher, and later when her mother abandoned her, Janie was left with Nanny to take care of her. In addition,...
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...We don’t know why we’re here. No one truly knows. There isn’t any religion in the world that can provide realistic evidence about the existence of our species. In fact, I believe a lot of people hurl themselves into religion out of fear. Fear is poison to the mind, body, and soul. I used to believe that I would find the meaning of life if I were to be exposed to a significant event, like having God come down to give me a hug. Obviously, that would be undeniably awesome, but also something one shouldn’t expect. All we have is this moment and in this moment lays beauty. A religious experience is about what he/she felt at that given moment. It has less to do with the events that led up to that feeling. I can find religious experience anywhere. It could be at a football game, beach, playground, or bus. Anywhere. It doesn’t have to be on your knees at a church, synagogue, or mosque. I have personally felt religious experience in the most random places and times. I find bus rides to be a religious experience for me. It clears my head, puts “conflicts” into perspective, and gives me a sense of “oneness” with the world. The feeling one gets during a religious is priceless and something we live for. It is also something found by being present. Brautigan’s A Short History of Religion in California revolves around the concept of religious experience. The narrator found his “electric surge” of an experience on a hike with his daughter in front of the beauties of nature. He described...
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...This last memorable moment in the novel, reveals Janie’s thoughts of Tea Cake. Janie does not believe Tea Cake is dead as long as she can keep him alive with her memories of what they had. The reader can sense the passion coming from Janie when she thinks about her relationship with Tea Cake still alive. This shows how even after death, Janie still wants to keep Tea Cake with her in her heart and mind. He will only stop living when Janie ceases to think and feel for him. Janie is using imagery to show the reader visual images about her feelings of love and passion for Tea Cake. Throughout the relationship, Tea Cake showed Janie what love is about even through the hardships they both were still romantically involved with each other. He showered Janie with all that he could give to...
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...chef, and launching my own cake decorating business. I first began college as a premed student in Northern Kentucky. Four majors later I found out about the Baking and Pastry program at the Art Institute and I realized baking did not have to be just a hobby. The program helped me recognize that I could have a career in a field that I have an immense love and passion for. I began the program in October of 2009, eager to learn all that I could about my new field of study. I was anxious to acquire the techniques that I watched everyday on the Food Network and excited to one day create the masterpieces that these Chefs have done. My first cake in my introduction to baking class was simply decorated with a vine of pumpkins. Through the classes offered in the Baking and Pastry program, the instructors helped expand my knowledge and skills. During my second quarter at the Art Institute I was able to make a primitive fire place scene out of bread and as Easter Bunny with a basket make completely of sugar. Each class was specific to techniques used to create exquisite showpieces and cake creations. After my third quarter in the program, I had experience making many classic European tortes and made a box completely out of chocolate. My fourth and final quarter was my favorite of my Baking and Pastry college career. I had finally reached that classes that were specific to my dreams and passions. I used the very same techniques that I had been watching on the “Cake Challenge.” I was finally...
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...is showcased by ;Janie finding peace with herself, and Tea Cake’s love for Janie. Tea Cake and Janie meet about halfway through the story. Janie has had two unsatisfactory husbands and Tea Cake is the first real gentleman in her life, so they get married. Janie is able to give happily after Tea Cakes death because of the there reasons listed above. Janie returns to eatonville and comes back a changed person. Towards the being of the people saw Janie as a whore. She would find younger men and the town was able to assume the rest. After Tea Cake’s death she could not live in the everglades without Tea Cake, so she went to her old home town. Upon her return, Janie is a lot older and has changed drastically. She was able to reunite with Pheoby her friend and talk about Tea Cake, which was a good emotional release for her. Janie says “”Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah””(Hurston 191). The familiar town where she might have been single, but she lived there like that before. Janie’s cherished her time with...
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...metaphor and personification. Throughout the novel, Hurston uses natural imagery to metaphorically depict Janie’s growing awareness about marriage, men and desire. The reoccurring symbol of the pear tree reflects Janie’s feelings throughout the novel. For example, in Janie’s youth she observes and experiences the bees’ interaction with the pear “tree in bloom” (Hurston 11). Her soliloquy about the interaction she witnesses represents a sexual connection full of erotic energy, passionate interaction, and blissful harmony. In response to what she has seen, and because she was raised to believe that a physical connection equated to a mental one, Janie even blurts out, “So this was marriage!”(Hurston 11). Thus, she begins to confuse inner peace and happiness with romance and sex, concluding that marriage will bring about sensual fulfillment. According to Kendall, “The experience becomes a symbol to Janie of the ideal relationship, one in which passion does not result in possession or domination,...
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...Tea Cake was sure that he could ride out a dangerous hurricane and decides to stay in the muck instead of just accepting the ride to higher ground out of harm’s way. In the end, nature wins and indirectly ends up taking Tea Cakes life for his arrogance. Tea Cake was a fine gambler, but nature called his bluff. This taught that people cannot be arrogant when facing powerful things out of their control. Had Tea Cake been sensible, dropped his pride, and arrogance and left for safety he could still be alive. In the fall of 2011, a father made the decision to evacuate from a hurricane that was coming for North Carolina. A tree was blown into the residence while the family was away, but the family lived because of wise decision making. The father had more sense than Tea Cake did and knew to leave for safety because in the conflict of Man Vs. Nature, Nature normally...
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...A hurricane touches the little town of Eatonville turning the lives of each individual and its town upside down. Janie and Tea Cake turn down the smartest suggestion of leaving Eatonville when they first heard of the hurricane, and by the time that they came to the conclusion to leave, it was too late. Janie and Tea Cake hid away inside their house when the destructive hurricane arrived. Janie expresses to Tea Cake how happy she is to be joined to him by marriage and being with him in such a life threatening time. Janie pouring out her true feelings gives Tea Cake the comforting and knowing he needs after he had been perplexed about Janie's genuine feelings from the time when meeting Mr. Taylor. The character of Tea Cake's develops as the hurricane becomes more severe. Realizing the only way of surviving such a destructive hurricane, Tea Cake is forced to be the protector as they attempt to leave Eatonville. Tea Cake uses the power and determination he has towards trying to accomplish their escape, and does not shy away from going to any extent to save his wife. When Tea Cake is bitten by a rabid dog, Janie's character also changes. Janie is forced to make a complex decision to save herself and Tea Cake from in fact, Tea Cake himself. Janie decides to shoot Tea Cake to protect herself. The hurricane and events that occurred as a result of it, causes Janie to lose her freedom of self and nature that she had long worked for. "It was the...
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...03/18/2010 1.0 Executive Summary Precious Baby Creations Company is an E-commerce start-up business based online, specializing with unique diaper cakes and accessories as well as specialty baby creations for superb baby showers. Precious Baby Creations Company allows its customers to give an added sentiment to their baby shower gifting experience. Although there may be many online based companies that are marketing this product, Precious Baby Creations Company gives a personal touch for its customers to feel that it emulates their particular style. Though the diaper cake creation is a competitive market, Precious Baby Creations Company has many concepts and innovative ideas for creating the perfect gift for the expectant mother that will be remembered. The first year budget start-up money is 10,000 USD. I myself am an expectant mother and feel that this concept of creating diaper cakes for baby shower gifts is a wonderful way of expressing such joy and excitement for a special day in one’s life. 2.0 Situation Analysis When a special someone is due to arrive as a new member of the family it is only right that a unique creative baby gift be present. Precious Baby Creations Company produces the most well put together gifts for baby shower celebrations. Precious Baby Creations Company designs, creates and ships unique diaper cakes and other various baby creations at competitive prices with the highest quality materials and great customer service in mind. 2.1 Marketing Summary ...
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...This file contains the Peace Unit of Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8–14. The full book in English with 12 values units is available through HCI and amazon.com. (Published in 10 languages. See page 8 for a list of which languages.) Values posters are available for free download on the www.livingvalues.net website. Please note that the Setting the Context and Introduction sections are updated. These updated chapters will be in the new edition of the book, when HCI reprints. This edition made available on the international Living Values Education website. (May 2012) C O N T E N T S Setting the Context 3 The Need for Values Education 3 The Living Values Education Approach 4 LVE Resource Materials 8 Purpose and Aims 9 The Living Values Series 9 For Children and Youth At-Risk 11 History of Living Values Education 12 Acknowledgement 13 Results 16 Introduction – Exploring and Developing Values 21 Teaching Values 21 The Developing Values Schematic – The LVEP Method 22 Bringing In the Values of Your Culture 35 Making Values Education a Practical Reality 36 Incorporating Values Into the Existing Curriculum 40 One: Peace Unit 43 Reflection Points 43 Objectives 43 PEACE LESSONS 44 ...
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...dimension to her short stories. **Subject: Compare two or three short stories from the collection Games at Twilight Games at Twilight contains 11 short stories but I decided to compare 3 of the short stories which are A Devoted Son, Pigeons at Daybreak and Pineapple Cake. Pineapple Cake it is about the life of a mother realising the extent of her fall from social grace that becomes her preoccupation as she attends a wedding,in Pigeons at Daybreak,it is about the daily routine and the complex relationship of an old married couple and A Devoted Son is about a son who succeeded in life and devoted himself to his father who became ill. **These three short stories seem to be very differents from one other but by going deeper into them we can find some similarities which are explored,described in different ways.It is not possible to divide in two parts such as in first part we will see the common points and in a second part the differences because both are too strongly linked.I will try to compare point by point. **In the three short stories,, Anita Desai is exploring the different scales of relationship that can exist.In a Devoted Son she is exploring the relationship of a father and his son, in Pineapple Cake the one of a mother and her son and finally in Pigeons at Daybreak the one...
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...they act and do things accordingly” (1) This passage, which opens Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, establishes the novel’s unusual perspective on gender difference. The idea is that men are more practical than women; they know that their dreams are unattainable and become resigned to their fates and live on while women are failing to distinguish between dream and reality. Women’s dreams are their reality, and they live far more idealistic lives. “...Tea Cake, with the sun for a shawl. Of course he wasn’t dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace...” (192, 193) The passage leads to the end of the novel, showing that Janie makes the final association between her memories and her future dreams. Even though she cherishes the past, she doesn’t see the future as an empty place lacking Tea Cake. Instead, she envisions her future as a time to recall her memories of Tea Cake and wait for the time that she can join him in heaven and live in her dream. “So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule ud de world so fur as Ah can see" (14) This quote talks about gender and equality as when Nanny, Janie’s grandmother, is trying to help Janie by giving her advices to benefit her life and her future. As far as...
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...did things to save time and energy. “In my freshman year, my roommates and I survived on Chinese takeout, express pizzas and taco take-home dinners. We ate lunch while walking to class… It was fast and easy-- no washing up” (Wu para. 5). Sometimes we get caught up in the fast world and need to settle down and do things the old way, as in taking our time to finish things. Wu finds her own way of coping by slowing down and taking the time to do all her tasks. Wu later states “[n]ot long ago, I spent a day making a meal for my family”(Wu para.15). She then says “[t]hat night I grinned as my father and sister dug into the pasta, then the cake, licking her lips in appreciation. It had been a long time since I’d felt so proud” (Wu para. 16). She gets a sense of accomplishment from the tasks she did. When she takes the time to cook dinner and bake the cake she puts in a lot of effort and in the end when...
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...now, she pictures love and a pure sexual nature between them. Her first two husbands, Logan Killicks and Jody Starks, ruin her idea of love, but they also show her what she really wants in a relationship. The third husband, Tea Cake, is what she has been looking for, according to some critics, "Being with Tea Cake is good evidence of her lifelong devotion to her youthful vision, to the ideal form of marriage that happens for love, not for convenience" (Hajjari, Hossein, and Parvin 46). Janie's vision of the relationship between the bee and the blossom is finally becoming reality for her. The relationship between her and Tea Cake continues for a while but he eventually his flaws are revealed, Janie kills him, and lives her life still hopeful for her ideal vision of love. Each husband plays a role in Janie's journey to find herself and what she wants in...
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...Although some view her first two lovers as evil, all three of them were similar. Tea Cake’s commands are as oppressive as Killick’s and Stark’s, but Janie is only submissive to Tea Cake’s. In fact, Sop-de-Bottom congratulates Tea Cake on how submissive his wife is unlike his own wife (140-141). She conforms to all of his wishes as she comes to the understanding of her immature view on marriage. Expecting her lovers to tailor to her idealization of marriage is what causes Janie to become powerless, and is forced to run away. In the book, “two marriages fail, one succeeds, yet all three husbands treat Janie the same way” (Miller 83). By the time Janie marries Tea Cake, she discovers that “power is rooted in one’s sense of vulnerability” (Miller 83). She stopped fighting her husband in order to find her own vulnerability. By succumbing to his desires and staying silent when he argues with her, she comes out as an empowered and dignified women. As a dynamic character, she abandons her earlier misconception of marriage and must “locate the temporal circumstances (that is, the man) best suited for freedom” (Faye 146). She adapts to her circumstances and realizes the importance of controlling...
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