Frank O'Connor said that the short story usually looks at isolated individuals who undergo a 'frontier experience.' How do the writers in this collection use language to present states of isolation and to show how their characters confront crises?

English Essay Frank O'Connor said that the short story usually looks at isolated individuals who undergo a 'frontier experience.' How do the writers in this collection use language to present states of isolation and to show how their characters confront crises? Choose three stories to illustrate your answer. To illustrate this idea in this essay, I have chosen the following three short stories; 'The Badness Within Him' by Susan Hill, 'Killing Lizards' by William Boyd and 'Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner. O'Connor's first claim was; short stories represent outsiders in society, both in the sense that stories are about outsiders and the writers themselves are considered to represent these outsiders. Frank O'Connor called his outsiders 'submerged population groups' and felt that short stories are essentially about human loneliness and isolation. He felt that the form of the short story is particularly suited to the age in which we live. Each character in the these short stories go through a frontier experience which involves them coming up to a new situation and changing from state to another. For example in the 'Badness Within Him', the frontier experience that Col goes through is childhood to adulthood, this can be seen when he kicks the sandcastle and starts sulking in his own bedroom, this represents his childhood, and the adulthood is shown at the end when his father

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Alice Walker - Biography

Biography. Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was the youngest of eight children. When she was eight years old her brother blinded her in her right eye by her borther, who shot her accidentally with a gun. Alice Walker graduated from high school in 1961 and left home to go to the Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, on a scholarship. While she studied on this school she participated in civil rights demonstrations and she left to Finland to attend the Youth World Peace Festival in the summer of 1962. After that she traveled around Europe for the rest of the summer and her love for traveling was born than. After this traveling she returned to the Spelman College to start her junior year, but she was offered a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence University. At this university her interest in writing was born and her talent was discovered. Alice Walker started travelling again to Africa and Europe and went back to Sarah Lawrence University for her senior year. She then found out she was pregnant and started to write poetry to express her feelings and her worst fears, for she was not happy with her pregnancy. After her graduation she returned to Georgia and fell in love with a law student, who was, just like she, demonstrating for civil rights.. She went to New York City with him, where he was attending law school. Alice Walker

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To investigate the chemical components in ink using chromatography.

Experiment 1: Chromatography of Links Aim: To investigate the chemical components in ink using chromatography. Method: Refer to sheet. Results: Discussion Questions: .) The components of the dyes separate as they move up the chromatography paper because they both are attracted to the sodium chloride and the filter paper. Some move higher than others because some of the components are more attracted to the liquid than others. 2.) The original site of the spots is marked with a pencil and not a pen because the ink in the pen is also made of different components and would have run down the paper like the other spots. However since pencils are made of graphite, they remain stationary on the filter paper. 3.) The spots must be above the level of the solvent at the beginning of the experiment because the solvent must be absorbed into the filter paper so the components can separate and be displayed in a line vertically on the filter paper. If the spots were placed in the solvent, then the solvent would have got in-between the ink particles making it bigger and it would have looked like a blob and not like the chromatogram in the results. 4.) Different solvents give different chromatographs because some solvents are more polar than others. For example if the polarity in one solvent was stronger than another you could use a longer piece of filter paper or stationary phase

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Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Beecher Stowe were among the many feminists and writers whom fought for the abolition of slavery during the nineteenth century.

Russell, Maia English 131 0-19-03 Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Beecher Stowe were among the many feminists and writers whom fought for the abolition of slavery during the nineteenth century. Jacobs and Beecher Stowe wrote personal slave narrations that served as a powerful feminist tool. Both books illustrate how white women were idealized as pure, angelic, and chaste while black woman were idealized as possessed and contained an uncontrollable, savage sexuality. Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl brought the sexual oppression of captive black women into the public and political arena. In the Incidents of a Slave Girl Jacobs revealed her real feelings and emotions behind what it was like to be not only a woman, but also a black woman escaping slavery. Not only does Jacobs' narrative focuses on subjugation due to race but it also portrays many women an strong and often open roles. It illustrates how women in these roles were very minimal and is often suffered for their outspoken roles. Jacobs' will power and strength shown in her narrative are characteristics of womanly behavior in the emerging feminist movement. In the Incidents Jacobs portrayed herself as Linda Brent. Linda was born as a slave in the household of a miraculously benevolent mistress. She lost her mother at the age of six, but her mistress who was her mother's half-sister took good care of

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What key phenomena must theories of colour perception account for? Describe and evaluate how theories try to explain the phenomena.

This document was downloaded from Coursework.Info - The UK's Coursework Database Click here to visit Courswork.Info What key phenomena must theories of colour perception account for? Describe and evaluate how theories try to explain the phenomena. The degree to which we are able to perceive colour is due to our 'ability to distinguish wavelengths of light regardless of their relative intensities' (Abramov, 1997; cited in Hardin and Maffi, 1997). Individuals are thus dependent on purity, intensity, and wavelength, which are all components of physical energy. These subsequently correspond to psychological attributes; intensity corresponds to brightness, purity to saturation and wavelength to hue (Setrular and Blaker, 1994). Furthermore, stimuli that can be analysed into all three components are referred to as chromatic (i.e. blue, yellow, green etc) in contrast, stimuli which only has brightness attributed to it is referred to as achromatic (i.e. white/grey/black) (Pinel, 2000). The current essay aims to present firstly, an overview of the physiological mechanisms of colour vision illustrating the roles of rods and cones in the retinal anatomy. Secondly, the occurrence of the key colour phenomena i.e. observations of our perception of colour and their significance will be discussed. Followed by a discussion of the two key theories that either separately, or combined,

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Colour Research.

Colour Research If we arrange all these colours around a circle we have a colour wheel. Looking at the colour wheel we can see that certain colours fall opposite to each other. Each colour has a complimentary or opposite hue. So on the colour wheel we have three complementary pairs. Just as positive and negative magnets attract each other, so do complementary colours. You could keep mixing adjacent colours to produce colour wheels with 12, 24, 48 or more variations; each time the difference between two adjacent colours becomes more subtle. If you combine any two primary colour pigments, you end up with another trio of pigments: red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green, and red and blue make violet. These are the three secondary colours. It is important to find out what connotation these colours have for the Chinese/Japanese. Psychology Brown * The colour of Mother Earth, brown brings a sense of stability, alleviating insecurity. However, it also relates to bottling up of emotion, a retreat from and a fear of the outside world. White * The colour of ultimate purity is white. It is an all-round colour of protection, bringing peace and comfort, alleviating emotional shock and despair, and helping inner cleansing of emotions, thoughts and spirit. If you need time and space to reflect on your life, white can give you a feeling of freedom and uncluttered

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Gender roles in The Color Purple.

Alice Walker in her novel The Color Purple illustrates a parallel between the gender roles of women in the early 20th century and Black slavery through the life of Celie and her interactions with Albert, as well as with Nettie's experiences in Africa with the Olinka tribe. Similarities reign with this book and slavery in two instances: one, Celie and some of the other women's slave-like labor that Albert and other men force them to do and two, the treatment of the women in the Olinka tribe. Celie constantly has to obey Albert, who she refers to as Mr. ______ for most of the novel, performing many of the jobs assigned to women during the time period as well as labor in the field. Her role in society directly correlates with the gender roles of the women of America and the Olinka tribe causing a conclusion to be made that many women were most always subordinate to men until the Women's Rights Movement. In the early 20th century, female subordination and gender roles existed all across America. These ideals presented themselves both in the South and the North although they slightly differed between the two. Women in the South served as companions and hostesses for their husbands and mothers for their children. Their lives were generally centered around the home. Southern women on wealthy plantations became ornaments for their husbands often called "plantation mistresses"

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The opening credit sequence of 'The Sopranos'.

The final step in the opening credit sequence is the title screen detailing 'The Sopranos'. The viewer is presented with a black scene in the centre of which is the white block letter spelling out 'The Sopranos'. This title screen itself may semiotically provide much information regarding the themes of the television programme once its layers of meaning are extricated and analysed. Treating firstly the importance of the simple colours of this screen- black and white- the themes of the show are visible. The traditional semiotic meaning that is assigned to these two colours aid in the production of these themes. White is mostly explicitly recognised as the colour of the good, the virginal/pure in contrast to the assigning of the colour black to the evil, the mysterious, danger, death and malice. The assigning of meaning to these two colours can be traced back in anthropological terms to the Western worlds view of white people as being good whilst the 'black' people from the continent of Africa were inherently evil and not to be trusted. This dichotomy was later applied to the notion of the 'goodies' versus the 'baddies' and can be seen in the title of graphics detailing a main theme of the show- the good guys or the police, reflected in the white, battling against the bad guys or Tony Soprano and his mafia family, reflected in the black. These colours can also represent the

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Colour Purple - review.

Colour Purple The book called The Colour Purple shows many of the topics discussed in class, but for the purpose of this paper I would like to discuss three aspects that are the most concerning and disturbing. The concept of the body, reproduction, and violence shown through the novel are the most prominent and key concerns seen in this literature selection that I would like to analyse in this expository essay. Beginning with the concept of the body, The Colour Purple portrays a very graphic portrayal from the first pages. "She ugly" (Walker, 9). This gives the feel that the men have high standards of the women that are seen in this story of Black Southern Women. This also can be seen when Celie (the main character) holds on to a picture of Shug Avery (the woman she lets her husband have an affair with) because she is so beautiful. These are ideals seen in our culture as a whole. Women holding onto pictures of women in magazines and posters lead to the idea that the airbrushed picture is attainable and that is what the women of the world need to look like. The forerunner of this is visualized when this is what the men look at in their magazines. The view that men have of women is one of this sexual being waiting to be had. Celie holding onto this picture is the same as a woman today buying a magazine that appeals to her inferior parts. "I'm not as pretty or as smart"(10) is

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first 6 letters in the color purple analysis

ENGLISH HOMEWORK OMAR 2. Remind yourself of the first 6 letters of the color purple [up to the letter first mentioning Shug Avery] a. "these letters are the most interesting part of the novel." How far do you agree with this statement? b. The use of letters is part of walkers narrative technique, How successful do you find this use? The color purple opens up with a very threatening command made by her father "you better not never tell nobody but god. It'd kill your mammy" this of course refers to his abuse of her. This is the first of many letters written by Celie to god. Whom (god) is addressed in a close-friends kind of way(reader might find this a tad heterodox) rather than the accepted view of god .In this first letter Celie turns to god for advice and seeking guidance "maybe you can give me a sign...". Celie whom we assume is pregnant while writing this letter is 14 and does not understand what is happening to her body .Celie's father "fonso" has turned to her for sexual gratification after her sick "mammy" has refused to and got her pregnant for the second time he has killed her first baby and sold her second one. Her mother dies and her two babies have been nobbled and she is left with breast full of milk for no one "I got breasts full of milk running down myself". Alfonso then looks interested in Celie's younger sister, Nettie, but Celie promises that she will

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