Maya Angelou Tragedy To Triumph Essays - Lecturers, Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou: Tragedy To Triumph Maya Angelou is a very triumphant woman. She has written many books and poems that have given her great success. If one would talk to her, he or she would think she has lead a normal, happy life. Her life is blissful now, but it wasn't always perfect. Maya Angelou's sorrowful life experiences inspired her to write autobiographical works of poetry. Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis. She was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She came from a broken home. Angelou was raped at eight, and was an unwed mother at 16 years old (Williams 1). In spite of her tragic childhood, she still managed to become one of the greatest black poets of the twentieth century (Williams 1). Angelou is a poet, an author, a historian, an actress, a playwright, a civil-rights activist, a producer, and a director. Ms. Angelou began her career in drama and dance, and she married a South African freedom fighter and lived in Cairo. Later she also taught in Ghana. In the 1960's sh e said that being black, female, non-Muslim, non-Arab, six foot tall, and American made for some interesting experiences during her stay in Africa (Williams 1). Ms. Angelou accomplished many things in her life. She was the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She was also appointed to the Bicentennial Commission by President Gerald Ford, the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by Jimmy Carter, and in 1993 she wrote and delivered the presidential inauguration for President Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou is a decorated author. She has been nominated for two Emmy awards and has won a Pulitzer Prize. She is also a highly cultured person. She can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, and West African Fanti. And many of her poems can inspire people today. Knowing something about Angelou's life can help one to understand her poetry. In one of Angelou's poems, ?Unmeasured Tempo?, sh e talks about a person's life. How mind and body do not reach their apex at the same time. By the time a person gets old enough to have a spiritual realization of who they are their body is already declining (Angelou 11). This poem is written in blank verse. It does not have any rhyme or rhythm. Yet it does use figurative language. For example, the simile, ?Dreams are petted like cherished lap dogs?. This poem is complex and makes the reader look for the deeper meaning in the poem (Angelou 11). Another one of Angelou's poems is ?Little Girl Speakings? where she once again writes autobiographically. It's a comparative poem about the things important to Angelou in her childhood. She is explaining to one of her peers that she has the best parents and the best toys(Angelou 65). There are a lot of literary devices used in this poem. The two most obvious ones are slang and repetition. The phrases ?Ain't nobody better's my daddy?, ?Ain't nothing prettier'n my dollie?, and ?No lady cookinge r than my mommy? are repeated in this poem (Angelou 65). The rhyme scheme, ABBA, is simple yet unusual. There are many words that rhyme like quauter and daughter, said and head, and pie and lie (Angelou 65). A third and final poem of Angelou's is ? Avec Merci, Mother? (?avec? means ?with? in French). This poem uses very simple language, but it is very complicated. The subject seems to change in the middle of the poem. She first talks about her mother being this perfect beauty who was polite and adored. And then it talks about a person who catches her eyes who seems to be her son and then she associates him with his father. This poem is one of Angelou's more difficult works to understand (Angelou 18). This poem doesn't have a lot of literary devices. The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDED. Angelou uses literary devises like similes in the phrase, ?He's so much like his daddy when he cries? (Angelou 18). The style of Maya Angelou can range from complex symbolical ideas to easy, str aightforward concepts. Firstly, her style is like a

Timeline of Women in Flight

Timeline of Women in Flight 1784 - Elisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in a hot air balloon 1798 - Jeanne Labrosse is the first woman to solo in a balloon 1809 - Marie Madeleine Sophie Blanchard becomes the first woman to lose her life while flying - she was watching fireworks in her hydrogen balloon 1851 - Mademoiselle Delon ascends in a balloon in Philadelphia 1880 - July 4 - Mary Myers is the first American woman to solo in a balloon 1903 - Aida de Acosta is the first woman to solo in a dirigible (a motorized aircraft) 1906 - E. Lillian Todd is the first woman to design and build an airplane, though it never flew 1908 - Madame Therese Peltier is the first woman to fly an airplane solo 1908 - Edith Berg is the first woman airplane passenger (she was a European business manager for the Wright Brothers) 1910 - Baroness Raymonde de la Roche obtains a license from the Aero Club of France, the first woman in the world to earn a pilots license 1910 - September 2 - Blanche Stuart Scott, without permission or knowledge of Glenn Curtiss, the airplanes owner and builder, removes a small wood wedge and is able to get the airplane airborne without any flying lessons thus becoming the first American woman to pilot an airplane 1910 - October 13 - Bessica Raiches flight qualifies her, for some, as the first woman pilot in America because some discount the flight of Scott as accidental and therefore deny her this credit 1911 - August 11 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first American woman licensed pilot, with flight license number 37 from the Aero Club of America 1911 - September 4 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly at night 1912 - April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to pilot her own aircraft across the English Channel 1913 - Alys McKey Bryant is the first woman pilot in Canada 1916 - Ruth Law sets two American records flying from Chicago to New York 1918 - The US postmaster general approves the appointment of Marjorie Stinson as the first female airmail pilot 1919 -  Harriette Harmon becomes the first female ever to fly from Washington D.C. to New York City as a passenger.   1919  - Baroness Raymonde de la Roche, who in 1910 was the first woman to earn a pilots license, set an altitude record for women of 4,785 meters or 15,700 feet 1919 - Ruth Law becomes the first person to fly air mail in the Philippines 1921 - Adrienne Bolland is the first woman to fly over the Andes 1921 - Bessie Coleman becomes the first African American, male or female, to earn a pilots license 1922 - Lillian Gatlin is the first woman to fly across America as a passenger 1928 - June 17 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Lou Gordon and Wilmer Stultz did most of the flying 1929 - August - first Womens Air Derby is held, and Louise Thaden wins, Gladys ODonnell takes second place and Amelia Earhart takes third 1929 - Florence Lowe Barnes - Pancho Barnes - becomes the first woman stunt pilot in motion pictures (in Hells Angels) 1929 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first president of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots 1930 - May 5-24 - Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia 1930 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh becomes the first woman to earn a glider pilot license 1931 - Ruth Nichols fails in her attempt to fly solo across the Atlantic, but she breaks the world distance record flying from California to Kentucky 1931 - Katherine Cheung becomes the first woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a pilots license 1932 - May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic 1932 - Ruthy Tu becomes the first woman pilot in the Chinese Army 1934 - Helen Richey becomes the first woman pilot hired by a regularly scheduled airline, Central Airlines 1934 - Jean Batten is the first woman to fly round trip England to Australia 1935 - January 11-23 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the American mainland 1936 - Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic east to west 1936 - Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes beat male pilots also entered in the Bendix Trophy Race, the first victory of women over men in a race which both men and women could enter 1937 - July 2 - Amelia Earhart lost over Pacific 1937 - Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to cross the Alps in a glider 1938 - Hanna Reitsch becomes the first woman to fly a helicopter and the first woman to be licensed as a helicopter pilot 1939 - Willa Brown, first African American commercial pilot and first African American woman officer in the Civil Air Patrol, helps form the National Airmens Association of America to help open up the U.S. Armed Forces to African American men 1939 - January 5 - Amelia Earhart declared legally dead 1939 - September 15 - Jacqueline Cochran sets an international speed record; the same year, she is the first woman to make a blind landing 1941 - July 1 - Jacqueline Cochrane is the first woman to ferry a bomber across the Atlantic 1941 - Marina Raskova appointed by Soviet Union high command to organize regiments of women pilots, one of which is later called the Night Witches 1942 - Nancy Harkness Love and Jackie Cochran organize women flying units and training detachments 1943 - Women make up more than 30% of the workforce in the aviation industry 1943 - Loves and Cochrans units are merged into the Women Airforce Service Pilots and Jackie Cochran becomes the Director of Women Pilots those in WASP flew more than 60 million miles before the program ended in December 1944, with only 38 lives lost of 1830 volunteers and 1074 graduates these pilots were seen as civilians and were only recognized as military personnel in 1977 1944 - German pilot Hanna Reitsch was the first woman to pilot a jet aircraft 1944 - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) disbanded; the women were given no benefits for their service 1945 - Melitta Schiller is awarded the Iron Cross and Military Flight Badge in Germany 1945 - Valà ©rie Andrà © of the French Army in Indochina, a neurosurgeon, was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat 1949  - Richarda Morrow-Tait landed in Croydon, England, after her round-the-world flight, with navigator Michael Townsend, the first such flight for a woman it took one year and one day with a 7 week stop in India to replace the planes engine and 8 months  in Alaska to raise funds to replace her plane 1953 - Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier 1964 - March 19 - Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock of Columbus, Ohio, is the first woman to pilot a plane solo around the world (The Spirit of Columbus, a single-engine plane) 1973 - January 29 - Emily Howell Warner is the first woman working as a pilot for a commercial airline (Frontier Airlines) 1973 - U.S. Navy announces pilot training for women 1974 - Mary Barr becomes the first woman pilot with the Forest Service 1974 - June 4 - Sally Murphy is the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army 1977 - November - Congress passes a bill recognizing WASP pilots of World War II as military personnel, and President Jimmy Carter signs the bill into law 1978 - International Society of Women Airline pilots formed 1980 - Lynn Rippelmeyer becomes the first woman to pilot a Boeing 747 1984 - on July 18, Beverly Burns becomes the first woman to captain a 747 cross country, and Lynn Rippelmeyer becomes the first woman to captain a 747 across the Atlantic sharing the honor, thereby, of being the first female 747 captains 1987 - Kamin Bell became the first African American woman Navy helicopter pilot (February 13) 1994 - Vicki Van Meter is the youngest pilot (to that date) to fly across the Atlantic in a Cessna 210 - she is 12 years old at the time of the flight 1994 - April 21 - Jackie Parker becomes the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane 2001 - Polly Vacher becomes the first woman to fly around the world in a small plane - she flies from England to England on a route that includes Australia 2012 - Women who flew as part of WASP in World War II (Women Airforce Service Pilots) are given the Congressional Gold Medal in the United States, with over 250 women attending 2012 - Liu Yang becomes the first woman launched by China into space. 2016 - Wang Zheng (Julie Wang) is the first person from China to fly a single-engine plane around the world This timeline  © Jone Johnson Lewis.

A LESSON in HIDING

A LESSON in HIDING TriÃ'•tÐ °n nÐ °rrÐ ¾wÐ µd her eyes and glÐ °nÃ' Ã µd Ð ¾vÐ µr her slumped Ã'•hÐ ¾uldÐ µrÃ'• as she hÐ °Ã'•tilÃ'Æ' Ã' rÐ ¾Ã'•Ã'•Ð µd the Ã'•trÐ µÃ µt to her usual lunchtime spot, Cals diner. She Ã'•milÐ µd Ã' Ã ¾ngÐ µniÐ °llÃ'Æ' at the big man behind the grill and wÐ °vÐ µd at the rÐ µdhÐ µÃ °dÐ µd wÐ °itrÐ µÃ'•Ã'•. The usual Trish? Melanies tinkling vÐ ¾iÃ' Ã µ Ã'•Ð ¾undÐ µd Ð ¾ut frÐ ¾m bÐ µhind the counter Ð °Ã'• she grabbed a menu and two empty mugs. Yeah and make Ã'•urÐ µ TriÃ'•tÐ °n winked at the big man and Ã'•milÐ µd Ð °Ã'• MÐ µlÐ °niÐ µ tÐ ¾Ã ¾k a Ã'•Ð µÃ °t across frÐ ¾m her. It was hard to bÐ µliÐ µvÐ µ she hÐ °d bÐ µÃ µn fÐ ¾rÃ' Ã µd to move here 3 months ago. Her body shivers from the past of her life which forces her to leave all the things behind and go to new place. She was deeply in thought of the past situation. Her boss was killed bitterly in some political ties and she wa s in protective custody of FBI and relocated to the middle of nowhere. She sighed and pushed all the painful memories when she her only friend to MÐ µlÐ °niÐ µ prattle about the dÐ °Ã'Æ'Ã'• Ã' uÃ'•tÐ ¾mÐ µrÃ'•. Did Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u Ã'•Ð µÃ µ Mr. TÐ °ll, dark? MÐ µlÐ °niÐ µÃ'• Ð µÃ'Æ'Ð µÃ'• glazed Ð ¾vÐ µr as she glanced Ã'€Ð ¾intÐ µdlÃ'Æ' at a few table Ð °Ã' rÐ ¾Ã'•Ã'• frÐ ¾m uÃ'•. Tristan curiously fÐ ¾llÐ ¾wÐ µd her gaze and blushed horribly Ð °Ã'• she met a Ã'•Ð µt of smiling dark brown eyes that rÐ ¾Ã °mÐ µd freely and without embarrassment Ð ¾vÐ µr her partially Ã' Ã ¾nÃ' Ã µÃ °lÐ µd bÐ ¾dÃ'Æ'. Melanies Ð °muÃ'•Ð µd expression fÐ °dÐ µd whÐ µn she Ã'•Ð °w the look of tÐ µrrÐ ¾r in her new friends Ð µÃ'Æ'Ð µÃ'•, Ã'•urÐ µlÃ'Æ' she couldnt have known the man that Ã' Ã °mÐ µ in, Spence hardly Ð µvÐ µr frÐ µÃ"›uÐ µntÐ µd tÐ ¾wn and his lÐ °Ã'•t viÃ'•it would have bÐ µÃ µn a few wÐ µÃ µkÃ'• bÐ µfÐ ¾rÐ µ Trish had gotten here. Spence watched as the dÐ µlÐ µÃ' tÐ °blÐ µ little woman shift nÐ µrvÐ ¾uÃ'•lÃ'Æ' in her. He felt riÃ'•Ð µ up in him he was Ã'•urÐ µ he would find out and rid her of whatever was bothering her. A lean, Ã'•lightlÃ'Æ' angry lÐ ¾Ã ¾king man sat down across from the girl and he bit back the growl that wÐ °Ã'• rumbling in his Ã' hÐ µÃ'•t. TriÃ'•tÐ °n smiled Ã'€Ð ¾litÐ µlÃ'Æ' up at Rick bÐ µfÐ ¾rÐ µ lowering her eyes back to the table, the man’s intense gaze Ð °lwÐ °Ã'Æ'Ã'• set her on edge and she couldnt keep lÐ ¾Ã ¾king at him in the Ð µÃ'Æ'Ð µÃ'•. She picked at the fÐ ¾Ã ¾d MÐ µlÐ °niÐ µ Ã'€lÐ °Ã' Ã µd in frÐ ¾nt of her and Ã'•ighÐ µd loudly whÐ µn her Ã' Ã ¾mÃ'€Ð °niÐ ¾n didnt tart talking. Okay Rick, I know I messed up, but do Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u blame me? she winced. YÐ µÃ'• I Ã' Ã °n blame you! HÐ °d Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u bÐ µÃ µn rÐ µÃ' Ã ¾gnizÐ µd this whole Ã'•ituÐ °tiÐ ¾n would have gotten wÐ ¾rÃ'•Ð µ. Id hÐ °tÐ µ to Ã'•Ð µÃ µ the rÐ µÃ'•t of Ã'Æ'Ð ¾ur living family and up like Greg. The steel of his voice and the mention of her dÐ µÃ °d bÐ ¾Ã'•Ã'•Ã'• name sent hill racing through her bÐ ¾dÃ'Æ'. I think you nÐ µÃ µd to get Ã'•Ð ¾mÐ µ air. SÃ'€Ð µnÃ' Ã µÃ'• large hand Ã' lÐ °mÃ'€Ð µd Ð ¾vÐ µr Ricks shoulder as he stared down hard at the man. HÐ µÃ'Æ' buddy this Ã' Ã ¾nvÐ µrÃ'•Ð °tiÐ ¾n has nothing to do with you Ã'•Ð ¾ who dont you go bÐ °Ã' k to your meal and mind Ã'Æ'Ð ¾ur own buÃ'•inÐ µÃ'•Ã'•. Rick wÐ °Ã'• furious that this inferior mol was trying to scare him out of doing his job. Tristan blushed lightly at the large and very hÐ °ndÃ'•Ð ¾mÐ µ man’s appraisal; something within her hÐ ¾Ã'€Ð µd that hÐ µ would Ð °Ã'€Ã'€rÐ ¾vÐ µ and the rÐ µÃ'•t of her Ã'•Ã' Ã ¾ffÐ µd at the nÐ µÃ µd of no man’s Ð °Ã'€Ã'€rÐ ¾vÐ °l. Can I half Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u? Her tone wÐ °Ã'• Ã' riÃ'•Ã'€ and hÐ °rÃ'•hÐ µr thÐ °n she intended. He instead Ð µxtÐ µnd his hÐ °nd to hÐ µrÃ'• and sighed Ã'•Ð ¾ftlÃ'Æ' as her Ã'•tÐ °rtlÐ µd Ð µxÃ'€rÐ µÃ'•Ã'•iÐ ¾n fÐ °dÐ µd and she grasped his hÐ °nd, Ã'•Ð µnding Ã'•hÐ ¾Ã' kÃ'• of Ð µlÐ µÃ' triÃ' itÃ'Æ' Ã'•trÐ °ight through him. IÃ'• hÐ µ bÐ ¾thÐ µring you? SÃ'€Ð µnÃ' Ã µ glÐ °nÃ' Ã µd at the Ã'•mÐ °llÐ µr man and grinnÐ µd Ð °Ã'• hÐ µ briÃ'•tlÐ µd at his diÃ'•miÃ'•Ã'•Ð °l. He always bothers mÐ µ, but unfortunately I have no Ã' hÐ ¾iÃ' Ã µ in whÐ µthÐ µr I wÐ °nt to Ã'•Ð µÃ µ or talk to him. TriÃ'•tÐ °n glared at th e nÐ µÃ °rlÃ'Æ' sinister lÐ ¾Ã ¾king face Rick wÐ °Ã'• giving her; if looks could kill she would have bÐ µÃ µn six feet undÐ µr. Shut up Trish. Rick growled out. I will not tÐ ¾lÐ µrÐ °tÐ µ Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u talking to her like that. I, unlike her, dont give two hit but who you or. Spence grÐ °bbÐ µd the man be the Ã'•Ã' ruff of his nÐ µÃ' k and fÐ ¾rÃ' Ã µfullÃ'Æ' uÃ'•hÐ µrÐ µd him out of the building. I won’t be Ã'•Ð ¾ in the next time I Ã'•Ð µÃ µ you bulking round her. You just made a huge miÃ'•tÐ °kÐ µ buddy! You have no idÐ µÃ ° who you or faking with Rink bÐ µllÐ ¾wÐ µd Ð ¾ut as hÐ µ knÐ µÃ °dÐ µd the bÐ °Ã' k of his nÐ µÃ' k, the man dÐ µfiÐ °ntlÃ'Æ' had a grid to rÐ µÃ' kÐ ¾n with. I dont Ã' Ã °rÐ µ who you are, or who Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u work for. If you touch a hair and that womans hÐ µÃ °d or talk to her with anything but rÐ µÃ'•Ã'€Ð µÃ' t I will riÃ'€ your thrÐ ¾Ã °t Ð ¾ut and fÐ µÃ µd it to the wÐ ¾lvÐ µÃ'•. Do Ã'Æ'Ð ¾u undÐ µrÃ'•tÐ °nd me? said Spence with extreme anger. Rick lÐ ¾Ã ¾kÐ µd Ã'•tunnÐ µd at man that blÐ ¾Ã' kÐ µd him frÐ ¾m his target. If hÐ µ wouldnt move willingly Rick would have to urge him with fÐ ¾rÃ' Ã µ if nÐ µÃ' Ã µÃ'•Ã'•Ð °rÃ'Æ'. Yeah buddy I understand that youre some Ã'•Ð ¾rt of miÃ'•guidÐ µd Ð µÃ °vÐ µÃ'•drÐ ¾Ã'€Ã'€Ð µr that needs a Ã'•Ð µriÐ ¾uÃ'• lÐ µÃ'•Ã'•Ð ¾n in manners. MÐ °kÐ µ no miÃ'•tÐ °kÐ µ, just bÐ µÃ' Ã °uÃ'•Ð µ she saved your lifÐ µ today doesnt mean we won’t run into Ð µÃ °Ã' h other Ð °gÐ °in. SÃ'€Ð µnÃ' Ã µ turned on his hÐ µÃ °l, drÐ °Ã'€Ð µd Ð °n arm round Trish’s shoulder and walked her Ã' Ã °Ã'•uÐ °llÃ'Æ' back into the diner praying the guÃ'Æ' would fuck up and follow him back in, he nÐ µÃ µdÐ µd to find rÐ µlÐ µÃ °Ã'•Ð µ for this Ã'€Ð µnt-uÃ'€ Ð °ngÐ µr. Then, two love birds started meeting on and off. Their love spell started. One day, Spence asked Trish for a date and both of them had a qu ality time with each other. When they both were drinking, Spence asked her about the issue with Rick and the reason of her nervousness. At this question, she became infuriated and told him that Rick was dead. After her this reaction, Spence dropped Trish at her home and she took him in her home. Inside the back room, Trish had crawled out from underneath Spence. He fucked her like dog as she told him. She gripped a pillow in her fists and he breathed behind her, hot air down her back which was starting to sweat and slip on his stomach. She did not want him to see her face because it was blowing up inside, red and furious, and she’s grimacing at the pale white wall which was cool when she put her hand on it to help her push back into him, get his dick to fill up her body until there’s nothing left of her inside: just dick. While they both were having sex, Trish became werewolf and killed Spence as he did with her boss and Rick.

Final Assignment Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 1500 words - 3

Final - Assignment Example At the moment there is only one international instrument which applies generally to all forests: The Non-Legally Binding Instrument on All Types of Forests 2007. This instrument does not meet the specific needs of tropical rain forests and therefore does not address the specific causes of tropical rain forest deforestation. As a member of Protection of Tropical Rainforests, I would like to suggest the implementation of the International Convention for the Conservation of Tropical Rain Forests and recommend including the following 12 articles: Article 1: State parties will implement measures to promote and improve farming methods and techniques that replenish soil nutrients. (This article was selected because a number of countries in which tropical rain forest exists have poor farmers who depend on farming to survive. The farming methods used by both poor and economically successful farmers can be exploitive and contribute to soil degradation in the tropical rain forest).4 Article 2: State parties undertake to implement a system in which poor farmers are able to own title to a parcel of land in tropical rain forest for the purpose of farming. (This article is necessary as it is believed that once a farmer owns his or her farmland, they will have an incentive to safeguard against soil degradation to ensure that the soil is good for continued farming).5 Article 3: State parties shall introduce policies and laws that prohibits farmers that have been issued title to land for farming using other areas of the tropical rain forest for farming. (This should increase the incentive of farmers to keep the nutrient value of the soil to which they have title. This would also prevent farmers moving on to other areas of the tropical rain forest).6 Article 4: State parties should implement policies for infrastructure planning that minimises the impact on tropical rain forests. (This article is

Computer information Essay Example | Topics and Well Written Essays - 500 words

Computer information - Essay Example Both outlook express and MSN messenger support electronic messaging and the sending of electronic documents. The advantage of MSN messenger is that communication is faster rather than having to walk across the staff room to the person whom you wish to talk to. Documents can be sent via MSN messenger too. The disadvantage is that communication has to be real-time. If the person to whom you wish to communicate to is teaching classes, communication is impossible. Fortunately, there's always outlook express. The advantage of outlook express makes up for the disadvantage of MSN messenger. Communication is possible at different times from different places, in addition to the capability of sending documents. The disadvantage of outlook express is that verbal and non-verbal cues such as tone, inflection, and facial expression are missing (Montoya, 2003). Office automation systems include the electronic office such as computers, fax, and computerized telephone systems, as well as office automation applications such as word processing, electronic mails, desktop publishing, fax, image processing, and teleconferencing. The trend is to integrate these applications (Williams, Sawyer, & Hutchinson, 1997). In the school where I am teaching, we use computers, Microsoft office applications such as w

Effects of Parental Relationships on Children as Evidenced by Shakespea

Effects of Parental Relationships on Children as Evidenced by Hamlet  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Families are the essential building blocks of the relationships we form in the later years of our lives. If we are given unconditional love by those we hold most dear, we learn to trust in others and their love for us. However, if we do not receive the appropriate attention, we may grow to believe that we are incapable of either being loved or loving others. These kinds of proceedings in a household may lead a child to a lifetime of troubling consequences. Just as important as the relationship they hold with us is the relationship between the mother and father that we grow up observing. Parents should maintain a healthy relationship in order to prevent their children from forming a skewed image of love and trust. After Hamlet’s experience with his mother’s incestuous remarriage to Claudius, he no longer sees love as a pleasant sentiment. Gertrude exclaims the exact basis of her son’s apparent madness when, in response to Claudius’s proclamation that Polonius knows the origin, she exclaims â€Å"I doubt it is no other but the main, / His father’s death and o†erhasty marriage.† (II. ii. 59-60). This swift and incestuous marriage suggests to Hamlet â€Å"the impermanence of human affection as well as of life, and it also, less obviously, compels him to think of the violation of the union which gave him his own life and being.† (Scott 110). He learns from this occurance that love is nothing but a fleeting emotion, with no meaning to it. This attitude towards love spills over into his treatment of Ophelia. Hamlet’s exclamation of â€Å"Frailty, thy name is woman!† (I. ii. 152) applies in his mind, not only to Gertrude, but now al so to Ophelia. ... ... in others after forming a firm sense of one’s own identity, saying, â€Å"It is only when identity formation is well on its way that true intimacy â€Å" which is really a counterpointing as well as a fusing of identities â€Å" is possible.† (Staal 27). Although not all cases of divorce may end in this fashion, more than likely, most will. It is a difficult experience for children to adjust to and compensate for in their behavior. The same is true of Hamlet in respect to Gertrude’s rapid remarriage to the murderer of her recently departed husband. Her actions have an effect on her son’s way of thinking and ultimately, acting throughout the play. Love and trust are the two most difficult emotions for children in these situations to rebuild after a complicated experience. Therefore, to protect their children, parents should always maintain a healthy, cordial relationship.   

Misc-En-Scene Sin City

For my essay on mise-en-scene, I will be talking about Sin City, written and directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriquez and Quentin Tarantino. In this film, there are many unique techniques used by the directors to portray emotions, hidden meanings and to determine mood. Sin City is a bold and brutal adaptation of the graphic novels written by Frank Miller. Mise-en-scene is a cinematic term, which refers to techniques used by directors to help construct a specific onscreen representation. It consists of the setting of the film, costume and make up, lighting, staging, and last of all, time and space. The scene that I will be analyzing would be the scene in which Marv confronts Cardinal Roark and forces him to confess, after which Marv kills him. Marv, a brute of a man, is one of the protagonists in this film. He wakes up after a one-night stand with a prostitute ‘Goldie’ and she lies beside him dead. Marv realized that he has been framed and goes on a vengeful rampage to uncover the truth. He kills Kelvin who is a cannibal who murders and consumes people, and finds out the Kelvin was the cardinal’s ward. The setting of this scene is in the Cardinal’s room where it is dark and we can barely make out the furniture present inside. Color symbolism is extreme in the entire film; the film is almost entirely inked in black and white. The directors created the film using the visually stunning black and white style of film noir to emphasize cynical and extreme attitudes and sexual motivations. Film noir is used to depict the darker aspects of modernity, and is usually set in a criminal milieu; exactly what this film needed. The narrative and existential angst that drives a male protagonist and a voluptuous femme fatale who seduces the protagonist for her own benefits are the gist of film noir, which are present in Sin City. Goldie used Marv for his huge size and brute strength to protect her, while Marv had feelings for Goldie. Her murder drives him mad and fuels his rage to find her killer. Sin City can be classified as a neo-noir film, which possesses elements of film noir, but with updated themes and visual elements that were absent in classic film noir. However, it is the color rendering in this film that is unique. The retained or added color to certain objects is an amazing technique, bringing out the emotions of the character or empathize the significance of the object. In the confrontation scene, the eyes of Cardinal Roark are painted green and it is the only other color present in that picture of black and white. The color of the eyes shown would make the audience focus on Cardinal Roark as he confess, and to be drawn to ponder on his sick thoughts and emotions. Green color may have been used to depict a sense of evil and perverse present in the Cardinal, and true to the saying â€Å"The eyes are the windows to a person’s soul. The color red is rendered many times in the strikingly monochromatic film, mainly in the form of bloodshed or love objects like the heart-shaped bed where Marv and Goldie had their one night affair. Red is meant to depict extreme violence, death, love and vulnerability in Sin City and it plays an important role in stimulating the emotions of the audience. In spite of this, red is only used when it is required and not all blood is painted red. In some scenes, the blood is left as white colored to show that it is not as significant in the film. There is a scene in the flashback during Cardinal Roark’s confession, in which Goldie is fully colored from her yellow locks to her fiery red dress and the color of her skin. The idea was to illustrate how beautiful Goldie was in Marv’s eyes and how full of life Goldie was to Marv in the dreadful Sin City. Besides the color in the scene I have chosen, there are flashes of brilliant color at different junctions of the film. There is one scene where the prostitutes in Old Town, depicting justice served in a crude way, stain the skies red during the massacre of mercenaries. One very distinct color I would like to point out would be the Yellow Bastard’s skin color at the last part of the film. The connotation of yellow in this case, will be to represent dirty, pungent and obnoxious, so true to Yellow Bastard’s character that even his blood bleeds yellow. The costumes and makeup play another important element of mise-en-scene. As in the case of the dressing of the prostitute Goldie, the elegant and sexy dresses that she dons in the film help her play the part of the seductress. The blonde locks along with the blood-red lipstick she possess give the audience the vibe that she is a femme fatale. On the other hand, Marv is clothed throughout in a black trench coat with a white singlet inside, displaying his heedless of caution attitude. The actor playing Marv, Mickey Rourke is portrayed as the graying behemoth embodied underneath a ton of facial make-up to make him look grotesque and fierce. Besides that, Kelvin wears a pair of glasses to invoke the look of a creepy psychopath killer. All this costumes and makeup contribute in building the personalities of the characters in Sin City, empowering them with attributes the directors require them to have. In the lighting context for Sin City, low-key lighting is utilized throughout the film. Low-key lighting or chiaroscuro is present in the scene that I mentioned, with artificial light shone through the windows of the Cardinal’s room. The room is supposedly pitch dark and the only light present comes from outside the window. Thus creating a dimly lit scene, which gives the audience a feel of the impending doom of Cardinal Roark. Strong shadows engulf both the Cardinal and Marv, generating tension between the both characters. Marv’s face is barely visible at times, only a portion shown by the lighting. I believe by making the room so dark, it forces the audience to focus on what is visible. The weak light shone on Kelvin’s decapitated head also creates an eerie feel. At the final part of the scene whereby Marv presumably cuts Cardinal Roark’s throat, the darkness and shadows conceal the gore that ensues. The low-key lighting acts to dampen the effect of the violence as the details are being obscured. Furthermore, in the flashback during the confession of the cardinal, there is a shot of Kelvin with bright lighting shown from behind him. His entire face is black due to the shadow and his glasses were the only thing white in color. The effect creates such a deviant character and literally sends chills down one’s spine. On the whole, the sinister environment of Sin City is primarily submerged in low-key lighting, except in dramatic epic sequences, where the directors want the audience to see the details clearly. Another important aspect of misc-en-scene used in a film is the staging. Staging refers to the movement and placement of actors and objects. In the chosen scene, Marv breaks into Cardinal Roark’s room, shows him the decapitated head of Kelvin and places it on the table. â€Å"The dog ate the rest†, Marv tells Roark straight in his face. Marv does that to show his hostility towards Roark and to instill fear in him, but it does not seem to work as Roark just got out from his bed to examine the head. The act of Marv drawing his gun from his holster tells the audience that Marv was all ready to shoot Cardinal Roark in the head. His stance is in standing position while Roark just sat there without fleeing. This shows that Roark was ready to accept his fate. Yet, Marv did not blast his head to smithereens. He sat down across Roark to listen to his confession before murdering him. He smokes a cigarette as he listened to Roark, taking his time. All of this staging tells us that he wanted pleasure in killing the cardinal slowly. Expression on the characters is a critical part of staging and in a scene of confrontation as such, it plays a huge role. The expression on Marv’s face in the cardinal’s room remained unusually calm, without showing much rage. It creates a very tense atmosphere in the room, keeping the audience in suspense over when Marv would end Roark’s life. On the other hand, Roark was almost expressionless when he confessed to Marv about his perverse deeds and till the very end when he was killed in cold blood. There was only a slight tinge of nervousness when he saw Kelvin’s head. This scene illustrates vividly about a man who knows he is about to meet his doom and a man who is determined to take the life of another. It is the part where dark truth is revealed. Speech used is another element of mise-en-scene, not only can it invoke thoughts in the audience, it can bring out the true nature of the character. The rampaging Marv finally achieves his maniacal madman majesty when he answers Cardinal Roark’s final question of whether killing him would satisfy him, Marv answers â€Å"The killing? No, no satisfaction. Everything up to the killing, it’d be gas. † From that, we find out that although the diabolical priest and his ward deserve to die, Marv in fact enjoys torturing people and the speech alone reveals the sadistic nature in him. The camera is focused all the time on the closed-up faces of Marv and Roark when either one is speaking. In cinematography, facing the camera is the position with the most intimacy as the character is looking in our direction and we are able to see the expressions on his face, engaging our attention. Hence in a scene like this, the closed-up face positioning would be best. Close ups give the audience time to judge a character and create mood and tension between the two characters present. In the scene, I realize that the camera points upward towards Marc, giving the audience the perception that he is the powerful and dominating character now. The camera is high angled when focused on Roark, the cannibalistic cardinal, making him seem powerless and pitiful. The computer-generated monochromatic landscape of Sin City is both elegant and vivid. Presence of retro sets and vintage cars make the city seem like a city decades again, except when one of the thugs in the film drives a Ferrari from the modern world. This means that it could be a retro-modern world or it could be set today, just that the city is still in the 40s era. The costumes donned by the characters are weird for modern day fashion, from trench coats to stripper wear. It is perhaps pulp noir imagination and visualization of a world found only in graphic novels. The use of shallow depth of field in the scene I choose, allowed the subject to be isolated from the background. It serves to direct the audience’s gaze upon the expressions of the two characters. Depth is also created by lighting, which reveals or hides the parts, which the director want the audience to see. The scene is also set up in a small room to confine the background and focus on the characters. In this essay, I have analyzed how the directors used cinematographic elements of mise-en-scene to convey meaning and stimulate response in the audience in the particular scene. Mise-en-scene is extremely important in filmmaking and has to be incorporated in every film, how well the individual or combined mise-en-scene techniques are used will help create the desired meanings in each scene.