‘Irrelevant’ Chris Fogle turns a page. Howard Cadrwell turns a page. Ken Wax turns a page. Matt Redgate turns a page. ‘Groovy’ Bruce Channing attaches a form to a file. Ann Williams turns a page. Anand Singh turns two pages at once by mistake and turns one back which makes a slightly different sound. David Cusk turns a page. Sandra Pounder turns a page. Robert Atkins turns two separate pages of two separate files at the same time. Ken Wax turns a page. Lane Dean Jr. turns a page. Olive Borden turns a page. (…) Kenneth ‘Type of Thing’ Hindle detaches a Memo 402-C(1) from a file. ‘Second Knuckle’ Bob McKenzie looks up briefly while turning a page. A yawn proceeds across Chalk’s row by unconscious influence (…) In order to understand the theme of boredom in The Pale King as well as its relationship with time, the excerpt above is probably the best example of time that stands still in this monument of adult boredom on Self Storage Parkway, Peoria, IL. On visual level, the text in the § 25 book was arranged in double columns, with no clear division into paragraphs. In one sense, this layout could be interpreted as relating to a newspaper, which …show more content…
All GS-11 Examiners want to be Auditors. All Collections want to be CID. All Auditors want to be Appeals Officers or Supervisors. All Supervisors want to be Group Managers. All CIDs want to be almost anything that doesn’t involve site surveillance (…)” And § 28 contains plenty of motivation: “Output or Kaput, Supply or Die, Revenue or Au Revoir”. However, the 10 Laws of IRS Personnel that read partly like a mantra, partly like a set of commandments and partly like a collective list of career ambitions arranged by department, also present an image of the IRS as a place, where each individual is a small cog in the corporate machine and the repetitive toil and associated boredom are a vital part of the process that seems to be a metaphor of America’s driving force in the macro
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The novel is organized in an unusual manner that can make it seem unclear to the reader. Krakauer does not introduce the work as a whole, yet he pieces together the story through different chapters. McCandless’s journey is described out of chronological order, requiring the audience to pay careful attention in order to understand the events that unfold.
Cooper, Bernard. “Labyrinthine.” Occasions for Writing . Ed. Robert DiYanni and Pat C. Hoy II. Boston: Thomson, 2007. 345- 47. Print.
It is commonly said that “life’s too short”, but it feels even shorter when one is forced into the next stage of their life pre-maturely. Alejo Carpentier’s journey through time in Like the Night explores not just the cycle of time, but also the cycle of life. Readers are transported from Ancient Greece, to the Spanish conquest of the new world, to the European Empire, to the First World War, and finally back to Ancient Greece. Instead of focusing on battle strategy, the front lines, or shell-shock; Carpentier writes on loss of innocence. While writing on the night before leaving home and the innocence lost in the sudden transition from boyhood to manhood, Carpentier also toys with loss of sexual
The Egyptian culture was a culture that lasted about 3,000 years and was located near the Nile River. The Nile River provided most of the resources for the Egyptians; therefore, a lot of the artwork was based on representing these bountiful resources. Another major influence of the artwork that was created was the kings and gods that were held at such high standards (Stokstad and Cothren, 50). There is one king in particular that was known in history for his great accomplishments, this king was King Narmer. The Egyptian’s expressed their respect for this king through a palette known as The Palette of Narmer. This piece is one of the firsts of Egyptian times that sets the morals for Egyptian artwork; it was created in the Early Dynastic time period. The Palette of Narmer tells a vast political story of the history of Egypt and the king, King Narmer.
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An Analysis of Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper
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In a new era, a noisy era, someone wanders through an oversized book emporium. They find their way to the "literature" section. Browsing the shelves they come across a thick novel with a pretty cover. They leaf through the pages wondering whether it's the story they want, and after a hasty decision they purchase it for only $9.95. They return to their home and sit in their chair with a bright lamp glowing beside them. It doesn't flicker as the candlelight that once illuminated the world did. The cars rush past in the street outside creating hum that with adaptation can be ignored. The reader scans the words across the page. He becomes involved with the story of a man from so long ago, and he smiles. He is moved by the work, for the work will never perish. It will never be dead and gone.
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