...The Importance of Light in A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche’s relation to light is quite obvious because she tries to avoid bright light of any kind. Her reaction to light can be regarded as an attempt to hide her true nature as well as her vanishing beauty and youth. By hiding from the light, she tries to escape reality. She covers the naked light bulb with a Chinese paper lantern, saying, “I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action” (Sc.3 p. 2093). This remark shows that Blanche would rather hide behind polite phrases than accept truth and reality. The paper lantern is not very stable, though, and it can easily be destroyed, just like her illusions. In scene six, she takes Mitch home with her and says, “Let’s leave the lights off” (Sc.6 p. 2309). Blanche thinks of Mitch as a future husband, and therefore she does not want him to know her past or her true age, and the best way to hide her age is to stay out of bright light where he could possibly see her wrinkles and fading youth in her face. Later in that scene, Blanche tells Mitch about her husband Allan: “When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me” (Sc. 6 p. 2113). In her past, light used to represent love, but now it represents something destructive...
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...Every animal including man is born free. All animals in their natural state, except man who is precluded by civilization to be in his natural state, are free. Some animals lose their freedom only because of man's needs and deeds. The world is 'open' and not 'closed' in its natural state; every animal - man is not exempted - desires novelty, spontaneity and genuine creativity, which are the hallmarks of freedom. Man, though born free like other animals, is in chain everywhere. This is because of the restrictions and restraints which he imposes on himself and which are imposed on him by others. For example, no one is expected to appear naked in public in the name of freedom. There are social norms to be followed. Different occasions demand different customs. Man, living in a society, has to follow certain customs, conventions and traditions in the interest of harmonious existence; he cannot take the stand that he is absolutely free and that he can do things in his own way. Man, in the process of his change from primitive tribalism to civilized existence, has chained himself more and more to rules and regulations. Unlike other living creatures, he is capable of thinking and is intelligent to devise ways and means of exploiting his fellowmen. This exploitation leads to his keeping them subdued and enslaved. Imperialism in the past and neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism today have only been instruments of suppressing the aspirations for freedom of the exploited. A classic example...
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...Man is born freeBut everywhere he is in chain. - J. J. RousseauDiscuss the meaning and importance of freedom in the light of this quotation. | | Every animal including man is born free. All animals in their natural state, except man who is precluded by civilization to be in his natural state, are free. Some animals lose their freedom only because of man's needs and deeds. The world is 'open' and not 'closed' in its natural state; every animal - man is not exempted - desires novelty, spontaneity and genuine creativity, which are the hallmarks of freedom.Man, though born free like other animals, is in chain everywhere. This is because of the restrictions and restraints which he imposes on himself and which are imposed on him by others. For example, no one is expected to appear naked in public in the name of freedom. There are social norms to be followed. Different occasions demand different customs. Man, living in a society, has to follow certain customs, conventions and traditions in the interest of harmonious existence; he cannot take the stand that he is absolutely free and that he can do things in his own way.Man, in the process of his change from primitive tribalism to civilized existence, has chained himself more and more to rules and regulations. Unlike other living creatures, he is capable of thinking and is intelligent to devise ways and means of exploiting his fellowmen. This exploitation leads to his keeping them subdued and enslaved. Imperialism in the past and...
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...Compare and contrast how gender roles are presented in The Importance of Being Earnest and a Doll’s House in light of Ibsen’s statement that “there are two kinds of moral laws, two kinds of conscience, one for men and one quite different, for women.” According to Ibsen’s statement, he states that moral laws are divided into two, one for women and the other for men. He’s claiming that the “moral laws” that society has implanted has double standards. Ibsen and Wilde present gender roles through morality, marriage, food delicacies, dance and wealth. These four factors affect how the characters in both plays are viewed by society. Both writers present the expectations society has for both genders. They highlight the obscurity, the society they lived in, had. This method was to leave the audience questioning about the society they lived in. Ibsen displays the realness of a typical marriage and he doesn’t follow the conventions of a Well-Made play, he presents the hardcore facts of marriage and family life; he does this by giving both genders unequal power, which contradicts the meaning of marriage, “the joining of two equals”. Whereas Wilde switches the gender roles, this method is very effective as it emphasises and reveals clearly how ridiculous the social class behaves. Even though Ibsen uses highly respected jobs to portray the archetype of men, Wilde uses the absence of occupation to concentrate on the other aspects of Victorian life. In the first Act, Ibsen outlines the stereotypical...
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...9/8/2015 Other People’s Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics The New York Times http://nyti.ms/1N6VF74 The Opinion Pages | OPED COLUMNI ST Other People’s Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics SEPT. 4, 2015 Paul Krugman Sydney, Australia — Soon after arriving here, I stopped at an A.T.M.; I needed some dollars, and all I had were dollars. O.K., weak joke. What I needed were Australian dollars — Aussies — not U.S. greenbacks. There are actually four Englishspeaking countries with dollars of their own; the others are the Canadian loonie and the New Zealand kiwi. And you can learn a lot about the global economy, busting some popular monetary myths, by comparing those currencies and how they serve their economies. All four dollar nations are, if you take the long view, highly successful economies. True, America is still recovering from its worst slump since the Great Depression, Canada is being hit hard by plunging oil prices and Australia is feeling nervous as its markets in China wobble. But we’re all wealthy nations that have weathered economic storms better than most of the rest of the world. While the dollar nations have all done well, however, they occupy very different positions in the world economy. In part, I mean that quite literally: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/opinion/paulkrugmanotherpeoplesdollarsandtheirplaceinglobaleconomics.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fpa… 1/4 9/8/2015 Other People’s Dollars...
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...towards the seemingly mysterious and solitary life of Charles Foster Kane. In certain scenes throughout the movie, the lack of lighting, ironically, catches the audience’s eye. The first scene where the lack of lighting really stands out takes place when the few journalists assigned to write about Kane’s death are discussing the possible meanings of his last word, “rosebud.” The first thing the audience is presented with is a room encompassed in darkness, with the exception of two streams of light pouring in from the windows, barely seeming to effectively light up the room. When the men pass by the light, all that is visible are their profiles, and a few puffs of smoke. Although Welles uses a long shot and deep focus for the majority of this scene, the audience really doesn’t get a look into where the characters are spatially located within the shot or how many people are in the room, which leaves a lingering feeling of mystery and curiosity. After a couple of seconds, a second source of light comes through from the lamp sitting on a desk, however this still doesn’t give the audience much more information. Later in the scene the camera cuts to a leveled medium-long shot of two men talking to each other, with a giant white...
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...III. Symbol Two: Weather IV. Symbol Three: Colors V. Symbol Four: Green Light VI. Conclusion I. Intro a. Introduce what to expect in paper. b. Provide an overview of the symbols that will be analyzed. c. Mention the importance of symbols to a novel. II. Symbol One: Location a. Introduce the symbol of location. b. Explain importance of Valley of Ashes, East Egg, West Egg, New York City, etc. c. Analyze the purpose of location as a symbol (displays social class, conflict between locations, similarities and differences between characters) III. Symbol Two: Weather a. Introduce the symbol of weather. b. Explain importance of the hot summer days, rainy visit with Daisy, and the heat again during the drunken feud. c. Analyze the purpose of weather as a symbol (parallel to emotions and turn of events: heat held conflict, rain held disappointment or renewal). IV. Symbol Three: Colors a. Introduce the symbol of colors. b. Explain the importance of colors in relation to the story (emphasis on the color of clothing, perhaps focus on scene where Daisy cries at Gatsby’s beautiful clothes). c. Analyze the purpose of colors as a symbol (colors of clothing help to develop characters, at times showing personality traits not initially displayed). V. Symbol Four: Green Light a....
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...Theatre 152 November 12, 2015 Section 6 The Importance of Lighting One Flew Over the Cuckoos’ Nest , written by Dale Wasserman, was one of the more exciting plays I saw this semester. Part of the reason this play made such an impact on me was the way the lighting set the mood. I intend to argue that the lighting in the play properly set the mood for each scene. In this paper I will discuss how the lighting affected the mood when the Chief would look into the distance, how it affected the show during the electroshock therapy of McMurphy, and lastly how the transition from night to day really helped the play move along smoothly. During Chief’s monologues the lighting set the tone for him and was able to take the audience back to his native Indian reservoir. The blue hue that went along with his monologues really made one feel one with the Chief as if we were experiencing the same feeling and sites he was. With Chief looking up into the blue hue lighting it made it appear is if he was back at those ground and taking in the fresh air, whenever the stage went dark and that light flashed on him he seemed happy. The lighting helped make it seem as if you were back there with him on the Indian grounds, it allowed the audience to take that journey and ignore the setting around him, as if it took him out of the asylum and back to his home. As discussed in the chapter 10 in the text book, Theatre: The Lively Art, the light is crucial to giving focus and composition. The...
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...Presenting an Academic Paper AGUS GUNAWAN Discussion points What is a good presentation? What will the audience remember? What is the most difficult aspect of presenting? Why? Are you nervous when you have to present? What are you afraid of? What do you hope to learn from this training? What we will discuss… Designing presentation content Designing effective power point Presenting your work Designing Presentation Content Things to be considered… Creates an overall framework – intro, main body, conclusion Understand key terminology Assumes the audiences knows nothing about the subject at all Time management Keep your own voice: start & end your paragraphs Applies critical thinking Develop the presentation content Identify your audience Formulate your objectives Make a statement Expand on the statement Use clear signpost to guide the audience through your discussion Back up with evidence and examples A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions Three principal questions for critical thinking What Why How “What?” Identifies the key message you wish to communicate. What is the benefit of your message for the audience ? What can they do with the information ? “Why?” Addresses the next obvious question that arises in the audience. “why should I do that?” “why should I think that?” “why should that be the case?” ...
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...Background. Plants require light to grow. Plants store energy in their cells which in turn generate food and help them grow. The aim of this experiment is to show the importance of light as an important part of plant life. Light leads to the development of chlorophyll. This is used by plants to store energy during daylight. This is the energy that the plant will use to make food. Hypothesis. Plants need light in order for them to make food. It is important to grow plants in conditions that expose them to sunlight to ensure that they make their food. The Procedure for carrying out the experiment. The purpose is to find out why plants need light in order to grow. Collect ten standard pot plants that have plants already growing. This will allow for the testing to be effective as plants will have already shown growth levels. What has now to be seen is the impact that the light has on these pots. Number the pot plants from 1 up to 10 so that it becomes easier to identify them Take photos of the pot plants so that these can be used for comparative purposes. Place five pot plants in different parts of the garden and cover with black polythene paper bag and insert a tube to allow for watering of the plants. The plants will need the water to support their growth. Place the remaining five plants in different parts of the garden were they will continue to be exposed the sunlight these pot plants should remain uncovered. Allow these plants to remain still for a period...
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...the relationship among variables into consideration. This can be illustrated using an imaginary example. We want to asses if height and weight of people are indicative of getting a disease. We can calculate the following tables for height and weight, respectively. Since short or tall people have the same percentage of sick people (2%), we may conclude that height is not relevant to predicting the disease. Similarly, we also think weight is not important. Height and Disease Weight and Disease If examining weight and height at the same time, we can develop the following matrix. There are four groups of people, high/heavy (normal), short/light (normal), high/light(abnormal), and short/heavy (abnormal). 11% of short/heavy or light/tall people are sick (orange cells). While the percentage of sick people from tall/heavy and short/light groups (green cells) is only 0.1%. Thus, height and weight are very good variables to be included in a predictive model. Height/Weight...
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...Each week we build on the ideas presented in prior discussions. The themes of classical mythology build and intermingle: chaos and order, beauty and ugliness, male and female, and now, light and darkness, or more specifically, gods and goddesses of the sun and moon. Apollo and Artemis are the most obvious representations of the sun and moon; however, there are numerous other gods and goddesses that have some tie to these celestial bodies. This begs the question: why are there so many different gods and goddesses associated with the sun and moon? And, moreover, what are we to make of the duplicitous nature of these gods and goddesses? As has been discussed throughout the quarter, the gods and goddesses are a projection of humankind, and like humankind, they possess duplicitous characteristics. More than anything else, the plurality of the sun and moon gods and goddesses highlights the importance of the sun and...
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...reasons to choose a beer are tradition and brand image. The importance of these reasons will differ for each brand. There are some beer brands consumed because of the price, regardless of the other attributes and there are others drank because of tradition, regardless of other attributes. The attributes that contribute the most to Mountain Man Lager are taste, perceived quality, brand image, and tradition. One focus group participant expressed this by saying, “My dad drank Mountain Man just like my granddad did. They both felt it was as good a beer as you could get anywhere” (3). This quote encompasses not only the perceived quality associated with Mountain Man beer, but also the importance of tradition and the taste of the beer to Mountain Man consumers. These brand attributes are linked so firmly to the meaning of Mountain Man beer that it is my opinion that it will not transfer well to a light beer. For younger drinkers, the main consumer of light beers, the main attribute that affects what beer they purchase is price. They can’t afford higher priced, better tasting beers. For Mountain Man it is the emotional attributes that draw people to the brand primarily, rather than self-expressive or functional benefits. These emotional attributes do not transfer well to the light beer, because it breaks from the tradition. The consumer’s fathers and grandfathers didn’t drink Mountain Man Light. The target markets of light beer are the opposite of the...
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...TRAFFIC ATTITUDE CHANGE IN TURKEY The most important attitude which should be changed and given importance about traffic in Turkey is being obeyed the traffic signs and light rules by pedestrians and vehicles. Starting point or reason of attitude change is education indeed. In that way, traffic accidents and injuries will be decreased in Turkey. If pedestrians and vehicles obey the traffic signs and lights rules more and the drivers are more conscious of driving, most of traffic accidents and injuries will be diminished in Turkey. Securtiy General Directorate, Directorate General of Traffic Education and Investigation explained that there was 254.000 accidents at police responsibility zone in 2011 and 178.255 people were injured and 2.382 people were dead because of these traffic accidents. Other accidents which made at constabulary responsibility zone would be excluded in that 254.000 accident number. If we count all zones accidents in Turkey, this will be 4.000 dead people because of accidents in 2011 in Turkey. These are really huge numbers for the countries. If we look the numbers of traffic accidents in general, we can see that developing countries have higher traffic accident numbers. It might be prevented by education of course. General president of Preventing Traffic Accidents in Turkey Institution, lawyer Hitay Güner, explained that there is no change or decrease in numbers of traffic accidents and deaths in comparison to 2010...
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...To construct an image is to confer importance. Discuss The construction of “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” is done so in a manner that looks to confer importance to not only its general community, by society as a whole. This importance is constructed by the use of several techniques such as symbolism, colour and conflict. Instances such as nurse ratchets introduction, and the ward patient’s unofficial fishing trip are scenes where these techniques are at their most prominent. Nurse ratchets entry onto the ward floor that Mcmurphy has been assigned too has great importance in developing her character. Her walk down the corridor, through the barred and locked door, with a red light positioned above it (which is often seen with many persons entrance) is a method of conferring importance to the imminent threat that the actor going through the door poses to the freedom of the patients. Symbolism of the colour red which is, in western society a classic ‘warning’ signal or ‘danger’ is used to show the imminent threat that Nurse ratchet poses too the protagonist, Mcmurphy. Likewise, the red light is shown in Mcmurphy’s entrance to symbolize his inherent nature to ‘disband’ and rattle the establishment. The viewer can tell that his presence in this institution has little chance of being beneficial to the proprietors. The camera shot used for nurse Ratchets entrance confers again the importance that she poses to the patients, or in particular Mchmurphy and his freedom. And again...
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